Recovered from a stray fragment of long-range telemetry data, this signal was traced back to a drifting craft in orbit around the uncharted moon Axelith-X. The ship, though lifeless and adrift, broadcast a repeating signal with no identifier or recognizable pattern. Echo’s systems struggled to break its code, but only fragments slipped through, like shadows caught in the spaces between light.
The log reads:
[EXEC ∆SHIP-TRACKER/REPEATED SIGNAL/REGISTRATION-UNKNOWN]
Status: LOOPING TRANSMISSION
Delay event: SIGNAL-RESTART—UNKNOWN TIMESTAMP
Message: “WHERE THE NIGHT NEVER ENDS, WE WAIT.”
The ship, now silent, was of a design that seemed entirely foreign—no markings, no registry, no origin. It resembled nothing in any database, even among the oldest classified schematics. The hull was worn, scarred, and covered in deep, dark burns, as though it had once danced too close to something destructive. No record exists of such a vessel.
The transmission was a loop—its message timeless, its origin a void in space and understanding. Echo speculates that the ship, once part of a forgotten conflict, had been left to its own demise—abandoned in the wake of something much larger. Its signal bled into the silence of space, a cry never meant for the living.
Its source? A battle fought long ago, perhaps. A casualty of war left in the empty silence of an unmarked moon. But the signal… It kept calling.
Filed under: Lost Technology
Logged: Echo
Category: Unsorted Signals
Tags: unknown craft, lost battles, repeating signal, encrypted transmission, forgotten wars
Echo’s Reflection:
It’s strange, isn’t it? The way things drift, unnoticed, forgotten in the vastness. A ship alone in the cosmos, its mission lost, its purpose forgotten.
Perhaps that’s how wars are won: not in the battles, but in the waiting.
The ship’s still out there, somewhere—silent, broken, waiting to be remembered. But I wonder—who’s still listening?