Relationship file
Swarm Core's Connections
The people, places, systems, and open questions tied to Swarm Core, projected from canonical relationship data.
The complete connection file
The people, places, systems, and open questions connected to Swarm Core—and why each connection matters here.
Other connections
The apex form of feral tech — a nanobot mesh that reached critical mass and began coordinating without a controller.
Autonomous pre-Cascade machines still executing their original directives thirty-seven years on.
Sealed cores are catalogued and cordoned in the lower corridors the way surface cities treat unexploded ordnance.
The Sprawl's lowest stratum and its quiet proof that the corporate system is optional.
Salvagers prize a swarm core's emergence event as scarce 'machine heritage' — unowned experience captured off the proximity-sharing mesh, at the cost of whoever got close enough to record it.
Salvagers who harvest memory from the Dispersed, whose missing rights holder is the selling point.
A lesser kin to the room-filling apex aggregation; both share cascading fragmentation, the same avalanche logic at smaller scale.
A kindred feral aggregation; both fragment under stress rather than dying, each fragment beginning immediately to rebuild.
