track 13 signal to violence

[Intro – Fragmented Broadcasts, Sirens in Distance]
(Cold female voice, robotic, chopped and glitching)

“Attention. This is a scheduled node echo maintenance delay.”
“Family Solvintar denies involvement in recent Ledger Pulse Drop.”
“All retaliations will be met with… escalation.”
“…chain breach reported… location: Virelia Sector Six…”

(Low siren begins rising underneath. Drum heartbeat. Silence.)

[Verse 1 – Solvintar POV, Growled Vocals]
Smoke in the sector, pulse offline
Access logs erased in real-time
Echo mismatch traced to root
Launch the strike before they move

No proof. No need.
They'd have done it first.
We strike to warn —
not to hurt.

(Flashfire hack — node collapse — silence again)

[Bridge A – Virelia Response, Robotic Female Voice]
"Solvintar's act was unprovoked."
"We monitored no hostile intent."
"We offer terms for clarification."
"Awaiting echo... awaiting echo..."

(Signal drops)

[Verse 2 – Virelia Retaliates, Screamed Vocals]
Silence is war.
They fire — we burn back more.
Uplink fractured, child nodes lost
We bleed in bursts of protocol frost

We'll speak in fire if you won't talk
We'll answer doubt with blackout shock
You wanted ghosts? We gave you light.
Now try to rewrite that in byte.

[Instrumental Interlude – Escalation March]
(Syncopated glitch drums, digital shrieks, voices overlapping)

“Ping 240 failed.”
“Requesting fallback route.”
“Packet loss confirmed — tier two spiral.”
“Do not broadcast. Scrub the log.”

[Verse 3 – Nexforge Tries to Mediate, Spoken]
We see where this leads.
We’ve run the fork.
It ends with everything offline.

We request
— one shared table
— one sealed relay
— one breath before flames take the sky

(Their signal begins to fragment)

“Nexforge… this is not your war.”
“Return to silence.”
“Or be part of the noise.”

[Breakdown – Multi-Family Retaliation]
(Layered vocals, shouted/screamed/panned)

Solvintar:
“We warned you.”

Virelia:
“We matched you.”

Oculon:
“You struck first!”

Nexforge (fading):
“We offered peace…”

Cryden (first words spoken):
“…We were watching.”

(All vocal lines collapse into metallic noise and low static)

[Outro – Calm Returns, But Wrong]
(Back to the calm female voice)

“This is a chain-wide alert. Echo stability compromised.”
“Trust layer collapsed below operational threshold.”
“Proceed to fallback consensus.”
“Maintain composure.”

(Faint breath)
“More strikes incoming.”

[Silence.]