“Second officer Iris log… I’ve ordered remaining survivors of skeleton shift into cryo. It’s possible we’ve avoided detection by—” Sarah’s head throbbed briefly, and the words she heard turned into meaningless static. “We still haven’t read the bounce back on any active scanners. But…” The image briefly fragmented, this time unmistakably the degradation of ancient data. She could see the same fuzz on the edge of the image all the time, randomly flickering the colors and shifting the pitch up and down.