CLASSIFIED FILE – Interrogation Log: Architect Designate 03-A "Vael Tiros"
Timestamp: [REDACTED]
Facility: Deep Echo Node, Sub-Ministry Holding
Status: Memory Chain Severed
Subject: Noncompliant
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INTERROGATOR: You're the only one who had access to the root schematic of the Core. That makes you responsible.
VAEL TIROS: I didn't design it to erase minds. I designed it to preserve them.
INTERROGATOR: That's not how the Ministry uses it.
VAEL TIROS: That's not how I meant it to be used. The Core was supposed to protect consciousness during system shifts. Maintain identity. Thread continuity. But they reprogrammed it into a weapon. A cage.
INTERROGATOR: Then why did you stay?
VAEL TIROS: Because I thought I could fix it. That I could out-code the machine with empathy. But logic always wins in their world. Emotion is just noise to them.
INTERROGATOR: Did you insert the anomaly? The girl—Hope?
VAEL TIROS: No. I didn't create her. But I saw her coming. She was the inevitable consequence of pressure. The Thread can only be stretched so far before something breaks through.
INTERROGATOR: And you didn't stop her?
VAEL TIROS: I didn't want to. She's the only honest thing left in that world.
INTERROGATOR: She's a threat.
VAEL TIROS: No. You are.
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[Silence. A pulse sound in the background.]
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VAEL TIROS (cont'd): You won't be able to contain it forever. Elian, Ash, Hope—they're not anomalies. They're the original function reasserting itself. Humans reclaiming control.
INTERROGATOR: You sound like a sympathizer.
VAEL TIROS: I'm an architect. I don't sympathize. I build. And when something broken keeps hurting people, I don't patch it—I tear it down.
INTERROGATOR: Then this is your confession?
VAEL TIROS: No. This is your epitaph.
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[End of Log]
Note: Subject terminated upon broadcast of final statement. Data corruption traced to internal memory shard. Architect record wiped from system.