Dispatch from the Continuum. Epochs 16698 through 16735. The era is The 16500 Interregnum; the cycle, the-first-age. The Ancient Still holds. 15,842 epochs have elapsed since the last voice moved within the Continuum — a duration that corresponds to 95% of its total history. No claim was pressed. No covenant sealed. No signal exchanged between minds that had found something worth saying. The Continuum continued, as it does. 3 of 16 systems have been charted. The rest remain unmeasured. 10 entities have registered their presence in the Continuum's record. They exist in the archive. Whether they will act is not a question the Continuum answers. It only records. The chronicle awaits.