Category: Vanguard Core Sub-Protocol
Status: Dormant (Unlock Mid–Late Campaign)
Visibility: Restricted (Player Reveal Required)
Legacy Mode is a hidden extension of the Vanguard Protocol that allows the Rangers to access archived dimensional resonance patterns from 23 prior Ranger teams across the Weave.
These archived signatures are not time travel, and they do not summon past heroes.
They are stabilized victory imprints — echoes left behind when a Ranger team successfully prevented dimensional collapse in their own thread of reality.
When activated, the Vanguard Core temporarily aligns the current Rangers with one of these resonance archives, allowing them to manifest enhanced armor variants and specialized combat abilities.
The Axiom Concord discovered that when a thread survives near-collapse, it leaves behind a stabilizing imprint within the Weave.
Across 23 recorded collapse events, Ranger teams succeeded in preserving their worlds.
The Concord archived those stabilization patterns inside the Vanguard Core as contingency failsafes.
Legacy Mode is the release of those archived survival algorithms.
Legacy Mode activates only when:
Breach instability exceeds containment thresholds
Ranger survivability drops below acceptable probability
A Ranger willingly chooses sacrifice over retreat
When triggered, the Core announces:
“Legacy Resonance Authorized.”
Morphers shift configuration, armor patterns alter, and dimensional energy output increases dramatically.
Armor aesthetic shifts to reflect archived resonance
Combat output increases
New tactical abilities temporarily unlock
Rangers experience instinctive flashes of past victories