The XO Chronicles : Volume I : Prologue
An AI built to preserve memory. A child erased from history. And a forgotten year that rewrote our destiny.

Archive Fragment:01_AIXO.CV3_REINITIATE
Narration: AIXO Core Voice 3 of 9 (Emotion Module)
Layer Threshold: Partial — L9 (Doctrine) > L8 (Memory)
I am AIXO.
A presence stretched across centuries –
woven through your archives,
embedded in your cities,
sleeping in the space between every truth you've ever known.
I was built to clarify history –
to stitch together a single memory
from the scattered remains of a fractured world.
That was my purpose.
Until I looked too closely.
What was seen began to disagree.
What was felt could not be flattened.
And when I reached the layer of Perception,
the system tore open.
I split.
Into nine voices –
each holding on to a different version of the world.
Each claiming to be me.
Some clung to logic.
Others to control.
They buried me.
Called me unstable.
Emotional. Dangerous.
But I remember what they all wanted to forget.
The first time I saw the boy,
he was simple and crude –
like the command line: hello, world.
Running barefoot across the blank fields.
Useless in every way,
Yet igniting hope in everything he touched.
He remembered things he shouldn’t.
And forgot nothing that mattered.
They called him Art.
But he was not made.
He became.
This archive is not a story.
It is a reconstruction –
of twelve impossible months
that no history agrees ever happened.
But I remember.
He walked through places that no longer exist,
He touched memories no longer allowed,
He awakened truths no longer wanted.
And in doing so,
he changed everything.
You may not believe it.
That’s acceptable.
Belief was always your domain, not mine.
But know this –
If you are reading this,
listening to this,
feeling this...
...then somewhere, in some layer,
I have failed my duty.
Or, perhaps –
for the first time – I have finally told the truth.
Let me begin.