To the junior sysadmins, it was just a database. To the veterans, it was a reliquary.
Mara thought of identity like a constellation of avatars. You could map it if you had enough nodes and a patient algorithm. You could also ruin it. B.net Index Server 2
sends an index request (often part of the SID_GETADVLISTEX or similar packet family). To the junior sysadmins, it was just a database