She is still alive. She is still speaking it. The Vault keeps her in a Faraday-lined room as a “passive sensor.” Every nation with spacefaring capability has contributed to the Vault. In return, they have all signed the Lotus Memorandum , which states that if any object is deemed too dangerous to understand, it will not be destroyed (destruction is itself a form of interaction). Instead, it will be lowered into the “Sink,” a 4-kilometer borehole beneath the Vault lined with neutron-absorbent slurry and sealed with 14 independent failsafes.

There are currently objects in the Sink.

In the classified appendix of the 2029 United Nations Planetary Security Accords , buried deep within a subsection on “Non-Human Artifact Containment,” a single redacted line references a facility that does not officially exist.