An ant crawled along the needle of a compass, its legs and feelers touching the surface as it kept moving, trying to identify the orientation where it belonged. The ant was on the unstable needle of the compass, seeming disoriented.
Park Han watched the ant's non-orientable movements, his mind blurred with a sense of disorientation—much like a human on Earth trying to stay oriented along the magnetic field without sensing where to go.
A sudden beeping snapped him out of his reverie. The alert echoed in his helmet, pulling him back to the stark reality of his situation. The stars outside his visor looked distant and blurry, and the head-up display flashed multiple warning signals indicating his critical vital status—he was drifting in space.
The tether that had anchored him to the nuclear-fusion spaceship was gone.In that moment of disorientation, Park Han felt an overwhelming sense of being lost in an infinite volume, with no sense of direction—just like the ant.
The empty space around him was boundless, and without the tether, there was no up, no down, no orientation at all.
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Point Nemo (Star Ark Mission)
Science FictionThis is a story about humanity's interstellar travel.
