Vast and Boundless Skies

For shipgirls born from the ocean and all things beautiful, the vast heavens seem to hold a natural allure. It is as if some transcendent presence is calling to them from beyond, beckoning them to explore the final frontier.

A Stellaris shipgirl mod fanfic. Some of the settings come from Stargate, Star Trek, Halo, and The Expanse. The book's title comes from another translation of The Expanse...

(I'll remove or rationalize some of the completely absurd Stellaris settings that modern physics would tear to shreds. For example, it's baffling that the corvettes from the start use chemical thrusters to travel between stars. Are the chemical propellants in Paradox's universe some kind of bizarre substance with both an insanely high specific impulse and an insanely high thrust? Anyway, I feel like my brain has leveled up.)