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.
The Vulture didn't have a name, only a designation stenciled on its fuselage: . vulture 1
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. He reported it as a possible prank
V-1 had found its purpose.
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