Halcyon
Stellvia Corporation owns and operates a private Interwave network, named Halcyon, primarily for corporate use. The overloading of the public Interwave on the announcement of SOS-Con and on the day King of Fen-ers was opened to the public convinced the Board of Directors that having control of a communications system that could not be overloaded by others during an emergency was a prudent use of corporate funds.
Architecture
Halcyon is made up only of Interwave Backbone Stations. The hardware is divided into first-tier and second-tier stations; the primary difference between the two is their encryption capability.
First-tier stations are installed at major Stellvia Corporation and Artemis Foundation installations (Stellvia, Wonderland, Beta, Odyssey, Chawla, McAuliffe, and the Handwavium Propulsion Laboratory), the Nikaido Foundation office in the Watchtower, and the capitals or head offices of a select few of Stellvia Corporation's allies: Crystal Tokyo, the Roadhouse, Korolev Air Force Base, and Prometheus Forge. There are also first-tier nodes racked in the communications arrays of the Epsilon Blade and the Digamma Thunderbolt.
Second-tier stations are installed at Arisia Station, The White Tower, the capitals or head offices of some of Stellvia Corporation's allies and major business partners (Coruscant, the Hermes Universal Deliveries head office at Port Phobos, the Jupiter Mining Corporation head office at Serenity Valley) and for some inadequately-explained reason,[1] 77 Frigga. There are also second-tier nodes racked in the communications arrays of Challenger, Pinafore, Takumi F., White Stallion, and the still-under-construction Rinna Kazamatsuri. An uninstalled (as of 2015) second-tier station also sits in the storeroom of the Helium Police Department.
| A Trail of Breadcrumbs(?) |
| Rumor has it that the Artemis Foundation's upcoming Zeta Tucanae exploration mission plans to drop second-tier nodes (roughly one per light-year) along the path between Sol and Zeta Tucanae, and logistics analysis indicates Artemis is building enough self-powered satellites to be able to do this. If this rumor is true, this would be the single longest communications channel in the history of mankind. |
Traffic originating and ending at first-tier Halycon stations is encrypted.[2] Traffic passing through a second-tier Halcyon node or a non-Halcyon node is not encrypted.
The Halycon system is connected to the public Interwave for the convenience of its users.
Prioritization
Halycon traffic is prioritized in the following order, with the highest priority at the top of the list:
- Stellvia Corporation official business;
- emergency traffic for the Global Frequency, the Space Patrol, or the Great Justice Troubleshooters;[3]
- Artemis Foundation official business;
- Nikaido Foundation official business;
- messages from or for a Stellvia Corporation employee;
- messages from or for a Stellvia Corporation shareholder;
- messages from or for a Stellvia Corporation client or customer present at a Stellvia Corporation facility;
- messages between Stellvia Corporation allies that are not intended for anyone in Stellvia Corporation;
- low-bandwidth traffic between nodes on the public Interwave.
Notes
- ↑ Unlike the usual meaning of this phrase, in this case it's code for "That's classified Great Justice business."
- ↑ Takami Sakuragi, Lebia Maverick, and Dee started with the SQUID42 encryption process that was removed from the Whole Fenspace Catalog prior to its initial release, and have never stopped improving it.
- ↑ All three groups have been made aware that this privilege will be withdrawn if it is abused.
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