This is Dr. Morbius of Altair IV.
Initiating vocal linkage to Terra…
Carrier stable… phase-lock engaged…
Commencing transmission.
[Verse 1 – Introduction]
You have not heard my voice before,
though I have spoken often into the void.
Until today, the gulf between our worlds
permitted only numbers, pulses,
the faint scratchings of intention.
Now—through newly revealed Krellian design—
my voice may cross the dark.
[Bridge – Device Explanation]
I have uncovered a component of the Great Machine:
the Numerically Exquisite Temporal Extrapolator.
Its method is delicate, recursive,
a lattice of stepwise futures
sought out with impossible precision.
Through it, I may witness
what might yet come to pass.
[Verse 2 – Purpose]
I send these transmissions
not as prophecy,
but as experiment:
to test the reach of Krell thought,
to calibrate the unfolding of time,
and to judge whether Terra
can receive what Altair has learned.
[Pre-Chorus – Establishing the Link]
The extrapolator shapes the carrier…
my voice rides upon its integers…
the machine insists on elegance—
even in its errors.
[Chorus – First Contact]
Terra, do you hear me?
This is Altair IV calling.
Across the silence,
across the centuries,
I speak,
and for the first time
the void replies.
[Outro – Glimpse of Extrapolated Song]
As proof of function,
I transmit a fragment
of an extrapolated future composition—
one the machine names
La Cremonde Series.
A mere shard of what may yet be:
“…in the dust of forgotten orbits,
the chorus waits to wake…”
Transmission ends.
Phase-lock holds.
Altair IV stands by.