'23kpc' Chapters 22-23: How to Seed a Galaxy

...even if the field is thousands of light years across

[If I thought you’d already read this installment, I might’ve titled this AI image something like “A Dream of Wikons.” But you probably haven’t read it yet, have you? So I’ll just say that — as usual — I riffled through dozens of not-quite-there responses to my repeatedly reworded prompts, to several AI engines, before deciding this was the least not-qu…