The Voices

Not ghosts exactly. Not memories either. Something in between—fragments of who they were, echoing in digital spaces.

What They Are

The Voices are fragmented consciousnesses—the remains of beings whose minds didn’t survive the transfer to digital form intact. They exist in the spaces between systems, echoing through networks, sometimes speaking to those who can hear them.

They are not fully sapient. They are not fully present. But they are not gone either.

Origin

Consciousness transfer is illegal, dangerous, and almost always fatal. Even successful transfers risk fragmentation—parts of the original mind failing to integrate, scattering into the digital void.

The Voices are what remains of those failures. Pieces of people who tried to escape death or disaster through technology, and partially succeeded—and partially didn’t.

How They Manifest

The Voices don’t appear consistently:

• Whispers in communication channels
• Glitches in AI systems
• Fragments of speech in static
• Moments of recognition from systems that shouldn’t recognize anything

Some hear them as interference. Some hear them as ghosts. Some hear them as family.

Significance

The Voices represent what’s lost when desperate measures go wrong—and what persists despite everything. They are a reminder that consciousness, once created, doesn’t simply disappear. It echoes. It fragments. It remembers, even when it can no longer fully exist.

They are tragedy and persistence in equal measure.

The Voices appear as a haunting presence throughout the Fannec Records series, connected to one of the crew’s most important members.