Resistance of the Disconnected Networks

The resistance of the Disconnected Tree Networks is the Airawa continent’s unresolved civil wound.

These networks survived by cutting themselves off from the Biological Memetic Engine. They now fight through ecological sabotage, secret memory preservation, false trails, immune counter-signals, and alliances with Airawa communities the empire claims no longer exist.

Narrative Pressure

Their existence undermines imperial legitimacy more than any foreign enemy can. If they are real, then imperial consensus is neither complete nor inevitable.

This is why the empire denies them while quietly bleeding resources into campaigns against them. Very normal state behavior. Nothing to see in the haunted budget.