5: Fiery Remote Scan

Until now.

Not with radiation. Not with a flare. But with a pattern . fiery remote scan 5

And Thorne realized the deepest horror of all. The Cinder wasn’t angry. It was lonely . It had been screaming into the void for eons, and Remote Scan 5 was the first reply. The star didn’t want to destroy them. It wanted them to stay . Until now

“AI, cross-correlate that pulse sequence with standard neural encoding libraries.” fiery remote scan 5