I turned around and looked at Tymmo “OK, I need to know exactly what we are looking for.”

“Do you really need to know?” Tymmo asked.

“Yes, I do need to know.”

“Well, it’s a miniature black hole.” He said without looking at me.

“A miniature black hole?! No wonder you needed my ship!”

I played my hands over the controls, giving the ship orders to lay a beacon to mark my claim. With that done, my hands paused for a second and then pressed the commands to send us speeding into the core while a blue sphere of light flickers into being around the ship.

After the blue light of the shield stabilized, the ship impacted on the surface, temporarily creating a crater that collapsed into a large splash, evaporating into cloud of hydrogen gas.

A few seconds afterward, the ripples left over from the splash dissolved into the normal rippling of the core, with the only thing remaining the lonely pulsing of the beacon marking the claim of enormous riches.