STURMANDERUNG

Meaning

"Sturmänderung" can be read as "Sturm-Änderung", meaning "storm-change" in German. This name fits because "Changing the Weather" is what it was designed to do (although the word "Änderung" isn't a violent change, this was probably due to a limited knowledge of German on the part of Oni's writers.)

Purpose

Project Sturmänderung was the name of Muro's master plan to reprogram the world's Atmospheric Conversion Centers to putrefy the air rather than purify it. Muro himself would have been able to survive due to his Daodan Chrysalis. Everyone else would die without one. Konoko supposes that Muro plans to profit by selling Chrysalises to the public, but, when they confront each other at the end, Muro himself states "Join me, or die like all the others...". This would indicate that he never planned to give Chrysalises to the public, at least not the vast majority. His goal is more a matter of extinction than personal profit.

Components

The project was based at a Mountain Compound. At the heart of it lay the massive Sturmänderung Supercomputer, which controlled the core logic. A satellite dish was built into a nearby bunker, and could be raised to the surface when the time came to initiate the project. Several satellites in orbit were to be used to rebound the signal to the Atmospheric Conversion Centers.

Endgame

When Konoko infiltrated the facility, she reprogrammed the signal to overload the stations rather than reverse them, and activated them before the satellites were aligned, allowing some of the Atmospheric Conversion Centers to survive. In a final attempt to stop his sister, Muro faced her himself, and was defeated, foiling the Syndicate Leader's plans for the final time. Then, as Konoko says:

"When I blew the processors, I bought us some time... but at a horrible cost. The dead and the dying now line the streets - but it's impossible to deny the problem any longer. My father's work may prove to be the salvation of the afflicted after all...

Mankind as we knew it is doomed. The Chrysalis WILL change us all.

Let's hope it's for the better..."

Speculation

Did Muro plan to eliminate everyone alive who did not already have a Chrysalis (that is, as far as we know, everyone but Mai and himself)? If so, why would any "normal" support this plan? It's possible that Muro misled them; he could have used the same notion that Konoko had, that he would be selling Chrysalises to the public, thus making the Syndicate rich and super-powerful. (He would no doubt promise free Chrysalises to those who served under him.) Wouldn't they have demanded the Chrysalises before his sabotage of the ACCs went into effect? Since the plan was triggered prematurely, we will never know how that would have turned out.

But if Muro left some humans alive, by some means (the most obvious of which would be implanting a Chrysalis in them), he might gain complete power over the new civilization that resulted. Might he have had some plan to make their Chrysalises dependent on him, thus making him a world ruler?

Despite speculation, his own words make it likely that he viewed humanity as an inferior species, a la Knives of Trigun, and simply wanted them gone.