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📂 [Classified Excerpt — Redacted Realms]
"The Clockwork Directive"
🕰️ (Antikythera Logs, Fragmented Reconstruction)
🎙️ Dr. Rhyne (Archivist)
> "When people think of the Antikythera mechanism, they think: an ancient Greek calculator, centuries ahead of its time.
But what we recovered in 1901 was just the first shard.
The Vault was always deeper."
> Aerin:
"Wait. You're saying there's more than one mechanism?"
🎙️ Dr. Rhyne:
There were nine.
Each part of a chronotemporal calibration array — a literal clockwork backbone designed to maintain global timeline coherence.
> Aerin:
Then how did Project Velvet Silence—
🎙️ Dr. Rhyne (interrupting):
In 1997, the final two fragments were recovered from a sunken research ship in the Aegean trench.
Inside were logs — hand-written in dead dialects, etched in spiraling glyphs.
The last entry read:
> "If turned, the world forgets.
If turned thrice, it never was."
>Aerin:
"Oh god.
They turned it."/
🎙️ Dr. Rhyne:
Three times.
The first: 1943, tied to Philadelphia Experiment.
The second: 1961, to contain Cold War deviations.
The third: 2003, by order of the Clockwork Directive.
>Aerin:
Who authorized it?
🎙️ Dr. Rhyne:
That's what I was about to show you.
There's a name in the logs.
Not a person — an entity.
It appears as—
> ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛REDACTED
[⚠ INTERFERENCE DETECTED ⚠]
[Recording Cuts]
∆ Unknown Signal:
"They hear us."
∆ Unknown Signal 2:
"Do not follow the clock. Do not unseal what has been harmonized."
[Background static rises. Instruments flicker. Rhyne goes silent.]
🎙️ Aerin (whispering):
Wh..o a.r.e y..ou?
∆???:
"W..e ar. E the LI. sT. en. rs.
Th..
e ones ..wh.o remEm..Ber
s ..
o th...e re..St c..an fo..R..g...et."
[Signal Terminated]
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