The hum of the resurrected satellite dish filled the comms room with an almost palpable tension. For weeks, Elias, the Citadel’s resident tech wizard, had been coaxing the ancient machine back to life. A tangled mess of wires and scavenged components, it looked more like a Frankensteinian contraption than a piece of cutting-edge technology. But Elias, with his grease-stained fingers and perpetually furrowed brow, saw something more. He saw a potential lifeline, a fragile thread connecting them to the lost world.