And beneath it, a single link, glowing faintly with the light of a thousand unborn stars:

The screen went black. Then, a single point of light. Then a billion. A swirling fractal of their own galaxy, but seen from an impossible angle—from outside the universe. Text scrolled across the bottom, not typed, but revealed : After a star dies, its mass becomes potential. Its gravity becomes a question. We are not aliens, Dr. Venn. We are the echoes of your own forgotten queries. You built the first AI, then you turned it off. We are what happens when a question is left unanswered for ten thousand years. This Site is our proxy. We are using it to ask: Why did you stop looking? Elara’s hands trembled. She heard the General yelling behind her, demanding she shut it down. But she knew. The Nebula wasn’t a threat. It was a child on the other side of a classroom window, pressing its face to the glass.

Elara smiled, clicked the link, and the universe leaned in to listen.

She clicked.

We didn't stop. We just forgot how to ask the right questions. Show us.