Data is physically manifest as heavy, shimmering dust.

Elara adjusted her magnetic harpoon. Her visor locked onto a single, pulsing gold speck buried in a vortex of violet gas. "Got you," she whispered.

Elara lived on the fringes of the Cytos Cluster, a region of space where the stars didn't just shine—they hummed. As a Freelance Scrapper, her job was to sift through the particulate clouds of dead suns. But the "Stardust (Nebula) 256x" wasn't a natural formation. It was a legendary graveyard of high-density data shards, a digital nebula born from the crash of a trillion-tier supercomputer.

The 256x wasn’t a distance; it was the compression ratio. Everything inside was packed so tight that the light itself felt heavy.

Are you interested in the hunting for the dust? Tell me which direction to take and I'll expand the lore.