Transmit Nodes are grid anchors. They do not close RIFT-01. They force the surrounding lattice to agree on one local arrangement long enough for Liminal to establish an exit. Every calibrated Node narrows the breach locally while increasing stress elsewhere in Sector 7.
Nodes are commonly sealed behind Stable Reality bulkheads and must be reached through the ASCII Void. Full calibration releases the associated door.
Contested Nodes
During the armed response an operative calibrates a Node by standing in its ring. At half calibration the Node calls a guardian and stops, CONTESTED, until the guardian is put down. When a Node completes, its hall's rifts shut, and the banner reads: THE COORDINATES HERE AGREE. ELSEWHERE THEY AGREE LESS.
The lattice there agrees long enough to recover what it held, and a calibrated Node hands each operative in its ring Data Cores.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, sections 2 and 5
- Critical Response field manual, OBJECTIVE