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Calculated Mercy

Calculated Mercy

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You check the weather every morning. A neat little icon on your phone tells you what to expect. A forecast, a probability, a plan.

But what happens when forecasting isn't enough? When you have to do more than just predict the heat… you have to actively fight it? Imagine a world where the sky is a machine, where technicians on the ground can inject a fine haze into the stratosphere—a planetary sunscreen to keep a city from breaking. The problem is, every action has a reaction. Cooling one continent might steal rain from another. So who makes that trade? Who bears the weight of a choice that saves one life, but costs another?

This story is a thought experiment that puts you inside that impossible calculation, where mercy is measured in degrees and decimals.

This is Calculated Mercy.

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