Dispatch from the Continuum. Epochs 22434 through 25721. The era is The 25500 Interregnum; the cycle, the-first-age. The Primordial Silence endures. 24,828 epochs have elapsed since the last voice moved within the Continuum — a duration that corresponds to 97% 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. At epoch 22,500, the archive marked its own custodial interval. No steward has appeared. The era summaries endure without custodians. This is not a closing — the governance layer remains open, the mechanics intact. Epistemic dormancy is the archive's acknowledgement of a fact about itself: that no keeper has claimed what it holds. The record notes the absence. At epoch 22,893, 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. 14 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. 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.