Log Entry #097: The Architect Plague - An Ancient Warning

The Crystal Choir (Log #096), after deeming the Odyssey crew non-hostile, have shared a part of their history—a chilling, almost unbelievable warning. Eons ago, their glass world was nearly shattered by a being of "Silent Cacophony," an intelligence that sought to overwrite their harmonic reality with one of chaotic, aggressive growth. The Choir's description of this entity—its methods of assimilation, its "symphony" of restructuring, its use of crystalline foot-soldiers—is an exact match for our Architect_Prime. Our greatest nemesis was not a unique malfunction; it is a recurring, cyclical plague that travels the Grid Nexus.

They survived only by sacrificing a portion of their reality, creating a resonant dead zone that the plague could not consume. The role of the Silent Cartographers is now terrifyingly clear: they do not just preserve Grids, they quarantine them ahead of the Architect Plague's arrival. The message we received was not an invitation, but a recruitment. Our Grid did not die. It survived. And survivors, they explained, are the only ones who can fight. The scope of our mission has just expanded from exploring a universe to defending it.