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Re: So... Hunt the Truth. (I'm up to #03)
By:Archilen
Date: 5/20/15 3:15 am

: Remember that conversation we had where I whined about the UNSC getting FTL
: communications from nowhere?

: I just learned that the change is retroactive. On the whole, I think my
: reaction was muted and polite.

I'm not sure if the writers thought of this (they probably didn't), but do we know for sure that Waypoint used to be instant FTL before the post-war era? Back then it could've just been an umbrella term for any planetary internet. Which would probably have been loosely connected and brought up to speed with one another as courier ships moved from system to system. The updates would be sporadic and incremental, but come the 26th Century I could see a freighter's databanks holding a lot of data.

How would the system decide which data to store, though? They probably can't store an entire planet's internet so they'd have to prioritize, probably taking the things deemed most important in an AI-controlled filtering process (what is considered important might be context-sensitive depending on which colony the ship is going). When looking up something specific, individual people might send a basic dumb AI on a courier ship to scour other systems' internets for relevant topics, and then return weeks or months later with the results (this would probably cost quite a lot too so most searches would be made locally). ONI would probably have their hand in it too, seeing as it'd be the perfect avenue to control information transfer between the colonies.

...and this once again makes me wish Halo leveraged the potential built into the setting and actually explored ideas like this.


Messages In This Thread

So... Hunt the Truth. (I'm up to #03)Quirel5/19/15 4:38 pm
     Excuse me?Grizzlei5/19/15 4:43 pm
           Re: Excuse me?Gravemind5/19/15 7:13 pm
                 Re: Excuse me?Grizzlei5/19/15 7:15 pm
                       Re: Excuse me?Gravemind5/19/15 8:33 pm
                             Re: Excuse me?Grizzlei5/19/15 8:41 pm
                                   Re: Excuse me?General Vagueness5/19/15 11:32 pm
                                   Re: Excuse me?Quirel5/20/15 12:43 am
     Re: So... Hunt the Truth. (I'm up to #03)Grizzlei5/19/15 5:00 pm
     Re: So... Hunt the Truth. (I'm up to #03)General Vagueness5/19/15 11:21 pm
     Re: So... Hunt the Truth. (I'm up to #03)General Vagueness5/19/15 11:26 pm
           Re: So... Hunt the Truth. (I'm up to #03)Quirel5/20/15 12:57 am
                 muted and polite he says *NM*Bounce-A-Gon5/20/15 1:16 am
                       Yes.Quirel5/20/15 1:41 am
                       Re: Just like you were last week! :D *NM*Hyokin5/20/15 2:27 am
                             Ah. Good Times. lol *NM*SEspider5/21/15 1:18 am
                 Re: So... Hunt the Truth. (I'm up to #03)Archilen5/20/15 3:15 am
                       That would be beautiful, and I wish it were canon. *NM*Quirel5/20/15 3:30 am
                             Re: That would be beautiful, and I wish it were caArchilen5/20/15 9:47 am
     Re: So... Hunt the Truth. (#04 through #07)Quirel6/2/15 3:18 pm
           Re: So... Hunt the Truth. (#04 through #07)General Vagueness6/2/15 4:43 pm

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