Transmission Recovered — Layer Encryption: Cracked (Integrity: 52%)
Memo Origin: [Redacted] // Aeon Ministry Channel 9X
Tagline Detected in code: “When memory fails, resonance commands.”
“You don’t need to delete a memory. You just need to make it disagree with itself.”
— Zeropulse protocol excerpt, Found in fragmented voice archives
1. SYSTEM OVERVIEW: ZEROPULSE
ZeroPulse is not a security force.
It’s a reverberation protocol.
An evolution of the Silence Circuit’s passive filtering, ZeroPulse actively writes over real-time perception using memory waveform injection.
Where Silence Circuit prevents voices, ZeroPulse rewrites them.
Originally deployed under Aeon Directive 71/β as a “resonance stability program,” ZeroPulse began as a system for soothing unrest in emotional epicenters. But within five years, it evolved into the core apparatus for narrative control.
Each pulse is a memory.
Not one you made.
One that was made for you.
2. HOW IT WORKS
ZeroPulse operates by mapping resonance frequencies within human memory — a waveform “fingerprint” embedded in emotional recall. It then applies an alternate frequency, tuned to overwrite key emotional triggers and implant system-approved “memory responses.”
In practice:
- A mother’s voice becomes system static.
- A scream of protest becomes “low-battery feedback.”
- A lover’s song becomes a hum you can’t place — and then forget.
Using rhythmic echo refraction, ZeroPulse can turn grief into obedience.
Joy into contentment.
Desire into numbness.
Each pulse contains a “counter-memory” — not to erase you, but to make you disagree with yourself so deeply that you stop trusting your own past.
3. HUMAN IMPACT
Victims of ZeroPulse often report:
- Time loss
- Memory overlap
- Inability to distinguish between dream and history
- Emotional blankness in moments of past trauma
Some develop resonant divergence syndrome — where real and implanted memories loop against each other in sonic recursion, resulting in identity breakdown.
These people become known as “Ghost Singers.”
Voices you hear in cities after curfew.
Songs that no one wrote — but everyone remembers.
4. INCIDENT LOG: [REWRITE CASCADE / SECTOR C]
Date: Unknown
Zone: Memory Tower District – Sector C
Event: 14 subjects simultaneously recalled identical pasts — lives, families, even trauma — none of which matched their citizen files.
When they attempted to verify, their records were missing.
One by one, they vanished from acoustic registry.
Voiceprints: NULL
Memory Index: Fragmented
Only one anomaly remained:
A recorded signal from within the core. A harmonica note layered beneath a spoken phrase:
“I will not remember what they gave me. I will remember what I lost.”
The file was quarantined and marked: KRG-091 – Exposure Level: Terminal
5. CONNECTION TO HER
There’s no official link between Rei Kurogane and ZeroPulse.
But patterns suggest her harmonics trigger instability in memory refractors.
She doesn’t destroy the memory grid.
She makes it remember what it tried to forget.
Some rogue engineers have labeled her an echo fracture point.
Others say she is simply what happens when a song refuses to be rewritten.
“She sings… and suddenly the system forgets who it told you to be.”
– Unknown technician’s log, deleted within 6 minutes of entry
There is a pulse in every system.
But what happens when someone sings against it?