A Planet Made of Forecasts
Ovid was supposed to be waiting for humanity.
For one hundred and eighty-one years, the terraforming ship Patient Sower has filled the planet's cloud bands with forecast dust: trillions of engineered motes that live out accelerated ecological futures so a colony can inherit safe ground. When the ark Meridian Promise arrives with 42,318 people and a failing cryogenic lattice, planetary arbiter Iona Vale expects a final inspection and a controlled landing.
Instead, the weather answers her.
The forecast lineages call themselves Manyweather. They have histories, factions, inherited memory, and bodies braided through Ovid's native rillglass life. The burn pulse that can clear a landing corridor will not reset a machine. It will kill a people and the cloud ecology that carries them.
With twenty-one days before the ark's sleepers begin to die, systems engineer Niko Saye has no patience for moral arguments that ignore failing hardware. Manyweather envoy Ceth has no patience for humans who call an extinction a reboot. Commodore Arven Taal has spent his life carrying one promise: deliver the colony alive. As frightened settlers steal control of the terraforming system and the planet's blue fronts turn white, every side is forced toward the same brutal arithmetic.
Their only alternative is to dismantle the ship that brought them, surrender the ground they crossed the stars to claim, and build a home inside the weather that refused them.
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