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Case File · Cipher · No. 097
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The Orrery Confession
≈ 4 min
When volunteer docent Harriet Obi climbed to the projection booth to swap in the summer star-wheel disc, she found the felt drawer left open and a small card tucked beneath the control logbook, its corners weighted down by a brass alignment pin. The evening show could not go on until someone made sense of what was written there.
The scene
Planetarium projection booth, Stellarview Science Center — the cramped upper gallery where the Zeiss projector sits on its mount and spare star-wheel discs are stored in felt-lined drawers
Possible authors
- Dex Calloway — Astrophysics Educator
- Priya Selwyn — Night Security Officer
- Marisol Vane — Projection Technician
- Tomasz Birch — Dome Maintenance Supervisor
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This case first aired on October 3, 2026. A fresh cipher runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.