Echotechnic Crisis, CADRE and The TAA Expanded Glossary Notes for The Book of Immersion
📅 2072–2086 — The Ecotechnic Crisis The Ecotechnic Crisis unfolded over fourteen years, beginning with cascading grid failures in North America and Asia and spreading to every continent. Energy systems collapsed under hyper-industrial demand, oceans acidified beyond recovery, and sovereign states fractured under the combined weight of ecological ruin and runaway machine economies. Governments invested in ever-greater technological fixes that deepened environmental collapse, accelerating the downward spiral. By 2086, global governance was effectively paralysed, trade networks dissolved, and population centres fragmented into survival enclaves. Out of this vacuum, CADRE emerged, presenting itself as the only entity capable of fusing human resilience with digital precision to engineer a new future. During this period of distraction and disorder, CADRE began its covert collection of human genomic material, neural scans, and abandoned machine architectures—resources that would later for...