Echelon 3 was the initial US MilNet
Then the nets were screened and merged through the Aquinas Protocol
This linking was the Daedalus net/hub, echelons four and five.
Then came Icarus, echelon six.
This was full access, self determining yet conscripted central AI for Page and Simons to screen all local nets, cams, scanners, bots and even JC's eyes themselves as Echelon Six defied all private barriers.
Then Helios was Echelon Seven. A merger of purer logic from each design. This was self-determining, cognizant, sentient. This was the supreme enlightened, a hive mind vied for by Page, but bestowed to JC.
Thus he became the despotic incarnation of illumination to all the world.