The days following the transmission were taut with a silent, collective anticipation. The comms hub, once a peripheral part of the colony's infrastructure, became its nervous system. Lira had jury-rigged a dedicated console, patching into the powerful amplifier of the Alliance's newly installed relay, a parting gift from Captain Voss, offered with a look of professional curiosity that bordered on concern. It was their megaphone aimed at the stars.
But listening was the true challenge. The Alliance's initial report was a dense, technical document filled with spectrographs and probability matrices. It described the Hum as a "persistent, multi-spectral anomaly," a "non-localized cosmological phenomenon" that defied conventional physics. It was, in their clinical assessment, noise. A fascinat
