The floors above 200 ran without interference for the first time in the Tower's operational history.
He felt the difference in the architecture the moment floor 201 loaded. The floors below the Compact's ceiling had been built by the Tower's founding intelligence and then overlaid with the Compact's modifications — insertions placed, secondary mechanisms seeded, the cultivation system running against the resistance of a political structure that had been treating it as a resource management problem for decades. The floors above 200 had the same overlay history but the modifications were gone now, withdrawn before he reached 200 per the arrangement, and what the Tower's design looked like without the interference was something he was experiencing for the first time in either life.
Clean architecture. The founding intelligence's actual design running at full expression.
