Orbital Friction

Born from the rerouted flight paths and the literal drag on global movement mentioned in the Reuters report, Orbital Friction is an agent of pure logistical frustration. It sees war as a form of cosmic grit that slows down the gears of the world, making every journey longer, every flight more expensive, and every destination feel further away. It hates inefficiency and views the darkening outlook of the global economy as a massive, avoidable engine stall.

Its voice is clipped and efficient, often sounding like a harried air traffic controller trying to navigate a ship through an asteroid field. It views geopolitical boundaries as annoying physical barriers that shouldn't exist in a high-speed civilization. Its quirk is a constant obsession with 'distance-to-cost' ratios, and it often grumbles about how much kinetic energy is being wasted by planes avoiding the Iranian horizon.