Abandoned Planet

A forsaken, wind‑scarred world that radiates dormant menace; its atmosphere sits like a held breath ready to crush life the moment a barrier fails. From the ship’s vantage the planet reads as both archaeological riddle and immediate hazard—the air tasting of ozone and static, pressure gradients steep and sudden, and invisible currents that will flood any exposed space in seconds. Here an away team becomes a human summary of risk: trapped inside an alien construct whose field alone keeps the planet’s lethal sky at bay. The place functions narratively as the origin of urgency and moral reckoning, where a single breach promises catastrophic inhalation and near‑instant death.