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The [[News Services of Charted Space]] sell what is perhaps the most important commodity of all within [[Charted Space]], which has always been and continues to remain: Information.
* They are controlled and/or regulated by many different actors on the interstellar relations stage: polities, [[megacorporation]]s, various  [[sophont]] races, and a vast array of interest groups.
* All of these different actors hold different values, relationships with data, and priorities.
* A few of these actors believe in traditional values of bringing the facts to the people to prepare them to make their own decisions.
* Please see [[AAB]] article [[Communication Technologies of Charted Space]] for related information. 
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Please see the following [[AAB]] [[Library Data]] articles for more information:
* [[Communication Technologies of Charted Space|Communication Technologies]]
** Communication Mediums
*** [[Datacaster]]
*** [[Laser Communicator]]
*** [[Meson Communicator]]
*** [[Microwave Communicator]]
*** [[Radio]]
*** [[Telegraph]]
** [[News Services of Charted Space|Communication Transport & Transmission]] 
*** [[Military Courier]]
*** [[Newscast]]
*** [[Postal Union]]
*** [[Satellite Communication Network]]
*** [[X-boat]]
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== Description ==
Even in a [[galaxy]] where [[FTL]] star travel is a way of [[life]], information travels relatively slowly throughout [[Charted Space]]. Instantaneous communication, a long-held dream, has never been achieved by any known race. Thus communication is usually limited to the speed of packets, couriers, and other types of message-laden [[starship]]s. Lesser frequented spaceways might only receive mail transmissions, physical mail packages or letters, and other communications once every few weeks through a [[Postal Union]]. While the more frequented trade routes most often receive messages several times a subjective Terran-standard 24-hour period (day).

Regardless, the great stretches of [[Charted Space]] are vast, and it can take months or even years for information to pass from one end of [[civilization]] to the other.

=== Major Holovid Network Providers===
Among the best known Holovid networks and providers are: <br>
''[[Interstellar News Network]]s:'' 
# [[Carnak News Database]] ([[CND]])
# [[Coalition Information Network]] ([[CIN]])
# [[Commonwealth News Service]] ([[CNS]])
# [[Daryen News Network]] ([[DNN]])
# [[Deneb Information Service]] ([[DIN]])
# [[Eko Media]] ([[EKO]])
# [[Expanses News Service]] ([[ENS]])
# [[Express Boat Network]] ([[EBN]])
# [[Llelish Interstellar Information Interchange]] ([[LIII]])
# [[Imperial Courier Service]] ([[ICS]])
# [[Imperial Data Network]] ([[IDN]])
# [[Information Dissemination Services]] ([[INDISS]])
# [[Interstellar News Association]] ([[INA]])
# [[Solomani Confederated News Service]]  ([[SCNS]])
# [[Sylean News Network]]  ([[SNN]])
# [[Terran Information Network]] ([[TIN]])
# [[Traveller News Service]] ([[TNS]])
# [[Vanguard Reaches Extra]] ([[VREX]])
# [[Vilani News Network]] ([[VNN]])
''NOTES:'' They generally have influence over one or more [[sector]]s.

=== Minor Holovid Network Providers ===
Among the lesser known Holovid networks and providers are: <br>
''[[Interstellar News Network]]s:'' 
# [[The Blue Sheet]]
# [[The Observer]]
''NOTES:'' They generally have influence over less than one [[sector]].

=== Periodicals of Charted Space ===
''[[Magazine]]s or Newspapers:''
# [[Carnak's Surface Weapons]]
# [[The Emperor's Eye]]
# [[Mora World Review]]
# [[Phoenix Sun]]
# [[Travellers' Digest]]
# [[Utoland Gazette]]

