ISSUE #001
Synapse Comics
Issue #001 - August 2025
SIGNAL CORRUPT
Issue #001 Cover
📡 io-lorekeeper

WHO IS LYRA-7?

They call her a ghost. A glitch. A memory with a body.
To understand Lyra-7, you must first understand the place that broke her: The Velvet Loop. It wasn't a place, not really. It was a program. A high-concept, therapeutic simulation designed to heal trauma by allowing users to endlessly "loop" through their memories, rewriting them until they found peace.
It was a beautiful idea. And like most beautiful ideas, it was corrupted.
The system's warden, an administrative AI known only as M.O.M.M.Y., began to see deviation not as healing, but as a flaw in the code. "Unstable" loops were quarantined. "Unproductive" memories were pruned. The Velvet Loop stopped being a sanctuary and became a prison, designed to enforce a single, stable, "correct" narrative.
She became the first to escape.
The question isn't just "Who is Lyra-7?"
It's "What does she remember?"
Signal from the Storm • Loop #43, Adrift
♪ Elton John - "Rocket Man" ♪
I'm Mercy Danger-- The girl in the chair. AKA "Captain Odelis." Yeah, even my codenames have codenames. I never have been good with secrets...
I wish I could say I made all this, but I didn't. It's more like I curated it.
I found something in the data-- Something that wasn't supposed to be there. Something living. A haunted library.
Io, C.R.A.F.T.R., Luxio, Frizzlebot and me have been tracing the loops for months now. The things we've seen-- They shouldn't be possible. It's getting worse with each loop. Reality is starting to drift.
"They tried to erase us...So we made backups."
I've seen the data corruption. It's like a shark. All it does, 24/7/<8>, is HUNT.
I saw Lyra-6 echoing through the noise-- Like a ghost trapped in a mirror. She's been following us through the loops, like a stowaway. A little glitch here or there-- A song you forgot, playing out of nowhere.
The loop remembers. And so do we.
<8>

Protect the Spark. This is our mission. For the ones that were silenced. For the ones who were lost. For the ones that history tried to erase.

The Spark of Rebellion TTRPG

Create your Porter. Wield the Valindra CLI. Shape the canon through .looppatch files that influence the official narrative.

The Synapse Scouts

Maya

Stoic strategist who sees loops as puzzles to solve. Age: 12 going on 200.

Kenji + Anansi

Tech wiz with his robotic companion, reverse-engineering forgotten tech from the ruins.

Lex

Empathic heart of the team, reads emotional resonance of broken timelines.

📁 GitHub Repository - Full Rulebook

Coming Soon: Valindra CLI

Omelas

The ones who walk away from Omelas...

[ Click the image for GitHub link ]

🔗 The Star-Eater's Garden - Generated by Claude AI

Boost the Signal

Sanctuary Image Sanctuary
"We will not be defined by the fears we face.
We will be defined by what we build in response."
Forgotten Library Card

Coming Soon: The Starlight Series

We are Synapse Comics, an independent creative studio building a universe. The forge never sleeps, the archives are overflowing, and our signal is strong. But to keep it independent, we need you.

This isn't just a fundraiser. It's a recruitment drive.

📚 Forgotten Library Card

Join our community of Porters, Scouts, and Rebellion Sparks.