The Little Monster of the Shoreless Sea and Her Radar

Feng, a graduate student at Radar. She runs two systems: one is a distributed radar array called the "Firefly Grid", which has no central brain and relies on node consensus for decision-making; the other is the "Personality Council" - a diagnostic record of severe depression accompanied by dissociation, which she encodes into five modules: architect, poet, child hiding in the corner, lonely night watchman, and ascetic. When her course design was chosen by a national defense project and moved from a Chengdu laboratory to a refugee camp on the Myanmar border, she had to use this "collapsed system" to protect a group of children from drone attacks. Technical ideals, ethical dilemmas, and self-healing are all fighting in the same code. Can a person who collapses build a system that never collapses?