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The lead Taryf Canon-ship, the Obedient Quota , received the final order from its ancient directive:

An Institute surveyor found the system three centuries later. F158-200 was silent, its crystalline forests grey and brittle. But floating in high orbit was a graveyard of Taryf needle-ships, their data-spikes still intact. Inside each spike, preserved perfectly, was the light-pattern of a single Tabah—not dead, but suspended. Waiting. taryf-tabah-canon-f158-200

Not a plea. A broadcast. She pulsed her terror, her grief, the fading echo of her mother’s final light-flicker, into the F158-200’s crust, into its crystalline forests, into the very magnetic field of the planet. The Tabah were not individuals. They were nodes . And Cantus-177 turned the entire world into a resonator. The lead Taryf Canon-ship, the Obedient Quota ,