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Polymorphic Pleasure Prologue: Transformation

The year is 2068. A satellite orbits around the earth, watching the sky for strange signals. The satellite’s camera watches as a tiny blob of what looks like ink drifts through space. Smaller than a fingernail, the speck slowly tumbles in the zero-gravity, and splatters against the satellite’s clear glass lens. Suddenly, the black blot begins to expand. First slowly, then faster and faster. Metal and plastic seems to melt and deform as pieces of the satellite are converted into the ever-expanding goo. As the tide of glossy black goo consumes the satellite’s circuitry, it sends a signal back to Earth for the last time. The blob of ink-like substance could have floated unnoticed around the Earth for thousands of years. Except, someone on Earth was paying attention: the Valencia corporation. They immediately dispatch a new mission to bring the strange black substance to Earth for further study. Little do they know that their curiosity about this little black blob would decide the