0sdla-001-xtp

Koch mapped it. The low thrum matched the rotation curve of a supermassive black hole, the one at the galactic core we lost contact with six years ago. The ping matched nothing. She overlaid the waveforms. The ping didn’t originate from the black hole. It originated around it. Orbiting.

XTP Report: Log Fragment 0sdla-001 Classification: Ephemeral / Uncategorized Origin: Drift Station Theta, Outer Shelf 0sdla-001-xtp

Awake.

The kicker? When we back-calculated the trajectory of 0sdla-001-xtp, we found it passed through the Solar System eighteen months ago. Right through Earth’s orbit. Koch mapped it

Koch hasn’t slept. She keeps replaying the ping. She says if you slow it down 1,000%, it almost sounds like a voice. A single word, repeated. 0sdla-001-xtp