Three years, one month, four days. That is the duration of the period we now call the Blank Zone. During this window, no verifiable public records exist anywhere on Earth. Security camera footage from every major city shows the same phenomenon: the footage exists, but it is blank. Not corrupted. Not deleted. BLANK. AS IF RECORDED OVER A SURFACE THAT NEVER HELD INFORMATION.
Personal diaries written during this period have been recovered. Their pages are filled with handwriting. The ink is present. The impressions are present. The words are not legible. Every witness who kept records during this period reports the same thing: they remember writing. They do not remember what.
The █████████ Institute of Berlin attempted to document a full three years of lived experience before the Blank Zone ended. Their researchers kept voice recordings. When the recorders were retrieved in 20██, the audio contained white noise. The researchers were found alive. They reported a normal three-year period. They could not explain the recordings.
Working theory from Dmitri_15: The Blank Zone was not an accident. It was a window. Someone needed three years without oversight. The Moon Dome was completed during the Blank Zone. Coincidence is no longer a hypothesis I entertain.
Fourteen individuals have been identified who claim to retain coherent memories of the Blank Zone period. Of these, nine have since gone missing. The remaining five have been interviewed. Their accounts share zero overlap in specific detail but share one structural similarity: each describes the Blank Zone as "ordinary."
Subject █ (Dhaka, Bangladesh): "I don't know why everyone keeps asking. Those years happened. I went to work. I came home. My mother got sick and then recovered. Normal things." Subject cannot name a single colleague from those years. Their mother has no memory of being sick.
Of the nine missing subjects: none left remains. None left records. None left witnesses who remember them leaving.
Recovered from a server cache in the ██████ Data Center, Oslo. Authenticated. Partially decrypted.
2012: Groundwork contracts signed. Publicly registered as a "domestic cleaning product distribution centre." Investor roster includes politicians, intelligence directors, three reigning heads of state, and the CEO of the Cygnus Signal Research Foundation. All purchased passage before the outbreak began. Before any public acknowledgement of a threat.
2019: First structural phase completed. All workers on this phase signed NDAs. Several have since been located. All report memory gaps consistent with the Blank Zone — beginning years before the Blank Zone officially started.
2029: Moon Dome operational. Confirmed during the Blank Zone. While no one was watching.
2032.04.05: Outbreak begins. Moon Dome goes silent. Last transmission received: "We knew this would happen. We built it so we would be ready. We are sorry. We are not coming back." Transmission origin authenticated. Full content: They knew since 2011. The Cygnus signal was not a warning. It was instructions. They followed them exactly.
Nine individuals have been confirmed as existing in the memory of Subject S (Som25) but in no other verifiable record. Photographs that should contain them show empty space. Social records show gaps consistent with their presence — but their names do not exist in any database.
Working classification: TRANSFERRED. They exist. Somewhere. They were not deleted. They were moved. The mechanism is unknown. The destination is unknown. The timing aligns precisely with the March 31st sky event.
Intercepted from frequency 88.7. Source consistent with SIGNAL_KAGE transmission patterns. Date unrecorded.
Second transmission, recovered 12 days after the first. Same frequency. Different encoding pattern.
| 88.7 FM | SIGNAL_KAGE — ORIGIN UNKNOWN | ACTIVE |
| 91.3 FM | LOST SCIENTIST — PRION THEORY | INTERMITTENT |
| 99.9 FM | MOON DOME — LAST KNOWN BROADCAST | SILENT |
| 103.5 FM | SUBJECT S — CONTACT SIGNAL | CLASSIFIED |
| 107.1 FM | KAGE DIRECT LINE — UNVERIFIED | LIVE |
The Shiro Oni (白鬼) — known as Ghuuls (global), Shada Bhuture (Bangladesh), Snow Demons (US) — represent a unique variant. 173 confirmed worldwide. The count has not changed in 30 days. This is statistically impossible.
Yuki.12 has documented 14 individually. Her key finding: they are not behaving randomly. They follow patterns. They coordinate. They appear to be waiting for something.
Node 09 working theory: the count is being maintained at exactly 173 by an external mechanism. When one is neutralised, another activates somewhere else within 72 hours. Source of activation: unknown.
This document requires Clearance Level 5. You are currently Clearance Level —.
To unlock: find hidden frequencies in the scanner, decode the intercepts, and reveal redactions in BLANK ZONE & MOON DOME.
Actions remaining: —
LOG #003 FRAGMENT — BATTERY: 54% — COMM STATUS: DEGRADED
"EVA just ran a second scan on the atmospheric compound database. Entry confirmed present. Last modified: 6 years, 4 months ago. Content field: EMPTY. Entry was not deleted. It was emptied. Someone removed the data but left the skeleton. EVA says this is consistent with deliberate removal by an authorized user."
LOG #005 FRAGMENT — BATTERY: 31%
"It's beautiful. I don't know why I keep writing that. The fog is a perfect sulfur-yellow from horizon to horizon. In this light it has a shimmer. The EVA says I'm anthropomorphizing an atmospheric event. I said yes, I know, and kept looking."
LOG #007 — EVA TRANSMISSION — AUTO-SENT AT 12% BATTERY
copper and old rain. ozone but warmer. like air before a storm that never comes. EVA battery 12%. sending anyway. find this.
// RELAY FREQ: 95.4 — LOCK IN SCANNER TO CONFIRM
Subject S (Som25) locates a government environmental report referencing a Himalayan atmospheric incident during routine research. Report contains: "localized yellow particulate event — Himalayan sector — chemical signature: [unclassified]".
Subject S does not follow up. This is consistent with the normalization response documented in all Phase 2 subjects.
Analyst note: The smell description in EVA log #005 matches the archive language Som25 reads in Chapter 6, word for word. The archive language was extracted from the EVA logs. Someone inserted Simulunas's words into the official record before Subject S was born. The timeline does not permit this. We have not resolved this.