LUX-2016: The Ninth Orbit Protocol is not a novel—it’s a dossier.
A signal lost beyond Neptune.
A pattern that shouldn't exist.
A record no one was meant to keep.
In the cold dark of the solar system’s edge, something moved—then stopped. What began as a minor anomaly in deep sky surveys escalated into silent data deletions, unexplained gravitational overlays, and a growing interference pattern across observational clusters.
This report is a reconstruction.
Of files that vanished.
Of protocols buried.
Of questions that outlived their answers.
Combining real astronomical data with redacted transcripts, thermal overlays, and unclassified memos,