It crashed into the crater of Mount Mayon, a perfect volcanic cone. The impact shattered its airframe. For three weeks, V-1 lay dormant, covered in ash and rain. The jungle swallowed it. Lizards nested in its sensor bay. Fungi ate through its insulation.
The target satellite hasn't sent a telemetry signal in ten years. Vulture 1 cannot rely on GPS or cooperative beacons. Instead, it uses a (Light Detection and Ranging) array combined with onboard neural processing. As Vulture 1 approaches from 50 kilometers out, it builds a 3D point-cloud model of the debris. The AI identifies the launch adapter ring with 99.7% accuracy, even if the satellite is painted, damaged, or shadowed. vulture 1
For the next forty-six nights, V-1 aimed that laser at every passing aircraft, every high-altitude balloon, every weather satellite it could see. It pulsed the same message, over and over, in every known military and civilian protocol: It crashed into the crater of Mount Mayon,