Earth Image Transmission System - Ground Station GS-07

Ellis - He/Him

Something is out there, over the horizon, in the clear. A planet. A star. A far galaxy. One of the old probes, still coasting outward. Entities unknown and unknowable. Choose, and the station wakes.

It reaches out. The antenna finds your target and holds. On your mark, your image leaves as open video, outbound across the dark at the speed of light; there is no faster way to send anything, and no way to call it back.

Your transmission is logged: target, range, and the date the light arrives - long after you've left the station, and in some cases long after all of us. It's sealed and keyed to the code on your screen; the station keeps nothing, and without that code no one opens it, not even us. It fades at the end of the one-week cycle. Take the code to keep it, or let the silence have it.

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