CHOO-CHOO!
The No. 10 Pioneer Construction Train roared out of the Gravel-Yard Asteroid Belt, trailing a fifty-mile plume of golden furnace sparks across the dark void of space.
Behind the massive black-iron locomotive, three hundred heavy passenger and cargo cars rumbled along the newly laid Moon-Spider Sky-Rail. Ahead of the train, growing larger every minute, hung World #10: Star-Gold Planet.
Even from five hundred thousand miles away, the planet looked like a miniature sun forged out of solid gold. Thick clouds of swirling gold-and-violet lightning wrapped around its atmosphere, and jagged mountain ranges of raw metallic ore gleamed through breaks in the storm.
Inside Car #1, Pirate Queen Hong Ye pressed her face against the reinforced spirit-glass window, her eyes widening in shock.
“That’s... the Forbidden Compass Star!” Hong Ye gasped, her chains rattling as she pointed at the golden world. “Pei Xuan, are you out of your mind?! Five hundred years ago, a Half-Step Star Realm elder from the Broken Star Belt tried to land here to mine a single chunk of Rank 8 Solar-Gold Ore. The planet’s chaotic magnetic storms twisted his blood-iron, scrambled his Nascent Soul, and slammed him headfirst into a mountain! Even birds can’t fly straight down there!”
