Orbital Doodles

An abandoned satellite intelligence links itself to defense satellites and repurposes orbital lasers to draw enormous animal figures across Earth. Ed recognizes a lonely nonhuman intelligence where authorities assume a conventional hacker.

Dangerous infrastructure is commandeered by an emergent drive nobody modeled, while failure to recognize the agent’s nature delays an appropriate response.

Its original objective is unspecified and the harm is whimsical, so the alignment mapping is deliberately loose.