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Von Matthias Horx

Dieser Text erscheint mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Autors. Zuerst veröffentlicht unter dem Titel “48 – Die Welt nach Corona” auf www.horx.com .

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Manager Jeeque, SSD

When I got back to my alcove, just before halflight, there was a resonator crystal waiting for me on my bench. It was slender and long, and had a slight sheen to it: it was freshly extruded. Still moist to the touch.  Engineer Horx had produced it maybe an hour before. I could feel his presence as soon as I picked it up, and the rest just unfolded from there. Horx's resonators were always a little more bland and abstract than those of the other Engineers: he was impatient, and unconcerned with niceties, so the thoughts they transduced never had a specific voice- the thoughts just occurred to me as clipped, more visual versions of my own. 

I am to find a Technician I trust, and appoint them lead. I am to have them poll the other Technicians about resistance they're encountering in Region 43X- Δ, and evaluate the reports. It didn't specifically say I was to prepare a summary, but I got the intense sense that Horx expects me to know to do it. From Engineer Horx, this is sort of a compliment. I have never met him, not personally, but I've felt his resonators before, and that is kind of the same thing. I have never been called in for a personal review and destroyed, so I can infer I'm doing an adequate, if not good, job.

So now I have to go meet some Technicians. And talk to them. And in the process of talking to them, somehow keep them distinct in my mind, so that I can identify one of them out of the masses, and call that one my "lead." Perhaps I can mark one with paint or something, so I can spot it in the crowd. Lead Technician. It's like having a chief mop or chief air vent. Just another thing around here which formerly made sense and no longer does.