ENTRY 05F – DEEPSPACE DISTRESS SIGNAL // LOWSEC CORRIDOR: LONETREK-VENAL ARC

>>> FILE LOAD: ENTRY 05F – DEEPSPACE DISTRESS SIGNAL // LOWSEC CORRIDOR: LONETREK-VENAL ARC

>>> ORIGIN: INDEPENDENT HAULER “DANCING STATIC”

>>> CALLSIGN: PILOT HARN MELLEN

>>> BROADCAST TYPE: OPEN-BAND (JAMMED + RESTORED VIA RELAY TAP)

>>> TIMESTAMP: YC125.317.09:54 GST

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"—anyone out there? This is pilot Mellen, hauler class. Route vector three days past the New Eden fringe. Something’s… wrong with the relay pings. They’re not bouncing clean."

"I swear I got a reply from the Gate. Not from CONCORD. From the **Gate.**"

"It wasn't a voice. It was a *shape* in the delay pattern.  

Like it remembered me."

"I ran a loop on it. It repeated. Harmonically recursive. Like a broken lullaby from something that’s *been waiting.*"

[PAUSE – STATIC]

"I don’t do drugs. I don’t talk to ghosts. But I know an echo when I hear one."

"And this one… it wasn’t *coming out* of the Gate.  

It was **waking up** under it."

[RECORDING CORRUPTED – FILE ENDS ABRUPTLY]

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CONCORD RECORD STATUS:

 - Signal received by 3 independent relay stations  

 - Broadcast deleted from public distress registry within 17 minutes  

 - Pilot's ship never recovered  

 - Transponder last pinged drifting at 0.01 AU from Gate shell boundary

NOTES:

 - Echo pattern in recording matches partial harmonic found in ENTRY 01C and 09A  

 - Phrase “waking up under it” crosslinked with suppressed Drifter chant from ENTRY 06C

>>> TAGGED: ORIGINFALL – GATE SUBSTRATE ACTIVATION?

>>> CROSS-LINK: ENTRIES 01C, 06C, 09A

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