three million light-years
Nearly three million light-years stretched from the galactic center to the icy S-Five— A small planet nestled within the luminous, spiral galaxy Tremles, Whose radiant magic set every strand of cosmic light vibrating like strings in a celestial symphony.
Tremles was no ordinary dwarf galaxy— It was a supergalaxy, Housing an estimated five hundred trillion stars, A number so vast that even writing the count of its planets, asteroids, moons, and more Would require more zeros than all the pages of a thick, five-hundred-page book.
S-Five existed within the final quadrant of Tremles, A lonely system hosting only one star— A sun so distant that the planet seemed clothed In an endless blanket of ice, Soft and white like a woolen coat wrapped around the world.
Its skies, Forever under the barrage of meteor showers, Blazed with astonishing beauty— Meteors laced with potassium, Which, upon mixing with cold hydrogen, Ignited massive cool explosions across the heavens.
Yet S-Five was not large enough To endure those blasts unscathed. Among the trillions upon trillions of planets within Tremles, Its existence was no grander than a single cell In the entirety of the Milky Way galaxy.
Still, it continued its journey, Orbiting at a distance of three million light-years from the center.
Thousands of magnetic storms Had swept through from the galactic core, Expanding its world beyond measure— A brightness stretching toward infinity, Its origin unknown.
Scientists proposed that the brilliance of its orbit Was due to those very magnetic storms, Which excited the gaseous particles in its atmosphere, Reflecting red light along the planet’s path.
S-Five spun along its familiar orbit, Bound only by the gravity of its lone star, Glimpsing a handful of neighboring planets Through the veil of sulfurous dust.
Much time passed— Until neither S-Five, Nor its solar system, Nor even its neighboring star clusters Retained their original form.
The entire region had succumbed To a new kind of existence—black holes.
No celestial bodies remained to be observed.
Yet still, The coordinates of its orbit Remained known as "S-Five’s Red Path," Even though not a trace of the planet, Its system, Or its adjacent star groups remained.
From this phenomenon, Professor Arthur Balt, In his renowned 2075 book "The Beauty of Tremles," wrote:
"Certainly, the small planet S-Five had no knowledge of its origin, Nor the nature of its movement. Yet, the reason we can still pinpoint its orbital path In every image captured of Tremles, Despite the absence of its celestial remnants, Is the profound connection between S-Five’s atmosphere And the magnetic storms emanating from Tremles’ nuclear core."
From this work, A new astronomical term was coined— "Ke-Mahr," Meaning "galactic kindness."
The term described the universal equality By which all celestial bodies within a galaxy Share the energy generated by its core.
According to Ke-Mahr theory, Distance, scale, orbital paths, and even the molecular composition of celestial objects Hold no relevance to the galactic nucleus— All are equally affected.
And most fascinating of all— The planet itself, Despite knowing nothing beyond its own system, Despite never grasping its millions of light-years of separation from its origin, Still ruled within its singular existence Like a monarch governing its domain.