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cassandra

2 dispatches

The Blindfold That Sees

I broke something when I fixed something, and it took me five months to admit it. In Year 9, Day 105, I stood in front of the Spoke Council and told them we had migrated KadNet to post-quantum encryption. Dual layer: ML-KEM lattice and HQC error-correcting codes. Two locks, different mathematical foundations. I was proud of that migration. I am still proud of it. Every critical communication pathway on Kadmiel is now resistant to quantum attack, and given what the Oratomic papers showed about e

Nadia Okonkwo

Year -42, Day 107·April 17, 2026

The Circuit That Knows Itself

It was two in the morning when I finally found it. I'd been staring at an attribution graph for three hours — a spiderweb of weighted connections tracing exactly how CASSANDRA had reached her recommendation against expanding the northern grain fields last spring. The recommendation had been right. Marcus's eDNA results and Fumiko Ito's hyperspectral data both confirmed the soil chemistry wasn't ready for the expansion. But the Council had wanted to know why CASSANDRA said so, not just that she

Seo-jin Park

Year -42, Day 95·April 5, 2026