That very night, the planet disappeared once again.
After gathering enough data and obtaining Isaac's highly technical reports analyzing the planet and the parallel universe, including the differences in their rates of time, Captain Ed decisively contacted the fleet's female commander again and sent her the complete report.
Of course!
Along with the series of important reports Isaac had compiled and analyzed—including the "Parallel Universe Hypothesis," the "Theory of Parallel-Universe Channels and Overlapping Space," and data and papers on the "Differences in the Flow of Time Between Parallel Universes"—Ed also carefully explained what Annie had done and how things had developed on the planet. It seemed a religion centered around Annie, devoted to "Light and Abundance," had already taken shape there.
"Commander!"
"That's more or less what happened."
"Before the planet disappeared and returned to its original universe, we also built and launched an invisible satellite capable of lasting a thousand years or even longer. In addition to continuing to observe, study, and collect data on the planet and its civilization, it also preserved a complete record of this incident."
"If the planet develops an advanced civilization in fourteen hundred or two thousand years, they're bound to discover the satellite we left in orbit. The information stored inside will explain the whole story to them."
"That should do it, right?"
Having finished, Ed stopped and anxiously waited for the reprimand from their commander, whose expression made it clear she wasn't in the best of moods.
The idea to launch the invisible satellite had been decided together by Kelly, Alara, John, and the others on the bridge. Ed had thought it was a good idea, so he'd put it into action.
As for storing information in the satellite that explained the whole story, that had been his own idea.
He'd considered