Targeting the Take

The photon levels were approaching normal balance across the detectable range. Propulsion commands to the superhighway had settled down, and a calm began to sweep across the central network. Feedback from the long branch points was checked, and the loop was closing. With a structured wiggle of the termini, I recognized the now familiar command pattern that kept a scribing wand in position for transcription.

I activated the unGrid and notified the electron network to put all efforts into identifying any and all tokens that were in the process of transcription. If the long branch points were being finely controlled, fed from the sequenced tokens, then I needed to know the tokens as quickly as possible. Lucky for me, we were able to spot the telltale squiggle of control patterns that occurred before a sequence of tokens.

Often during the regular squiggle, tokens in the queue would sometime re-arrange themselves before being forwarded to the transcription sequencer. It was even that case that some tokens switched during the transcription process, owing to the fact that the initial transcription sequence was identical between the two tokens, the difference occurring in the later portion. Such late changes often caused the unGrid to re-send the update. I was hoping that the re-sends would be minimal this time.