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Since returning to the ship, I have begun to hear the spores. They sound like static. They sound like Vane, screaming in the sinkhole. I recommend immediate quarantine of all survivors. I fear the jungle may have come back with us.

The most disorienting aspect of Santa Astarta is the "Time Eddies." Due to the intense gravity of the nearby black hole Hypnos , time does not flow linearly on the surface. stranded on santa astarta

The planet is not named for any Earthly saint. Early probes (lost centuries ago) named it after the Phoenician goddess of war and fertility, a moniker that proved grimly accurate. The biosphere is an engine of perpetual birth and violent consumption. Since returning to the ship, I have begun to hear the spores

The dangers of Santa Astarta are threefold: Biological, Temporal, and Psychological. I recommend immediate quarantine of all survivors

“Then we find one,” Valerius said.

What was initially cataloged as a potential "Garden World" for colonization has revealed itself to be a place of extreme temporal anomaly and hostile psychotropic geography. This report details the seven-day survival ordeal, the failure of standard extraction protocols, and the nature of the entity that dominates the planet's surface.