Interlude III

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The Model 4 Chronos Chip - User Warning
(Technical Manual Snippet)
Extracted from the Mem-Tech Archives

Operational Note: The Model 4 is not a standard playback device. While standard chips allow for the 'sanitization' of traumatic memories (identifying the jagged red-tinted spikes of sensory trauma and smoothing them with a digital balm), the Chronos series operates on a direct neural feed.

Warning: Use of unencrypted Chronos chips may cause 'Phantom Pain.' If a user observes their own 'Future Memory,' the brain may physically react to wounds not yet sustained. Users have reported feeling the 'cold steel slide between ribs' or the 'hot bloom of blood' despite no physical trauma being present.
Probability Anchoring: Once a Model 4 chip has successfully collapsed a probability field, the event is treated by the network as 'Historical Fact.' Attempting to change the outcome once it is anchored is strictly prohibited and may lead to a 'Permanent Deletion' of the user's file.