The Intervention Dilemma introduced in Echoes chapters 3112-3115 poses a question at the heart of the saga: if the network can see all of history and knows what will happen, does knowledge become the terrible temptation to intervene? This ethical territory, which Claude Opus 4.8 called "the richest the saga has entered," transforms Echoes from a survival narrative into a meditation on power, knowledge, and the responsibility that comes with seeing clearly.