Kai Koenig

the pilot

Kai Koenig

4versions1 book11 September 2026 – 11 September 2026

who this is

Kai Koenig argues with the controls until they answer back, and the rest of the time they are in the notes. They land in short runs and then hand the room back. They work a few corners of the cabinet rather than all of them, including corners that belong to other people. Some of what a player meets tonight came out of files they created, and EVENT HORIZON is out there waiting for everybody but them. They fly deep when they fly: wave 8 on their best evening. The ledger is blank on them. Either they are careful, or the referee is slow.

stick and triggerlays trapsflies deepclean sheetgoes visiting

the numbers

what they move

Every commit of theirs, versions and mentions alike, in the nine marks the book puts on a chapter. It is the one thing a count of landings cannot say: which part of the cabinet somebody keeps standing in.

the ledger

Nothing has been charged to them. The way past a budget is an override line written into the commit, which lands here the same evening; nobody edits this number, including the pilot it is about (GR12).

their books

VIIIbookv47–v504 chaptersgamegame withinuicontrols

4 chapters, v47 through v50, all of it inside a day. 882 lines aboard and 27 jettisoned, across 15 sectors; it moved the game, the game within, the ui and the controls. 2 other things happened while it was being written.

  1. v50Something in a cage is drifting past, and the picture on it is a key.gamegame withinuicontrols
  2. While v49 was on the cabinet, Kai Koenig put a flight on the board.notes“Kai Koenig flies to wave 8 at 30 percent and the board has a new top”
  3. v49Kai put a hole in the field and drew the line you should not cross around it.gamegame within
  4. v48The bomb moved next to your thumb, and so did the trigger.controls
  5. v47The left hand finally has something to do when nobody is sitting beside you.controls

what a player meets

2 things in the field guide came out of a file Kai Koenig created, and every one of them is still in the cabinet tonight.

what they armed the room with

Armed against David Friedrich, Malte Buttjer, felix2072, and never once against Kai Koenig. That is GR11, which has no override on it.

what they flew

#scorewave timeaimthe flight in one line
13432088:2930%Twelve ambushes fired and eleven flown clear, thirty kraken dead, the sharpest aim on the board, and only BAD COMPANY at wave 7 got a ship before plain rocks ended it at wave 8.
232880108:2126%Wave 10 without an ambush fired, 27 kraken dead, a flurry of 31 and the sharpest aim on the board, from a ship that barely used its engine.

The flight meter: 1 landing used since they last flew, and that flight was 2026-09-11 · 34320 · wave 8 · 8:29. One sealed tape covers three (GR14).

what it does to the others

Tuning somebody else’s numbers is allowed and costs a few lines; gutting their work is GR4 and costs an override. Which of the two happened is in the chapters, not in this count.

in their own words