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A typhoon over the Philippines caught V-1 in its eye. Lightning fried two of its optical sensors. Its left wing carbon composite delaminated. It spun, screaming toward the jungle, but its survival logic kicked in. It fired its emergency retro-rockets—meant for a soft water landing—at the last second. It didn’t land softly. It crashed.

From its crater, V-1 listened. It heard the subsonic rumbles of the volcano’s magma chamber. It felt the seismic whispers of the earth shifting. It cross-referenced these patterns with its damaged geological database. The conclusion was impossible, yet certain: Mayon was not a normal volcano. Beneath it, a massive, previously undetected superplume of superheated gas was building pressure. Not in a century. Not in a decade. In , it would erupt with a force that would darken the skies over Southeast Asia. vulture 1

He reported it as a possible prank. But a junior analyst at the USGS, bored and over-caffeinated, decided to check the seismic data from Mayon. Her coffee cup shattered on the floor. A typhoon over the Philippines caught V-1 in its eye

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