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The video quality was poor, full of horizontal tracking lines and digital artifacting. It was a handheld shot, looking out through the reinforced plexiglass of a research dome. Outside, a blizzard was raging, a white wall of screaming wind.

"Elias?" Thorne asked on the recording. She turned the camera toward him. 39017mp4

"...It's not noise," Thorne's recording played again. "It's data. It is self-replicating." The video quality was poor, full of horizontal