This Vox channel is purity checked in real time.
Distortion equals doubt. Doubt equals recalibration.
Good evening, citizens of Hive Gloriana. This
is your sanctioned voice in the static. Your
comfort in the Recyc Wind. Your reminder that
there are worse fates than monotony. The Hive
has returned to routine. The host has been reset.
Please continue your duties. Breathe calmly.
If you can smell the air, you're already one
of the lucky ones. All is as it should be. All
remains precisely as it must. Please do not make
eye contact with the walls. Civic announcements. The
Departamento Sanitas reports that structural
damage from the previous cycle has been mostly
stabilized. Some HAB walls continue to weep gently
from stress fractures. This is normal. Do not
repaint. Do not anoint. Do not ask where the moisture
is coming from. Lift networks have been declared nominally
safe. Please note that nominally has been redefined
to include screaming noises and partial descents.
Blessed are the patient. Blessed are the ones
who reach the ground floor in one piece. Water rations
remain unchanged. Drink reverently. Sip slowly.
And remember, if it tastes metallic, that's the
emperor watching over you from inside the pipes.
Food substitute version 4 .9 is now approved
for consumption pending confirmation that it
is, in fact, food. Glow thread used for emergency
stitching is temporarily unavailable. Citizens
should avoid emergency situations that require
stitching until supply stabilizes. Manufactoria
output has resumed at full capacity. Servitors
now move in what are being described as reassuringly
predictable patterns. The supervising Servitorian
has been successfully rebooted after what we
are calling a brief episode of musical enlightenment.
Maintenance teams confirms that the hum detected
in the last several cycles has stopped. If you
still hear it, it's probably in your head. If
others hear it too, congratulations. You have
achieved spiritual resonance and are now technically
property of the Anima Mechanicus. All servitors
remain within acceptable parameters. Any deviations
should be reported via the standard form, 9a,
shrieking metal in the workplace. The Ecclesiarchal
choir will resume rehearsals in their usual sub
-chambers. Below the newly Heretical Chapel of
Beneath Light. Attendance is encouraged for those
with ears to hear and knees to bend. Please refrain
from touching the walls, floors or ceilings during
rehearsal. Last time someone made contact during
a high note and was absorbed into what we're
generously calling the acoustics. Should you feel the music
moving through you, remember... Music shouldn't
literally move through you. Report all ecstatic
transcendence to your nearest purity officer. public confession.
Forgive me, Father. I awoke. All seemed as before.
I walked the halls. The walls were silent. I
think that's worse. Forgive me. I dreamed of
the song below. It stopped singing. Now I just
hum. And the pipes hum back. Forgive me, Father.
I am whole. I am myself. The hive hums no longer.
But I swear the card was breached. All confessions
have been received and archived. The Emperor
hears all voices, even those that vibrate at
unsettling frequencies. Community Participation
Highlight In recognition of civic dedication,
intentional or otherwise, the administration
congratulates several citizens. Marella Jynn,
Hab Delta who remained perfectly motionless for
27 consecutive hours after hearing a rumour that
movement might be interpreted as defiance. Her
devotion to stillness has been deemed exemplary.
She will be permitted to move again next cycle,
pending further study. Child Unit Cero, who found
a lost object and returned it to the Lost Item
Reassignment Office. The object, which is now
classified, attempted to leave the office several
times. Sero will receive a commendation for bravery
once the object stops trying to follow him home.
Elder Gen Vatir, who loudly shouted, "I am absolutely
complying", during a routine inspection. This
kind of pre-emptive obedience is rare and, frankly,
touching. We thank all citizens who exceed expectations
by accident, fear, or sheer ambient resignation.
Maintenance Bulletin. The Anima Mechanicus requests
volunteers for sub-level recalibration. Qualifications
required. Opposable thumbs, minimal screaming
and a strong sense of irony. Unreported anomalies
are still considered mildly heretical. Compliance
ensures continued blessing or at least non-dismemberment.
Lost and found. Found. A variety of small, suspiciously
pulsing objects. Catalogued as devotional relics
until proved otherwise. Lost. Several sub-level
crews. Their devotion has been recorded as ongoing.
If found, please remind them that wandering off
is not a recognized form of penance. The Department
of Interpretive Order has issued several clarifications
to ensure your thoughts, behaviors, and involuntary
reactions remain within acceptable variance.
Standing still for more than six seconds while
looking even vaguely contemplative now qualifies
as cognitive loitering. If you must pause, please
adopt the sanctioned hollow stare. This indicates
to observers that nothing of value is occurring
inside your skull. The list of seditious colours
has been expanded to include vigorous yellow,
hopeful blue, and whatever that shade is on floor
17 that makes people smile. If you see a forbidden
colour, avert your eyes. If you cannot avert your
eyes, close them. If your eyes refuse to close,
Please report to optic compliance for routine
surgery. All enthusiasm remains suspicious. Proper
enthusiasm is only permitted on days that end
in a vowel. Excessive enthusiasm will be drained
and redirected to more deserving departments.
Thank you for adjusting your behaviour before
you were told to. Faith report. Faith remains
high. possibly artificially. Attendance at Mass
is stable, if you discount spontaneous levitations
as unplanned enthusiasm. The morning bells of
Sector Epsilon rang as scheduled, though some
listeners reported the tone carried a faint,
pleading quality. Scholars assure us that this
is simply the sound of metal remembering it used
to be alive. Devotional Reading From the Liturgy
of Order, verse 4. We endure as we always have.
We serve as we always do. The hive is ours, our
duty, our home. Obedience is peace. Routine is
salvation. Routine is life. Addendum. Those unable
to maintain routine will be redistributed to
more routine forms. Infrastructure Mood Report
Today's assessment of Hive Gloriana's emotional
architecture is as follows. The ventilation stacks
are brooding again. While this is within their
typical seasonal mood cycle, citizens are reminded
that sighing vents are not an invitation to use
as confessionals, cry into, or attempt to climb.
The East Rail has declared a sabbatical. This
was not authorised. The tracks simply curled
slightly. Mechanicus morale teams are attempting
to coax them back into a more obedient geometry.
Civic Centre 7 has begun shedding extraneous
rooms overnight. This is considered to be an
efficiency measure. though residents are reminded
to retrieve personal belongings before they are
architecturally discarded. Citizens should feel
reassured that the hive continues to express
itself in predictable, if resentful ways. Weather
Report Mist remains steady across lower levels.
Please avoid breathing deeply near the condensation
vents unless you enjoy the taste of recycled
faith. Ashfall continues across Mid Habs. Residents
are advised to collect it for devotional use,
or just pretend that it's snow. This illusion
comforts children, and the children comfort no
one. And that concludes tonight's broadcast,
citizens of Hive Gloriana. I am your humble host
servitor, number 241. The hive hums quietly.
All is stable. All is routine. All is slightly
damp. Continue your duties. Remain obedient.
Remain diligent. Remain tuned. Until next cycle,
this is Vox Sanctum signing off. Stay faithful.
Stay mostly human. And remember, Silence is the
sound of everything working perfectly. Ave Imperator.
Host Servitor 241 was played by Richard Roberts.
This week's penitents were Tate Devonald, Philip
Roy and Andrew Clive Early. Vox Sanctum Gloriana
is an Evil Lighthouse production.