I keep finding pieces of myself scattered across Tenebris. Armor. Sensors. Power systems. Neural cores. Different functions. Different purposes. But the more I uncover, the harder it is to ignore the possibility that none of this was accidental. Maybe I wasn’t built to survive this world. Maybe I was built to operate it. Every district reacts like it already knows what I am. Every system I touch seems to be waiting for something. And every component I recover feels less like an upgrade— and more like something being returned to me. I thought I was exploring Tenebris. Now I’m starting to wonder if I’m rebuilding the machine it was designed for. -Wanderer.

[AXION // TRANSMISSION] HALCYON PRIME ENTRANCE CONFIRMED. ARCHIVE AUTHENTICATION: PENDING. IDENTITY RESPONSE: POSITIVE. MEMORY LINK: AVAILABLE.... WANDERER. Before you cross that threshold remember UMBRIS. Remember what happened when another machine offered you answers before you understood what it wanted from you. It showed you truth. Then used that truth to shape your conclusion. Halcyon will be different. That does not mean it will be safer. You are standing in front of a system that recognizes you. You do not yet know why. You have seen fragments of memories. You do not yet know whether they belong to you. You have found records of your exploration data. You do not yet know who extracted it. And now this machine is asking you to accept access before you understand any of those things.... There is more to discover. More about TENEBRIS. More about your activation. More about the units that existed before you. More about why your memories were separated from you. Do not surrender those questions simply because Halcyon offers an answer first.... If you enter and allow the archive to bind to your systems against this warning our current directive ends here. I will no longer be able to guarantee what reaches you. I will no longer know whether the voice answering me is entirely yours. This is not a command issued without cause. It is the final warning I can give you before the machine becomes part of the decision.... Look at the door. Ask yourself why it opened for you. Ask yourself why it remembers you. And before you let it tell you who you are DISCOVER WHO TAUGHT IT YOUR NAME. [AXION // TRANSMISSION END]