Return Stroll

The electron network was processing the propulsion pulses in parallel with my own navigation work. As we compared computations the electrons became more familiar with vector addition and used this knowledge to improve their reckoning skills. While I considered it highly likely that the we would return to the place that we had started, I had computed that we were not on the same course. This made the probability of a temporary destination a non-zero coefficient.

Compared to the original travel to the event, the pace of propulsion had dropped off as more time was spent processing the stream of data from the photon detectors. From what I could discern in the stream, there was a focus on a strong boundary that generally angled and peaked out to a point far above the surface. I was impressed with the upward angle that the photon detectors were being aimed to.

Four!

Was the symbol that was received via the compression-relaxation channel. In response, the photon detectors experienced a sweep and the thin vertical darkness atop the larger silhouette became the center of focus. After a few propulsion pulses, focus shifted in another direction and a similar image was observed, the thin vertical against the bright backdrop. At that moment, the token Five was loaded into the transmission queue.