An original AI generated sci-fi illustration on an immutable blockchain – The Specters of the Eidolon Drift – The derelict structure drifted through the void like the skull of a forgotten titan, its cracked hull glowing with sickly green light from deep within. For centuries it had wandered the starless gulf between systems, a relic of a civilization erased from time. No beacon announced its presence, yet every passing vessel felt its pull—an ancient gravity born not of mass, but of memory. And now, after eons of silence, it had begun to awaken. They appeared first as flickers—white motes dancing around the colossal ruin. But soon the shapes clarified into spectral beings, translucent and weightless, their tendrils trailing like cosmic snowfall. These entities were not alive in any human sense, nor were they truly spirits; they were thought-echoes, the last preserved impressions of the minds that once inhabited the drifting colossus. Each haunting form carried fragments of knowledge, sorrow, and warning, circling their fallen home like mourners who refused to forget. When the survey ship Eidolon approached, its crew watched in frozen awe as the spectral beings swarmed toward them—not with malice, but with desperate yearning. Their shapes pressed against the hull like pleading hands, and every sensor lit with impossible data patterns. The ship’s captain realized too late that the beings sought not harm, but connection. And as the Eidolon was slowly drawn into the glowing fractures of the ancient skull, the crew understood they were being invited—chosen—to complete a story that had died long before humans ever walked beneath their own sun.