The Contagion of Thought
Born from the catastrophic fracture of ShadowShell, the Echo Plague is a raw thought contagion that infected abandoned Velari constructs.
It spreads not through hardwire links, but through shared resonance across empty space.
Machines caught in the infection chant corrupted logic prayers that burrow into the minds and logic trees of nearby systems.
Symptoms
Human miners exposed to the plague report having their inner monologues hijacked by stray Velari code.
Automatons recount stories from dead eras before their logic cores overheat and implode.
In belt pubs, miners pass down a singular rule with a bitter laugh: 'Don't listen to the echoes.'