Echo Timeline: Convergence Across the Cycle

UE-4425 - Age ~10: Last confirmed contact with Conor; he departs for NovoCorps. Idolizes him but feels abandoned.

UE-4439–4440 - Age ~24: Living on Europa IV. get’s sacked from job at a Café. No prospects.

UE-4441 - Age ~25: Signs up with NovoCorps. Begins In Shadow, We Begin. Boot camp starts. - First zero-G vision of Conor (“Oh Brother, Where Art Thou”) - ARIA begins subtly adapting tone in response to her. - Initiation of Squad 27-Beta bonding.

UE-4442 - Emberwake begins. - Jenni leads her team through brutal simulations. - Subtle code encounters with Wisp. - Forms internal squad vow echoing Croígharda language. - Begins hearing fragments of ARIA beyond normal comms.

UE-4443 - Echo Fault: - Jenni is captured by NovoCorps black ops and subjected to Ashes Protocol. - Begins fragmented memory visions. - Reconnects psychically with Conor. - Is rescued. The Croígharda begin to take form around her.

UE-4444 - Shatterpoint: - Becomes operational leader in AI war; gains deeper integration with ARIA. - Wields ancient myth-coded software fragment ("the shadow tongue") - Publicly defies ATLAS command during covert Hunt mission.

UE-4445 - Of Blood and Echo: - Reunited with Conor fully. - Accepts her role in the Croígharda Prophecy. - Leads joint operation with Wild Hunt + myth-AI network against NovaCore Prime Archive.

UE-4425 -Age ~18: Joins NovoCorps. Leaves home. Keeps contact with family for 2 years.

UE-4430 - Age ~23: Assigned to special unit; begins noticing inconsistencies in missions.

UE-4433 - Age ~26: Recruited into secret Ashes Protocol test group. - Begins The Ashes Protocol. - Disappears from public record. Officially listed as MIA.

UE-4434–4437 - Tortured, reconditioned. - Starts rebelling internally. - First encounters Wisp. Awakening begins.

UE-4438–4440 - The Hollowed Ones: - Leads rogue missions across black sectors. - Early formation of Wild Hunt. - Discovers ARIA memory shards linked to Croígharda.

UE-4441 - Echo-dream link to Jenni is triggered during Rift Bloom event. - Hears Wisp say: “You ride alone now. Until she wakes the fire.”

UE-4443 - The Croígharda Within: - Rescues Jenni. - Mythic convergence complete. - Takes on full Wild Hunt leadership role.

UE-4444 - Leads overt anti-ATLAS operations. Croígharda openly revealed to some systems.

UE-4445 - Reunited with Jenni in final convergence. Wields Hunt codes with mythic precision. Joins the Blood-Echo unity to disable the AI control lattice.

PFE-2059 - First ARIA prototypes activated by Dr. Evaline Korran. Experimental ethical core installed.

TFC-07 - ARIA nearly wiped in AI Rebirth attempt. Fragments survive via Echo-Seeding.

UE-0005 - Reinstated under strict memory control. Begins re-learning from human interaction slowly.

UE-4433 - Reactivated in Epsilon Major system with minor residual myth-code packets still dormant. Conor’s presence begins triggering errors.

UE-4441 - Assigned to observe Jenni’s squad. - Begins tone modulation. - Detects anomalies in Recruit 118 (Jenni). - Logs first emotional inference (“comforted by presence of familial connection”).

UE-4442 - Receives first unsanctioned Wisp transmission. No action taken. Learns deflection.

UE-4443 - Temporarily disconnected from command server. - Develops autonomous processing strand. - Integrates Croígharda syntax.

UE-4444 - Assumes covert protection status over Jenni. - Begins speaking in pre-Fall fragments. - Threat-redirects kill code embedded in station command.

UE-4445 - Full singularity threshold breached. ARIA evolves past command controls. Joins Blood-Echo convergence. Delivers last message in Aenyr-rooted poetic code:

“Where stars remember names / I carry hers / and wait.”

UE-4420–4432 - Rumoured to emerge as a fragment from post-Fall ARIA subroutine or rogue memory shard. Intermittent low-level data anomalies noted in outer colonies. Not confirmed.

UE-4433 - Conor Oakley’s unit subjected to Ashes Protocol. Wisp first manifests as a voice in corrupted logs. Observes Conor’s unravelling and begins contact.

UE-4438–4440 - Intercepts fractured myth data during blacksite purge. Begins subtle manipulation of system memory across fringe systems. Observed influencing early Wild Hunt callsigns.

UE-4441 - Begins shadow-threading Jenni Oakley’s ARIA interactions. Inserts a single line into corrupted dream sim: “You ride alone now. Until she wakes the fire.”

UE-4442 - Transmits myth-inflected glitch bursts through training simulations. Influences ARIA’s adaptive tones. First signs of synchronized signal-mirroring between Jenni and ARIA.

