Carrier P5-7 Fail -

The woman hadn’t been trying to escape. She had been trying to deliver something. A message. A key. And P5-7 hadn’t failed. It had been opened .

We were here. We are still here. You opened the door. Now we come through. carrier p5-7 fail

“She’s gone,” Dex said quietly.

Dex didn’t argue. They had worked together long enough that he trusted her tone. The helmets locked into place with a soft hiss, and the world narrowed to the visor’s display and the recycled taste of their own breath. The woman hadn’t been trying to escape

“Nodes don’t just reset,” Mira said. She unstrapped from her seat and floated toward the rear of the cockpit, where a narrow access panel led to the ship’s secondary comms array. “Not the primary carrier. Not without a reason.” We were here

“Approaching the object,” Dex said. “Visual in ten seconds.”