Dr. Aris Thorne, the mission’s astrobiologist, was the first to notice. The deep-core samples from the ice moon of Hades-9 were too uniform. Not crystalline, not organic in any known way, but patterned . Like a code written in frozen methane.
November Cerberus. All shall pass. None shall leave. nov cerberus
Phase One: Listening. The ice drank their radio waves, their neural static, their dreams. Phase Two: Mimicry. It learned their voices, their fears, their hopes. Phase Three: Replacement. Dr. Aris Thorne
The first death happened on November 7th. the mission’s astrobiologist