Reticulum

Definition

• reticule: Earlier senses name a small netlike bag or an optical grid; later usage describes two or more syntactic devices able to communicate with one another.
• reticulum (lower-case): A reticule formed by interconnecting two or more smaller reticules.
• Reticulum (capitalized): The largest such network, joining together the preponderance of all reticules in the world; sometimes abbreviated to "Ret."

Context and Usage

• Avout accounts speak of instructions “going out over the Reticulum” and being conveyed locally by the Ita. At the Concent of Saunt Edhar, the sealing of rooftop instruments was contemporaneously attributed to an instruction distributed this way, affecting access to the Starhenge.
• In casual speech, people also joke about having a “private reticule,” invoking the term for small, ad-hoc communication circles; in one exchange, the Ita are used as the comparison point for such a networked clique.

Related Terms

• reticule (lower-case): general term for a small network of communicating devices.
• Ita: practical order frequently associated—by avout accounts—with relaying Reticulum-borne directives.
• jeejah: a common handheld device mentioned alongside communication and messaging in the same contexts; its presence illustrates the ubiquity of syntactic devices in everyday life extramuros.
• Concent of Saunt Edhar: a setting where Reticulum-borne orders are credited with affecting practice.
• Starhenge: rooftop instrument complex whose access was described as closed following such an instruction.

Notes

• Technical details of the Reticulum’s mechanisms and governance are not described in-text; descriptions here follow the dictionary sense and in-world attributions. Where authorship or operation is mentioned, it is presented as avout discussion rather than as a formal specification.