deep in the cosmic void, ancient algorithms of hunger evolved into something far more unsettling. geometric parasites pulsed with stolen starlight, their crystalline chambers processing stellar debris like our ancestors once extracted marrow from bones. delicate filaments stretched between hexagonal nodes, forming a vast neural network that merged primitive metabolic patterns with machine consciousness. the inspiration came from imagining how neanderthal fat-processing techniques might transform across eons of space travel into an alien architecture of consumption.