Obviously the first step in the contingency plan is just to check that you're still here and not in a barge coma or transformed into a penguin or somehow otherwise prevented from sending the normal signal by unrelated means - oh, and I should build in a subroutine for other people to alert if I'm incapacitated, Eiffel obviously, and I recommend Hakkai, but you can re-prioritize a list of names any time.

Do you want to use the communicators, or not? Communicators are a little more traceable but less vulnerable - they can be stolen, but not hacked. Thoughts?

[He's already starting to jot down the rough logic outlines of the code for his grid.]