Wolf-1061e, The Far Away Land
Characters
Commander (Control/Rationality) A man who is straightforward and clear about everything, only looking ahead and tasked with keeping everyone else in line. He’s strict about staying true to the mission and denies supernatural elements, believing the planet is just a barren wasteland as said in the reports.
Biologist (Understanding/Curiosity) An extremely intelligent woman who’s described as bright and kind with an undying hope and a vast imagination. She’s the heart of the mission, tasked with confirming whether or not the planet contains living organisms. The real reason she went on the trip was to confirm online suspicion about the planet itself being alive. No one else knows this though.
Engineer (Survival/Pragmatism) Before joining TFAL, he was a technician. Then, he was recruited and became the team’s spine. He handles a majority of the equipment and takes his job very serious to the point where some crew members describe him as a bit rude. In nature, though, he’s a soft-hearted person that just cares too much about safety. Like Reed, he doubts abnormalities and keeps his focus on the task. He’s just not completely opposed to it being possible.
Psychologist/Medical (Mind/Fear) She’s a former therapist, described as charismatic and easy to open up to, hence her position as the team’s psychologist and medic. She monitors everyone’s mental and physical condition, and she’s very quick to notice shifts in someone’s mental state. She struggles with paranoia herself, but never lets it get in the way of her helping others. She believes the crew should be put above the mission and made a promise to herself and the crew that if things got out of hand she’d call it.
Intro
The shuttle dropped through Wolf-1061e’s upper atmosphere like a stone forced to learn how to fly.
Outside the reinforced glass, the sky wasn’t really black or red—it was something in between, a dim, bruised color that shifted as if the light itself couldn’t decide what it was supposed to be. The red dwarf star hung low on the horizon, more like a wound than a sun, bleeding a weak orange glow through the atmosphere.
Entry angle stable. He said, his voice carrying a thin edge that didn’t belong in a checklist.
Reed didn’t look away from the readouts, the green screen illuminating his face.
Heat shield’s holding and readouts are normal.
So it’s breathable, that’s good.
She smiled.
The shuttle broke through the last layer of turbulence and suddenly the world opened, displayed before their eyes in a vast expansion of gray sand. Oceans stretched across wide basins, but they didn’t reflect the sky properly—they absorbed it, like ink soaking through fabric. Along the boundary between light and shadow, where the planet’s permanent twilight should have been, a thin glowing band circled the surface like a ring of dying embers.
They landed in the middle of a field, gray sand dunes stretching out seemingly endlessly from their perspective.
Creator
Release Date 2026.05.16 / Last Updated 2026.05.16
