LOG ENTRY — Sol 2,150. Location: Proxima Centauri b, Colony Alpha.
We entered the buildings. Not all of us. A team of five, in full hazard gear. We opened the door to Building 7. Inside: a living space. Furniture scaled for humans. Kitchen with running water (still functional). A desk with papers.
The papers are the key. They’re written in English. Not an alien language. English. With dates. The last entry is dated 2347. That’s 321 years in the future.
We’re reading a colonist’s diary. From the future. Written by someone who lived in these buildings. The diary describes a colony ship that left Earth in 2089 (our launch date was 2088). It describes the arrival. It describes the structures already being here.
The diary describes something else. A message that appeared on the walls of Building 1 the day after they arrived. It read: You are not the first. You will not be the last. Do not search for us. We are everywhere.
We are not the first human colony on Proxima b. We are the second. And whoever built these structures knew we were coming 321 years before we launched.
We need to contact Earth. This changes everything.
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