Making the "Un" Necessary

Not all of the members of the unnecessary cloud of frequency encoders were up to the task of educating other pinger groups with the frequency encoding technique. The actual fact was that I had challenged them outside of their expected capabilities. For some members of the unnecessary group it meant a chance to rise through the ranks and into the strata of the network. For others, it meant a command of their own.

Of the more than seven doublings of electrons that had populated the frequency encoding cloud, six of those doublings were rapidly absorbed by the upper layer, and transported laterally across this branch of the electron network. Trading out existing mesh-trons for those with new knowledge created an interesting by low level hiss of pops as the cloud dissipated locally. As they hopped into the upper layer to the next most distant branches, the pops subsided and blended into the background.

I took the other six doublings, five from above and five from below the cut. It was the lower five that needed the most work, while the upper five doublings were an unusually spunky bunch. I tagged the lower five doublings with pinger duty, advanced class, frequency capable. These new additions were passed to the electron network for deployment and the upper five doublings got a new job: local replacement in the alpha layer shorty pool. They needed another kind of work entirely.