
08 - Radiant Black (Dystenic Transmission)
[Radio Burst Fragments:] [*Reassembled, Minor Fragmentation*] [*Voices may be Altered*] [*Corruption Detected*] [Radio Burst 1] "Delta Relay Three reporting. Cosmic background noise is... strange, but appears stable." "It's not stable, our Lux index has been trending down, no cause has been found yet… I've been monitoring this for a while..." "The other stations reported identical dimming... but then, they all went silent... It's been days!" [Radio Burst 2] "The stars… They look wrong." "Lux identifiers are off again… The Axioms can’t find an alignment." "Is anyone else seeing a black halo around that star?" [Radio Burst 3] "We’ve lost our horizon markers— the stars just… blacked out?" "I pinged the other colonies again … it was just our own signal that returned, delayed and distorted." "Every station has answered with the same dead static." "Their last confirmed reply was: 'Don’t follow the light inward…' Then all we got was waves of static." [Radio Burst 4] "I disabled my Axiom augments… This star is inert! There's no flare, no fusion!" "Overriding filter— oh gods… How is this even possible??" "When I disabled our overlays, there was nothing there… Just a hole where light and mass should be..." [Radio Burst 5] "Lux Indecies keep dropping…" "These stars aren't dimming… are they collapsing inward?" "They're not burning out?!" "Their light isn’t behaving like it should… like it’s falling back into itself!" "Why are you following the liight? They specifically said not to!!" [Radio Burst 6] "If you hear this, stay below the panels... Do not trust the stars!! We thought we were sending our joy home… not this. We thought we built our utopia, but we only exposed our throats... If your eyes say one thing, don’t let the Axioms correct it… And if the sun ever smiles again? ...Run…" [*Control Override - Signals Jamming... We were Almost There!..//_0*] “End of log... No more corrections... May the Axioms Guide You.” << text within [*bracketed asterisks*] are intended for narrative flavor >>

