re-posting from a few breads ago

Marker Theory

Imagine you're a puppet master and you'd like to make 1 of your puppets dance the hokey pokey during the SOTU. Now if you have 1000's of these puppets under your command, the odds are you'll be employing layers of middlemen handler-puppets. You wouldn't call the puppet directly. Instead you'll call a specific handler, and that puppet will pull the right strings, and your order will go down the chain until the last puppet gets the msg. It's just the way pyramids are layered.

So here's the thing, you can't make your puppet dance, if your key handlers are comp'd or taken out. Your power depends on your communication network. And it's not so much the tech side of comm, but the handler to puppet links/connections through which a puppet relies on instructions. Once you cut these strings, the puppet might still be loyal, but will find themselves in tactical disarray.

This control system sure looks similar to the telecommunication Markers (pic related).

pic sauce https:// en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marker_(telecommunications)

Back in the day these telecom-markers were used to connect calls via a direct circuit.

I believe the telecom-markers might be the analogy for Q's markers.

What if each confirmed marker represents that a particular handler & redundant subs have been neutralized, and thus all the down-line puppets' strings are cut?

And likewise what if a mention of a marker without confirmation might be related to the bad actor/s who are still able to pass on info, but are the subject of drops/ops?