Axen_2022_jun_to_sep_compressed.zip -

This was the month the station went dark. There were no logs, only a single 2-gigabyte file titled THE_EXCHANGE . When Elias clicked it, his monitor flickered. A video feed flickered to life. Dr. Thorne was sitting in the airlock, staring directly into the camera. He wasn't wearing a diving suit.

The folder didn’t have a name, just a string of clinical characters: AXEN_2022_Jun_to_Sep_compressed.zip . AXEN_2022_Jun_to_Sep_compressed.zip

They pointed to the server room where Elias was sitting right now. This was the month the station went dark