OOC: Absolutely anyone is welcome to jump in here…

IC: Ensign Anderson was sure. He’d walked this gangway daily patrolling blue containment bays one and two. And yesterday, the wall at which he was currently staring had been different.
The ten-inch, reinforced tritanium, barrier that surrounded computer core section E was decorated on its cylindrical outer face by familiar components - a singular biometric scanner offering access through a singular, triple-plated door. Plus several terminal screens displaying core temperature, ambient pressure and other key performance metrics of the Leviathan’s entire computer estate.

But what hadn’t been present yesterday on the blue-tinged metal surface, sitting just overhead of the doorway and about the size of a standard poker chip, was a curious black spot. Closer inspection would reveal it to be less black and more an absence of any colour, as if one was peering through a hole and into the void beyond. Except this was not a hole, it was solid, and somewhat fuzzy to the naked eye, although Anderson was not foolish enough to confirm that suspicion by touch.

Still, as he continued to stare, as he had been doing for the past several hours, he fancied he could see the strange fuzz moving. As if undulating in a gentle but undetected breeze…

• NE Anderson