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Description
Just like space-travel there are multiple forms of communication used, depending on the distances involved.

PLANETARY COMMUNICATION
Methods of communication varies from world to world. Radio is still used even in modern times, as it is cheap and fast to set up and cheap to maintain. Most modern worlds suppliment this with satelites to maximize communicaiton range. More advanced worlds communicate and trasmit using Wi-Fi, or bypass the radio frequencies to use the larger-bandwidth Li-Fi frequences. In any of these scenarios, users can communicate at speeds limited by the speed of light.

SHORT-RANGE FTL COMMUNICATION
Civilians trying to communicate within a planetary system are still limited to standard radio, Wi-Fi or Li-Fi systems. Because these methods are limited to the speed of light, this can make holding coversations awkward. It can mean a delay of seconds, minutes or even hours between communiqués.

Most modern militaries and governments use a faster method, designed around the same system that enables FTL travel. Using psychic computers, messages are encoded, compressed, and sent out within a nanoscopic Warp Bubble. This Warp Bubble is so tiny it does not interact with normal matter, and can be transmitted in a straight line through solid objects to reach the pre-programmed recieving computer (provided the sender knows where the reciever is). Once recieved by the recieving psychic computer, the process is reversed and the message is delivered.

Because of the line-of-sight nature of this communicaiton system, modern militaries maintain a constant network of communication lines. An automated system of relays verifies the positions of facilities and vessels, and shares that information with the entire network. Any one vessel in the network knows where the others are, and their positions are constantly updated. Any vessel not at its reported position can't be transmitted to, as the sender is sending the message to open space rather than its intended target.

Using this system, a delay of minutes or hours is reduced to seconds. This allows modern militaries to share information and react quickly to threats.

While this system does allow for communication between different star systems in the same galaxy, transmission time is still an issue. It can take weeks for news from one side of the galaxy to reach the opposite side using short-range FTL techniques.

Portable versions of this system do exist, and can be carried in hand. Typically, they are roughly 162mm tall, 85mm wide, 8mm thick and weight 209g. These typically only have enough power to handle messages of a minute or less per transmission.

SLOW LONG-RANGE FTL COMMUNICATION
Longer-range communication between galaxies requires using Jump Drive technology. While this does allow messages to be delivered instantaneously, the same considerations involving calcuation time and power requirements remain.

While the overall power that's needed is a fraction of what's needed to move a ship, it's still considerable. Because of this, standard long-range FTL communiqués tend to be collected and transmitted once per hour or once per day (depending on time/power constraints). Once recieved at the destination, the compressed messages are decrypted and delivered to their respective final destinations through short-range FTL or standard STL methods.

This method is far more expensive to use than other forms of communication, and only the Civilian class of Bodor can afford to use this method. Portable versions of this system do exist, but are somewhat awkward. A typical system has a large backpack-sized portable reactor, and a computer the size of a suitcase, all to support a single cell-phone sized communicator (and even then it can only handle messages less than 30 seconds in duration).

FAST LONG-RANGE FTL COMMUNICATION
Generally only used in crisis situations or by Governments, Fast Long-Range FTL communication is possible, but expensive. Rather than using bursts of communiqués, an intial contact request is made to a recieving psychic computer just as with Slow Long-Range FTL communication. If accepted, the sending and recieving computers establish a tightly-bound psychic link between them. Once established, the two parties can communicate as if they were in the same room.

Because the link must be maintained for the duration, and doing so requires a constant compression of space-time to a distance of 0 for the duration, the power requirements for this form of communication are staggering. A conversation lasting a minute can consume as much power as an entire city uses in a day. A single Fast Long-Range FTL Comm system designed for use by a single person requires a Fusion reactor the size of a skyscraper to function, and is not even remotely portable.

Communication of this variation is highly restricted, and some planets simply don't have the needed infrastructure to enable it.

Description
Just like space-travel there are multiple forms of communication used, depending on the distances involved.

PLANETARY COMMUNICATION
Methods of communication varies from world to world. Radio is still used even in modern times, as it is cheap and fast to set up and cheap to maintain. Most modern worlds suppliment this with satelites to maximize communicaiton range. More advanced worlds communicate and trasmit using Wi-Fi, or bypass the radio frequencies to use the larger-bandwidth Li-Fi frequences. In any of these scenarios, users can communicate at speeds limited by the speed of light.

SHORT-RANGE FTL COMMUNICATION
Civilians trying to communicate within a planetary system are still limited to standard radio, Wi-Fi or Li-Fi systems. Because these methods are limited to the speed of light, this can make holding coversations awkward. It can mean a delay of seconds, minutes or even hours between communiqués.

Most modern militaries and governments use a faster method, designed around the same system that enables FTL travel. Using psychic computers, messages are encoded, compressed, and sent out within a nanoscopic Warp Bubble. This Warp Bubble is so tiny it does not interact with normal matter, and can be transmitted in a straight line through solid objects to reach the pre-programmed recieving computer (provided the sender knows where the reciever is). Once recieved by the recieving psychic computer, the process is reversed and the message is delivered.

Because of the line-of-sight nature of this communicaiton system, modern militaries maintain a constant network of communication lines. An automated system of relays verifies the positions of facilities and vessels, and shares that information with the entire network. Any one vessel in the network knows where the others are, and their positions are constantly updated. Any vessel not at its reported position can't be transmitted to, as the sender is sending the message to open space rather than its intended target.

Using this system, a delay of minutes or hours is reduced to seconds. This allows modern militaries to share information and react quickly to threats.

While this system does allow for communication between different star systems in the same galaxy, transmission time is still an issue. It can take weeks for news from one side of the galaxy to reach the opposite side using short-range FTL techniques.

Portable versions of this system do exist, and can be carried in hand. Typically, they are roughly 162mm tall, 85mm wide, 8mm thick and weight 209g. These typically only have enough power to handle messages of a minute or less per transmission.

SLOW LONG-RANGE FTL COMMUNICATION
Longer-range communication between galaxies requires using Jump Drive technology. While this does allow messages to be delivered instantaneously, the same considerations involving calcuation time and power requirements remain.

While the overall power that's needed is a fraction of what's needed to move a ship, it's still considerable. Because of this, standard long-range FTL communiqués tend to be collected and transmitted once per hour or once per day (depending on time/power constraints). Once recieved at the destination, the compressed messages are decrypted and delivered to their respective final destinations through short-range FTL or standard STL methods.

This method is far more expensive to use than other forms of communication, and only the Civilian class of Bodor can afford to use this method. Portable versions of this system do exist, but are somewhat awkward. A typical system has a large backpack-sized portable reactor, and a computer the size of a suitcase, all to support a single cell-phone sized communicator (and even then it can only handle messages less than 30 seconds in duration).

FAST LONG-RANGE FTL COMMUNICATION
Generally only used in crisis situations or by Governments, Fast Long-Range FTL communication is possible, but expensive. Rather than using bursts of communiqués, an intial contact request is made to a recieving psychic computer just as with Slow Long-Range FTL communication. If accepted, the sending and recieving computers establish a tightly-bound psychic link between them. Once established, the two parties can communicate as if they were in the same room.

Because the link must be maintained for the duration, and doing so requires a constant compression of space-time to a distance of 0 for the duration, the power requirements for this form of communication are staggering. A conversation lasting a minute can consume as much power as an entire city uses in a day. A single Fast Long-Range FTL Comm system designed for use by a single person requires a Fusion reactor the size of a skyscraper to function, and is not even remotely portable.

Communication of this variation is highly restricted, and some planets simply don't have the needed infrastructure to enable it.