The Golden Karma Yacht rested inside the illuminated dry-dock of Cloud-Spring Valley Shipyard as orbital satellite feeds streamed across its panoramic bridge screens.
Across the high-definition European telemetry wall, the distant lights of Milan and Turin glittered like scattered amber embers against the dark earth. Ahead, the frosted peaks of the Swiss Alps rose against the starry horizon like a colossal wall of jagged blue ice.
Inside the primary command bridge, the holographic projection table had expanded to a diameter of thirty feet.
The Level-5 Global Benevolence Radar was spinning in synchronized harmony with the newly secured Mediterranean Ocean Heart in the lower vault. Every three seconds, a pulse of radiant emerald-gold light rippled outward from the center of the globe, sweeping across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Tang Xiaomi sat at the primary telemetry terminal, her round glasses glowing with cascading green data streams.
“Chairman Lin,” Tang Xiaomi called out, her voice filled with excitement. “The planetary resonance calibration is complete! The integration of the Ocean Heart with the three Kunlun tablets has increased our moral perception resolution by four thousand percent! Background ambient interference has dropped to near zero!”
Lin Xiaoxiao stood beside the terminal, cross-referencing global magnetic leylines.
