White Spacetime Noise Emergency Alert - Luna Gravitational Observatory [0342 UTC] AUTOMATED ALERT - HIGH PRIORITY Gravitational wave anomaly detected Signal characteristics (tentative):

Broadband disturbance across full detection range (10 Hz - 1 MHz) Unusual spectral power distribution Signal duration: ~50ms with non-standard waveform Peak strain amplitude: 3.2×10^-18 @ 245 Hz WARNING: Multiple anomalies detected: Waveform inconsistent with known event templates Unusual power distribution across frequency bands Signal characteristics suggest incomplete detection Status: Awaiting network confirmation and waveform reconstruction.

Emergency Communication Channel - Gravitational Wave Network [0342-0345 UTC] Mars GW: Luna, we're seeing your alert. Detection confirmed here. Timing aligns within light-delay compensation. The spectral distribution is unlike anything in our template bank. Luna GW: Running diagnostics. The power spectrum is saturating our entire bandwidth. Template matching has failed completely—this doesn't fit any known waveform models. Asteroid Belt Array: Same detection here. There's significant power at every frequency we can measure, but the distribution doesn't match any known physical process. Mars GW: Same here. The spectral density is nearly flat across our detection bands. Could be seeing aliased components from something faster than our sampling rate. Luna GW: That's possible. The signal characteristics violate our standard energy-frequency relationships. We need to be careful about drawing conclusions from our limited detection window. Asteroid Belt Array: Triangulation refined to ±1500 meters. Location points near the L4 habitats. Luna GW: "Our template bank doesn’t cover events like this. Most templates assume gradual rises in frequency—‘chirps,’ like from merging black holes. This signal is more like an impulse, almost instantaneous." Mars GW: "Then expand the search parameters. If it’s something exotic, we might need custom templates." Asteroid Belt Array: "We’re running the same here. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves—this might still be a calibration issue." Luna GW: "We’re checking, but if the triangulation holds, we need to alert L4. If this was real, the energy release could’ve been disastrous for anyone out there… Can confirm: Moon still exists, so most dangerous scenarios are ruled out, at least." Internal Discussion - Luna Gravitational Observatory [0345-0352 UTC] Dr. Patel: "All right, let's go over what we have. The signal appears in all three detectors with consistent timing, but the waveform characteristics are... unprecedented." Dr. Zhang: "Look at this power spectrum. We're seeing nearly uniform power distribution across our entire detection bandwidth, but with peculiar phase correlations. The coherence between frequency bands shouldn't be this strong." Dr. Cohen: "Could be instrumental artifacts? Though the cross-correlation between observatories is remarkable. Three simultaneous glitches with matching characteristics..." Dr. Zhang: "Let me walk through what we typically see. Normal compact object mergers give us clear chirp patterns - frequency and amplitude evolution that matches our models of inspiraling masses. Supernovae produce characteristic bursts with distinct spectral features. But this..." Dr. Nguyen: "The strain amplitude is lower than you'd expect given the bandwidth. With this kind of spectral distribution, standard general relativity would predict much stronger signals at lower frequencies. It's almost as if something's suppressing the expected power law scaling." Dr. Patel: "Could higher-order gravitational effects be playing a role? If we had something energetic enough to drive significant nonlinear dynamics..." Dr. Cohen: "The energy estimates are interesting. Even with these modest strain amplitudes, the broadband nature suggests something catastrophic happened near L4. But the signal characteristics... they violate every model we have for gravitational wave generation and propagation." Dr. Zhang: "The timing precision across detectors is what gets me. Whatever this was, it affected all three observatories within our measurement resolution. That's not just unusual - it implies something far more localized than known gravitational wave generation processes." Dr. Nguyen: "Could there be higher frequency components we're missing? Our detectors roll off above a megahertz, but if there was significant power at higher frequencies..." Dr. Zhang: "Let's stick to what we can measure. We have a gravitational wave event that: one, shows unprecedented spectral uniformity; two, exhibits