Icing on the cake- setting the stage. First page of a two-page splash. The cover of the chapter was originally designed to mirror this page, which would have made for a nice flowthrough in hardcopy. I'm not a hundred percent satisfied with introduction, however, and may well change the aesthetics around some more in the future.

I'm paying much more attention to layout than I have previously, and I assure you that this page is completely carried by the next.

I'm also working for a bit of aesthetic consistency with later chapters- you'll notice that the first three pages of Signal look a lot like the gooier bits of suction.

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In terms of hardcopy, this page is currently the "inside cover" of Chapter Zero. This isn't Quite Right in terms of overall presentation, but at the moment it's Close Enough- something will get slipped in before it during The Edit, no doubt.

Edit, 20070720 : Made it more betterer. See next page for details.