“They tried burning things, anything they could find. They tried chemicals, explosives, rocketry. They tried digging up fossils and setting them alight, or smashing atoms together to see what would come out. Desperate fools! They mixed matter with antimatter—sent a thousand rockets into the sky, but none like mine. You see, I found a fire that doesn’t go out. I found power incalculable.” - St. Cain, Captain of the Dreadnought Chimera Acquisition Details: This is the star-forming region NGC 281, captured by my own hand, using my apochromatic refracting telescope. My aim, both with my sci-fi novels and my astrophotography, is to transport you to another world.