The Echo
Prong IA biotech heart implant that mirrors every action taken upon a handheld replica, establishing absolute control over the host through Correspondence physics — the Law of Similarity.
Hemoglobal Corp. ✳︎
The Echo
Hemoglobal’s Echo tech is the foundation of the systemic digital feudalism practised in Panamera. It ensures absolute and unyielding control by establishing a direct, sympathetic link to the host’s most vital organ.
Implant seated
Sheen visible
How does it work?
Echo technology has been integrated into society for a century. An entire segment of Panamera’s adult population was implanted at infancy and has never known an Echo-free heart.
“Echo tech has one purpose: the ultimate and unyielding control of any creature unfortunate enough to bear it. There’s not a slave alive without one.”
Charley Blackwood · Chapter One
01 — The internal
The implant
A small piece of biotech hardware is implanted directly within the heart of a host. When placed correctly it emits a sheen around the heart, similar to a translucent hologram.
02 — The external
The replica
Upon implantation the host’s heart is mapped and a 3D-printed anatomical replica produced. The replica is an exact facsimile of the specific organ in that host’s chest.
03 — The link
The mirror
The replica is not a remote control but a mirror. Through sympathetic resonance, any physical manipulation applied to it — squeezing, puncturing — is instantly mirrored in the living heart.
Hemoglobal Corp. ✳︎
A four-pronged system of oppression
The Echo is the one everybody knows about. It is not the only one.
Packaged Blood
Prong IIA Hemoglobal-brand “donor alternative”, sold to circumvent the social bonds, closeness and community that otherwise form between the sanguinary and their live donors.
BC-A Compound
Prong IIIHemoglobal pumps a birth control agent directly into the municipal water supply. Water is so scarce that people have no choice but to drink it. The purification tablets contain it too.
BC-C Counteragent
Prong IVThe counteragent is available only to those holding a Hemoglobal-approved birth petition. It is rare and prohibitively expensive — most of all for the “lower races”.
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One heart, unaccounted for
Chapter One opens on a body with a ruby where her heart should be — no implant, no serial number, and nothing Hemoglobal will admit to having made.