inside the wreckage of the decommissioned battlecruiser "Styx" on the edge of the Orion Arm🔧, interstellar scavenger Kahn's searchlight swept across the rusted weapon rack, finally locking onto this deep-blue hollowed dagger🗡️. As a top-secret prototype from the Old Galactic Federation's "Void Cage" project, its hollow structure was never for weight reduction—those diamond-shaped cavities are micro gravity trap arrays⚛️. Once activated, they can forcibly lock the target's neural signals in a subspace rift, sending them into an endless free fall within a cage of consciousness. The moment Kahn's fingertips touched the hilt, the biometric monitor on his wrist let out a sharp alarm📳, and the fragments in the log terminal decoded automatically: the last wielder of this blade was Elena, a rogue psionic agent of the Federation. Three years ago, she was infected by a stellar remains parasite during a deep-space exploration mission. To prevent the parasite's consciousness from spreading to the entire colonial galaxy through the psionic network🌌, she drove this blade through her own skull while activating the gravity traps, sealing both the stellar remains consciousness and her own soul within the cavities of the blade. Kahn tried to stuff the dagger into his backpack, only to feel an increasingly intense tremor spreading from his fingertips, as if countless faint whispers were seeping out from the hollow parts of the blade📢—among those whispers were Elena's pleas for help, and the allure of the stellar remains consciousness. He abruptly let go, and the dagger clattered against the metal floor. Meanwhile, the searchlight's glow happened to illuminate the deepest part of the blade, a slowly wriggling silvery-gray light spot🔦.