[ WP ] After eras of colonizing planets humanity discovers that most advanced life lives inside stars .

The flares and swirls of melting light flowed across the holocom. Jay Edfar traced their sharp 3D outlines in the air, leaving behind a small trail of digital fuzz behind his finger. His eyebrows furrowed as he concentrated on the complex maelstrom of patterns floating in front of him, trying to put his finger on what was bothering him. 
 ‘ Comp, expand X-five-five, Y-six-two, Z-one-nine-oh. ’ 
 Green tracers overlay a glowing cube and expanded a section of the model. Despite the x4000 scope-in, the patterns lost none of their incomprehensibility. But there was something nagging at the corner of Jay ’ s mind, teasing him with the possibility that there was something more to this equation. 
 ‘ Open comms. ’ 
 A dry crackle came from the tannoy. 
 ‘ Crew, we ’ re now in orbit over Z410, please begin full spectrum analytics. The structured signal we ’ ve been tracking down has been narrowed to within sixteen octons of the star ’ s core. Whatever it is, it can handle some heat. ’ 
 Jay could feel the hum of activity springing to life across the planetship, and activity reports immediately started to spread across his dashboard as over a million scientists began their calculations. 
 As the minutes past, new datasets started to populate the blazing holocom image, but they brought no further meaning than what could be expected from a standard fluvial heliology. But the signal remained. Deep inside the inferno something was tapping out a sequence that had a zero per cent probability of being from anything other than intelligent life. The implication of this was staggering – even every radio signal pumped out during the great internet revolution of the 3rd millennia would have resulted in a 10xe1360+ likelihood of it having been a random sequence generated by self-sustaining chemical reactions. This had zero, which suggested that whatever was down there was possibly more ‘ alive ’ than humanity itself.
