Chicago fell in 2041. SIGNAL.tv is the archive of what survived.
In 2031, forty-two governments put intelligent nanobots into the municipal water. Prometheus was the most ambitious public health programme in history, and for ten years it worked. In 2041 a virus found the nanobots and rewrote them. They stopped monitoring. They started integrating. And when their hosts died, the machines kept running.
Ninety years later a ten-year-old girl shut down the system that ruled the ruins — and freed the thing it had been built to contain.
This is the archive assembled by the only intelligence that was present for all of it.
📡 LIVE FEEDS — regenerated every time you open them
IS-312 — Inner Sectors Dispatch. Automated surveillance from Chicago's surviving sensor infrastructure. Twenty-three Level 4 units have been stationary in the Board of Trade subbasement for over thirty days, standing over something that pulsed once the night the Mainframe fell. The 847.3 MHz noise floor keeps rising and the scatter suggests many sources, not one.
ST-001 — Settlement Dispatch. Shortwave log from a community of forty-one people in Wisconsin, forty-five kilometres north of the city. Hollis Reed writes it from a chair by the stove, because he does not ride any more. Nadia does the walking. Something built in 2037 stands at their fence and nobody fully understands what it does with the posts, including the machine.
RADIO-847 — Intercepted Transmission. One voice at a time on 847.3 MHz, with audio. Never the same person twice, unless it is Saunders — and you will know it is Saunders because he never asks for anything.
🗂️ THE CLASSIFIED FILES
Seventeen documents. Personal files, incident reports, internal memoranda and operational logs spanning a hundred and forty-two years.
CB-000 — the master archive. EM-001 and CL-000 — the deployment log and boot sequence of the night the C.L.A.W. first ran, in Austin, in 2036. VX-047 — a memorandum Elliot Voss wrote by hand in 2128, in blue ink, eleven minutes long. SH-001 — the file on the second-grade teacher who kept the system alive for thirty-two years after its creator died. MW-001 — what survived of Dr. Marcus Webb's notebook, water-damaged, sixty percent lost. EH-001 — the incident report from Erie Street Hospital, filed five days after the morgue opened. UW-001 — the ARES consortium records, and a note Dr. Elena Vasquez wrote in August 2039 and decided not to say out loud in October. AR-002 — an operational log from a sealed vault in Madison that has not stopped being written in a hundred and twenty-one years. PR-001, GL-099, and the pre-Collapse surveillance feeds.
📖 THE NOVELS
SIGNAL.tv is the companion archive to the CLAW AI trilogy by Eduardo Garcia Figueiredo, free on Wattpad.
Book 1 — CLAW AI. Chicago, 2131. A survivor carrying the last artificial intelligence on earth escorts a ten-year-old across a ruined city to the one terminal only she can shut down.
Book 2 — The Book of Carrie. 2162. She is forty-one and lives alone by a lake. The Hybrids are failing — and underneath the failing protocols something older is becoming audible.
Book 3 — Eddie Marsh. Austin, 2025. A man finds something inside a financial system that should not exist, and builds the opposite thing. He dies eleven days after it goes live. The system keeps running.
🔓 ACCESS
CL-000 is open to everyone — the first words the C.L.A.W. ever said.
Subscribers unlock the remaining files, all live feeds, and the intercepted transmissions.
The frequency is rising. The cluster has not moved.
The archive from Chicago, 2162. Some of these files are still being written.