Does this have an author? 🤔 Maybe i'm jaded and paranoid, but why does this make me think of AI generated content? The vocabulary is at a college level at times ("nails dragging across a chitinous surface"??), but twice it settles for "pretty ______" as an adjective. It also doesn't really have... a motive? Or a plot, maybe? It does a great job of describing things, but doesn't give a reason to care about those things. It could be improved with simply adding something like, "Dr. Starks stared in dismay as her life-long dream of reaching across the void turned into a waking nightmare. The first contact that she had hoped would lead to the enlightening of the human race had now become its undoing... and it was her fault." Creatures that are just "pure evil" without a reason don't make for good antagonists. Also, are they evil or just hungry? Perhaps having the creature appear friendly at first, convincing her to open the gate, then showing their true colors, or possibly painting them as simply mindless, enormous virus-like creatures that exist only to devour might work. The ending could also be made more forceful or meaningful. "As Dr. Starks' eyes clouded over, she continued trying to reach for the quantum arc's generator core. If she could destabilize it, create an implosion, stop these creatures... but as blood dimmed what was left of her vision she already knew. Nothing would stop them from coming through. She would be the first to die, and the entire human race would follow. Unseeing, with her final scrap of breath, she whimpered, 'I'm so sorry!'"