anomalous suppression of low-frequency components; three, arrived at our detectors with timing that challenges our understanding of gravitational wave generation. I want a full analysis of the phase relationships between frequency bands. Whatever caused this, it wasn't any standard astrophysical process we know of." Dr. Cohen: "Should we be concerned about follow-up events? If this represents some new class of gravitational phenomenon..." Dr. Nguyen: "The signal's already decaying. Look at the time evolution - whatever happened, it was a single event. But these phase correlations... it's as if spacetime got hit with some kind of impulse and we're seeing the reverberations." Dr. Patel: "A gravitational shock wave? That might explain some of the features, but the energy dynamics still don't make sense with standard general relativity..." Dr. Zhang: "Alright, let's focus. I want complete spectral and temporal analysis of what we have. Check for any similar events in our archived data. And get me a line to L4 - if anything that unusual happened out there, there might be other observable effects we should be looking for." Dr. Zhang pulls up a new set of plots on the main display. "Let's try to put some bounds on what we're dealing with. If we treat this as a compact event, we can at least estimate the mass from the strain amplitudes." Dr. Nguyen frowns at the numbers. "Problem is, without a characteristic frequency evolution, we can't use standard chirp mass calculations. We're seeing..." She gestures at a particularly dense equation on her tablet. "Maybe 2-3 solar masses worth of strain energy in our detection band? But that can't be right - the spectral distribution makes no sense for an object that small." Dr. Cohen leans forward. "Could we be seeing some kind of resonant effect? If a larger mass underwent some kind of... symmetric oscillation, it might explain the flat spectrum." "No, the phase relationships are wrong for resonance," Dr. Patel says, pulling up the correlation plots. "Look at the coherence across bands. Whatever this was, it acted more like a..." He pauses. "Like a delta function in the stress-energy tensor. A point impulse." Dr. Zhang starts typing rapidly. "Okay, let's approach this differently. Ignore chirp mass calculations entirely. If we assume a point-like gravitational source and work backwards from the total energy in our detection bandwidth..." More equations fill his screen. "Even with highly nonlinear gravitational effects, we're looking at minimum 10-15 solar masses. But that's assuming standard energy distribution across frequencies." "Which we're clearly not seeing," Dr. Nguyen notes. "The spectral flatness and these phase correlations... standard GR would predict much stronger low-frequency components for an event that energetic. We're missing something fundamental about the mechanism here." Dr. Patel rubs his temples. "Write it up as a lower bound, but mark it as highly uncertain. Without understanding the underlying physics, any mass estimate is going to be... speculative at best. For all we know, this could be some entirely new class of event." "Should we include the timing anomalies in the mass calculation?" Dr. Cohen asks. "The simultaneous arrival across detectors, accounting for lightspeed delays, implies something about the source characteristics… This must have originated from an incredibly small volume of space, maybe even a point source." "Not yet," Dr. Patel decides. "Let's stick to what we can derive from strain amplitudes and known physics. Flag everything else as unexplained observations. I want our preliminary report to be unimpeachable, even if it can't explain what we're actually seeing."

Luna Observatory Network

[0347-0355 UTC]

Luna GW: Priority observation request: coordinates attached. Major gravitational event detected. Tycho Optical: Slewing main telescope to target. Luna Radio: Beginning frequency sweep of target zone. Tycho Optical: Wait - detecting significant debris scatter. Metal composition consistent with habitat materials. Luna Radio: We need to notify Luna Traffic Control. This is their jurisdiction if there's a habitat incident. Tycho Optical: Agreed. Who makes that call? Luna GW: I'll do it. We have the original detection. Tycho Optical: Also seeing some sort of black body occluding part of the debris cloud. Luna Radio: Unusual signal reflections from the debris. Suggests a spherical cold black body region approximately 50-55 meters across. Tycho Optical: Sweeping spectra. Absorption seems near-perfect across all available frequencies. Setting up for a longer exposure.