jjk.engineer

For twenty-eight nights, Control Subject Kuiper watched from his perch of superiority. Six feet minimum from the Primary Emission Zone. "Shows signs of intelligence," they wrote about him. "Superior judgment." "Demonstrates excellent risk assessment." He believed it all. He was a fool.

Somewhere, sometime, four departments that had never agreed on anything were forced into a room together. HR brought liability concerns. Legal brought precedent. Risk Management brought actuarial tables. Facilities brought a purchase order.

"Constraints are not obstacles. They are invitations to excellence."

A companion piece to the Great Rift Valley Incident series

Previously: Week Three has ended in crisis. Hunting efficiency is down 43%. The tribe is starving. Hunters have begun ignoring Derek's system and returning to old methods. Derek has responded by implementing stricter process controls. A reckoning approaches.