An original AI-generated sci-fi illustration on an immutable blockchain – The Harvest Mother – They called it The Harvest Mother, a living ship birthed from the graveyards of a thousand derelict worlds. It drifted in low orbit around a dying planet, its tendrils spreading like veins across the void, absorbing derelict vessels into its biomechanical mass. The green glow from its core pulsed with the rhythm of something alive—something aware. Every few hours, it exhaled clouds of red luminescence, releasing spores that drifted across space like seeds searching for new flesh to root in. The Harvest Mother was not built—it evolved. What began as a weaponized station during the Galactic Collapse had become a sentient organism that learned to feed on circuitry, bone, and memory. It consumed entire fleets, weaving their remains into its own grotesque anatomy. The few who dared to approach spoke of hearing whispers in the static of their comms—voices of lost captains and engineers pleading for release, their consciousness still trapped inside the ship’s living data vaults. Now it moves with deliberate purpose, its tendrils stretching toward the nearest colony world. The warning beacons have already gone silent. Inside its glowing chambers, something new begins to stir—part machine, part flesh, and wholly aware of the hunger that created it. The stars themselves seem to recoil from its path, as though the universe remembers what happens when creation forgets its limits.