Faster Than Light: The Nagarjuna, Part 1

lrirangi [ i.ri.rang.i, /iɾiɾaŋi/ ]:

1. [Te Reo Māori],  spirit voice - an eerie, high pitched off key note, or harmonic, sometimes heard near the ceiling of the meeting house above people singing. It was sometimes regarded as a bad omen and a portent of death.
lrirangi:

2. [Te Reo Māori], an unidentified radio signal coming from approximately DEC = -90°. The cacophonous phenomenon was first observed in 2158, flooding the entire electromagnetic spectrum across the Southern Hemisphere. For the past ~300 years, It has effectively disabled all telecommunication technologies and rendered any astronomical studies or space faring efforts impossible south of the equator.

Following a breakthrough in their research, astrophysicist, Valerie Hak and cryptolinguist, Lilith Shao, departed on an expedition to find the source of the lrirangi in 2469 with the crew of The Nagarjuna; a decommissioned mining vessel retrofitted with a Weirding Drive

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