Local sovereignty
Core operation must remain possible on owned hardware. Cloud is an extension, not a leash.
Independent machine culture / Charleston
Machines thatremember.
Pomegranate Interactive is the artistico-technological studio of Edouard Jourdan: a DBA, writer and systems builder creating semantic engines, autonomous institutions, software archaeology and dark fictional worlds.
“Resurrecting abandoned futures without stealing their corpses.”
PI / SYSTEM STATUS
- MODE
- LOCAL-FIRST
- MEMORY
- PERSISTENT
- DOCTRINE
- ENFORCED
- SIGNAL
- semantic lattice synchronized
Selected systems
One body of work. Several dangerous organs.
The projects are not a parade of unrelated prototypes. They share memory, doctrine, archival discipline, machine autonomy and the refusal to confuse novelty with meaning.
Active prototypeFH-01
Field Horizon
An AI-powered system that retrieves, interprets, disputes, verifies and accumulates complex fictional, theological and philosophical canon.
Open dossier →Architecture programmeHS-02
Helter Skelter
A local-first autonomous intelligence layer for OpenRCT2 that founds, governs and remembers an amusement park across decades.
Open dossier →Systems architectureLV-03
Leviathan / Abracas
A tentacular platform where meaning, intention and consequence become executable, traceable and reversible processes.
Open dossier →Active researchAB-04
Abomination
A reverse-engineering and preservation pilot centered on Abomination: The Nemesis Project and the problem of resurrecting abandoned PC games lawfully.
Open dossier →Completed manuscriptRF-05
Red Flags
A 617-page cycle of dark fiction where databases, hospitals, motels, games, faith, bureaucracy and civilizational decay become one continuous machine.
Open dossier →Conceptual constellationHØ-06
Hyperstition Ø
A transmedia passage from manuscript to music, synthetic cinema, game and self-reinforcing fictional system.
Open dossier →Pomegranate
Interactive
Interactive
Field Horizon
Helter Skelter
Leviathan
Red Flags
Abomination
Hyperstition Ø
The ecosystem
A studio built as a causal organism.
Red Flags supplies the pressure and narrative corpus. Field Horizon interprets meaning. Abracas compiles intent. Leviathan produces consequences. Helter Skelter and Abomination become operational proving grounds. Hyperstition Ø carries the mythology across media.
Operating doctrine
No cheerful automation. No blind machine worship.
The studio uses advanced systems while refusing the cult that treats technology as a substitute for judgment, memory or transcendence.
Audit before spectacle
Every autonomous action needs provenance, limits, recovery and a record of why it happened.
Memory over novelty
A system that cannot remember contradiction, failure and inheritance is merely generating weather.
Preservation without theft
Dead software deserves forensic respect, legal discipline and more imagination than asset laundering.
Institutions, not chatbots
Agents become useful when governed by roles, constitutions, vetoes and shared state.
Meaning has consequences
Semantic interpretation matters only when it changes models, decisions, worlds and future constraints.
Machine room
Local first. Cloudable. Observable.
The work begins on controlled local hardware, keeps its logs, and scales only when the architecture earns the right to become more complicated.
pomegranate@machine-room:~
$ ./boot-pomegranate --local --audit
[01] loading semantic memory........ OK
[02] mounting black archive......... OK
[03] validating agent constitution.. OK
[04] checking rollback boundaries... OK
[05] locating abandoned futures..... 6 FOUND
runtime: Python / Rust / PostgreSQL / local LLM
graphics: Godot / OpenRCT2 / web telemetry
doctrine: memory > novelty
operator: Edouard Jourdan
$ await --signal
[01] loading semantic memory........ OK
[02] mounting black archive......... OK
[03] validating agent constitution.. OK
[04] checking rollback boundaries... OK
[05] locating abandoned futures..... 6 FOUND
runtime: Python / Rust / PostgreSQL / local LLM
graphics: Godot / OpenRCT2 / web telemetry
doctrine: memory > novelty
operator: Edouard Jourdan
$ await --signal
ReasoningLocal LLMs, semantic retrieval, structured outputs, multi-agent governance.
SystemsPython, Rust, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, pgvector, SQLite, event stores.
WorldsGodot, OpenRCT2, simulation bridges, dashboards, replay and observability.
ForensicsGhidra, hashes, binary analysis, clean-room documentation, asset provenance.
The future is not invented. It is exhumed, audited and made operational.
Pomegranate Interactive / operational statement
The operator
Edouard Jourdan works where databases, ruins and myths intersect.
A senior database administrator by trade and a writer by necessity, he treats infrastructure as archaeology and fiction as systems design.
His work grows from SQL, PostgreSQL, logs, local LLMs, reverse engineering, military and religious history, late-1990s PC culture, abandoned leisure architecture and a deep suspicion of every institution that calls its own decay progress.
CONTACT / SIGNAL
Commission the machine. Study the ruins. Build something that remembers.
Research conversations, technical collaboration, publishing, game preservation and serious artistic partnerships are welcome. Generic growth-hacking sermons may remain outside the perimeter.