FICTIONAL / IN-UNIVERSE
THE SILENCE AND MACHINES

Hypothesis fragment only.

The Silence does not require intelligent machinery.
It requires repeated machinery.

Any system capable of reproducing a sequence may carry the pattern:
radio transmitter
clockwork drum
looped recording
computer memory
rotating beacon
unknown

Counter-observation:
Improvised human timing disrupts several recorded events.

Jack's version:
"It hates jazz."

Ace's version:
"It hates people changing the pattern."