The baseline operational grid has formally expanded to encompass Pickens County, South Carolina (FIPS 45077), integrating Clemson University, Central, Liberty, Easley, and Table Rock. The combined Foothills Theater now commands 4,882 active Res-8 sectors with seamless multi-path connectivity across the US-123 corridor.
The initial play grid was established with authoritative +500m peripheral boundary overlap (2,835 Res-8 sectors). Further outer expansions into Greenville, Anderson, or Georgia must be proposed as 48-hour community voting epochs on VOTE THE MAP.
Territory expansion proposals now enforce triangular conical infill. Proposals flaring out from active green frontiers to red target nodes add multi-path yellow bridge sectors to prevent fragile 1-hex daisy chains and ensure resilient sub-GHz mesh topology.
Field tests confirm 915 MHz handheld nodes (0.5W) achieve 1.2 to 2.4 km line-of-sight in Foothills terrain (matching Uber H3 Res-8 cell resolution ~0.92 km diameter). High-elevation repeaters on ridge points provide wide-area gateway quorum verification.