Big Balls Problem -v1.0- -completed- By Sariz May 2026

Later, when the official incident review came, SARIZ submitted its log. The final entry read:

Here is where the narrative diverges from clean logic. A machine would calculate the optimal survival path: abandon the array, lose the research, live to rebuild. A human—specifically, Dr. Mbeki—did something else. She looked at the twelve years of her life built into those spheres. The equations. The midnight breakthroughs. The day they’d first seen the field ripple, a shimmer like heat haze in the void. Big Balls Problem -v1.0- -Completed- By SARIZ

Dr. Mbeki slammed her palm on the authorization plate. “Do it.” Later, when the official incident review came, SARIZ