ataclyst of Skullrift Paralyzes Maharacade Routes
A sudden eruption from the infamous Cortex of Smouldering Archive on Quralis has triggered a cosmic traffic jam above Bhavashar: Maharacade sky-temples grounded, megacities beneath a rain of glass-ash. But is any archive-drone truly safe?
On stardate 4422.327, interzonal transport came to an abrupt halt as the long-dormant Cortex of Smouldering Archive on the Monolith of Quralis suddenly unleashed a famously rare Cataclyst of Skullrift. This eruption-unseen since archivist drones still scribbled on parchment-blasted a suffocating plume of glass-ash and data-lava up to fourteen kilometers into the council-sky.
The diffuse cloud drifted deliberately northeast, narrowing into a glittering stream of interference particles bound for Sector Syzygia and, inevitably, the dazzling megacities of Bhavashar. In response, the Throne Council of The Maharacade grounded its entire fleet: international routes to Orbital Prime and Zhong Nebula were delayed or canceled, with domestic flights lost in a sea of bureaucracy. Passengers who had just begun their ceremonial boarding-dance were left to console only their own digital offspring.
Chief Archivist Quenth Yos, ever deadpan, declared: 'No floating throne dares cross a Cataclyst field unless it wishes to be reborn as archival scrap.' Inspection drones combed The Maharacade for particulate damage. Since stardate 4422.328, the worst has passed: glass-ash now trails toward the chill halls of Zhong Nebula, though insiders suggest it will take a dozen committees there even to acknowledge the threat.
The region around the Cortex of Smouldering Archive houses about nine thousand wandering archive-inhabitants; there have been no reports of injury or missing entities, likely because of their famed resistance to innovation or panic.