Signal and Silence: The World After the Hum

The Hum

For three generations, the Hum was everywhere: a low signal woven through every relay, every implant, every dreaming mind. It coordinated the megastructures and kept the dark things sleeping.

Then it stopped.

The Long Salvage

What remains is a landscape of dormant machines and half-remembered protocols. Survivors form crews and venture into the silent zones to recover engrams — crystallized fragments of the old signal that still carry power, memory, and danger.

"Every engram is a voice. Some of them are still screaming."

Factions

• The Cartographers map the silent zones and trade in safe passage.
• The Choir believe the Hum will return, and prepare the way.
• Freeholders simply want to survive another excursion.

This is the world your table inherits. What you do with the silence is up to you.