Reed's Glimmer

The Void Frontier had been silent for seventeen months.

Not the ordinary silence of a dimensional boundary operating within normal parameters, but the kind of profound stillness that suggested the fundamental forces that maintained the barrier between existence and nothingness had encountered something that challenged their ability to function. The consciousness-void-primordial scanners that monitored the Frontier's stability showed readings that fluctuated between normal parameters and complete absence of data. The emerald networks that had maintained communication with the exploration teams showed only empty channels where voices should have been.

Commander Thane had witnessed the collapse of entire realities, the theoretical restructuring of causality itself, and the birth of gods who redefined the fundamental nature of existence. None of it had prepared him for the experience of monitoring a dimensional boundary that seemed to be forgetting how to exist.