Signal Acquired, Voyager 1 – September 18th, 2108: 02:12
Data-Packet: V1-1654-1001-4747
...Standby….
Acquisiton Complete
0101011101100101001000000110000101110010011001
0100100000011101000110100001100101001000000101
0100011100100110100101100011011000010111001001
1100100110100101100101011011100111001100101110
0010000000100000010011110111010101110010001000
0001010011011101000110000101110010001000000110
1001011100110010000001100100011110010110100101
1011100110011100101110001000000010000000001101
0000101001000001011011100110010001110010011011
1101101101011001010110010001100001001000000100
0111011000010110110001100001011110000111100100
101110
End Signal – Source Unknown
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Dr Rick Forbes, NASA special communications – JPL stared at his screen in shock.
“What the hell?”
His fingers fumbled for his phone, and shook as he pushed “0-0-0”
A voice answered, “What do you got?”
“You might want to see this yourself, sir,”
“Something wrong with Phoenix?”
“You best come see,”