“Lost Colony Says Thanks” - Mysterious Signal Stuns Analysts

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“Lost Colony Says Thanks” – Mysterious Signal Stuns Analysts

Byline: Klark Cent, Senior Pulse Correspondent

ZENTARA PRIME

A brief, humble message has lit up interstellar comms stations across three sectors this week - and the galaxy is talking.

The message, dubbed Signal 001: Gratitude, first appeared in a faint harmonic burst received by a fringe listening station orbiting Drosk-Bell V. Lasting only 12.4 seconds, the looped signal repeats a single phrase in over 4,000 known languages:

“Thank you.”

That’s it. No threat. No coordinates. No code embedded. Just two words - spoken, sung, chanted, encoded, woven in data pulses and dust harmonics - from the active void.

LOST VOICES RETURN?

Trace-back algorithms have identified the signal’s origin as Theta-VEX 119a, a world thought completely destroyed during the infamous Amatrix Front nearly two decades ago. The colony, Port Hyalin, was believed obliterated with all 2.6 million residents lost when Amatrix’s neural plasma wave scoured the atmosphere.

“This shouldn’t be possible,” said Professor Soug Hancock of the Signal Concordium. “We recorded no life, no rebuild. And yet, here is this... whisper. This thanks.”

SAMPLE TRANSLATIONS INCLUDE:

“Gratias ago” (Old Earth Latin)
“Miigwech” (Terran tribal Anishinaabe)
“Yune zikra” (Q’rik, high dialect)
“Je xien-tha” (Orbital Crescent Creole)
“Kharzāb’eth” (Ancient Deep Grottonic)
“Nhā” (Proto-Surge. Requires no vocal cords)

Despite signal verification and linguistic authenticity, no entity or group has claimed authorship. The message ceased after exactly 73 cycles.

A WORD FROM THE OBSERVER

Late last cycle, the enigmatic Observer Entity - believed to be linked to the universal archives - offered its only comment to date on the matter:

“It matters not who spoke. It matters they did.”
“This gratitude, born in silence, travels farther than war ever could.”

The phrase has since gone viral across over 70 billion networked systems. Street artists on Vellion X now stencil it beneath old murals of Lyrax’s defeat. A choral version in 4,000 tongues is planned for broadcast in the next Echo Solstice Festival.

Whether the voices were survivors, spectral echoes, or something else entirely someone out there remembered. And said thank you.

“Lost Colony Says Thanks” - Mysterious Signal Stuns Analysts