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A match.

On October 14, 1998, a radio telescope in Arecibo had recorded a single, anomalous blip from the direction of Proxima Centauri. The signal-to-noise ratio was so low that the automated system had flagged it as a microwave oven. But the raw timestamp, converted from sidereal seconds into a truncated integer, was . 389339

She looked at the number again.

The lab was silent except for the low hum of the servers. Dr. Elara Vance stared at the string on her terminal: . A match