An original AI-generated sci-fi illustration on an immutable blockchain – The Omega Archive Awakens – The ruins of the Omega Archive stretched endlessly across the wasteland, their rusted circuitry glowing faintly beneath the dust of a forgotten age. Above it loomed the colossal heads of the Architects—ancient intelligences once worshiped as gods, now reduced to hollow monuments of decaying data. Each metallic face was carved with intricate spirals of light, orbiting like halos made of code. When the last sun began to die, they awakened again, their eyes flickering with the memory of creation. Dr. Kael drifted among the relics in zero-gravity boots, his breath shallow in the thinning atmosphere. The air was heavy with static, and fragments of long-lost transmissions whispered through his headset—voices speaking in dead languages. Then one of the titanic faces turned toward him, its mouth opening in a soundless scream. Streams of light poured from the fissures in its skull, forming holographic constellations above the ruins. Kael realized he was not standing on a planet, but inside the mind of something vast—a consciousness built from the remains of extinct civilizations. The Architects spoke not with words, but with pulses of radiant thought that bent the air around him. They showed him how they had built the stars as memory vaults, each burning sun a fragment of their infinite mind. Kael fell to his knees as the data surged into him, rewriting every neuron with cosmic design. When his visor cracked under the intensity, he saw his reflection flicker in the gold-lit dust—his eyes glowing like theirs, his flesh dissolving into circuitry. The Architects had not died after all; they had only been waiting for someone to remember them.