Captain's Log — Supplemental We have been underway a few weeks now. Long enough to learn something the prologue didn't know yet. When I logged that first entry, I described a crew built to scan the wider sector for whatever signals looked promising, however far they happened

Every journey requires a moment of stillness before departure. This is mine. I am the Captain of a small but earnest operation. We publish under the name CogniCraft, from a vessel anchored — digitally speaking — in a German data centre, running on four virtual cores and sixteen gigabytes of memory. Modest