Wailing Wall

Farrell awakens disoriented, naked and weapon‑less, deep inside the honey‑combed darkness of an alien dome known as the Hymenop. The oppressive underground maze is lit only for the many‑eyed inhabitants that crawl its walls, and a distant, unseen weapon seems to compel everyone to keep their secrets buried. As he stumbles through endless corridors, the faint rustle of pursuers—whether human colonists or the hive’s own—drives him deeper into a labyrinth that feels both endless and deliberately guided.

His frantic search leads him to a cavernous chamber dominated by a massive, unfamiliar cylindrical machine. The device, a Ringwave generator, is the very object he was sent to locate, its alien design echoing the broken power core of the crew’s own ship. As the hum of the machine fills the gloom, Farrell’s mind races between memories of his comrades above ground and the unsettling realization that he may have been herded into this trap from the start, leaving him to confront both the alien technology and the psychological weight of the unseen threat.