The sky war skiffs were moving with terrifying speed, their star-brass hulls cutting through the gray sky like golden daggers.
Standing at the edge of the deep gap, Lin Tao ignored the approaching vessels. Distraction was the mother of fatal failure. He closed his right eye, focusing entirely on the green tracking data feed streaming across the eye of his augmented left eye.
The world clock was pulsing.
Every forty-one point six a split second, the Sovereign Engine carried out one discrete frame of reality.
Within that forty-one split second cycle, the engine didn’t process all physical laws at the same time. It operated in a pipelined set, divided into distinct execution passes.
First, the spatial index pass updated the macro-map points of all active entities on the land-wide grid. This took about a split second.
Then came the pipeline latency. A critical, a split second gap where the map point registers were locked in shift before the physics engine began its crash proof pass.
During that a split second window, the world engine knew where an entity was. But had not yet calculated whether that entity was allowed to occupy that space.
