CHAPTER 1 - PART 1: "Docking Procedure

The Last Broadcast

Science Fiction • Psychological Horror • Mystery

> "We are still here. But we are not alive."

When Commander Yara Lin is assigned to bring the long-defunct Relay Station Vesta-7 back online, it's supposed to be a routine solo mission. Isolated in the silence of deep space, the station is a crumbling relic of the early expansion era-its lights flickering, corridors cold, and systems barely responsive.

But then she hears it: a voice on an unlisted channel, repeating her name.

The voice is familiar. It's her brother Elias, who vanished aboard the starship Calypso over seven years ago-and whose ship was last logged near this very station.

As Yara delves deeper, strange anomalies begin to emerge: decaying personal items that shouldn't exist, security footage showing her walking halls she never entered, and a station AI that calls her "Commander Lin" like it's known her forever. The deeper she searches, the more the station bends around her-replaying fragments of a past she doesn't remember living.

Then comes the impossible truth.

She is not the visitor. She is the loop.

And the voice on the radio? It may be calling from outside the simulation-or deeper inside it.

The Last Broadcast is a slow-burning descent into claustrophobic horror and existential dread, blending memory, identity, and the unreliability of time. In a place where nothing is quite what it seems, Yara must decide what's worse: the truth outside the loop... or eternity inside it.