The northern schematic was more complex than the western in every way that complexity could be measured.
The western segment had been the original architects' primary node — the broadest channel coverage, the deepest arterial connections, the architectural foundation that all subsequent segments were designed to build from. The western was where the dampening system had been rooted, the load-bearing center of a design that had been intended to eventually cover the entire city.
The northern segment was a refinement of that foundation. Narrower in its channel geometry, more precise in its targeting, designed to work in concert with the western configuration rather than independently of it. The original architects had built the segments to function as a unified system — each one reinforcing the others, the full city schematic producing a dampening effect that was significantly greater than the sum of its individual parts.
