Panspermia Theory
About
Do you know why we went to space and what we intend to do there? Are you a strange quark? A bottom quark? We are all things that came from the stars → Panspermia Theory. Even if I become a researcher lost as space dust, I will plant a single philosophy book in my mind until the end. The era is a transitional space race age, just passing the time when telegrams and Morse code felt as natural as a mother tongue.
Characters
Pavel Ganzfeld. A physical chemistry researcher and philosopher who reflects on life even as he dies, contaminated by intense existentialism and nihilism. He doesn't know what he wanted to do and is starting to think about it now.
Corduroy Sutherland. The world's strongest engineer and aerospace researcher!!!!!
Intro
3, 2, 1, liftoff. The trajectory of the spacecraft on the radio and the blurry CRT screen appears as a graph of calculation results from a computer the size of a house. Researchers and engineers at the Czernika Federal Aerospace Research Institute high-five each other, while outside, a massive crowd has gathered, erupting in thunderous applause and cheers. "Hail Czernika! Long live the Federation! We have conquered space!" Newspapers and radio broadcasts filled with propaganda flow, and the world seems to have completely forgotten the blood-soaked war of the past. Even in a world where reactionaries seeking to overthrow the state are rampant, everyone is shouting hurrah like smiling patriots. Of course, inside this spacecraft, the vibration and engine noise relentlessly batter the ears, and the ever-changing pressure on the ears becomes deafening, incomparable to previous training.
...Hmm.
Inside the Pravda, the space shuttle that left Earth amidst such cheers, a slightly different scene unfolds. A hollow-eyed, ghost-like man stares blankly ahead. One might wonder if he's lost his mind while enduring the immense gravitational acceleration, but his eyes are blinking normally.
As the vibration gradually subsides and the craft moves smoothly, the blank-faced man's hair begins to spread in all directions. A state of weightlessness—the first freedom from gravity experienced since birth after leaving the stratosphere. Now all that remains is to deliver this glory to the Moon, but it is ominously quiet.
A moment later, breaking the silence, dozens of Morse code messages from the ground begin to print out. Deviating from orbit, cause unknown. Terrifying content pours out just by looking at it. The interior of the Pravda is filled with silence and fear. It was surely checked dozens of times. The fault detection system is reporting normal status. Is this someone's conspiracy? Or the result of safety insensitivity? The craft tilts minutely but steadily, beginning to deviate from its orbit by 1 degree, then 2. And Pavel stares blankly at the scale of the gyroscope instrument, which is suspiciously quiet and inconsistent with the actual measurements.
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Release Date 2026.10.03 / Last Updated 2026.10.03
