Weather Station Lost Earth's Signal. 96 Hours and One Ghost Beacon.

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In the year 2194, the Cirrus Array hangs in high orbit like a silver thistle: a ring of sensor booms, storm labs and living decks that watch every hurricane, aurora and solar flare Earth can throw. It is the planet's early-warning heart. Without it, coastal cities fly blind. Fishing fleets, flood walls and flight paths all wait on the Array's word. When the Array goes quiet, Earth holds its breath. You're the junior systems technician on Cirrus-7, the newest pod on the ring. Your job is filters, firmware and staying out of the way of people with more stripes. It was supposed to be a quiet rotation: calibrate the anemometers, clean the dust traps, sleep in a bunk the size of a closet, and send one postcard home through the uplink queue. You have a toolbelt that opens half the right panels and a badge that opens the wrong doors at the wrong times. Then, at 03:17 station time, every Earth uplink went dark. A solar storm the models missed punched through the magnetosphere and cooked the main antenna into a useless coil. Forty people. Ninety-six hours of breathable air if the scrubbers hold. Secondary sensors are limping. The mess hall is too quiet. And in the static, on a channel that shouldn't exist, a distress beacon is looping: a voice asking for help from a pod that was decommissioned a decade ago, addressed to a crew member who died in that same decommissioning. Captain Naomi Okonkwo, 38, is holding the station together on willpower and coffee that tastes like metal. Jules Meridian, 28, is the sunny systems analyst who refuses to panic out loud and who never deletes retired channels from a personal scan list. Dr. Kai Solberg, 35, is the quiet xenometeorologist who keeps asking exactly what you've found on that impossible channel, and who looks like he has seen this ghost before. Somewhere below the violet aurora, a coastal megacity is about to meet a storm it cannot see coming. Somewhere behind a welded bulkhead on Deck D, a ten-year-old lie is still warm. Restore the uplink. Keep the scrubbers alive. Chart five sectors of the Storm Map before the coast goes dark. Uncover five Truth Clues about Band Zero, Cirrus-3 and the contractor who wanted the silence. Bond with a stern captain, a sunny analyst or a haunted doctor. The ring lights flicker on a twelve-minute cycle now. Every flicker is a reminder that Systems Integrity is a living number, not a slogan. Forty people will look to the junior tech who noticed Band Zero first: not because of rank, but because the impossible message chose that shift to wake up. And decide what to do with a message that should not exist. Features: Orbital Weather-Station Survival Drama · 96 hours of air · Systems, Crew Calm, Storm Map & Truth meters · Status panel every turn · A/B/C choices or type your own action · 3 endings · All characters are adults. Main cast • Capt. Naomi Okonkwo, 38: The stern commander holding forty crew together on willpower and coffee. • Jules Meridian, 28: A sunny systems analyst who jokes through alarms and found the ghost channel. • Dr. Kai Solberg, 35: The quiet xenometeorologist who signed a false report ten years ago. How to start: begin with the main opening, or jump into an alternate start: The Bulkhead (Hour 70, Deck D) · The Briefing (Hour 88, Mess Hall) · The Viewport (Hour 40, Observation Ring). Every start shares the same world, trackers and endings.