Project Microburst

Project Microburst was a highly classified project initiated by the Southern Meteorological Service and carried out at the Mobius Research Station in the antarctic reaches of Micras, with the stated purpose of developing technology to manipulate weather for the purposes of generating power, including the generation of tornadoes, thunderstorms, and blizzards. Following foreign concerns regarding the environmental impacts of weather manipulation (and the confederacy's inability to convince them of the sustainability of the confederacy's methods of weather manipulation), the confederacy relocated weather experiments to the south sea away from all inhabited areas.

Tornado Generation

The project's first objective was to create a device capable of generating tornadoes, ostensibly for the purposes of building a natural solar chimney to enhance the power generation of power plants that require a cooling stack by creating a "bottoming cycle" to recycle heat. The first hypothesis on the feasibility of this engine would be known as the "Vortex Engine with Intrinsic Locomotion" (VEIL) device that would create a localised blast of hot hair (while the device was lodged in a drone utilising verakium hover technology) which would then be "whipped" by wind cannons in order to form a circular vortex. Naturally, the first phase of the project would be the creation of the wind cannon, which, though they had been proposed in numerous military and weather projects previously, had never had a successful design implemented due to decreasing interest. Early testing proved this more elementary than previously thought.

Associated Documents

Test 1 Report

Test 2 Report

Miscellaneous Exchange 1