The eleven-minute field clip kept circulating. So did the junction power maps. In four districts the same night, small groups of civilians and lower-Vector personnel set up scavenged sensor arrays and tried to push the method further.
They used residual pressure readings pulled from open assessment data, whatever local power taps they could reach, and the crude steps visible in the original footage.
Two of the groups held unstable fields past the twenty-minute mark. Local damping registered on the same public feeds that had carried the first junction results.
Residual pressure in those blocks dropped enough to be measured. People standing nearby felt the difference in their own bodies—the background pressure eased, the numbness thinned.
