Sunday 8 October 2017

Two Beats, Pause, Three Beats, Pause, Repeat



Two beats, pause, three beats, pause, repeat.

It was being broadcast on a subspace frequency not used by any known race or fleet, but the regularity of it caused it to be logged to be checked, eventually.

A few subyears after it was first picked up, a passing vessel found a station, empty for millennia, only now drifting close enough to a star to absorb power.

And to start sending out what was the universal signal to stay far away, before what was on board wiped all life out the first time round in two subyears.

Three subyears this time.

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