Carrier P5-7 Fail Here

Mira felt a prickle at the base of her skull—the kind of instinct that had kept her alive through a pirate interdiction near Europa and a depressurization incident in the rings of Saturn. “Match it against known debris databases.”

The ship’s speakers crackled. At first, Mira thought it was static—the random noise of a broken carrier signal. But then she heard it: a voice. Low and fragmented, like a recording played backward and forward at the same time. Words in no language she knew, but somehow, impossibly, she understood their meaning. carrier p5-7 fail

Just silence.