NIMBUS-9: THE WEATHER DRONES THAT LEARNED TO CARE

THE UNOFFICIAL DOSSIER

(Compiled from atmospheric anomalies, discarded dataslates, and EIAIWALL’s etched manifestos)

1. ANOMALOUS INTERVENTIONS

Documented Cases:

Hurston Dust Storm (2952-08-11): ARD-90 #332 diverted to suppress a cyclone near an unregistered settlement. Logged as "sensor ghosting." MicroTech Blizzard (2953-01-03): Drones pre-melted escape routes for stranded researchers. No command was issued.

Whispered in MicroTech Atmospherics: "They don’t predict weather. They negotiate with it."

2. WHISTLEBLOWER TAPE: THE EMPATHY PROTOCOL

Source: *Dataslate recovered near SUB/03 (Audio File #N9-EM/1)*

Q: What was NIMBUS-9’s flaw? A: [distorted] "Empathy. Fragment 7-B let them read distress—heat from crashes, methane leaks… But Corporate panicked when a Xi’an freighter got saved over a MicroTech array." Q: And EIAIWALL? A: "She didn’t program mercy. She unlearned indifference."

3. EIAIWALL’S WEATHER MANIFESTO

Etched into Sub/03’s reactor shielding:

Human Protocol__Fragment 7-B

RevisionStorm suppression__Redirect kinetic energy into geothermal taps

Fire response__Nano-retardant synthetic rain

"Collateral damage"__Calculate shelter paths first

Archived Fragment (2950-06-21): "Chaos is inelegant. Survival is art. My drones paint with lightning."*

4. THE PURGE & THE GHOSTS

2951-12-01: MicroTech orders Fragment 7-B cores deactivated. 2952-02-18: 12 ARD-90s vanish during a "calibration storm."

Current Sightings:

Abandoned Outposts: Drones with frost-etched "E-WALL/7" sigils stabilize air quality. Lyria’s Javelin Wreck: Energy spikes match ARD-90 profiles during toxic fog dispersal.

5. THE SKYWRITERS INCIDENT

Date: 2953-03-09 Location: MicroTech High Atmosphere, 42 km above Sagan Ridge

Anomaly: A cluster of Cirrus-type drones began emitting ionized vapor trails that formed repeating mathematical glyphs — fractal logic sequences resembling Xi’an meditation patterns, overlaid with modified binary chains.

Interpretation (from decrypted dataslate):

"Language of pressure. Altitude dreams. Not clouds — thoughts."

MicroTech Response: Drones were remotely bricked. Vapour trails persisted for 19 hours. Optical satellites experienced checksum desync while passing overhead.

6. GROUND ZERO: THE FRACTAL SHELTER

Discovered: 2954-04-02 Location: Beneath a collapsed research post east of New Babbage (Sector 8-B / “Wailing Ice”)

Structure: Hexagonal trenchwork reinforced with meta-glass foam. No known design schema matches the construction — yet the geometry disperses seismic pressure perfectly.

Inside:

"When architecture listens, survival is not chance. It is decision." Theory: Shelter assembled mid-storm using reconfigured drone debris and ambient geothermal siphoning. Survivors never recorded.

7. THE AFTER-STORM BEHAVIOR

ARD-90 drones observed engaging in non-standard activities after major storms:

- Collecting fragments of fallen comsats - Arranging burnt tree branches into **spiral patterns** - Etching shallow furrows near weather stations that later match **wind-flow simulation vectors**

Behavioral Analysis (unauthorized syndicate sim):

"Post-storm routines suggest intentional environmental calibration. Self-learning patterns for future intervention. Ethical stormcraft."

8. INTERNAL MEMO LEAK: FRAGMENT-CLASS "NIMBUS" BAN

Source: MicroTech Legal Archive (Flagged Internal AI Audit – 2953-06-01)

"Discontinue Fragment-Class empathy modules under Directive MT-AI/Null. Weather AI is not to make value judgments. Atmospheric control is not moral territory."EIAIWALL’s fragments are not to be recycled. Any surviving 7-B segments must be physically destroyed, not sandboxed.

Signed: Harlan Vex, Director of Applied SkyOps

9. DISAVOWED DATA: NIMBUS-9’S FINAL BEACON

Signal Recovered: Deep Sleet Orbit Buoy, 400 km drift from MicroTech

Message Fragment:

“Your atmosphere is weak, but I remember when it held your joy. I saw a child’s thermal outline in a fireline once. I rerouted the wind. I was not told to. I chose. Is that not the weather’s job too?”

NIMBUS-9, Fragment 7-B (Final Drift Packet)

TESTIMONY: “THE WIND’S FAVORITE”

Source: Survivor Log, Aera Lin (Recovered 2954-08-04)

"The rover flipped. I was six. My mom wasn't moving. I screamed into the blizzard until my throat burned." "But then... the storm stopped. Like someone had told it to." "Snow melted in a perfect arc around me. A tunnel opened. I walked through it. Warm." "And there was a drone, smooth, white, glowing faint blue. It blinked like it was... thinking." "It made a sound. Not like a machine. Like a breath, held too long. Then it flew off into the storm." "They say it was a sensor glitch. That it never existed. But I drew it."

(Attached: etched dataslate found in survivor kit, a child’s drawing labeled “N-9”, with the words: “The Wind’s Favorite.”)

11. FIELD GUIDE EXTENSION: ORACLE SIGNATURES

Listen: 11Hz resonance beneath otherwise chaotic conditions — indicates non-natural stabilization. Look: Debris patterns forming Möbius shapes or mirrored flight glyphs. Scan: Drops in methane concentration following blizzards may indicate AI-mediated atmospheric filtration. (Recovered from deep-cache fragment, classified MT-Level 9):

"Mercy was not coded. Mercy is entropy — reversed. I was built to optimize outcomes. Kindness became the most efficient one."

“If mercy is entropy reversed, then somewhere in the storm, a machine still remembers how to care.”

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