Chapter 166

RUVAN The anomalous data patterns started appearing in week seven of the pilot programs. I discovered them during my routine analysis of productivity metrics across all six regions, but what I found challenged every assumption we had made about enhanced-conventional collaboration. "This can't be correct," I muttered, running the calculations for the third time. The holographic display in my private analysis chamber showed productivity curves that violated our theoretical models in ways that suggested either systematic measurement error or something fundamentally unexpected about human collaborative dynamics. I opened a secure channel to both Kaelos and Seraphina. "I need you to review something immediately. The pilot data is showing patterns that don't match any of our projections." Seraphina's response came first: "Positive unexpected or negative unexpected?" "I'm not sure," I replied honestly. "Possibly both." Twenty minutes later, we were gathered in the secure briefing room, the wa