Vampires of Space

An aging space-service officer recounts his patrol investigating two passenger-ship disappearances and the encounter with Electites, enigmatic crescent-shaped, pale-red entities that seem to live in space and damage vessels. The account follows his ship's mission, the discovery of a pitted fragment from his destroyed craft, and the crew's attempts to identify and repel the creatures while balancing secrecy, scientific conjecture, and practical tactics. The narrative combines memoir, procedural detail of a specialist patrol, and speculative description of alien physiology and behavior as the narrator pieces together how the Electites threaten human navigation of interstellar routes.