THE ASTRONAUT'S JOURNAL

The data left no room for debate. For now, we have named the structures TTUs: Topological Transition Units.

Today, we watched them rebuild themselves again. At first, the Outpost researchers—myself included—dismissed it as ordinary magnetic reconnection.

We were wrong.

After thousands of tests, every damaged TTU restored almost exactly the same topology within seconds. This was the seventeenth identical result this week.

We stood before the research centre’s vast display in silence.

The Oort Cloud Frontier Outpost fell quiet before the rest of humanity did.