Interstellar Dock Scene -

Elias unbuckled his harness. He floated for a second in the zero-G before the freighter’s spin artificial gravity took hold, gently pulling him down into his seat. The transition from weightlessness to weight was always heavy, like putting on a lead coat.

The scene must first establish the scale that breaks the human mind. interstellar dock scene

He stood up, his boots magnetic clamps disengaging with a snap, and walked to the airlock. He pressed his hand against the cold glass of the viewport one last time. He looked out at the hangar bay. It was a cathedral of steel, lit by sodium lamps, smelling of ozone and grease even through the sealed glass. Elias unbuckled his harness

Against this grey, tumorous background, the Aethelgard was a gnat. A gnat trying to land on a sleeping elephant. The scene must first establish the scale that

After months in cryo or weeks in jump space, the body needs to remember how to be social.