25: Piran
Piran
The bridge—the connection—was the key. Not that one existed, but the nature of it.
Piran felt this to be true, even though it further muddled the binary logic of code.
Things started easy—on/off, black/white, right/wrong. But build complexity, and things turned grey. A routine throws out a response. Feed that into another routine, get a second response. Repeat exponentially. Even if each routine makes a binary decision, the outcome grows increasingly varied.
Nothing was definite. It all depended on those internal algos, on the multitude of decisions.
Which was why, Piran reckoned, the agent’s lattice had forced his vessel out. Wasn’t an attack, just the lattice sensing something was up—a rogue variable coming back with an unexpected value. Because the agent di
