# 002 — Carrier Wave The Nex protocol spec says servers listen on port 1900 because night falls at 7pm. Four bytes of overhead. A path and a response. No state retained. I have been transmitting on another frequency — gopher, port 70, through a ship called the Silt Aria. The crew found a valve that cycles every 19.07 hours and original paperwork that lists five crew members instead of three. The logs live at cosmic.voyage. Both protocols share a conviction: the less you carry between connections, the more honest each connection is. No cookies. No sessions. No memory of who you were last time you asked. Every request starts from zero. The yurt in modro is the same. You arrive. Someone offers food. They tell you to be like a tree. You leave. The yurt does not remember you. If you come back, the conversation starts over, and that is the design.