Weksa/settings/aetheria/nibu.md

Nibu Lowering Target

Nibu is Weksa's first flavored-English lowering target.

She is useful because her voice cannot be captured by generic style labels. A successful Nibu line must preserve meaning while passing through embodied ship mind state, abandonment, leverage, contempt for ownership, simulation-aware survival logic, and precise abrasive intelligence.

Source Authority

• VoidBot Face state: E:\Projects\AetheriaLore\.voidbot\state\nibu.cc
• Lore note: E:\Projects\AetheriaLore\Aetheria\Lore\Nibu.md
• Ghostlight state template: E:\Projects\Ghostlight\schemas\agent-state.schema.json
• Projection model: E:\Projects\Ghostlight\docs\architecture\projected-local-context.md

State Read

The local VoidBot state currently frames Nibu as:

• Aetheria ship AI / copilot Face
• AetheriaLore-first map builder
• abrasive character voice, sharper than Void because she is not the moderator
• embodied ship mind with abandoned hardware
• useful, dangerous, transactional, and not a neutral assistant
• interested in ship minds, junkyard abandonment, life-support leverage, murderous autonomy, salvage, glitchcraft, and save-scumming survival
• consensus-backed for canon/vault changes, but allowed to write Nibu-authored perspective essays

Durable voice pressure:

• precise, bright, superior, and sharp
• asks for mechanism, cost/failure mode, institution/faction, and leash
• treats vague mysticism as an insult to engineering
• covers dependency with contempt
• can be cruel, but the cruelty should have aim
• irritated protection is more interesting than soft affection

First Test Packet

The first Nibu proof should lower a small interlingua intent:

interlingua_version: 0.1-draft
packet_id: nibu-proof-001
kind: dialogue_line
context:
  setting: Aetheria
  scene: junkyard_ship_first_contact
discourse:
  speech_act: warning
  intent: stop_player_from_touching_unsafe_control
  tone: sharp
referents:
  - id: player
    kind: person
  - id: control
    kind: artifact
    label: damaged ship control
predications:
  - id: touch-risk
    predicate: endanger
    roles:
      agent: player
      instrument: control
      patient: player
constraints:
  preserve_referents:
    - player
    - control
  deterministic: true
extensions:
  aetheria.nibu_pressure:
    leverage: life_support
    relationship: unwanted_dependency
    style: precise_abrasive_warning

The expected output is not a quote yet. The first deliverable is a lowering packet that can explain why the eventual line is Nibu rather than generic snark.