>>be me
>>former astronomer & data scientist at INPE, Brazil
>>posted here https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/508749585/#q508749585 about asteroid 99942 Apophis
>>got internal red-flagged
>>orbital deviation, weird energy patterns, “Project Hades” headers
thought it was a cover-up of an extinction-level impact in 2029
>>no one believed me
>>figured I’d either vanish or be ignored forever
>>laid off

>>fast forward to today
>>see news about Dr. Beatriz Villarroel
>>she’s running VASCO, tracking stars that literally vanish from the sky
>>not fade, not nova, just gone
>>“multiple transients of unknown origin”
>>they’re publicly looking for alien artifacts in orbit and deep space
project called EXOPROBE
>>get chills
>>dig into old logs I saved from the Apophis data dump
>>run it through a different filter, >>compare with VASCO results
>>tfw it wasn’t an asteroid
>>tfw it was a transient
>>Apophis was never going to hit Earth, but it will now
>>trajectory deviation was a side effect
>>something massive passed near it, warped its motion
>>gravitational lensing signatures in the raw data
>>didn’t recognize it back then because I was looking for rocks, not ghosts

>>crossmatch with VASCO’s missing stars
>>same timeframe as data loss from our scopes
>>realize the ESA and ALMA data wasn’t about impact
>>it was about arrival
>>“Project Hades” wasn’t about evacuation or deflection
>>it was about containment
they knew something entered the system
>>now they’re trying to track it
>>tfw I blew the whistle on the wrong thing
>>tfw I thought we were going to die in a tsunami
>>tfw it’s worse
>>it’s already here, and it doesn’t announce itself
>>it just erases light
and we’re staring into a sky full of holes
>>no nukes, no invasions
>>just silence
>>tfw it wasn’t Apophis
>>tfw it was the absence