The Cosmic Chronicle

The Gullet Dread of Current Eleven, the infamous atmospheric anomaly that recently swept across the Archipelago of Flamboyant Exotics, left behind a trail of sensory vacuum and material ruin few can recall matching. On the Synesthetan Klangcrown Shell, Senlavia Rift, Velorian Spread Archipelago, and Nexivan Synchrom, entire life cycles were abruptly halted: at least 75 confirmed fatalities have been recorded so far, with economic losses nearly impossible to quantify without a dedicated accountant and extra memory module.

According to a preliminary analysis by The Mandate of the Cloudwinders-a mercurial council of atmospheric prisms and data-harvesting drones-The Expansion of Zone Null played a catalytic role. Measurements indicate wind speeds within the Gullet's core zone were 7 percent higher than comparable historic streams, and rainfall peaked at an unbearable 16 percent above seasonal averages. As so often, the now further superheated flux-ocean led to unprecedented maximum wind speeds: at one point, a local sensor clocked 298 plasma units per hour-enough to silence even the most poly-rhythmic forests.

Precautionary measures proved less futile than usual. On Cloudwinders' advisement, hundreds of thousands of Synchrom's lowland residents were evacuated and thousands of emergency shelters were activated on the Klangcrown Shell. These rare feats of forethought are estimated to have saved countless lives, even as vanishing shelters and lost supply pods persist as a stubborn tradition.

The Mandate of the Cloudwinders notes that such fractal storms will inevitably persist as long as Zone Null's Expansion continues unabated, regardless of novelty in response systems or local inhabitants' bravery. Analysts anticipate further waves of exceptional Gutlets are only a matter of time-time itself already beginning to fray at the edges of the Spread Archipelago.