The Age of Silence (290–510 A.F.)

Contact with orbit was lost. Automated systems failed. The surface world became uninhabitable. Life retreated inward — deeper into the spires.

Centuries passed in dim flickering light. Generations were born and died without seeing the sky. Machinery became myth. Priests of the Synaxis claimed the upper Spires were sacred, while the underhive became “The Echo Depths,” whispered to be cursed by the ghosts of machines.