Space Whale Harpooner

"Men. You may not survive what is to come. When you are tethered to the ship by only an umbilical cable no thicker than the one you had at birth. When the creature opens its great maw and all you have is the plasma harpoon in your hands. The dark void of space broken only by the lights of stars and the songs of interstellar whales. Giant beasts that can swallow small moons. Digesting them to add to their great shells. But we cannot fear the beasts for we are man and man does not allow nature to restrain us.

We hunt them not only for the precious metals and rare earths within their hide but also to protect our own satellites and stations from their gullet. With our plasma harpoons we will crack their hides, and reel them in to our ship the Pequod and to home we will haul its meat and metals to expand our reach ever deeper into the stars.

Men, you may not survive. But every creature slain will assure your family does." - Captain Thaddeus Orcan