Location:Seven Peaks — Training Yard, Assessment Station, Formation Hall
Date/Time:TC1854.08.16 (Evening) – TC1854.08.17 (Dusk)
The numbers told a story, and Coop had spent thirteen months learning to read stories in numbers.
He sat in the Formation Hall's secondary chamber — his chamber, the one Raven had assigned him when the Cognitect path was still a secret shared by two people — and let the data settle through his lattice the way sediment settles in water. Not forcing it. Not categorizing yet. Just letting the patterns emerge.
Forty soldiers assessed. Eleven with immediate resonance. Twenty-two with latent potential. Seven dormant. The numbers themselves were interesting. The pattern beneath the numbers was extraordinary.
