We pick up here at a point in times as Cassandra and Co (a few friends and students) had spent many months (if you added there undergrad years then it was in-fact years) researching kicking around and developing the hardware and software needed to move to the next stage, not to mention the funding needed to put together such a project. A collaborative project (originally) between several institutions, researching communications via a new type of laser light. There were (as most projects have) multiple objectives. One of which was the transmission of digital data in precise bundles or packets and holding the packets in a kind suspended animation. Trapping information, if you like, in a beam of light for a given amount of time depending on light beam duration.
Someone in the team explained it as like dust floating in sun rays coming thorough curtains, not actually moving and sparkling as it can but frozen. It was all very technical, nevertheless they thought they understood it and to some extent they did. One of the theories or concepts (actually put forward by Cassandra) known to team and friends alike as Cassie, was pushing large amounts of data into or through outer space to enable massive amounts of data, between such things as the international space station and earth, to name but one. They had been doing the latest tests on the lab bench and these test had proven the principles and viability of data transmitting via this type and frequency of light. Most critics outside the project thought this was lame as it was already understood and further development of no value. But they were unaware of what it was which made this project just that bit different and how this difference would open new communication doorways never before theorises never mind attempted. One problem thought, some of these other doorways had not been put before the official board for approval or funding. These other doors would probably be illegal and the use of them would definitely be so.
It was 2017 (N.C.E 05) and the web as they had known it was all but gone, as more and more components of web 2.0, 3.0 and buy then 4.0 was well in motion. A few of the team saw this as just another academic project but Cassandra and a friend or two had other plans.
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