Gravity is the most persistent force in the systems. Eventually, everything falls to the lowest possible level, and this applies to information. Eventually, information falls to the level of the Quintex and there it is stored, massaged, managed, and critically, safely stored by lifeforms that have a living mission to do so. Bixel Loadstone existed to store information, and Arran Sindar had made a deal that they would be his archive, his memory, so that if he was compromised, he could wipe himself and recover.
The transport stopped at the gates of a decommissioned refuse treatment plant, and Tobel and I got out and walked through the gates which were open enough for a single lifeform get through at a time. We crossed a very clean yard, no litter, no graffiti, no huddle of unofficial living
