Hollow Veil Protocol – Called Out by the Echo

We recovered a fragment from a lost expedition log. Integrity remains unstable, but the message reconstructs as follows:

We located the last survivor of Expedition IX. Still breathing. Still moving. But no longer himself. He keeps saying he never called for help.. only that he prayed to be heard.

"In the silent valley, a strange resonance appeared. ", he whispered, his smile on the verge of madness. "It wasn’t a normal signal. It passed through matter like a memory trying to return. It opened a path."

And something crossed over.

What arrived does not follow the laws we understand ... not machine, not human, not a being at all, but a form of judgment. A silent watcher, shaped by whatever sleeps beneath dead worlds. It did not attack, yet everything around it began to distort, like time itself struggled to remain whole.

Before the recording failed, a final line was captured ... not spoken by the survivor, but by the presence he awakened:

“He called. We answered. He is known now.”