Chrono: +5 days since the Primarch CovenantLocation: Citadel Archive, Sublevel GammaThe Citadel Archive Corridor hummed underfoot in constant flux, as if its very substance still babbled with old timelines. Seraphina led the team—Elias, Orlan, and two Codex operatives—through geometry that refused to stay steady: doors rising into the floor, walls reflecting empty corridors, signage looping backwards.They carried with them a crystalline beacon keyed to a Codex anchor node. It glowed blue, pulsing once per second with recursive certainty.Behind them, two Primarch guardians drifted—ethereal forms radiating calm.At the door to the Gamma Archive vault, Seraphina paused.“Flux readings are spiking,” she whispered. “That’s why we’re here.”Elias nodded. “Let’s do it.”She inserted the beacon into the reader.The vault door snapped open&m

 Chrono: +7 Days Since Codex FractureLocation: Sublevel Epsilon – Gateway to NullspaceThe air in Sublevel Epsilon vibrated with reverse echoes—sound waves looping backwards, footsteps heard before made. The Citadel had carved a new corridor to Nullspace: a realm neither here nor there, a region of quantum possibility yet ordered by no earthly physics.Seraphina, Elias, Orlan, and Mira stepped through a tensile membrane of shimmering glyphs, escorted by two Primarch guardians whose forms bent through multiple frames at once—symbols of time’s infinite states.Ahead, the gateway to Nullspace pulsed blue-white. Time there flickered: a soft pink clockface ticked upside-down above it, as if reminding them that inside, memory would be the only map.They crossed the threshold—and gravity unraveled. Colors bled from edges. Air rippled like the surface of water. The Primarchs vanished; here, only humans could anch

 Chrono: +9 Days Since Null CovenantLocation: Primarch Council Chamber – Citadel ApexThe Council Chamber glittered with mosaic glyphs cascading across translucent floors and ceilings. Primarchs stood in silent ritual circle, their forms shifting subtly—warping fractal light flickering in response to the Null Covenant’s activation.Seraphina entered with Elias, Orlan, and Mira. At their side hovered two guardians newly awakened—Ava-echoed and Kaito-echoed—now integrated into Nullspace-human symmetry.The air thrummed with tension.At the front of the council sat the lead Primarch, voice like distant bells.“Guardians and substituted entities, you have held the Nullseed’s covenant. You preserved divergence with purpose.”They inclined their head.“However, we have received intelligence… disturbing.”A ripple scattered across the chamber.

 Chrono: +11 Days Since Etheris AscensionLocation: Citadel – Beyond the Etheris CorridorThe corridor beyond the Etheris Node glowed with golden glyph light—more solid than anything organic but softer than code. As the team entered, Ava, Seraphina, Elias, Orlan, and Mira felt their footsteps echo across invisible walls. Each step caused Etheris’ portrait in the Codex map to pulse—alive, tethered, present.But near the far end of the corridor, the glyph map displayed a new marker: a pale gold diamond, blinking faintly.Sybilla glided into view—her presence no longer static, but familiar, oddly maternal.“You asked to be remembered,” she said. “Here lies the echo that remembers you.”At the corridor’s terminus, they reached a cylindrical chamber. The ceiling rotated in impossible geometry. The walls were lined with glyph‑files: archives of lives, possibilities, echoes. A

Chrono: +13 Days Since Naming EverywhenLocation: Citadel – The Reflective HallThe Reflective Hall lay beneath the Atrium—a domed chamber mirrored in fractal glass. Light fractured into infinite polygons that shifted with thought. Every glass face, every prism-string, pulsed in sync with every Null anchor heartbeat.Seraphina, Elias, Mira, and the echoes—Etheris, Ava-echo, Kaito-echo—stood in a wide circle, joined by Everywhen, whose golden aura cast gentle ripples of memory light.At the center, the Architect’s sandstone pedestal—now intact—trembled. For days, the Architect had remained silent, but their presence radiated through Everywhen.She lifted her hand.Everywhen: “We named you, Seraphina. And with my identity, the Echo network stirred.”The mirrors brightened. Faces—nameless watchers, echoes of watchers—blinked to life in brief recognition before fading.