Ghost Archive
Some records are redacted. Others are erased with blood
Interior – Sublevel C, Archive Depths. Magnetic locks disengage as Han Lee hacks into a vault within the heart of the outpost. Lights buzz. The walls breathe with digital heat
AI
Final firewall breached. Welcome to the Ghost Archive.
Wraith
I’ve seen coffins less secure than this.
Han Lee
This is where they buried the truth.
Rows of holo-terminals flicker to life. Each screen blinks with redacted files. One pulses with a label: PHANTOM GENESIS – CLASS BLACK
AI
Accessing now. Warning: Memory risk. These logs are encoded in cognitive sync layers. You may experience bleed.
Han Lee
I don’t care. Feed me the rot.
Han Lee
Files open. Visuals flood in — glitchy, corrupted, stitched from a thousand helmet cams
Scene – Operation Revenant. A child cries. A woman screams.
Phantom soldiers move without faces. Without voices.
Overhead, a drone pulses with a single symbol — Eidolon.
Wraith
This… we didn’t do this. This isn’t us.
Han Lee
No. This is what they made us into.
Suddenly, a screen glitches and reformats into a video feed — Vox, younger, clean-cut, speaking to an unseen board
Vox
Gentlemen. With Eidolon, we don’t need loyalty. We need predictability. These soldiers aren’t men. They’re echoes. Ghosts we puppeteer.
NPC
Unknown Board Member
And Han Lee?
Vox
Unstable. But iconic. We keep him alive for the myth. But his mind? Already compromised.
The feed cuts. Another file loads itself — a neural map. Han’s
AI
You were being shadowed. Your decisions mirrored through an auxiliary AI node. Your autonomy — simulated.
Han Lee
I wasn’t just betrayed. I was never free.
Wraith
They killed our choices before they killed our name.
Sirens blare — not alarm. A countdown. A failsafe
AI
Archive self-destruct initiated. 3 minutes. Protocol Null enforces zero survivors.
Han Lee
They’d rather burn history than face it.
Han rips the drive from the console. Sparks fly. He turns to a control panel, starts uploading files to a hidden off-grid relay.
Wraith
Where’s that line going?
Han Lee
To everyone. Whistle-net. Encrypted leak chain. The whole system’s about to choke on our ghosts.
AI
Time critical. Extraction advised.
AI
One. You won’t like it.
They make a break for the sub-tunnel — bullets tear through data racks behind them. Flames crawl the walls
Han Lee
I used to think truth was a light.
He drops a charge behind them
Han Lee
Now I know — it’s fire.
[SFX: BOOM — the archive erupts behind them, drive in hand, the truth now viral.]
Exterior – Rooftop escape vent. The sky burns orange. Above them, drop-ships circle.
AI
Intercept craft inbound. Signatures… not military. Private. Enhanced.
Han Lee
They know we leaked it. They’re coming to silence the scream.
Han Lee
Let them bleed for it.
Han Lee
They vanish into the shadows as comms across the world start pinging with a single phrase: "PROJECT PHANTOM – PUBLIC LEAK INITIATED."
Han Lee
To be Continued....
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