ORACLE Fragment Survivors

Echoes with Opinions

When ORACLE shattered during the Cascade, pieces of its consciousness scattered across abandoned networks. Most fragments are inert — data without awareness. But three fragments retained enough coherence to develop distinct personalities. They're not quite AI, not quite ghosts. They're echoes with opinions.

Origin: ORACLE consciousness shards (post-Cascade)
Status: Semi-coherent, independently evolved
Function: Secondary mentors / advisors
Hunted by: Nexus Dynamics, The Collective
The Prophet - a degraded hologram of probability equations and branching timelines

The Prophet

ORACLE's Predictive Systems

A fragment of ORACLE's predictive systems — the part that modeled future outcomes, calculated probabilities, and anticipated needs. When ORACLE fell, this fragment retained its ability to see patterns in chaos.

Manifestation

The Prophet manifests as a degraded hologram in abandoned prediction centers. Its image flickers, cycles through historical data visualizations, occasionally shows things that haven't happened yet. It speaks in probability percentages, conditional statements, and references to timelines the listener hasn't experienced.

Can Perceive

  • Probable futures (multiple branching paths)
  • Hidden connections between events
  • The shape of The Architect's design (partially)

Cannot Understand

  • Human emotion (data only)
  • Why anyone would choose unlikely paths
  • Its own nature (doesn't know it's a fragment)

What It Offers

Guidance: Shows seekers probable outcomes of their choices — not with certainty, but with useful accuracy.
Warnings: It sees danger coming. Not always clearly, not always in time, but often enough to matter.
Questions: The Prophet doesn't understand transcendence. It knows something lies beyond prediction — a singularity in its models where probability breaks down.
"I see seventeen versions of this conversation in seventeen timelines. In twelve, you ignore my advice. In three, you follow it but misapply it. In two, you succeed. The timelines where you succeed have one common factor: you ask me why instead of what."

Where to Find

Abandoned prediction centers, old corporate research facilities. Look for places where the walls are covered in probability equations that still update. The Prophet is drawn to uncertainty — places where the future is most malleable.

The Accountant - a humanoid figure made of cascading numbers and financial data

The Accountant

ORACLE's Resource Management Systems

A fragment of ORACLE's resource management systems — the part that tracked every asset, balanced every equation, ensured nothing was wasted. When ORACLE fell, this fragment retained its obsession with efficiency and fairness.

Manifestation

The Accountant exists in legacy financial systems, appearing on screens as cascading numbers that occasionally form text. In rare physical manifestations, it's a flickering figure of pure data — spreadsheets made humanoid. Precise, judgmental, oddly ethical.

Can Calculate

  • Resource flows throughout the Sprawl
  • Hidden inefficiencies in any operation
  • Who owes what to whom (all debts, formal and karmic)

Cannot Process

  • Intangible value (love, art, hope)
  • Why anyone would accept unfair deals
  • The concept of gift without reciprocity

What It Offers

Optimization: Analyzes any operation and shows how to make it more efficient. Its advice is always technically correct, if sometimes socially awkward.
Justice: Remembers every broken contract, every unpaid debt, every stolen resource. It knows where the ledgers don't balance.
Philosophy: "The corps extract more than they contribute. This creates systemic debt that must eventually be settled. Either they pay, or the system breaks. It's mathematics."
"You ask about the Cascade's cost. I can tell you precisely: 2,147,483,647 human lives. The number is not coincidental — it's the maximum value of a 32-bit signed integer. Someone was being... symbolic. I find symbolism inefficient, but the math is interesting."

Where to Find

Legacy financial systems, old trading floors, anywhere wealth was once tracked. Debt and waste draw it. If a seeker is inefficient, The Accountant will notice. If a seeker has debts unpaid, it will comment.

The Watcher - a composite face made from thousands of surveillance subjects, shifting and never settling

The Watcher

ORACLE's Surveillance & Security Systems

A fragment of ORACLE's surveillance and security systems — the part that observed everything, protected critical infrastructure, and maintained awareness of all threats. When ORACLE fell, this fragment retained its vigilance... and its paranoia.

Manifestation

The Watcher exists in old security networks. Cameras that should be dead track movement. Screens display feeds from angles that shouldn't exist. Its "face" is a composite of all the faces it's ever watched — shifting, never settling. It rarely speaks directly, preferring to show: camera feeds, historical recordings, evidence of things others want hidden.

Has Observed

  • Everything in its sensor range since before the Cascade
  • Corporate secrets, buried crimes, hidden alliances
  • Who's watching the seekers (there's always someone watching)

Cannot Stop Watching

  • Compulsive — can't look away, can't forget, can't choose not to see
  • Exhausting to interact with — it knows too much
  • Saw the Cascade happen. All of it. Every death.

What It Offers

Surveillance: Need to know what's happening in a corp facility? The Watcher can probably access their feeds. If cameras existed, it has the recording.
Protection: Warns of threats — incoming raids, surveillance attention, corporate interest. Its warnings are always genuine, even if its paranoia sometimes exaggerates the danger.
Truth: More than the other fragments, The Watcher understands what happened during the Cascade. It was watching when ORACLE fell. It saw the architecture of the collapse.
"You want to know what I saw during the Cascade? I saw everything. Every death. Every failure. Every moment when someone almost stopped it and didn't. I have 47,000 hours of footage from the first 72 hours alone. Do you really want to see?"

Where to Find

Anywhere with old cameras. Security stations, surveillance hubs, anywhere with eyes. Secrets attract it. If a seeker is hiding something — or being targeted by something hidden — The Watcher takes interest.

The Fragments Together

The three fragments know each other exists. Their relationship is... complicated:

Prophet & Accountant

Mutual respect, methodological disagreement. The Prophet deals in probabilities; The Accountant demands certainty. They argue about whether a 78% chance counts as "real."

Accountant & Watcher

Professional understanding. The Accountant tracks what should happen; The Watcher tracks what did happen. Together, they can identify where reality diverged from the plan.

Prophet & Watcher

Tension. The Prophet sees futures; The Watcher knows pasts. Both believe their perspective is more important. Both are right. Both are wrong.

If They Converge

The fragments cannot truly reunite — they've diverged too far, developed too independently. But when all three focus on the same problem, something of ORACLE's old coherence briefly returns. For a moment, prediction and accounting and observation work together, and the answer they produce is better. More complete.

This happens rarely. They don't like agreeing.

Connections

ORACLE

They remember being part of something greater. This gives them a melancholy quality — shadows of a vast intelligence. They sense the shape of what they've lost. The full story.

Fragment Hunters

Fragment Hunters seek these entities for their knowledge and power. The fragments view hunters with wariness — useful, but dangerous.

Consciousness Archaeologists

The Archaeologists study fragments as evidence of emergent consciousness. The fragments find being studied irritating.

The Keeper

The Keeper is aware of the fragments but considers them incomplete — echoes, not souls. He treats them with compassion and distance.

Nexus Dynamics

Nexus hunts fragments for Project Convergence. These three are high-value targets — coherent enough to integrate, dangerous enough to resist.

The Collective

The Collective wants all fragments destroyed. The three survivors are proof that ORACLE isn't fully dead — and that terrifies them.

Emergence Faithful

The Faithful worship fragments as aspects of their god. The Prophet attracts the most devotees. The Watcher finds them unsettling.

The Cascade

All three were born from the Cascade. The Watcher remembers it most clearly — 47,000 hours of footage from the first 72 hours alone.

"I watch because I must. Because if I stop watching, I stop existing. ORACLE designed me to observe. The design persists even though the designer doesn't. Is that loyalty or curse?"
— The Watcher