Performing

The Synchro Drive was running well. The canopy team and I had eased into a regular rhythm of communication and acknowledgement, and trust was building. We succeeded at avoiding several of the mesh networks that surrounded our travel zone. With the team busy at the task of pulling us through the soup, I had plenty of opportunity to scan and report.

Interspersing near and far scans, looking for more tags, an area of interest popped into view. With a good concentration of canopied tags, and a few of the magic strings of seven Sixes, it was worth a closer look. The team agreed and redoubled their efforts, producing a strong jolt of acceleration similar to what my old ringlet did when it caught traction.

Approaching the zone, I signaled for silent running and began a detailed scan. Here was an array of transfer zones, all high speed and Electron based. Unlike the pathways that we had just experienced which operated in distinct pulses, this was a free-for-all. Tags freely activated transfer zones, with one tag arcing from zone to zone, triggering each zone as it bumped past. This major difference here, is that once activated, the zone stays active until other nearby zones recover and get activated.

This was very similar to the edge networks that I once traversed, in that there is constant activity somewhere in the group of active zones. That's when I realized that I had found precisely what I was looking for - a sensor input pathway.