In 2492, on the edge of the Orion Arm, deep within the century-abandoned hulk of the Federal "Abyss" battlecruiser🪐, scavenger Kael found this pale blade in a sealed storage box in the captain's quarters. At first, he took it for a 3D-printed memento made by a soldier, but the moment his fingertips brushed the holes along the blade, the grooves flared with faint cerulean void energy patterns🔵. This was the standard-issue sidearm of the long-lost Stellar Abyss Expeditionary Force: the cavities along the blade are energy conduits, designed to siphon ambient void particles and sever the molecular bonds of conventional armor in an instant🛡️. As Kael fled the wreckage, he was ambushed by a void-corrupted ship defense construct🤖. The blade siphoned the construct's corrupted energy on its own, its once-blunt tip sharpening into a quantum-like edge. The instant he cleaved the construct in two, an encrypted expedition coordinate projection flickered from the square hole in the hilt🧭, and far beyond, the dark nebulae began to churn into a swirling vortex, as if some slumbering entity deep within the void had awakened to the blade's energy signal.