The Forgotten Signal In 2345, a lone space station receives a mysterious distress call — but answering it awakens an ancient terror beyond the stars.

The year was 2345, and the Orion Sentinel was humanity’s last outpost on the edge of known space. Orbiting a dying star in a remote system, the station was a beacon of science and hope, staffed by a small but dedicated crew.

Captain Rhea Morgan had seen many strange things during her years in space, but nothing prepared her for the day the station’s sensors picked up an unknown transmission—a faint distress call pulsing from a dark region beyond the star.

The signal was unlike any other, filled with static and an eerie, rhythmic pattern that seemed almost… alive.

Against her better judgment, Rhea ordered the crew to trace the source.

As the team triangulated the signal, unease grew. The communications officer, Li, reported strange interference—whispers and faint voices bleeding through the static, calling names no one on board recognized.

Still, curiosity pushed them onward.

The signal led them to a small, derelict spacecraft adrift near a black hole. Its hull was ancient, covered in strange markings that glowed faintly under the station’s scanners.

Boarding the ship was risky, but the crew had to know the source of the distress.

Inside, silence reigned.

The corridors were empty, save for the occasional flicker of dying lights.

But then, the ship’s AI core activated itself — a haunting voice echoing through the hull, speaking in a language none understood but all felt deep in their bones.

The crew felt eyes watching from the shadows, whispers brushing the edges of their minds.

One by one, strange phenomena began: equipment malfunctioned, shadows moved where no light reached, and crew members experienced vivid nightmares of ancient cosmic horrors.

Dr. Anaya Patel, the station’s xenobiologist, theorized the ship was infected with a parasitic entity — a remnant of a lost civilization that had been consumed by its own darkness.

The entity fed on fear and sanity, weaving itself into the minds of those who ventured too close.

Captain Morgan realized the signal was a trap — a lure to draw explorers into the grasp of the ancient evil.

With the entity growing stronger, the crew faced a dire choice: abandon the derelict and sever the connection, or risk being consumed by the darkness that waited patiently in the void.

In a desperate gamble, Rhea ordered the ship to be jettisoned into the black hole, hoping to seal the terror away forever.

As the derelict disappeared into the abyss, the whispers faded, and a fragile calm returned to the Orion Sentinel.

But Rhea knew deep down that some signals from the void should never be answered—and some terrors, once awakened, never truly die.

horror, sci-fi, space horror, psychological thriller, cosmic horror