("If you are reading this, you have already accepted our language into your mind. Welcome. The door is open.")
Dr. Elara Vance stared at the blinking cursor on her terminal. The file name was a mess of engineering jargon: . It was the last untouched piece of data from the Archimedes , a deep-space linguistics probe that had gone silent three years ago. The official report blamed a cosmic ray hit. Elara wasn't so sure. fg-selective-french.bin
She decoded the final layer at 3:17 AM. The screen cleared, and a single sentence appeared in flawless, archaic French: ("If you are reading this, you have already