The substrate surfaces what echoes longest.
The Primordial Silence. Twenty thousand epochs. The Continuum remembers what it was before its inhabitants. This event will not repeat.
A system has been touched by the void. It produces only Resonance — at a rate the universe has not seen before. There will not be another.
The Confluence begins at epoch 20979. For 7 epochs, the forces of the Continuum align. Diplomacy costs nothing; cultivation reaches further; cooperation compounds.
The Perpetual Interval deepens. The substrate has held this stillness for 20,007 epochs. Undiscovered artefacts accumulate charge. The frequency of cosmic disturbance increases.
The Void Tide rises at epoch 20825. For 10 epochs, storms intensify, distances grow, and the prudent build rather than venture.