In late 2020, NEMO’s understanding of the extraterrestrial situation started to change. While working for their previous organizations, some of the NEMO scientists began to detect anomalous gravitation radiation and inexplicably correlated signals in the radio frequency spectrum.
In May, NEMO had the idea to simultaneously analyze the GW and RF signals, and discovered that when jointly decoded, they seemed to contain repeated packets or “phrases” of information. In fact, it was effectively statistically impossible for these complex patterns to emerge from natural, random processes. It became clear to us that these signals constituted, or at least formed a portion of, some form of communication.
The amount of power it would take to create a gravitational wave with sufficient amplitude to serve as a reliable form of communication is far beyond anything mankind has devised thus far. This alone was cause for great concern: the extraterrestrials NEMO was eavesdropping on clearly had capabilities that absolutely dwarf our own.