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The designation was . To the archivists of the Fracture Institute, it was a footnote. To the rest of the known universe, it was a warning.

An Institute surveyor found the system three centuries later. F158-200 was silent, its crystalline forests grey and brittle. But floating in high orbit was a graveyard of Taryf needle-ships, their data-spikes still intact. Inside each spike, preserved perfectly, was the light-pattern of a single Tabah—not dead, but suspended. Waiting. taryf-tabah-canon-f158-200

Needle-ships, thin as a thought, pierced F158-200’s atmosphere. They did not bomb. They recorded . Each Tabah’s unique light-pattern was a data-rich frequency, a song of consciousness. The Taryf Canon classified this as "ambient noise interference." The solution was silence. The designation was