Actually, the history is more interesting - it was intended to prototype command-and-control communications between ships in a fleet. If all of your nodes are

Actually, the history is more interesting - it was intended to prototype command-and-control communications between ships in a fleet. If all of your nodes are communicating through one central server, presumably that's your flagship and the thing you should blow up. If all nodes look homogeneous, you can't determine via signals intercepts what you should be targeting.