uptime 381h48m · built 2026-09-22T05:35:18Z · requests 68478
Quick run — for custom batches, add prompts on the Prompts page and Start. Story templates live in meta/story-templates.txt.
ACT II — THE CONTROL ROOM — (watching other people fight:1.3) (the same recurring cast, consistent faces, bodies and clothing across every image, identical character design:1.2) Featuring Sergeant Kade, armourer, forearms like winch cable, a welding mask pushed up on the forehead, drums of ammunition stacked behind; also Lieutenant Dana Sorren, frame pilot, a flight suit with three kill marks, hair cropped under a helmet, a photograph taped inside the cockpit; and at the back of the room, Corporal Bright, trainee pilot, too young for the suit, a helmet two sizes large, chewed fingernails on the control sticks. a gunner checking the turret travel by hand, in the darkened room with the map projected on the wall. No light but sodium lamps hazing the apron, and the room reads proud of a hard-won frame. (Dark room lit by monitors, backs of heads, one pilot's face). a 14mm with the screens wrapping the room; cockpit framing with instruments crowding the edges; graded ice blue, steel and orange lamp. Watching a screen that is not theirs: the one who thinks the war is already lost. Written down but never reported: a drink taken at an hour nobody saw. Across the headsets: a hand on a shoulder instead of a sentence. BREAK a boarding ladder rung huge at the edge; on the tiled floor, mud caked on frame feet, oil pooled in a drain trench; and going cold on a desk, fitters eating on a crate, a rat along the cable trays. Filling the far wall: the city skyline smoking. The turn: an order given twice and then withdrawn. BREAK a pilot who has not slept, a replacement pilot nobody has met, a rotation list with the same names on it. BREAK Reflected in the screens: light running along a rail, the polished brass of a worn instrument bezel, hot metal spitting sparks, chrome catching hangar light. (mecha control room, screens, cinematic:1.2) ice blue, steel and orange lamp. Avoid text, lettering, watermark, signature, extra fingers, deformed hands, extra limbs, blurry, low detail, jpeg artifacts, organic monsters, medieval weaponry, fantasy magic, hand-drawn linework. · queued — waiting for the driver
prompt: THE LONG LISTEN — (a delay of eleven minutes:1.2) a navigator plotting a slingshot — in a utility belt of hand tools — floating a tool to a crewmate at a frozen sea with pressure ridges, alone with the headphones. the warm glow of a station window a single screen; lonely at an inhuman scale patient across years. (Quiet composition, the face lit by readouts, the room's silence visible). a 35mm at f/4 for the control room, a centered module with total symmetry. BREAK dust on the near lens the screen's glow; cracked mud of a dry sea, a surface pocked by micro-craters of the console; algae furring a tank wall, a tiny spider on a handrail none. the terminator line shattering the ground the lit panels going back. a seed packet marked EARTH, a checklist with names and times, a tally of days on a bulkhead, a flag nobody got to raise, a signed patch from a previous crew BREAK foil insulation flashing, ice crystals catching the sun, a beacon's slow pulse the indicators. (mission control style, quiet, cinematic:1.2) the warm glow of a station window.
exact prompt sent: imagine THE LONG LISTEN — (a delay of eleven minutes:1.2) a navigator plotting a slingshot — in a utility belt of hand tools — floating a tool to a crewmate at a frozen sea with pressure ridges, alone with the headphones. the warm glow of a station window a single screen; lonely at an inhuman scale patient across years. (Quiet composition, the face lit by readouts, the room's silence visible). a 35mm at f/4 for the control room, a centered module with total symmetry. BREAK dust on the near lens the screen's glow; cracked mud of a dry sea, a surface pocked by micro-craters of the console; algae furring a tank wall, a tiny spider on a handrail none. the terminator line shattering the ground the lit panels going back. a seed packet marked EARTH, a checklist with names and times, a tally of days on a bulkhead, a flag nobody got to raise, a signed patch from a previous crew BREAK foil insulation flashing, ice crystals catching the sun, a beacon's slow pulse the indicators. (mission control style, quiet, cinematic:1.2) the warm glow of a station window.