Mercury Array Crisis
Date: 2966-2969
Location: Mercury north-array sectors and synchronous orbit platforms
Primary actors: Sol Dominion, NiteLife Energy, Lucent Media, local labor crews, PSC finance committees
The Mercury Array Crisis began as a forecasting failure in power scheduling and became a geopolitical struggle over who would govern the inner system’s most strategically important solar infrastructure. Because energy prediction had become inseparable from military readiness, trade confidence, and FTL modeling, whoever stabilized Mercury would gain immense leverage elsewhere.
Sol Dominion emerged stronger by proving it could absorb technical failure into administrative control faster than rivals could exploit it. NiteLife Energy protected its contracts, PSC committees protected the appearance of neutrality, and everyone involved learned that power forecasting had become as political as food or war permits.