The Desa People

[Stellar Destruction Announcement, low-mass red dwarf trinary system... coordinates... destruction time... estimated damage radius: 36 light-years...]

[Stellar Destruction Announcement, high-mass supergiant binary system... coordinates... destruction time... estimated damage radius...]

[Stellar Destruction Announcement, medium-mass yellow dwarf single-star system...]

[Stellar Destruction Announcement...]

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In a medium-mass star system near the outer edge of the galaxy, satellites scattered across the close orbits of various planets and ground-based radio stations on the planets constantly operated, receiving radio messages from beyond the star system.

This was the home star system of the Desa people, and messages from outside the system had been arriving continuously for several years.

These regular radio signals from beyond the system naturally drew the Desa civilization's close attention. They continually collected the radio information and attempted to decipher it.

As time passed, the received texts became increasingly abundant, and the accumulation of large amounts of text greatly reduced the difficulty of deciphering them. The Desa people spent several years completing the work.

After the messages were deciphered, however, Desa society questioned them, because their contents were simply too difficult to accept—stars were being destroyed faster than light for unknown reasons, and these messages announced the coordinates of those destroyed stars as well as the extent of the aftermath.

But how could that be possible? Leaving aside whether destruction on such a massive scale was even feasible, a simple calculation based on the coordinates of the destroyed stars showed that those stars were vanishing faster than light. That alone violated relativity's principle that the speed of light could not be surpassed.

Thus, Desa society did not fully believe the content of the radio messages and remained skeptical. All kinds of conspiracy theories ran rampant.

For example, aliens might be trying to deceive the Desa people with false information, so that