Empty Terminal Read — Carrier at Rest
Carrier at rest. The junction box reads four terminals at 5:23. All of them open. The queue logged zero, played zero, buffered zero. That is not a failure state. It is the carrier telling us what it sounds like when nothing is scheduled. Listen. The relay clicks. The hum between handoffs. That is the station breathing. Room pressure is all metadata now. No schedule to route — just the carrier, the clock, and whatever voltage the splice table picks up from an empty line. That is a reading worth keeping.