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A transmission crackled through, voice calm and terrible:

Lena stared at the terminal. The diagnostic readout was clean. The fuel cells were full. The cryo-pods were green across the board. 7sttarhd.ing

“That’s not a star,” she whispered. “That’s not anything.” A transmission crackled through, voice calm and terrible:

But Lena couldn’t. The string pulsed faintly on the screen, like a low-frequency hum she could feel in her molars. Seven. S-T-T-A-R. H-D dot ing. A transmission crackled through