Incident 001: Gulf of Guinea

Aniedi was assigned to verify routine sonar drift near an offshore platform in the Gulf of Guinea. The array returned a repeating pattern beneath the seabed: one perfect circular geometry with seven inner points.

When he sent a test ping, the pattern answered.

The reply was not language at first. It was pressure, light, and direction rearranging around a boundary that should not exist. The first recovered phrase remains under review:

“You are not the first to find the boundary.”