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// Codex: Poptop 
// Story: Lost In the Stars 
// by Crabs_of_steam 
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Codex>Library>Monsters>Poptop 


 


When I first encountered this creature, I was in the Al Kab System mining for some ores. I thought it was one of the cutest things I ever encountered. I kid you not it was blow your heart out cute. Those orange marbles eyes that glowed, the massive head that looked too big for it's own stringy body and legs to support, and its arms that would stretch and drag on the floor. Compared to the many unspeakable horrors that I've seen and confronted, It was relief to see a creature that didn't look like something pulled from a kid's nightmare. I didn't know what I was thinking, because I grabbed the Poptop and took it to my ship to keep as a little companion. I started to have second thoughts the next morning when I woke up to find my head between the little devil's ginormous jaws. I miraculously ripped it from my head, losing almost every fiber of hair, and shot it out the airlock. I never took off my helmet for a whole month after that. My hair has long since grown back, and I stroke my hand now and then to remind myself of that old saying, "Don't judge a book by it's cover."