Nothingness

Ning appeared out of the portal into an open space. He looked around to find the service station and found it floating next to a gas giant.

The blue gas giant glowed brightly from the sun that was behind him, and almost looked like a hospitable planet with water in it.

If there were some green parts on the surface of the planet, he would've thought it was a planet with a thriving life.

Ning looked away from the planet and toward the Service Station. He was here to steal from it, so he was going to do so.

Just then, a shadow fell on the Service Station. Ning wondered what was happening when he also saw it fall on the planet behind it.

He focused on the sun and saw something weird around the sun.

"What is that?" he asked.

<It is a metal barrier around the sun to harness its energies.>

"Damn, how big is that?" Ning wondered.