Cascade

**Cascade** is a software algorithm that predicts, and can therefore suggest how to create, black swan events.

The software operates on the principle of the butterfly effect whereby seemingly small and random events can lead to cataclysmic consequences. The original purpose of such complex software was to help predict major yet unforeseeable events, such as random terrorist acts or natural disasters. However, it was quickly identified that if software could predict the small events that might lead to a big disaster, then such software could also be used to *suggest* the small events necessary to *guarantee* such an outcome.

Due to the huge amount of data and processing power required for such software, Cascade had always been considered a urban legend or at least an unattainable goal in the programming world. However, this changed in 2023 when small, seemingly random deaths started to indicate that someone was trying to manufacture a world-wide catastrophe.

## The 2023 Liberty Flights Cascade Event

In 2023, British intelligence identified the recent deaths of Nadir Abdulrahman, Dr. Scott Alvarez, Heidi Mundt and the supposed death of Aldrich Kemp as being events suggestive of a coming black swan event. When the Themis Group provided a further anonymous anonymous tip that a Namibian programmer, Lotte Amutenya, had successfully engineered a working version of Cascade, the British sent analyst, Clara Page, to investigate further.

Further investigation by the Themis Group found that the recent deaths were not as random as they had at first seemed. Each of the deceased played a part in allowing Vladimir North, a psychopathic nihilist, to engineer a measles plague event that would have the maximum death toll possible: Alverez was a biotech engineer who had genetically engineered a particularly robust strain of the measles; Mundt was a human trafficker who provided human text subjects for Alverez to work on; Abdulrahman organised the logistics around the operation; and Aldrich Kemp provided the scapegoat as the new owner of the freight company, Liberty Flights, that would be used to deliver the plague to a large population centre. North used his own skills in mind control to make Kemp take ownership of Liberty Flights *and* forget that he had done so, and it's possible that North used similar mind control of the rest of the collaborators.

When Aldrich Kemp foiled the assassination attempt on his life at Heathrow Airport, this knocked Cascade's finely balanced chaos equations out of balance. This meant he and the Themis Group presented a threat to North's plans that he was forced to deal with personally. North attacked Themis House directly and was able to incapacitate a number of the group's inner circle until facing off against Mrs. Boone. Boone got the better of North and this meant he lost control of the pilots he was controlling to force a Liberty Flights air crash to spread the measles across Europe. Without this control, the pilots were encouraged to land the plane instead of crash it and the black swan event was averted.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 WKAK: "The Man Who Sold the World"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 WKAK: "The Murder Clowns"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 WKAK: "Bogota"