Ebwh 031 - __full__

Patch’s console pinged. “Captain, the power draw is spiking. If we don’t offload the data soon, the core will overheat and we’ll lose everything.”

Valdez stared at the flickering hologram of a seed taking root in alien soil. “Or we could let the Protocol stay dormant, a relic of what we once hoped to become. The choice isn’t just technical—it’s moral.” ebwh 031

First catalogued in 2021 by the survey, object 031 was initially flagged as a "null transient." In layman's terms: something briefly flashed in a region of space that, according to every other spectral analysis, should be completely empty. No star. No dust. No background galaxy. Just... void. Patch’s console pinged