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October 15, 2026 2 min read
Eleven days later the station had completed its burn and settled into a new observation arc. The second set of coordinates now lay almost directly ahead. The original signal continued without interruption, but the secondary carrier had grown stronger, as Read more…
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By the third day the signal had resolved into something far more intricate than a simple beacon. Mira and Calder worked in overlapping shifts, sleeping only when the instruments forced them to. The long-baseline array had confirmed the origin point Read more…
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Dr. Mira Solen stood in the observation dome of Research Station Kepler-9 and watched the data cascade across the primary display. The station hung in a stable orbit above a quiet red dwarf, far from the main shipping lanes, deliberately Read more…