“If you’re seeing this, you’re the first to make it past the Outer Perimeter in a decade,” she said, voice a thin echo. “I am Dr. Voss, and I’m sorry. We didn’t see it coming.”
Liora recognized the pattern immediately—a distress call encoded in a language long thought extinct. She turned to her co‑pilot, , and said, “We’re not just stopping for fuel. This is a call for help—maybe a warning.”
“If you’re seeing this, you’re the first to make it past the Outer Perimeter in a decade,” she said, voice a thin echo. “I am Dr. Voss, and I’m sorry. We didn’t see it coming.”
Liora recognized the pattern immediately—a distress call encoded in a language long thought extinct. She turned to her co‑pilot, , and said, “We’re not just stopping for fuel. This is a call for help—maybe a warning.”