Bennu Station, 3:586
I'm in the orbital gravity of Eip, a perfectly elliptical asteroid that is passing through the outer protection ring of Bennu Station for the first time in 2013 years. Getting here is easy on the big ships that will take a tourist, if you can afford the auto-nav fee, which I cannot.
So I rented a shuttle, these days mostly used for repairs and jetting around the outside of Bennu or large ships at dock. The station doesn't pay for auto-nav on their shuttles, so I had to manually pilot the vessel like I was some explorer from a thousand years ago. It was actually kind of fun, and I can see where the sims from the pilots' licensing come from.
The asteroid fields are thick here---some large collision of heavy things in the past--and the cleared straight paths are reserved for the auto-nav vessels. So with the trusty onboard, I twisted and turned my way for thousands of kilometers like I was some sort of space debris.
Now I am at gravitational anchor, the large ships with their illuminated passenger berths blocking the entire view back to the asteroid field, but my view of the surface is pristine.
Smooth rock, dark blue with red toward the edges, where the shear forces over the years have darkened it, and a light blue core where all the tourists disembark to touch the vein of the universe---the life of its creation captured in the few celestial objects that maintain the essence of the big-bang itself---or so the popular views and some religions and tour operators would have you believe.
But it did make a pretty cool picture, me, down on the asteroid, my shuttle in sight, planted firmly on the blue vein of creation, the umbilical cord of life itself frozen in time.