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Alchemist, v. 2, issue 1, Autumn 1946
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tinued without any noticable variation, some of the acute interest waned and only a routine observation was kept up. Astronomical developments made possible a more accurate method of recording star behavior, and intensive study of these records finally bore fruit. The fluctuations fell into certain regular patters endlessly repeated. Signals, Signals out of the night of space, Signals beating in cycles of endless repetition, Signals from across the darkness of the interstellar void. The idea, suggested by Nesretep, that these light variations might be a signal of some kind sent by hypothetical inhabitants of a planetary system of which Kappa Cassiopeiae was the parent sun, was at first ridiculed, but the patterns of regularity were recorded in detail and studied from all angles. It remained for Yor Tnuh, in 2297, to vindicate the theory advanced by Nesretep. Acting upon a footnote buried in the lengthy and monumental treatise which had taken Wel Nitram two decades to compile Yor Tnuh demonstrated to the bureau of solar radiation the possibility of signalling by means of controlled warping of the light emitted by a parent sun. So was born our own interplanetary communication by means of helioflash, out of detailed scientific study of astronomical phenomenae. Interest was immediately revived in the possibility of the light variations coming to us from Kappa Cassiopeiae being a contrived signal from whatever intell-
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tinued without any noticable variation, some of the acute interest waned and only a routine observation was kept up. Astronomical developments made possible a more accurate method of recording star behavior, and intensive study of these records finally bore fruit. The fluctuations fell into certain regular patters endlessly repeated. Signals, Signals out of the night of space, Signals beating in cycles of endless repetition, Signals from across the darkness of the interstellar void. The idea, suggested by Nesretep, that these light variations might be a signal of some kind sent by hypothetical inhabitants of a planetary system of which Kappa Cassiopeiae was the parent sun, was at first ridiculed, but the patterns of regularity were recorded in detail and studied from all angles. It remained for Yor Tnuh, in 2297, to vindicate the theory advanced by Nesretep. Acting upon a footnote buried in the lengthy and monumental treatise which had taken Wel Nitram two decades to compile Yor Tnuh demonstrated to the bureau of solar radiation the possibility of signalling by means of controlled warping of the light emitted by a parent sun. So was born our own interplanetary communication by means of helioflash, out of detailed scientific study of astronomical phenomenae. Interest was immediately revived in the possibility of the light variations coming to us from Kappa Cassiopeiae being a contrived signal from whatever intell-
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