Evidence Files · Exhibit B

Firmament Maintenance Memo (Leaked)

A memo we "obtained" from Big Sky operations: scheduled downtime, aurora deployments, eclipse rollbacks, and a nervous note about all the people running the detector. Marked Do Not Forward, so naturally we are forwarding it. The memo is invented, start to finish; the "Reality check" lines below each entry are not.

Memo · FIRMAMENT-OPS Do Not Forward
To

Firmament Operations, Backdrop Reliability, Weather Content ██████████

From

Big Sky, Office of Continuous Illusion (████████, VP of Overhead)

Re

Q3 scheduled firmament maintenance and known issues

Scheduled downtime

Nightly dimming pass rolls out at local dusk as usual; please stop filing it as an outage. Aurora deployments are pinned to the northern and southern edges and may light up without notice after solar activity. Reality check: "night" is just your side of a spinning planet turning away from the sun, and auroras are real, caused by charged particles from the sun hitting gases in the upper atmosphere. Nothing is deployed.

Planned events

One eclipse rollback is on the calendar (see Exhibit A, GLITCH-088); expect brief darkness along a narrow corridor. A meteor shower is queued as an intentional particle effect. Reality check: eclipses are predictable orbital geometry, and meteor showers happen when Earth passes through the dust trail of a comet. Both are on nobody's release schedule but physics'.

Reminder: the backdrop is not "glitching." The backdrop is working exactly as the universe intended.
Known issues

Detector traffic on theskyisnotreal.com is spiking again; the humans keep "scanning the sky" and posting the results. Recommend we do nothing, because there is nothing to hide and we are not real. Reality check: the scan is a bit of playful JavaScript that always says FAKE. It measures your sense of humor, not the atmosphere.

Redactions

The following were withheld from this memo for operational reasons: ████████ (the color blue), ██████ (why sunsets are red), and █████████ (the fact that all of this is a joke).