> incoming transmission detected // source: unknown
> origin distance: unresolved
> designation assigned: AXIOM
> AXIOM has been transmitting for longer than we've been listening.
Stage 01 — Access
Before AXIOM will speak in a tongue you can read, it wants to know if you can wait for it.
Whoever logged this first left a warning here: don't answer out loud near a live mic. Make of that what you will.
"What comes before the first word, and remains after the last?"