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🗄️ SHADOWNET ARCHIVES – ECHO-SECTOR AND THE BLACKOUT PROTOCOL

🔎 Summary

The Blackout Protocol Incident remains one of the most secretive events in ShadowNet Agency’s history. It is directly linked to the Echo-Sector subnet, a now-decommissioned internal network believed to have been repurposed by an unknown enemy faction.

This document exists to brief Shadow Recruits on what is known—and still unknown—about the incident. Recruits may encounter surviving systems from Echo-Sector during missions. Proceed with caution.

🛰️ Origins of Echo-Sector

Echo-Sector was created in 2017 as a high-security subnet within ShadowNet's global infrastructure. It was built to run covert Red Ops simulations, testing and training elite cyber agents in offensive operations. Systems were isolated, compartmentalized, and scattered across the globe.

  • Node 17, later dubbed The Forgotten Terminal, was one such simulation node used for hostile environment training.
  • It featured autonomous defense scripts, encrypted communication tunnels, and experimental malware sandboxes.

All logs indicate Echo-Sector was mothballed in early 2020—or so we thought.

⚠️ The Blackout Protocol Incident

On March 8, 2021, ShadowNet’s European Command Centre experienced a 29-minute communications blackout. During this time:

  • Surveillance drones failed.
  • Intrusion Detection Systems went silent.
  • Several dormant systems—including those in Echo-Sector—came back online.

A single encrypted uplink from Node 17 was detected, sent to an unresolved IP address over port 21. This is the earliest known trace of the Blackout Protocol.

Following the incident:

  • Attempts to shut down Echo-Sector systems failed.
  • One of our junior analysts mysteriously disappeared from the logs—his access history completely erased.
  • A strange username began appearing across internal devices: obs-c1rCu1t.

🧑‍💻 Who or What is obs-c1rCu1t?

We do not know.

What is confirmed is:

  • They have administrator-level access to legacy nodes.
  • They leave behind cryptic traces: scrambled messages, corrupted log files, and system glitches.
  • Some suspect obs-c1rCu1t is not human, but an emergent AI from the Red Ops simulations.

🔐 Why You, Shadow Recruit?

Echo-Sector is active again.

Legacy systems are waking. Something—or someone—is reactivating old tech for new, unknown purposes.

Your mission is not just training. It is a probe. A test. A trace.

If obs-c1rCu1t has returned, we must know:

  • What do they want?
  • Who turned the system on again?
  • And what is hidden inside the Vault Room?

⚙️ Known Echo-Sector Nodes

Node Status Location Notes
17 ACTIVE REDACTED “The Forgotten Terminal”
21 UNKNOWN REDACTED Outbound comms detected
33 DESTROYED Black Sea Exploded during zero-day test
42 OFFLINE ShadowNet HQ Contains Red Ops simulator v2.3

💀 Operation Signalfall

There are whispers that the Blackout Protocol was just Phase One of a larger process:

"Operation Signalfall"

The truth is buried deep. Only the best agents will ever find it.

🔚 End of Briefing

Welcome to ShadowNet. Watch the ports. Trace the signals. Trust no terminal.