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| For basic communication and data retrieval from public databases, users transmit simple requests or use agents to find and capture the data and return. For more complex actions on distant grids, gridpilots must use Insight’s great engineering triumph: [[gridshadow|shadow technology]]. The gridpilot generates a shadow to represent her interests and objectives and transmits it much like any other form of data. Once transmitted, the shadow operates independently until it returns and uploads the record of its activities of its user. | For basic communication and data retrieval from public databases, users transmit simple requests or use agents to find and capture the data and return. For more complex actions on distant grids, gridpilots must use Insight’s great engineering triumph: [[gridshadow|shadow technology]]. The gridpilot generates a shadow to represent her interests and objectives and transmits it much like any other form of data. Once transmitted, the shadow operates independently until it returns and uploads the record of its activities of its user. | ||
| - | ====== SYSTEMS WITHOUT DRIVE RELAYS ====== | + | ===== SYSTEMS WITHOUT DRIVE RELAYS ===== |
| - | “Grid ghettoes” are systems without drive relays—the deaf Grids that cannot communicate directly with other Grids. Operating within the confines of a deaf Grid is the bane of gridpilots everywhere, but sometimes they must. In these far-flung systems, the only way of transmitting or receiving anything to or from another system—data, programs, or shadows—is through the storage banks of a driveship. | + | [[grid ghetto|Grid Ghettoes]] |
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| - | The situation is almost too depressing for a modern gridpilot to bear. First, he must pay a data merchant to take the data to its destination, either directly or by traveling to a system with a drive relay and then transmitting it to its ultimate destination. Either way, it’s likely to take weeks or months, since a system without a drive relay is likely to only harbor smaller driveships to act as couriers. Such small ships are unlikely to reach another se-tled system in a single starfall Once the tran-mission does reach its destination, any reply requires similar arrangements and time. | + | |
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| - | CCC oversight in Grid ghettoes is also often minimal, with local governments or corporations maintaining and administering Grid hardware and operation as they see fit. The result is that data access in these systems is slow, extraordinarily expensive, and often unreliable. It is not uncommon for communications in, to, and from deaf Grids to be intercepted, altered, misrouted, or simply lost completely. | + | |
| ====== GRIDPILOTS ====== | ====== GRIDPILOTS ====== | ||
| For an elite few, the Grid transcends ordinary existence and is reality’s underlying truth. They are the gridpilots, masters of the virtual world. Their understanding of the Grid goes far beyond the simple user knowledge of the masses. Gridpilots create, alter, and control the electronic universe of the Grid. Part programmer, part mechanic, and part security expert, gridpilots can command their own salaries in the business world, protecting networks and grids, designing domains, creating the Grid itself. | For an elite few, the Grid transcends ordinary existence and is reality’s underlying truth. They are the gridpilots, masters of the virtual world. Their understanding of the Grid goes far beyond the simple user knowledge of the masses. Gridpilots create, alter, and control the electronic universe of the Grid. Part programmer, part mechanic, and part security expert, gridpilots can command their own salaries in the business world, protecting networks and grids, designing domains, creating the Grid itself. | ||
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