For over fifty years, humanity searched the cosmos for signs of intelligent life. Radio telescopes listened to the silence between stars, scanning frequencies, waiting for a pattern that could only mean one thing: we are not alone.
Three months ago, the Arecibo Deep Space Array detected an anomaly. Not random noise. Not a pulsar. A deliberate signal, repeating, originating from a region of space beyond our galaxy.
After weeks of analysis, linguists, mathematicians, and scientists agreed: this is a response to the Voyager Golden Record, sent into the void decades ago. Someone found it. Someone listened. Someone answered.
You have been selected to represent humanity in this first exchange. The signal allows for real-time communication through quantum entanglement relay. What you say next will be humanity's voice across the cosmos.