Douglas Hadje — 2325

Director Hadje,

The launch is tomorrow and communications are looking good. A status report will follow, but before I get to that, I would like to open a dialog with you surrounding topics beyond the launch itself. Please ensure that this is both acceptable by the hierarchy of superiors that doubtless read our communications as well as yourself, as they are of a somewhat more personal nature. As my role of launch coordinator slowly dwindles, I have been asked by both my clade and a historian sys-side to collect information through extant lines of communication, a sort of oral history of the events leading up to, surrounding, and immediately after the launch.

Thank you,

May Then My Name Die With Me

--- STATUS REPORT ---

2325-01-20 — systime 199+364 1303

• Micro-Ansible transmission:
  • Outbound functionality: five-by-five (go)
  • Inbound functionality: five-by-five (go)
• Transmission status:
  • Personalities transferred: 2,593,190,433 / 100% (go)
  • Individuals by clade transferred: 1,123,384,222 / 100% (go)
  • Personalities remaining to be transferred: 0 / 0% (go)
  • Individuals by clade remaining to be transferred: 0 / 0% (go)
  • Personalities transferred leaving no immediate forks (pct): 3.8%
  • Individuals by clade transferred leaving no immediate forks (pct): 0.00000018%
  • Social makeup of transfers: 84% dispersionista / 10% tracker / 6% tasker
  • Social makeup of L₅ System: 23% dispersionista / 38% tracker / 39% tasker
  • Transfers irrevocably lost: 8 (go)
• System status:
  • Green:
    • Stability: 100% (go)
    • Clock offset: 0ns (go)
    • Clock skew: 0ns/ns (go)
    • Clock jitter: 0ns/ns/ns (go)
    • Entanglement: 100% (go)
    • Fork reliability: 17 nines (go)
    • Merge reliability: 23 nines (go)
  • Blue:
    • Stability: 100% (go)
    • Clock offset: 0ns (go)
    • Clock skew: 0ns/ns (go)
    • Clock jitter: 0ns/ns/ns (go)
    • Entanglement: 100% (go)
    • Fork reliability: 18 nines (go)
    • Merge reliability: 21 nines (go)
• Disposition: go for launch

Notes: the loss of transfers irrevocably lost is disappointing but cannot be helped. Still, it is far below the loss from the Earth-L₅ Ansible, which, as a matter of course, implies the loss of a clade rather than a personality. One clade was lost irrevocably, but, at the risk of sounding crass, they knew they were signing up for this, and it is always a risk for taskers. That one loss represents 0.005% of the total transfer loss, and is vanishingly small in the grand scheme of things. Congratulations, as always, for another step closer to launch.