They Watched Us First

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?”