The Engineer Who Built a Second Moon
It wasn’t to light the Earth — it was to hide from something.
In 2032, billionaire inventor Darius Koenig announced a private project: to launch a reflective satellite designed to “softly illuminate the night sky.” Within months, amateur astronomers began noticing something odd — the object’s orbit shifted unpredictably, as though it were avoiding observation.
Leaked emails revealed the truth: Koenig wasn’t trying to reflect sunlight — he was trying to block something looking back.
After his death, his personal logs surfaced:
“It doesn’t orbit Earth. Earth orbits it now. We were never the center.”
That night, telescopes worldwide caught a faint pulsing from behind the moon — a signal repeating Koenig’s coordinates. The following morning, his lab had vanished, leaving a crater perfectly circular and warm to the touch.
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