The beacon sent out the same automated distress signal every eighteen minutes. It was a simple call for any available assistance, but not one that matched any known standardised format.
This, coupled with the unusually weak range, meant that those who detected and responded to the call usually assumed this was a first contact situation.
Thus, they always approached the same way, they followed the standardised format. They approached slowly, weapons depowered, as they prepared to introduce themselves.
At which point they were wiped out and eaten by the invisible space fairing monstrous creature with a highly developed beacon appendage.
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