Short Warp: Deep Space Bounty

short warp
noun

  1 : a rope tied directly to a harpoon, often through the lance eye; once commonly used in 'whaling' (the hunting of cetaceans for food/industry)

  2 : any single "jump" of FtL travel where the start and end points are separated by less than 2,097,152 Cosien-standard ship-legges.

You're not out to save the world, you've just got bills to pay.

Once routine deep-space shipping lanes have become infested with parasitic creatures. The Cosien Corporation has posted bounties for confirmed kills.

Some say the creatures were drawn by our fuel and they feed on the exhaust. Others say we're expanding into their regions of space. Still others say these creatures merely portend a much greater threat, the legendary deep-space whales.

The Cosien Corporation insists they're just a rumour - but some bounty hunters still claim they're real, that there's something out there. Something big, and getting closer. Something that you only believe in when you see space itself move...