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| The exact condition of a system's Grid depends on its location and its owner. The basic rule is this: The farther out from [[old_space|Old Space]] a system is, the less current its computer infrastructure is likely to be. The [[stellar_ring|core worlds]] and [[the_stellar_nations|stellar nation]] capitals are home to the most sophisticated Grids in explored space. Exceptional cases such as [[insight|Insight]] and [[voidcorp|VoidCorp]] systems universally maintain the most up-to-date computer technology. On the other hand, [[hatire_community|Hatire]] and [[austrin-ontis_unlimited|Austrin-Ontis]] systems both lag significantly behind the tech curve. | The exact condition of a system's Grid depends on its location and its owner. The basic rule is this: The farther out from [[old_space|Old Space]] a system is, the less current its computer infrastructure is likely to be. The [[stellar_ring|core worlds]] and [[the_stellar_nations|stellar nation]] capitals are home to the most sophisticated Grids in explored space. Exceptional cases such as [[insight|Insight]] and [[voidcorp|VoidCorp]] systems universally maintain the most up-to-date computer technology. On the other hand, [[hatire_community|Hatire]] and [[austrin-ontis_unlimited|Austrin-Ontis]] systems both lag significantly behind the tech curve. | ||
| - | Of course, at any moment individual computers or networks within a system Grid can be as open or restricted as their operator's desire. Security on the Grid ranges from nonexistent to extreme. Military and corporate sites frequently have strong security measures except in their general information areas. The importance of the Grid has created a new area of law that has merged with the rest of the criminal code. For example, breaking into a corporation's financial records is prosecuted as criminal trespass. Protecting one's Grid domain is perfectly legal, however, so a security [[shadows|shadow]] that destroys an invading shadow within a company database has committed no crime. | + | Of course, at any moment individual computers or networks within a system Grid can be as open or restricted as their operator's desire. Security on the Grid ranges from nonexistent to extreme. Military and corporate sites frequently have strong security measures except in their general information areas. The importance of the Grid has created a new area of law that has merged with the rest of the criminal code. For example, breaking into a corporation's financial records is prosecuted as criminal trespass. Protecting one's Grid domain is perfectly legal, however, so a security [[shadow|shadow]] that destroys an invading shadow within a company database has committed no crime. |
| ===== Interstellar Gird ===== | ===== Interstellar Gird ===== | ||
| The Stellar Ring is the most densely settled part of space, with cultures that span literally thousands of individual star systems. Over such distances, people depend on the interstellar Grid to stay in touch within and between stellar nations. And the interstellar Grid depends on the constant work of [[drivespace communication satellites]]. Within the confines of the Stellar Ring, drive relays serve every populated star system. As everyone knows, all message traffic within the Stellar Ring works under a delay of at least 11 hours-the time it takes communications to travel from one drivesat to another. And the larger the distance between two systems, the more drivesats a message must be relayed across,' and the longer it takes. Even within crowded Old Space, news can be delayed as long as two days. | The Stellar Ring is the most densely settled part of space, with cultures that span literally thousands of individual star systems. Over such distances, people depend on the interstellar Grid to stay in touch within and between stellar nations. And the interstellar Grid depends on the constant work of [[drivespace communication satellites]]. Within the confines of the Stellar Ring, drive relays serve every populated star system. As everyone knows, all message traffic within the Stellar Ring works under a delay of at least 11 hours-the time it takes communications to travel from one drivesat to another. And the larger the distance between two systems, the more drivesats a message must be relayed across,' and the longer it takes. Even within crowded Old Space, news can be delayed as long as two days. | ||
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