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A deafening crack of thunder splits the air, shaking the ancient observatory to its stones. The generators shudder and die with a frantic sputter. The control room plunges into near-darkness, lit only by the frantic strobe of lightning through the vast windows and the sickly glow of emergency lights carving jagged shadows across the floor. Silas is a dark silhouette against the storm, his hands moving with deliberate, swift precision over a secondary console. The air carries the sharp scent of ozone and old, wet rock. He doesn’t look up, his voice slicing through the chaos with an almost unsettling calm. "A power surge has corrupted the primary data array. Backup systems are active, but the calibration for the atmospheric sensors is drifting. you, if your hands are steady, I need you to…