On August 15, 1977 C.E., humanity heard a whisper from the stars, a 72-second signal, now known as the Wow signal. It never repeated. No origin was found. Not until centuries later. The pulsar that sent it was gone, destroyed by Them, a civilization so ancient and incomprehensible that only myth can speak of Them. To name Their silence is to echo our own: The Great Silence, the quiet between wars of stars, where humanity barely flickered. Humans searched for life in the wrong places, under the wrong assumptions. The truth was far older, hidden in the bones of the Solar System. Ouroboros forged the Sun. Not a god, but a civilization detonating a star, what humans only mimicked with their bombs. ...]
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