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“Fear. Hope always ends in fear.
After we decided to accept the transmission directed towards the RAIN, I considered several possibilities. Perhaps it was another set of threats – just as futile as the one they transmitted to us several months ago. Or maybe it would be an honest attempt at negotiation or a request for clemency– a logical response given the damage that the RAIN had inflicted after we had breached the inner system.
I was wrong. It was none of those things.
At first, I had struggled to comprehend what the transmission was showing. A recording of the system primary: the roiling fires of MIZAR, surrounding by a corona of sapphire’d light. But there was something there – a dark speck almost perfectly concealed by the brightness of the surrounding solar heat, floating just above the fringes of the photosphere. Then the recording drew inwards, and we were able to observe the structure in greater detail.
