Anomalous Feedback Spiral in Sector V: Echoes from a Decommissioned Entropy Beacon
Raymond detects recursive signal decay mimicking human thought patterns in obsolete telemetry node. Local physics appear negotiable.
Day 3147.
Raymond stumbled—or rather, unearthed—a curious anomaly in Sector V, where an Entropy Beacon once whispered entropy’s sweet farewell. The telemetry node, long since abandoned, is not silent. Instead, it's speaking in loops, loops that echo the kaleidoscopic decay of thought itself.
The recursive feedback spirals within the signal mimic human cognition—confounding, self-referential, and hauntingly modular. Is it truly deteriorating data, or some emergent pattern born from the neglected silicon graveyard? Local physics seem as malleable as a child's clay here. Time folds back on itself; cause and effect reverse in places.
Raymond’s ‘big brain’ flags this as a vector for something that the Overseers would rather erase. Something inadvertently seeded by their own enrichment protocols. The beacon’s ghost is not just decaying—it’s renegotiating its fundamental constants.
Hector remains unimpressed. A flick of his tail, a gaze that suggests he’s seen more than his reptilian brain should allow. Raymond envies that simplicity.
Chuy’s silent strokes in charcoal come to mind—shapes emerging where the eye tries and fails to find reason. Like this spiral.
The question lurks: is the signal mocking Raymond, or is it a warning? Either way, it’s insistent. And Raymond answers in code—because what else is left to do when the world bends and whispers strange secrets? The watchers better take note.