An original AI-generated sci-fi illustration on an immutable blockchain – Stormborn Leviathans – The storm began as a whisper—a faint crackle in the toxic sky—before exploding into a torrent of electric veins that ripped across the heavens. Commander Halden stood alone on the jagged ridge, his visor glowing with diagnostic readouts as the atmosphere writhed above him. He had seen tempests across a hundred worlds, but nothing like this: a cosmic fracture opening directly overhead, as if reality itself was tearing along an invisible seam. From the churning clouds descended the beings—vast, jellyfish-like leviathans woven from charged neural filaments and molten cores. Their eyes burned like twin suns behind a lattice of tendrils, and each movement sent ripples through the storm, shifting the lightning as though they commanded it. They drifted between the spires of the scarred landscape with eerie grace, drawn toward Halden’s outpost modules that pulsed with blue energy beneath the dust. Halden knew his mission was already lost. The creatures were not simply alive—they were intelligent, communicative, and deeply curious about the power signatures his team had awakened. As the nearest titan hovered over him, tendrils unfurling like living circuitry, Halden steadied his breath. Whether they came as destroyers or as something stranger, he realized he stood at the first contact of a species born from storms. Whatever happened next, humanity would not be the same.