Ghost Children of Tranquility

Legend: The Ghost Children of Tranquility

Every bounty hunter worth their mercenary listing in the sector has traversed the halls of Tranquility Deepness at some point or other, though not all have witnessed the ghost children of the station.

Those who have, might recall the innocent giggles and quick, pattering footsteps that echo down the barren halls, distorting into shrieks and groans. The children's likenesses seem to flicker with the lights of the station, their bodies bending in ways they shouldn’t, their faces expressing an almost-believable facsimile of childlike joy.

Perhaps most disturbing and uncanny of all, the feared tentacle-limbed shapeshifters that torment the station do not touch these children.

Rather, they seem to follow the youths commands and treasure them as if the tiny spacers were the creatures’ own young. Legend says that attacking, or stars forbid killing these youths will result in every shapeshifter of the station descending in retaliation. Survival is simply not possible. The only memory of such actions is drafted in the security footage of the station - an interaction between spacer and youth, an immediate flooding of writhing limbs and darkness, and then blood stains on the walls of an empty hall.