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Deferred
A relay station operator receives a transmission that left its source thirty-one years ago — and has to decide what to do with a message that was never meant to arrive this late.
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The Unsaid Part
A translator negotiating with an alien delegation realizes the danger isn't in anything he's saying — it's in the one thing his language won't let him say directly.
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The Last Manifest
A cargo AI hauling the last genetic material of an extinct species has to decide whether to break protocol when the shipment is damaged mid-flight.
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Groundwork
A survey engineer finds evidence of an extinct intelligent species directly in the path of a terraforming project — and discovers the law has no idea what to do about it.
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What Fits
A generation ship's archivist has fourteen months to decide which fragments of two centuries of human culture survive a critical storage shortfall — and which don't.