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Child trafficking not on the page, only as the discovery FIRST CONTACTDay 1,095. The signal sweep should have been routine.Dr. Marcus Webb had performed this exact sequence over a thousand times before—calibrate the array, scan frequencies, log the silence, move on. Three years alone in deep space had reduced most protocols to muscle memory. He could run diagnostics in his sleep. Sometimes he suspected he did.The failed colony survey was behind him now. Eighteen months of orbital mapping, soil analysis, atmospheric modeling—all confirming wh...
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