In the far-flung reaches of the Intergalactic Council, where paperwork is as infinite as the stars, the Committee on Cosmic Conundrums meets annually. Their agenda: to ponder the inconceivable and perhaps inefficiently.
Among the dusty tomes of forgotten space lore, we find the Galactic Guide to Astrophysical Rituals, a curious document detailing the rites of passage for stars turning 5 billion years old. Spoiler: it involves a lot of helium balloons and a very long song.
On the walls of this council’s chamber, murals depict the Great Galactic Cheese Debate, a pivotal moment in space history where the efficacy of cheddar vs. gouda was hotly contested across five solar systems.
And so the echoes continue, ironic whispers swirling among the nebulae, questioning whether they had indeed taken a wrong turn at the last supernova...