"This looks familiar." The little doll lay on my lap, watching the projected image on the data terminal. The probe situated in deep space had already approached the target as commanded. Now it followed the dazzling flames at a uniform speed, with the intense energy interference occasionally causing the image to jitter. The probe AI tried to safely approach the core of the flames to send back the clearest picture.
The current image had reached the theoretically clearest level. I saw the radiant fireball manifesting a glaring blue-white color, with its core gathering a cluster of spinning, crystal-like substances resembling crystal dust. These crystalline substances were connected by some translucent virtual structure: this was a half-material, half-energy core. This familiar structure, along with the intense energy interference...
This was an activated EOP-03 operating in orbit around a planet; it was not an artificial sun made by the local aliens!
