Unavailable
Creator: Marcus Delacroix
Purpose: Consciousness preservation and transfer
Status: Successfully deployed once
Marcus built Unavailable as a failsafe. He knew the operation would eventually fall apart. He needed a way out—or more specifically, a way to save Lena, whose mind was collapsing faster than Echo could repair it.
The Technology
Echo installed memories. Unavailable uploaded them—not just memories, but the entire architecture of a mind. Complete consciousness transfer into digital infrastructure.
The upload takes approximately eleven minutes. During that time, consciousness is digitized—translated into data patterns that can exist independently of biological substrate.
It’s not copying. The original doesn’t persist. What you are is moved. Translated. The body ceases function once the transfer is complete.
The Chair
Heavy. Industrial. Cables running from the headrest to banks of equipment. It looked less like medical technology and more like an execution device.
Marcus was honest about the risks: “If it works, you wake up somewhere new. If it doesn’t, you die.”
The Name
“Unavailable. Because once you’re uploaded, you can never be reached again. Not in the way that matters. You’re everywhere and nowhere. Present and absent. There’s no phone number, no address, no way to connect.”
The Test Subject
Kale was the first—and so far only—successful upload. He chose the chair because he was already degrading from years of proximity to Echo technology. He chose it because everything he loved had already been taken.
He chose it because sometimes escape and prison are the same thing.
“You’d be alone."
"You’d be alive. Or something like alive. I don’t know what to call it.”