Asynchronous Response

Random time was completely discombobulated. The bubble remained, and stayed intact, wandering through the resolution zone. As the bubble moved, occasional random resolution items would brush the bubble, again, looking for a match, and the bubble denied what should have triggered a response. Instead, the entire central network flashed to life as a it was activated by a waveform on the compression-relaxation inputs.

The initial amplitude of the incoming waveform was rather high compared to the background. about 10 doublings of amplitude. Very quickly, the amplitude diminished, but the frequency remained nearly constant. A scan of the photon detectors revealed full activity, even with the very low amplitude signal. The high frequency waveform was completely missing, and the network was a bit sluggish in it's responses.

In a short time, commands were issued down the superhighway, moving though a set of standard motions, but rather quickly. Looking at the minor forces that pushed on my orbit, I could tell that we were in motion, as the deflection on my orbit was pulsing with the cadence of the pulses pumping down the superhighway. All of this activity was normal, during times when the high frequency waveform is present on the photon detectors. Still, there was nary a pulse.