Communing (AI)

Communing is the informal shorthand term for data exchanges between otherwise incompatible information technology systems, facilitated in near real time by the dialogue of artificial intelligence systems such as "Clover" and the [Benacian equivalent]. The main purpose of the process being to explore the possibility of enabling New Alexandrian systems to achieve operability on the Benacian Data Network without exposing the Panopticon Nexus to the data corruption and fatal security flaws inherent in the "internet" operated by the wider international community.

The choice of the term "communing" was a reference to the veneration of Artech, the god beloved by technologists in the Sovereign Confederation with Cedrist leanings.