On September 7, 1957, astrojournalist Zula N*** was sent on an expedition to Hermetia 7-c. Contact had been lost after a disruption in transmission and she never returned. There are no further encounters until the retrieval of the documentary tape in the Pacific Ocean on July 14, 2023.

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The following transcription was roughly translated from Hermetian after deciphering from the audio file:

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“link has been severed…

the Alchemists were not supposed to get this far…

someone make sure that oblivious Earth person never spread the disease to whatever system the tape landed”

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