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The Rock of Zykrell

The Rock of Zykrell is named after the being who discovered it. Zykrell was a Memtal from the system Myg. The unusual location of Myg in the galaxy (far below the central plane of the Milky way in sparse regions bordering the central bulge and spherical component) made it a more likely place to discover extra-galactic artifacts. Still, even given that fortuitous location, the coincidence of an object the size of The Rock of Zykrell being discovered by any sapient being is an astounding statistical unlikelihood. It is aged as billions of years old.   There are arguments over whether The Rock of Zykrell is natural or artificial. The composition is of mostly nickel and rock. There is some iron presence. All of this corresponds with the composition of most meteoroids discovered throughout the galaxy. It was determined The Rock of Zykrell is extra-galactic both because of its movement trajectory through Myg when discovered and the fact that the elements within The Rock of Zykrell are all of isotopes not discovered in any other known, naturally occurring object within the Milky Way. This strange isotope composition is often used as evidence it was constructed.   The Rock of Zykrell is a seven-sided spindle, roughly 2.2 kilometers long. The widest point is a perfect septagon (with the vertices clipped) exactly one third of the way from one end. Surrounding the widest point is a ring. The ring is a half a tube, with the convex side facing outward. The ring is very close to a perfect circle. The entire object is one solid piece with no marks of tools or deliberate crafting. The surface is smooth but uneven like a weathered stone.   This shape would seem to be compelling interest that The Rock of Zykrell is artificial, but skeptic point out (not entirely incorrectly) that weirder shaped objects have been found.   The Q'Dari claim that The Rock of Zykrell was formed as the first psychic presence in the incomprehensible energies of the Big Bang. It holds a central place in many of their meditation practices and is looked to as both an object of reverence and a source of emancipation and even exaltation by certain strains of thought within Q'Dari intellectual systems.   It is, however, beyond Q'Dari reach and study. The Memtall created a giant, zero-G station around the Rock of Zykrell to study it, matching it's velocity and trajectory, the observatory moves in the same path that the Rock of Zykrell would have moved if left alone. Little study is done these days, and the observatory serves as more of a museum than a research station.

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