The live feed officially opened across LucidNet and it broke every concurrent telecommunications record in human history within seconds, the visual that greeted six billion screens was so staggering that it momentarily suspended the collective breathing of planet Earth.
Positioned at the gravitationally balanced Earth-Moon Lagrange 5 point, 384,000 kilometers out in the black, the camera held a crisp, ultra-high-definition fixed frame.
Silhouetted against the brilliant, glowing blue crescent of Earth and catch-lit by the distant glare of the sun, the dark, matte-black profile of a colossal warehouse spacecraft stood out in stark, terrifying clarity against the void.
It was a floating titan forged in the automated foundries of the lunar base, its cavernous hull stretching kilometers across the dark.
Then, the massive industrial bay doors slid open with absolute, silent grace.
