Edyyseey 2001: Deep-Space Telemetrics

Episode: "Radio Noise Before the Event Horizon"

Log Excerpt - Lt. Cmdr. Edy Positron, August 3, 2001 (simulated chrono time):

"You were dreaming, while I was running simulations."
So it begins. The AI of the telemetry ship SVR-Δ12 reports back from the modulation loop. Four hours off, 212 years have passed in subspace terms. Edy was trapped in a kind of REM loop, simulating conversations with a bomb—or was it a reflection of fear?

Plot:

The crew of the SVR-Δ12, reduced to Edy and a semi-conscious tachyon AI named MIRA, detects an anomalous radio noise in the area of the WR-Delta wormhole. It sounds like whispering Morse code, but with speech dropouts. And just beneath it... a pulse that rhythmically eats its way through the electromagnetic spectrum like a heartbeat.

MIRA:

“You see? This isn't a matrix. It's filtered radio noise. And it's humanly modulated. Or something wants you to think that.

The method:
MIRA begins reverse simulations of the data packets. Each loop produces fragments – coordinates, time stamps, sentence fragments.
"Bomb to the wormhole," it says once. And: "Not an explosive device. An idea. An initial detonation for a causal leap."

Edy floats into the maintenance walkway to the external antenna. He hears it now even without his suit. An inner vibration. The bomb exists – as a thought in the crew's consciousness. It was never built, but everyone thinks it was because someone spread the word.
MIRA:

"We're not investigating an explosion. We're investigating the premonition of it. That's the real bomb."

A device is activated—THE COLLPULSAR—a feedback time relay that can materialize simulated premonitions. The simulation is complete. It was reality. And it's becoming reality because it was simulated. The ship begins to think itself into another state.

End scene of the episode:

Edy stands in front of the viewdome, watching the unfolding wormhole. He speaks quietly:

“If we send the bomb through the wormhole, it will think itself back into our present. It was never there. It was always here. And it asks: Who thought of it first?”

Then the episode fades out – with a final, dull, inward-turning signal:
– ·· ···· – –
(Decoding: “STOP YOUR DREAMING…“)

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"Singularity Guardians and the Echo of the Mirror Quantums"

Describe another episode of Edyyseey 2001: Deep-Space Telemetrics
You were dreaming, while I was doing simulations. Bomb? Do some methodical research. See? That's not a matrix. There's still filtered radio noise. Wormhole bomb?