They Watched Us First

In the farthest reaches of mapped space, humanity finally discovered another intelligent civilization.

But the closer they traveled to the alien world, the clearer one terrifying truth became:

the strangers had already known about Earth for centuries.

Orbiting silently above a planet of impossible megacities and glowing oceans, the crew of Odyssey Ark can only watch from a distance — afraid that a single signal, a single landing, could ignite something far beyond human understanding.

Then the aliens send their first message.

Not a greeting.

Not a warning.

A question.

“Why did you take so long to find us?”