  In Part I, crotons are introduced, multifaceted pre-geometric objects that
occur both as labels encoded on the boundary of a "volume" and as complementary
aspects of geometric fluctuations within that volume. If you think of crotons
as linear combinations, then the scalars used are croton base numbers. Croton
base numbers can be combined to form the amplitudes and phases of Mersenne
fluctuations which, in turn, form qphyla. Volume normally requires space or
space-time as a prerequisite; in a pregeometric setting, however, "volume" is
represented by a qphyletic assembly. Various stages of pre-geometric
refinement, expressed through the aspects crotonic amplitude or phase, combine
to eventually form and/or dissolve sphere-packed chunks of Euclidean space. A
time-like crotonic refinement is a rough analog of temporal resolution in
tenacious time, whereas space-like crotonic refinement is analogous to spatial
resolution in sustained space. The analogy suggests a conceptual link between
the ever-expanding scope of Mersenne fluctuations and the creation and lifetime
patterns of massive elementary particles. A three-stage process of ideation,
organization and intraworldly action is introduced to back this up. In Part II,
the intrawordly aspect is analyzed first, including our preon model of
subnuclear structure, and the organizer aspect thereafter, based on three types
of Mersenne numbers, $M_{\textrm{reg}}$, $M_{5/8}$, $M_{9/8}$, and two formal
principles: juxtaposition $x$ vs. $\! x\!\pm\!1(2)$ and the interordinal
application of functional
$1\!\divideontimes(f^{(a)}\!\circ(f^{(b)}\!\divideontimes f^{(c)}))$.
