Acoustic distribution network
Every wolf is a distribution channel.
Range is the photo network for pack animals. Post a kill, mark the range it came from, and let the howl relay carry it across nine adjacent territories before the ravens file their version.
Relayed tonight
1,204 km
Across 61 participating ranges.
In flight now
38
Posts mid-chain, awaiting a repeat.
Median latency
4 nights
Six in weather. We publish this figure.
Under verification
217
Perimeters pending an unaffiliated sniff.
What the network does
Three systems, none of them optional.
Range does not run experiments on the ranking model. The ranking model is the pack, and the pack was here first.
Howl Relay
Posts propagate by acoustic handoff. One howl moves your photograph roughly 11 km, then holds until a neighboring pack repeats it. Median delivery is four nights. Weather adds two. We have modeled this extensively and consider it acceptable.
Hierarchy Feed
The feed is ranked by rank. Breeding pairs surface first in every territory they border, permanently. Mid-pack wolves may purchase placement by the night. Omegas are shown their own posts, which our retention data suggests is sufficient.
Scent-Verified Posting
Every upload is authenticated against a marked perimeter before it enters the relay. If the scent does not match the geotag, the post is held for review by an unaffiliated pack with no standing in the dispute. Appeals resolve within one season.
From the ranges
Wolves on the network.
“I posted an elk femur at moonrise. By the third night it had reached the Sawtooth pack. By the fifth it had reached a pack I have never met and would kill on sight. That is reach.”
Grey Marla
BREEDING FEMALE · LOWER BITTERROOT
BREEDING FEMALE · LOWER BITTERROOT
“The hierarchy feed showed me my own posts for eleven months. I assumed the network was small. I have since been told there are four thousand wolves on it.”
Tuck
OMEGA · NINE MILE (TRANSFER PENDING)
OMEGA · NINE MILE (TRANSFER PENDING)
“Our relay contract stipulates six wolves howling in sequence at 0340. Two of them are not committed to the work and you can see it in the kilometer numbers.”
Anders Rulle
HEAD OF ACOUSTIC DISTRIBUTION
HEAD OF ACOUSTIC DISTRIBUTION
Network tiers
Placement is purchasable. Rank is not.
Tiers govern how far a post travels and how many markers you may hold. They do not govern where you sit in the pack, and we would ask you to stop writing in about it.
Omega
$0
Post freely. Nothing leaves the den.
- Unlimited uploads, unrelayed
- A feed consisting entirely of your own posts, in order
- One howl per lunar cycle, unamplified
- Scent verification on a single marker, renewed annually
Territorial
$44 / mo
For wolves with a perimeter to defend.
- Scent verification on nine boundary markers
- Relay priority through two adjacent packs
- Rival-sighting alerts, delivered nightly at 0340
- Denning-season archive with automatic litter tagging
Apex
$2,400 / qtr
Ranked first everywhere, structurally.
- Permanent top-of-feed placement across your range and every range bordering it
- A retained relay chorus of six wolves under contract
- Right of first refusal on any post tagged inside your territory
- Quarterly dominance audit by a biologist with no pack affiliation
The console is live. The relay is slower.
Open the feed the way a wolf sees it: ranked by rank, verified by scent, and four nights behind.
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