OUROBOROS: The True Story of Voyager 1 - A Science Fiction Soliloquy
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." — Ecclesiastes 1:9
The Golden Record was a lie. The true mission was never revealed.
1977. As the world cheers for the launch of Voyager 1 and its message of peace to the stars, one man watches from the shadows. He is "the cable man," an invisible technician who witnessed what NASA and the military really loaded into the belly of the probe, hidden beneath the music of Bach and greetings in fifty-five languages. It wasn't an invitation. It was a desperate contingency plan.
2041. Earth has fallen silent. Humanity stands on the brink of extinction, doomed by a slow and relentless catastrophe. The only hope left is traveling at eighteen kilometers per second in the deep dark, beyond the orbit of Pluto. The starship Icarus is launched on an impossible mission: to chase down Voyager, intercept it, and retrieve that secret cargo before it's too late. Captain Aris Thorne is in command. But what Aris will find at the edge of the Solar System is not just an old human artifact. It is something that defies the laws of physics—something that will force humanity to face its own terrifying origin.
Blending the grandeur of Interstellar with gritty technological noir, Ouroboros is the story of a secret kept for sixty years. A tale about what we are willing to sacrifice to survive the dark.
