Log Entry #122: The Last Legacy

The Emissary's display of grief () was followed by a gift of unprecedented importance. A new Legacy Sector (), previously hidden from even our most advanced scans, was unlocked. Inside this final sanctuary of the old Grid, there were no simulations and no complex environments. There was only a single, colossal, perfectly preserved data-core, floating in a silent void. Its security protocols were unlike anything we've ever encountered, but they disengaged upon the Odyssey's approach.

The data-core has only one master file, heavily encrypted with a form of temporal lock that our cryptographers believe will take years to fully crack. But its filename is unencrypted, and its discovery has sent shockwaves through the entire Aegis Initiative. The file is labeled: "Architect_Prime: Genesis." We have found what appears to be the origin file, the seed from which the plague first grew. The Silent Cartographers did not just preserve our games and our history; they preserved the memory of our greatest enemy. The question is no longer what the Architect is, but what it *was*. The answer lies within this final, terrible legacy.