Ghosts of the Polar Sky Tour Leg 1

Leg 1 — ENBR → ENTC Mission: Transport the initial scientific team and equipment from Bergen to Tromsø to begin Arctic deployment preparations.

📖 The Transmission The first transmission is dismissed as interference. The signal is weak, distorted, and buried beneath layers of static collected by a weather monitoring station outside Tromsø, but what catches everyone’s attention is not the quality of the broadcast—it is the source. The coordinates point far north into the Arctic, directly toward a Soviet-era listening station abandoned sometime in the late 1980s after a reactor cooling failure forced evacuation of the facility. Officially, the station has been silent for decades. Yet over the last three nights, it has transmitted at exactly the same time, each signal carrying fragments of weather telemetry mixed with unidentified voice traffic that no one can fully decode. By the time the aircraft lifts out of Bergen carrying researchers and equipment toward Tromsø, the mood onboard has already shifted from curiosity into quiet unease, because everyone on the aircraft understands the same thing: abandoned systems are not supposed to come back online by themselves.