An original AI-generated sci-fi illustration on an immutable blockchain – The Voidborn Return – The twin anomalies drifted like living storms above the alien world, their radiant tendrils spilling across the rings of the crimson giant behind them. Below, the massive derelict ship—once a city of millions—hung suspended over the jagged mountains of ice. Its spires were cracked and bleeding energy, as if the vessel itself feared the celestial beings now unfolding from the void. Each pulse from the anomalies made the ship creak like a dying colossus, pulled between gravity and something far older. On the surface, the ocean’s black sheen rippled as vibrations rolled down from the sky. Travelers who once worshiped the stars would have called these entities gods—celestial architects capable of rearranging the cosmos with a gesture. But the ship’s last surviving archivists knew better. These were Voidborn Echoes, entities birthed during the universe’s first collision of matter and dark matter. They were not deities but consequences—cosmic errors returning to reclaim whatever creation had stolen. As the beings drifted lower, their forms twisting like luminous phantoms, the ocean erupted with red light. A signal surged through the ship’s foundations, awakening long-silent engines. The archivists had enacted the final protocol: escape to another star, another epoch—anywhere beyond the reach of the Echoes. But the beings responded instantly, raising a tidal wave of shimmering distortion. In that moment, the survivors understood that there would be no escape. The Voidborn had finally traced their wayward children home.