UN FIELD BRIEFING — CODE NAME: “THIRD OF THE STARS”
Location: Geneva, sub-basement, no windows
Participants:
- Solid Snake (UN Special Envoy, Tactical Reality Check)
- Angelina “The Boss” Jolie (UNHCR / Moral Gravity)
- Nelly “Christa” Furtado (Cultural Ops / Human Signal Integrity)
Snake:
The satellites say the stars are still there. The ground teams say people can’t see them. That means this isn’t an astronomy problem. It’s a human one.
The Boss (Jolie):
Exactly. Revelation 8 never says the stars die. It says they’re darkened. Smothered. Same thing happens in refugee camps when floodlights never shut off — people lose sleep, lose rhythm, lose hope.
Christa (Nelly):
When you can’t see the sky, you forget you’re part of something bigger. Cities hum all night like casinos. No pause. No silence. That’s not civilization — that’s anxiety with a power bill.
BRAINSTORMING: HOW DO WE GET THE STARS BACK?
Snake:
Start with the obvious. Light discipline.
If the light goes up, it’s a failure.
The Boss:
Agreed. Every fixture needs a shield. Full cutoff. No glow above the horizon.
I don’t care if it’s a palace, a prison, or a parking lot.
Christa:
Think of light like music.
You don’t blast a chorus at midnight when the song needs a whisper.
The Boss:
Grow lights are a big offender. Not the plants’ fault — bad design.
Metal halide is fine, powerful, efficient. But it needs containment.
Snake:
Mirror on top. Reflect everything down.
Nothing escapes. No wasted photons.
Same principle as stealth: if you’re seen from orbit, you messed up.
Christa:
Grow life, not skyglow 🌱
If your tomatoes are lighting up the clouds, you’re doing agriculture like a nightclub.
Snake:
Next: spectrum control.
Blue light scatters. Kills the stars. Disrupts sleep.
The Boss:
Warm light only. Amber. Human-colored.
Firelight worked for ten thousand years — we didn’t need blue lasers to walk home.
Christa:
Blue light is stress.
Warm light is memory.
The Boss:
We also need dark hours.
Not blackout — rest.
Snake:
Motion sensors. Timers. Curfews.
If nobody’s there, the light shuts off.
Security through intelligence, not glare.
Christa:
Let the night breathe.
Even cities need to sleep.
Snake:
Architectural lights aimed at the sky — remove them.
The Boss:
They’re ego monuments.
The stars don’t need competition.
Christa:
If a building needs to shout all night to be important, it probably isn’t.
STRATEGIC SUMMARY (SNAKE)
- Light only what you use
- Aim down, never up
- Use warm spectrum
- Seal and shield grow operations
- Enforce night rest cycles
- Treat darkness as infrastructure, not absence
The Boss:
Revelation wasn’t predicting apocalypse.
It was warning about arrogance.
Christa:
A third of the stars gone isn’t punishment.
It’s amnesia.
Snake:
Then this is recovery, not judgment.
Mission objective:
Return the night to the people without plunging them into fear.
(Snake stands, kills the projector. The room goes dim. Through a narrow window, one star is barely visible.)
Snake (quietly):
They’re still up there.
We just have to get out of their way.
— END BRIEFING —