In the year 2147, humanity had conquered disease, aging, and energy scarcity. Cities floated, minds interfaced with machines, and space travel had become routine. Yet for all its progress, humanity had overlooked one quiet constant—the universe had always been speaking. Until it didn’t. Without warning, all cosmic signals ceased. Pulsars went silent. Background radiation flattened. The universe, once alive with measurable rhythm, became a void of unnatural stillness. Scientists called it a fluctuation. Governments called it irrelevant. Dr. Elias Varn called it impossible. A systems physicist working under Helix Dominion, Elias specialized in pattern recognition. Where others saw noise, he