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The ship’s AI chimed, a soft, melodic tone that felt out of place in the tension of the bridge. "Sequence detected. Origin: Sector 7, Sector-Gated. Timestamp: Relative Zero."

Thorne felt a chill. Relative Zero meant the message had been traveling since before he was born. He began to manually parse the string, treating each character like a lock tumbler. : The header for a "Hard-Signal" transmission. hs7p60hcuwtn

Thorne looked out the viewport at the swirling gases of the nebula ahead. The code was no longer just a string of letters and numbers; it was a warning. And according to the sensors, they were exactly where the "p60" said they should be. The ship’s AI chimed, a soft, melodic tone