roximity Gathering Demands Answers After Emerald Sluice Fracture: 'No One Heeded the Light Signals'
Along the charred ruins of the Monolith of Edgewatch, the demand for answers is growing as fast as the piles of forgotten archive tapes. Families of fallen border watchers insist on an investigation of the Emerald Sluice Fracture-meeting only protocols and politicians with metallic faces.
Stardate 4422.280 - Two cycles after The Fracture of the Emerald Sluice, the echoes still intensify across the Promised Sectors. Families of fallen border sentinels, hostages, and other survivors of the night the Order of the Flame Sons tore through the border, are demanding clarity regarding the catastrophic chain of failures. Why did The Guard of the Ironeidic Dusk delay intervention? How could warning pulses from the spotters at the Monolith of Edgewatch have been ignored for months by higher command in Bastion Edge-Sinew?
Led by Talgar the Seeker of Echoes (who lost his daughter-memory cell in the fires of the observation prism), grieving relatives gather at the charred terrain. Talgar points to the place where Nimra of the Vigil Flame sent her final warning light-a clear signal, desperately repeated on every channel, yet dissolved in the collective memory of the Guard like mist in a shadowed hall.
Circulating for months, recovered audio fragments reveal spotters calling for help. 'Four Flame Sons breaching plasma gate. Please confirm,' Nimra's voice pleads, muffled by a blizzard of protocol. Yet, orders never came; help never arrived; and before the first defensive shot, the observation panels of the Monolith were already lost to fire. For the spotters inside, response came far too late.
The Hala-Core council-led by Bibbe Nethurion of the Promised Sectors-continues to block any commission under the Council of the Endless Echo. Officially, 'the Squeezing of Rahmascheur' is still ongoing, and reflection is deemed premature, but critics suspect Bibbe Nethurion only wants to change statutes to guarantee control over any future investigative panel. For mourners like Talgar and the entire Proximity Gathering of the Glass Archives, this is unacceptable: 'They want to select their own investigators, but it is precisely their conduct that must be scrutinized.'
At the fringes of Bastion Edge-Sinew, light images and ribbons accumulate-an informal memorial among the debris of the old outpost. Meanwhile, the call for an independent inquiry is swelling into a collective song. There is fear memories will fade, witnesses vanish, and orders dissolve into Hala-Core’s archive dust. 'We will not accept silence-every question keeps burning until protocol breaks,' Talgar states.