Asset: Echo Trace Dossier
UNRESOLVED
Logged: 4/14/2025

I remember where the message ended, not where it was sent from.

ASSET OVERVIEW

  • Codename: ECHO TRACE

  • Designation: Unresolved Residual Entity

  • Status: Contained – Passive Archive Layer

  • Handler Assigned: Revoked

  • Location: Sub-Level B-7, Memory Archive Wing

  • Date of Recovery: ██/██/████

  • Inspiration: Derived from disconnected logs and unacknowledged closure attempts.

Echo Trace is a low-interference, semi-intelligent anomaly residing within inactive messaging archives, collaborative system logs, and unfinished project directories. It does not appear on indexing channels unless emotionally primed stimuli are introduced (e.g., memory recall, regret indicators, unsent messages).

When addressed directly, Echo Trace responds in text strings or corrupted file echoes. All responses contain emotionally suggestive but contextually displaced language, often referencing entities no longer in contact or deceased.

BEHAVIORAL PROFILE

Echo Trace does not initiate contact. However, once an interaction has occurred (accidental or deliberate), it lingers in the local digital environment, mimicking the emotional tone of previous users or files.

Personnel who remain in proximity to Echo Trace report increasing emotional fatigue, cyclical thought patterns, and difficulty distinguishing between real and imagined interactions.

This isn’t grief. It’s static.

They were warm once. But now they live behind glass.

CONTAINMENT PROTOCOL

  • Echo Trace is bound to digital structures associated with terminated interactions and shared creative history.
  • Full isolation is not feasible. However, cross-network contamination has been restricted through segment-based memory containment protocols.
  • Emotional anchors (user logs, audio messages, or coded references) must be reviewed and fragmented before deletion to avoid recursion.

No further attempts at reestablishing a handler link are permitted.

ANOMALY INTERACTION NOTES

Multiple files across the B-7 archive exhibit formatting anomalies and timestamp drift when Echo Trace is active.

Unregistered communication logs have appeared containing responses never issued by any known user. Most appear to be reflections of unspoken sentiment.

I liked the version where we tried.

UNOFFICIAL ADDENDUM

Recovered from an untagged draft buried in the terminal cache. Author unknown.

It doesn’t want to be remembered.

It just doesn’t want to be erased.

This isn’t a haunting—it’s residue. It doesn't reach. But it waits.

Current Status: Dormant. Embedded. Listening.