I've written before about SMESH, a coordination protocol modelled on mycorrhizal networks — the fungal web that lets trees in a forest warn each other about drought and disease with nothing in charge of the network. Signals diffuse, decay on their own, and get reinforced when independently confirmed. Consensus emerges instead of being orchestrated. That was the idea. This post is about the part where I found out whether it worked. The transport that had never run SMESH has had...