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Post by Officer Genious on Sept 8, 2015 19:15:03 GMT -5
I have a question-- how do princes and officers communicate in space? I mean, if a target gets away how does word get back before I can stalk the target again and crush him (he doesn't have a hyperspace drive I don't know about, does he?)? Are there Star Wars-style holograms for ship-ship or ship-planet communication?
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Post by Officer Genious on Sept 9, 2015 17:02:39 GMT -5
Anyone?
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Post by ntsheep on Sept 9, 2015 18:09:56 GMT -5
Two cans and a VERY long string  |
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Post by johndramey on Sept 9, 2015 19:11:19 GMT -5
Actually, good question. Do the Star Traders have some form of FTL communication?
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Post by ntsheep on Sept 9, 2015 19:39:40 GMT -5
Actually, good question. Do the Star Traders have some form of FTL communication? FTL is banned by Shalun law. |
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Post by johndramey on Sept 9, 2015 19:55:35 GMT -5
Yes, while actual FTL travel is banned, I'd imagine that some kind of FTL communication would be required by the universe. Otherwise, how could politics be fluid?
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Post by ntsheep on Sept 9, 2015 19:59:24 GMT -5
No I really meant FTL communication is also banned.
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Post by johndramey on Sept 9, 2015 20:42:42 GMT -5
Oh, seriously?! My bad.
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Post by ntsheep on Sept 9, 2015 20:57:36 GMT -5
Don't feel bad, get glad  |
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Post by Cory Trese on Sept 9, 2015 21:29:16 GMT -5
FTL communication is subject to manipulation by anyone with access to Hyperspace -- the Narvidians.
It was the FTL communication network that ultimately lead to the corruption of the Guild, the exile of the Hardoss/Zendu and the enslavement of the Star Traders.
FTL communication can be faked, altered and manipulated by the Narvidians or anyone with their technology. Entire Guild worlds were depopulated by Narvidian ships and their FTL communications carried on for years, entirely falsified.
The Star Traders use two forms of communication -- both are tight-band, straight line communications. The first is called a Skywire or Skyvox and is used on planets, within atmospheres. Most Leviathan suits are equipped with a skyvox.
The second form of communication is a Void Transmitter, this is a type of space radio that has to be aimed at the recipient and is difficult to intercept, but not hard to jam. It is also highly susceptible to interference and has a limited range (inside a quadrant.)
More often than not, Factions will pay Star Traders to carry an encoded Record cylinder to a particular place and use a Void Transmitter to send to it. Most Star Trader ships are equipped with a Void Transmitter -- it is used to hail stations, request landing coordinates, etc. Star Traders often also carry portable skyvox for communication on world.
There are also basic short wave radios and walki-talkies, classified in ST RPG as "Electronics"
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Post by Brutus Aurelius on Sept 10, 2015 21:31:07 GMT -5
FTL communication is subject to manipulation by anyone with access to Hyperspace -- the Narvidians. It was the FTL communication network that ultimately lead to the corruption of the Guild, the exile of the Hardoss/Zendu and the enslavement of the Star Traders. FTL communication can be faked, altered and manipulated by the Narvidians or anyone with their technology. Entire Guild worlds were depopulated by Narvidian ships and their FTL communications carried on for years, entirely falsified. The Star Traders use two forms of communication -- both are tight-band, straight line communications. The first is called a Skywire or Skyvox and is used on planets, within atmospheres. Most Leviathan suits are equipped with a skyvox. The second form of communication is a Void Transmitter, this is a type of space radio that has to be aimed at the recipient and is difficult to intercept, but not hard to jam. It is also highly susceptible to interference and has a limited range (inside a quadrant.) More often than not, Factions will pay Star Traders to carry an encoded Record cylinder to a particular place and use a Void Transmitter to send to it. Most Star Trader ships are equipped with a Void Transmitter -- it is used to hail stations, request landing coordinates, etc. Star Traders often also carry portable skyvox for communication on world. There are also basic short wave radios and walki-talkies, classified in ST RPG as "Electronics" I cam see why the Narvs would fake the FTL comms from overpopulated worlds, but why/how would they depopulate human worlds? Experimentation? Crippling defenses/resistance? |
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Post by slayernz on Sept 10, 2015 23:51:15 GMT -5
Batteries  You might not be dead - but you may as well be  |
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Post by Cory Trese on Sept 11, 2015 1:57:44 GMT -5
The Narvidians seek to control all things. Organic life is ... unpredictable.
The Narv don't have some type of extermination desire, but threats to their control are dealt with swiftly.
A highly populated mining colony, operated by Star Traders ... it keep shipping minerals on Guild Liners ... but the mining is no longer done by Star Traders.
The Narvs control the economy of an entire sub-sector of Guild Space and the FTL communications "everything is fine here, we're all good. happy miners"
Guild Leadership thought they were manipulating the Narvidians. Maybe to an extent they did. Maybe they never stood a chance.
History is written by the survivors and there are not many left who knew the true story of how the Guild came to be the human extension of Narvidian domination.
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