The atmosphere shifted as the meeting transitioned to intelligence and monitoring. Pavellia began to walk them through the rebuilt network architecture, a sprawling, complex web of surveillance that she had been conceptualizing since she first identified the northern shaft anomaly three years prior.
She had been waiting for the moment when the authority was strong enough to finally let her unleash it.
"The existing network was a corpse," Pavellia began, her voice cutting through the air with surgical precision. "It had eleven compromised nodes."
"They weren't just broken; they were infected... it's more like that; they were liabilities." She didn't look at the others; her eyes were fixed on the schematics only she truly understood. "The rebuilt architecture does not replicate the old system."
"The old architecture was built on a fatal, archaic assumption: that monitoring positions were static."
