New Discovery, the City of Two Skylines. The name, while appropriate, could not begin to describe what stood before them, for there were, indeed, two skylines, though they were not separate, nor were they comparable in beauty or grandeur. Great spires and minarets reached out towards a green-tinted sky, their tips fading into the clouds. Some wore ridges, and delivered rivulets of condensation into the soil below, where fungiforms and arbormophs bloomed in arrangements so deliberate as to humble the finest of gardeners. Others arched with organic zest, cartwheeling between their towering comrades, drawing points of contact between them, and together, creating the world’s ancestral skyline, that of those who came before the Terrans.
Yana and crew arrive at New Discovery, the City of Two Skylines: the human species’ first colony outside of the Sol system, and their last to be established in a previously inhabited world.
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