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The Light Gatherer
A visitor from another galaxy.
Though technically a he, the alien was more of an “it” by earth or human standards had they known of their visitor. He had existed for eons in the vastness of interstellar space. He had visited countless star clusters; had swept through many galaxies and their myriad of solar systems, skirted black holes and supernovas, and had almost reached the point of permanent blink-out when, purely by accident, he had come across a small non-descript solar system tucked away in the corner of an equally non-descript galaxy.
His sensors drew him to the star; a soft yellow dwarf. His scanning system had trolled through the star’s planets and the one that caught his attention was mostly blue, shaded by clouds, the third planet out from the star and with a natural satellite. Perfect. He landed on the satellite.
The alien needed light to restore his systems. Not the harsh light of white and blue stars that proliferated across space with x-rays, gamma rays and multitudes of other rays only he could detect that could destroy some of his more sensitive equipment. His system required green light, defined as light with a peak wavelength of 500 to 600 nanometers. These green wavebands filled the gap between the blue and red light in the visible light spectrum, and when combined with amber light, created green full-spectrum, his…
