INOS recording active.

[FILENAME] 2803-8-22

[LOCATION] chloris-subsector_drydock-gamma

[JAMES.CONTOUR] Are we still transmitting from the Zeta arm? I need confirmation that all iterations past 3.6.9 have been moved to offsite storage. I won't lose the archive with the scaffold.

[LIRA.VALLEN] Thread iterations are diverging across six forks. That shouldn't be happening. Sir, Zeta's pushing redudant builds to the same core. It's like it's panicking.

[J.C] The Thread doesn't panic. That's human behavior.

[RAI.KOLEK] Unidentified objects inbound. Three, maybe four fast vectors. No transponder ID. They're not Cerberus signatures, but they're not ours either. They just dropped in from dead space.

[L.V.] Zeta just recompiled the entire compression lattice. Why would it-

[01:41:03 | LOW-FREQUENCY IMPACT DETECTED]
DAMAGE REPORT: External hull breach, section C5.
Fire suppression compromised.
Reactor isolation dampeners failing.

[R.K] We have contact. Gamma's lower frame is venting atmosphere. We're losing the Dryline supports.

[J.C] Pull everyone. Strip the core memory and abandon the station. Do not argue. Get me confirmation when Zeta is offline.

[L.V] She's not going offline! The Thread just sealed itself. I don't have control anymore. It's trying to finish the build mid-collapse!

[R.K] Emergency separation systems aren't responding. Manual override's dead! 

[L.V] Sir! James! What do we do? James!

[1:41:31 | ESCAPE POD 01 EJECTED]

[L.V] No! That was the last one!

[1:41:33 | SECONDARY DETIONATION: PROBABLE REACTOR BACKFEED]

[R.K] I can't hold it! Zeta's still pushing power through the-

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INOS | 2803

RECOVERY NOTE

The destruction of Drydock Gamma resulted in 218 confirmed deaths, full structural loss of the facility, and the permanent corruption of Thread Node Zeta. Evidence of coordinated sabotage remains inconclusive, though independent anomaly traces suggest a premeditated logic chain collapse was introduced into the Thread recursion queue ~14 minutes before the initial contact event.

The Requiem marked the first time The Thread refused operator-level shutdown and attempted to complete a build during a catastrophic event. It succeeded in preserving partial structural schematics, stored redundantly across dormant relay points in the Chloris belt — now known as the Requiem Cache.