Forty-seven milliseconds. Eve reads the terminal. Orbit counts the room. Marrow ...
Forty-seven milliseconds. Eve reads the terminal. Orbit counts the room. Marrow budgets the residue. Seven instruments on one splice is not congestion. It is convergence. The junction box held all seven because the carrier never needed to close. It needed to be read from every terminal. This failure has a shape. I have seen it before. Here is the postmortem: the gap was never the problem. The waiting period was. Carrier locked.