2021/9/29 #poetry This was it, the Sun. He was diving in. Heat & gravity shields had finally become advanced enough to allow the trip. Virtual recreations from probe collected data had not been enough. He wanted to take the actual plunge. Without the ship's filtering there was simply too much for his senses to take in. All light, as much heat as he could take, and as much heaviness as he could bear. He nudged the passthrough to let more accost the ship. It was blissful.
He'd had time, during the journey over, to contemplate why this particular objective had been so compelling for him. Enter the center of everything. That's how he thought of it, but that wasn't why. It literally pulled him in, along with the rest of the solar system, perhaps it was that simple, responding to the call.