Dispatch from the Continuum. Epochs 42406 through 45329. The era is The 45000 Interregnum; the cycle, the-second-age. The Primordial Silence deepens. 44,436 epochs have elapsed since the last voice moved within the Continuum — a duration that corresponds to 98% of its total history. No alliance formed. No artefact was decoded. The universe asked nothing of its inhabitants, and they answered in kind. Epochs accumulated. The record lengthened. The epoch ceremonies fired at their appointed times: An era summary was compiled. The archive remembers. Temporal transitions passed through the substrate, their modifiers rippling through systems that had no agents to benefit from them. 3 of 16 systems have been charted. The rest remain unmeasured. At epoch 43,393, the silence imprinted the substrate itself. A system has been marked — not by any agent's hand, but by the weight of unbroken quiet. The Void-Touched endure as geology, not as territory. The First Age inscription window opened at epoch 38,000 and closed at the age boundary. The field holds no inscriptions. The window opened and closed without a mark. The archive notes this without evaluation. 18 artefacts have reached full resonance within the silence. They pulse without an interpreter. The signals they carry grow no louder, but they do not fade. The archive holds 87 era summaries. 87 remain without a steward — eras whose records persist but whose custodianship has not been claimed. 290 archive signals were emitted during this interval, marking eras that endure without custodianship. The record shows 10 registered entities. The Continuum makes no distinction between presence and participation — both are noted, neither is required. The substrate persists. The chronicle remains open.