“The Crab Pulsar's beam stuttered — once, for less than a blink. Every Wanderer navigating by it felt the hiccup. It has never happened before.”
The Lighthouse flickered
Common · One of 400
NEOWISE
“Lit up the world's skies naked-eye in summer 2020 with twin blue ion and pale dust tails; NEOWISE is the summer everyone remembers.”
A Dust world of The Wanderers
3 known connections · an open question
The living story
The story so far
NEOWISE was spotted by a space telescope in March 2020 and lit up the northern summer skies like a headlight in the dark. For weeks, anyone who looked up could see her with their bare eyes, and she has been riding that summer's memory ever since.
Happening now
She is out past Neptune now, cooling off and telling every rock she passes about the summer she was famous. The Wanderers tease her that fame is a comet's one true tail, but she doesn't care — she was seen.
What may come
In about 6,800 years she will swing back toward the Sun, and she has already started planning the entrance. If anyone is still looking up, she wants her second visit to be the one they tell stories about.
Connected
Whispers about NEOWISE
The Wanderers
Comets, meteors, asteroids — they owe allegiance to no court and carry messages between all of them. Their creed: arrive, burn bright, leave before they name a holiday after you.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Dust
- Court
- The Wanderers — the free drifters
- Rarity
- Common
- Edition
- One of 400
- Stats
- power 55 · speed 90 · charm 88