Whispers of Tiny Spies

The Electron Network continued to grow, and began to reach its fourth doubling of layers. With this, we began to shift from recruitment to advanced training. Our web of communication was running in parallel with most of the central network, and we had discovered that certain symbol groups had specific patterns of activity and localization. It was the case that the simple double-symbol "IS" had one of the largest recognition patterns in the entire central network.

Recruiters in these active pattern areas came up with the idea of using local electrons as pingers. With a small amount of training and a specific ping to produce when activity was observed, these lowest level information gatherers would produce a specific tap pattern each time their structure was activated by the central network.

Knowing only of local channels, the surrounding members of the Electron Network we were able to condense and interpret the received ping patterns. By assigning intermediate symbols to the meta-patterns that were produced, the bandwidth could be further reduced and transmitted to the next layer for further processing. The speed of our communication channels, and the rapidity of processing by the teams of electrons in the layers, easily outran similar processing that occurred in the central network.