To contextualise the mechanics of rupture in special cases, we must explore the landscape of potential rupturing modes in a simple scenario. The simple stretching simulation used here is to hexagonal network at a constant engineering strain rate dx dt , expanding from a stretching ratio of λ = 1 to 2 over 10.0 µs. We re-use much of the parameterisation from Bailey and Wilson as it allows studies of dynamics over large timescales (up to 100 µs) . Idealised hexagonal networks were constructed with varying dissociation energies D e and varying head group energies ε both in the range 1.00 × 10 -21 J to 128 × 10 -21 J at a temperature of 100 K (k B T ≈ 1.38 × 10 -21 J).