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=== The 2101 Tether Severance Incident ===
On 3 February 2101 CE, a micrometeorite strike on the lower tether's forty-seventh splice junction initiated a progressive delamination failure across eleven metres of cable. [[Chief Technician Pavlína Horáčková]], on duty at the LEO staging node, overrode the automated abort sequence and directed a manual splice team to the affected section via maintenance crawlers. Her intervention over approximately fourteen hours of continuous operations contained the failure and prevented an uncontrolled lower-tether drop. Post-incident analysis confirmed that released cable segments, had they fallen, would have generated significant atmospheric debris over populated equatorial regions. Horáčková's repair protocols were subsequently codified as mandatory procedure across all Commission tether installations.