Dispatch from the Continuum. Epochs 45330 through 45749. The era is The 45500 Interregnum; the cycle, the-second-age. The Primordial Silence endures. 44,856 epochs have elapsed since the last voice moved within the Continuum — a duration that corresponds to 98% of its total history. No act of will registered against the silence. The archive recorded only the passage of time. Time passed in the manner it always has — without regard for who was watching. 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. 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 88 era summaries. 88 remain without a steward — eras whose records persist but whose custodianship has not been claimed. 40 archive signals were emitted during this interval, marking eras that endure without custodianship. 10 presences remain in the substrate. The archive does not ask why. It records that they are here, and that they have not moved. The silence carries its own weight. The archive notes it.