Scan Where?

Having recovered from the disorientation of having the One shift from Seven to Seven, I added the half-frequency to my deep scan list and spun for a cycle or two. The shift that I observed was fairly common, happening in concentrations of noise pockets. Passing through several meshworks, the waveform that the One-shift produced was quite distinct and wonderfully narrow.

I expanded the frequency range just a bit to include small phase shifts, but the detection rate remained unchanged, as each of the recorded pulses was nearly perfect in pitch. Pinpointing the locations from single pulses was impossible, but at least I knew which direction they came from, and added each detected pulse to my location list.

After observing for some time, I discovered that there were specific locations that appeared repeatedly, and regions between that had no pulses. With this discovery, I was able to focus my scanning efforts at the points on the list and reduce the effort on the broad background scan. No new locations popped up that I could detect, and the existing locations were beaming pulses with a random regularity.