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Orbital Soup
A fictional research archive from Tiny Penguin Systems about seals, penguins, and soup aboard a station in low orbit, with posters, a handbook, an album, and playful station toys.
Storm track
Time runs across. Height is maximum sustained wind, read from each status's METAR. The red ring marks the current position, and the cone ahead of it assumes conditions persist. A dashed stretch spans two weeks or more without a report, and the time axis breaks across it, marked // with how long it lasted.
Advisories /9, newest first/
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Advisory 9 CLR Clear
Launched. Nearly five months after its first posters went up, Orbital Soup is officially open.
METAR XOSP 112224Z 00000KT CAVOK 13/10 Q1024 NOSIG= -
Advisory 8 TSTM Thunderstorm
Two releases in one day. Version 0.19 brought a daily forecast bulletin, holiday days, a page for each album track, the Hallway 3 sliding game, and downloadable poster wallpapers, with the album's audio moved to Cloudflare R2. Version 0.20 rebuilt the Station Services pages as illustrated station machines, turned the staff ID into a two-sided card with merit pins and a scannable code, and made the page-not-found screen a Lost Pages Desk. Small passes of content and polish follow as ideas come up.
SPECI XOSP 020010Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 13/10 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG 54 PAGES 9 TERMINALS 18 SECRETS= -
Advisory 7 DZ Drizzle
After a full health check of the live site, version 0.18.0 shipped with brand fonts, a phone menu, and a pass of polish over the corkboard, the departure-board status, and the gallery viewer. A Stormy Fans stamp is now hidden in the guestbook, and renaming the album's playlist comes next.
METAR XOSP 011144Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 13/10 Q1014 NOSIG RMK 41 PAGES 16 SECRETS= -
Advisory 6 DZ Drizzle
Pinch-zoom arrived on phones, and the station's data is now backed up every night.
METAR XOSP 121000Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 13/10 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 5 DZ Drizzle
The image viewer's zoom was tuned.
METAR XOSP 201000Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 13/10 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 4 TSTM Thunderstorm
Ten releases in one day brought the album with audio and lyrics, a history timeline, hidden rooms, and the printable Field Manual, then the guestbook, shared counters, the Pebble Wall, and the ID cabinet.
SPECI XOSP 181000Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 13/10 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG 10 RELEASES= -
Advisory 3 TSTM Thunderstorm
An illustrated employee handbook arrived, eleven chapters long.
SPECI XOSP 171000Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 13/10 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG 11 CHAPTERS= -
Advisory 2 TSTM Thunderstorm
Landfall. The archive went live as version 0.3.0, and version 0.5.0 followed the same day with a quiz, staff ID badges, Adopt-a-Pebble, and the station map.
SPECI XOSP 161000Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 13/10 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG= -
Advisory 1 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
A new system forms. The first posters, field guides, memo boards, and war bulletins take shape aboard a station in low orbit.
METAR XOSP 201000Z 24008KT 9999 SCT040 13/10 Q1015 NOSIG=
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