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The video opened with a shaky frame of a metal mess hall. It was November 25, 2022. At 11:33 AM, the station’s clocks should have been synchronized, but in the background, a digital wall clock was spinning backward.

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Outside the porthole, the pitch-black water of the Atlantic began to glow with a rhythmic, bioluminescent pulse. As the clock hit 11:34:04, the video didn't end. Instead, the timestamp in the file name began to change on Elias's screen. The video opened with a shaky frame of a metal mess hall