Journey to the Center of the Thing Prologue Billions of years of nothing. Straight-up nothing. A few asteroid impacts here and there, but they were lost in the heavily dimpled face of Dres. Perhaps the most interesting thing to hit it would be a car, thanks to a private space company. Gray. Desolate. Rings arcing across a deep back sky, the most interesting feature to remain for millions of years. For billions of years, Dres whirled around a distant sun, almost undi