When the Signal brought five newly named species, amphipods in ocean nodules, an undiscovered manta ray, and a parasitic fly indistinguishable from a common housefly, Marcus turned to the terminal for answers. He found silence. Inside the sealed structure, a darker question crystallizes: the outside world is furiously naming and cataloging reality, but the Core itself *refuses* to acknowledge these creatures. And in that refusal, the observers begin to sense something stranger and more fundamental than any undiscovered species.

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