Expansion Planning

After some serious use, and trial through several cycles of the network, our communication techniques became tighter, faster, more accurate and had much increased range. Using frequency slides to encode information proved to insulate the channel from the random noise that characterized the operational state of the central network. Information and details were passed back from node to node with minimal distortion.

Using our navigation and control channels, the three pairs and I began to identify and recruit additional members for our electron network. The loudest of the noisemakers in both amplitude and frequency were sought out as we roamed about the network continuing to explore the patterns and signals that continued to defy explanation. Our numbers grew slowly at first, but eventually, I knew that I would run out of symbols for the pairs.

The organization of the new recruits was a challenge, but it was fairly simple. Each new layer of the network would have one to two doublings of membership compared to the layer above. This would allow for a network size of twenty-seven to fifty-four doublings of members while the layers of communication grew linearly, each spreading out and expanding the reach of the electron network. With that in place, the three key pairs were now in the critical "A" layer.