Voidhold Zero is now completed.

  Onward through the black void of space spins Mosogon, an improbable gas giant orbiting Caldigan's Star like a bad-tempered plum. In its turbulent atmosphere, Voidhold Zero drifts on its newly independent course. Within it, Shade tends her garden, finally free from veils and family constraints.

  Her story, for now, recedes into the purple storms.

  Our gaze instead turns towards Mosogon's seven multicolored moons, which circle it like nervous courtiers. The people who live on these moons build habitats and cities, grow crops and mine rare minerals, fall in love and argue, generally behaving as humans do.

  For them, Mosogon is but a pretty backdrop.

  None remember why humanity decided to settle in the shadow of this vibrant monster. Records from those days are conveniently vague, filled with cheerful propaganda about "new frontiers" and "humanity's destiny among the stars." The truth, as with most inconvenient historical facts, has been politely forgotten.

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  We begin with one moon in particular: Kabus the Verdant. Despite its lush, inviting surface, it remains mostly uncolonized, for reasons that will become clear. Beyond the foothold established by the Hub lie tangled jungles, an incomprehensible ocean, and things best left alone.

  But it's about to get visited by cultists, who come not to settle or to mine but to test themselves by submitting to its dangers as an act of devotion. Only through suffering can one truly learn a new world, so goes their belief.

  The current colonial administration of Kabus views these cultists with cautious optimism. With the moon's treacherously turbulent ecosystems deterring serious settlement, the Hub is perpetually underfunded and desperate for outside attention. Officials quietly hope that trials of these devotees might finally capture the imagination of investors and inspire an influx of eager colonists.

  "An authentic spiritual tourism experience" reads one hastily drafted promotional plan, though no one has worked up the courage to share it with the cultists themselves.

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