...

$ build-ver-- complete. home.tar.md5 finalized. Hash: 3f4c7a2b9d8e1f0a4c6b8e2d7f1a3c5b

$

And somewhere, light-years away, a rescue ship picked up a faint, repeating beacon. Its computers parsed the final line of the message:

"Proceed?" the terminal asked again.

They would see only a hash— 3f4c7a2b... —a meaningless string.