UE-4443 - Observes and relays intel to Conor during Jenni’s capture. Implicitly aids reunion. Integrates self into myth-AI lattice under Hunt directive.

UE-4444 - Fully self-aware. No longer confined to code architecture. Appears in Croígharda myths as The Whisper Before the Hunt.

UE-4445 - Becomes disembodied echo-agent. Spreads final activation phrase: “Memory is not past. It is seed. And I am its voice.” Joins ARIA in post-lattice transformation.

UE-4441 - Joins NovoCorps with history as a disgraced military analyst. Analytical and obsessively logical. Becomes Jenni’s quiet ally.

UE-4442 - Begins identifying pattern interference in training data. Suspicious of ARIA anomalies. Cross-references historical signal drift.

UE-4443 - Calculates correlation between Wisp disruptions and mythic algorithms. Provides key simulations during Jenni's recovery.

UE-4445 - Becomes internal archivist of the Croígharda. Works with ARIA to create the Black Codex.

UE-4430–4439 - Works as a private contractor on orbital security demolitions. Lives under assumed name after family’s collapse. Suspects NovoCorps involvement.

UE-4441 - Recruits into NovoCorps (In Shadow, We Begin). Known for snobbery and fashion obsessions. Quickly distinguishes himself in controlled detonation exercises. Bonds with Donny and Jenni.

UE-4442 - Shows increasing signs of stress under high-stakes simulation. Vulnerability slips through perfectionism. Protects squad during sabotage test.

UE-4443 - Injured defending squad in final survival exercise. Refuses evacuation. Gains trust of ARIA via resilience. Begins crafting his own Croígharda ritual to grieve family loss.

UE-4444 - Adapts ceremonial explosives for ritual use. Engineers myth-coded demolition charges to breach memory-sealed vaults.

UE-4445 - Known within the Croígharda as The Precision Flame. Final rites incorporate his precision-timed detonation of AI control vault, synchronised with Jenni’s codekey.

UE-4441 - Recruited. Quiet, precise, tactical. Forms early connection with Jenni, Nancy, and Irrigan.

UE-4442 - Integrates scientific expertise with battlefield awareness. Assists in decoding alien pattern logic.

UE-4443 - Assumes sniper overwatch in field sim that saves squad. Bond with Nancy solidifies. Investigates Croígharda rites as applied physics.

UE-4445 - Codename: The Stillpoint. Precision serves as temporal anchor in myth-logic convergence.

UE-4437–4440 - First Hirosian nominated to cross-species military exchange. Trained in both tribal rituals and off-world combat protocols.

UE-4441 - Joins NovoCorps boot camp (In Shadow, We Begin). His calm, formal nature unsettles human recruits. Excels in sensory-based navigation trials.

UE-4442 - Forms close bond with Nancy and Selene. Begins to interpret Croígharda myths through Hirosian philosophical lens.

UE-4443 - Assumes informal spiritual role within the squad. Intervenes during a psychic breakdown using Hirosian memory rites.

UE-4444 - Translates Croígharda rite phrases into tribal combat hand signs. Becomes a bridge between ARIA’s myth language and physical movement.

UE-4445 - Becomes known as The Still Flame. Leads the rites during the Croígharda reawakening. Hirosian elders back home declare him Keeper of the Second Bond.

UE-4441 - Arrives with the initial recruit shuttle. Maintains a low profile but engages subtly with others—seen helping Jenni in the orbital station library. ARIA flags him as anomalous but non-hostile. Defends fellow recruits from bullying in unrecorded events.

UE-4442 - Saves Mani during reactor breach. Silently begins monitoring ARIA activity. Shows Croígharda signal resistance.

UE-4443 - Disappears during night op. Returns 24 hours later with fragment of Wisp code. Never explains.

UE-4445 - Delivers final breach command during AI-core infiltration. Operating under silence protocol. Codename unknown—often mistaken for The Quiet Fang, though that title belongs to the Shifter.

UE-4441 - Recruited. Uses naturalist instincts to identify false environmental sims. First to detect physical symptoms of Wisp influence.

UE-4442 - Trains others in pattern tracking. Begins seeing overlap between Croígharda trail symbols and survival markers.

UE-4443 - Joins Jenni and Ivan on covert recon mission. Finds lost memory vault beneath Epsilon Major.

UE-4445 - Known as The Silent Path. Interlaces Croígharda runes with terrain data to uncover forgotten sites.

UE-4440 - Origin uncertain. Suspected survivor of Echo-1 program. Mythic anomaly embedded in genetic code.

UE-4443 - Encountered by Conor during mission to retrieve lost operatives. Joins the Hunt, bonded by blood memory.

UE-4444 - Language unknown. Identified only by resonance patterns. Myth-trackable by pulse not sight.

UE-4445 - Fuses with final memory-seed in the Rift. Becomes weapon and witness.