# Childhood Experimentation — Zero-Gravity Chamber, Skyhaven-X02

> A young Caleb — aged roughly nine or ten — is run through gravity-Evol experiments in a zero-gravity chamber on Skyhaven. He compresses a mechanical clock into a sheet of metal with his bare hands, demonstrating his gravity power. This is the '23rd Neural Control Experiment' referenced in the v3.0 launch trailer; the facility designates him X-02.

- Branch: Anecdote
- In-universe: ~2034 or earlier — Caleb aged ~9–10
- Released: v3.0 Cosmic Encounter (Jan 2025)
- Characters: Caleb
- Locations: Skyhaven
- Page: https://ladsarchive.com/events/caleb-childhood-experimentation/

## Description

Surfaced through Caleb's dissociative amnesia dreams after the Pathless Realm incident. In the dream he is nine or ten years old, in a lab — confirmed by the v3.0 launch trailer copy as 'Skyhaven-X02, Zero-Gravity Chamber, 23rd Neural Control Experiment.' He compresses a mechanical clock into a flat sheet of metal using nothing but his gravity Evol. This is the canonical first demonstration of his power — long before the Aerospace Academy was supposed to have anything to do with it. A second dream fragment shows an unidentified figure taking his hand and promising to share the same sky with him. Whoever was running these experiments had already designated him Ultimate Weapon X-02 and was pairing him with a counterpart (later identified as MC-analogue A-01). The public wiki does not name the organisation responsible, though EVER is the implied upstream interest.

## Related events

- [Pathless Realm (Anecdote) — Protofield Anomaly, 10-Day Stranding](https://ladsarchive.com/events/caleb-pathless-realm/)
- [Decoherence (Myth) — Ultimate Weapon X-02, A-01 Designation](https://ladsarchive.com/events/caleb-decoherence-myth/)