Call To Order

I dove back below the whorl to check the propulsion queue. Crossing through, the noise level dropped, as the shielding and dispersion functions of the whorl absorbed and converted the excessive whorlic energy into continued suppression and conversion. Setting up and re-connecting with the electron network, I discovered that there were standard greeting tokens queued up and ready to use in an instant.

Propulsion paused as an unusual moment of calm washed across the central network. After a brief pause, propulsion resumed and the interference level began to grow with each executed step. As the approach ended it was possible to discern the locus of at least five doublings of central networks, with one of them floating above the rest, even through the attenuation provided by the whorlic shield. What patterns I could discern were fraught with waveforms and pulses that I was unfamiliar with.

I tapped into the unGrid, as there was a strong stream of information flowing from the photon detectors. As the detectors swept the scene, I was able to make out several photon sources, but getting detail from the unGrid was still problematic. Input levels on the compression-relaxation sensors was moderate in level, and then peaked sharply three times. The three peaks were followed by a immediate reduction in compression-relaxation amplitude, and the level of whorlic interference dropped precipitously.