The Things You Hear in Darkness
June 1, 2011
Controller: “Sir, we detected an USR at sector 16″
Commander: “Is that one of ours?”
Controller: “Rodger that.”
Commander: “Get an exact fix on the source of that USR.”
Controller: “We can’t do that, responder has activated stealth mode.”
Commander: “Well trace the IP of the call sign then.”
Controller: “Rodger that.”
Commander: “Well.”
Controller: “It can’t be.”
Commander: “Who is it?”
Controller: “It’s Darkness.”
Commander: ” Sound the General alarm.”
Controller: “Rodger that.”
Excerpt of an intercepted deep space communication between the Controller of Space Statin 384 @ sector 4099 in the Strangelands and the commander of the deep space mineral cruiser KDD Californian.