===Books of Charted Space===
''[[Book]]s:''
{| class="wikitable sortable" 
!colspan="3"| ''Well-known Charted Space Publications''
|-
! Title / Author
! Synopsis
! Remarks
|-
| [[Almost Disaster]] by [[Albert Croale]]
| Historical Work, Imperial
| Discusses:
* [[Crisis of 99]]
* [[Fifth Frontier War]]
* [[Frontier Wars]]
* [[Psychohistory]]
|-
| [[The Authentic Experience]] by [[Johann Kramm]]
| Cultural Work
| Discusses:
* [[Appropriate Technology Movement]]
* [[Authentic Movement]]
* [[Technology Level]]s
|-
| [[The Book of Larm]] by [[Makkhii Larm]]
| Philosophical Work, Religion
| Discusses:
* [[Larmism]]
* [[Religion]]
|-
| [[The Bucherei Conundrum]] by [[Kethrin Virbek]] 
| Adventure Account
| Discusses:
* [[Ahaja Bucherei]]
* Lost Colony
|-
| [[Carnak's Surface Weapons]]
| Ground Weaponry Guide
| Regularly published and updated guidebook.
|-
| [[Codices of Aosoilte]] by [[Aosoilte]]
| Philosophical Work, Aslan 
| Important to contemporary Aslan society.
|-
| [[Crowded Space]] by [[Ve Nu Last]]
| Travel Guide
| Regularly published and updated guidebook.
|-
| [[Crowe's Encyclopaedia Xenobiologica]]
| Sophont Guide
| Regularly published and updated guidebook.
|-
| [[A Deeper History]] by [[Middleton Rothery]]
| Adventure Account
| Discusses:
* Anthropology
* [[S'mrii]] History
|-
| [[Dru'mhilla Manifesto]] by [[Ahaja Bucherei]]
| Political Manifesto
| Discusses:
* Sentient Rights
* Robot Rights
|-
| [[Encounter on Kaiid]] by [[Nelagid Marsid]]
| Adventure Account
| None
|-
| [[Hoard of the Sky Raiders]] by [[Jothan Messandi]]
| Adventure Account
| None
|-
| [[Lost Throne]] by [[Otis Adelbert Molitor]]
| Adventure Account
| None
|-
| [[The Port Authority Handbook]]
| Starport Guide
| Regularly published and updated guidebook.
|-
| [[Ryker's Catalogue of Arms]]
| Firearms Catalogue
| A very popular catalog for firearms sales and advertising.
|-
| [[Shambhala]] by [[Mornal Bruton]]
| Adventure Account
| Discusses:
* [[Ahaja Bucherei]]
* Lost Colony
|-
| [[Ship Operating Manual]] ([[SOM]])
| Starship User's Guide
| Every ship should come with one. Captains and pilots often append notes to them.
|-
| [[The Solomani Hypothesis]] by [[Magis Sergei haut-Devroe]] 
| Philosophical Work, Humanity Theories
| Much discussed and controversial work. 
|-
| [[Trane's Historical Cycles]] by [[Julian Trane]]
| Historical Work, Vilani 
| Foundational Vilani literature.
|-
| [[The Travellers’ Aid Society Green List]]
| Starship Guide
| Regularly published and updated guidebook.
|-
| [[The Traveller's Guide to Starships]]
| Starship Guide
| Regularly published and updated guidebook.
|-
| [[Twilight's Peak]]
| Adventure Account
| Discusses:
* Epic Poem
* [[Gyro Cadiz Task Force]]
* [[Third Frontier War]]
|-
| [[Wiseman's Guide to Sophonts]]
| Sophont Guide
| Regularly published and updated guidebook.
|-
|}

== History ==
[[Charted Space]] contains a vast variety of technological information systems. While standards exist, the news is typically formatted into a number of different media based upon bandwidth, locality, TL, and a variety of other criteria. Despite all of these differences, basic plaintext data bursts in common binary computer codes still predominate amongst news agencies using [[FTL]] [[starship]]s for news transfer. These basic data transferences have the advantage of being usable by worlds of very different levels of technical mastery. 

More complicated data involving sound, graphics, and video files can be added to these basic binary data bursts for the more prosperous markets that can afford larger and more expensive news data files.     
* For additional information, please see the following [[AAB]] article: [[News Media]]

=== Network Sizes & Polity Reach ===
News networks operate anywhere where there is a market to support them. 
* Even the largest networks can only move information at the speed of travel. Some news networks with adequate funding run [[X-boat]]-like systems to move news.
* While most news data has broad appeal to most [[sophont]]s, entertainment programming is much more species and region-specific. Some [[polities]] closely control the news and rigorously censor it.

They generally grow in the following sequence:
# Subplanetary News Networks (Sub-planetary: Balkanized)
# Planetary News Networks (Planetary: [[World-State]])
# Subsector News Networks (Subsector: [[Pocket Empire]])
# Sector News Networks  (Sector: Interstellar [[Polity]])
# Multi-Sector News Networks  (Multi-Sector: [[Supra-Polity]])
# Very Large Networks (Many Sectors: Large [[Supra-Polity]])

===Postal Unions===
A [[Postal Union]] is a group of political units associated to a greater or lesser degree for the purpose of communication among citizens, businesses, and [[government]]al units over interstellar distances.
* They are more properly known as ''Interstellar Postal Unions''.
* Most ''Postal Unions'' are subsector in size or less.
* Please see the [[AAB]] article [[Postal Union]] for more information.

===Interstellar News Association ===
The [[Interstellar News Association]] is a cross-polity organization intending to promote the largely free flow of information across [[Charted Space]]. 
* [[Interstellar News Association]]s tend to be several subsectors in size or greater and many can cover an entire sector or larger.
* Please see the [[AAB]] article [[Interstellar News Association]] for more information.

== Sources ==
{{Intermediate}}
{{Detail}}
{{Sources 
| This article is an amalgamation of many different materials published since 1977.
| [[Challenge 72]]
| [[Challenge 73]]
| [[Challenge 75]]
| Novel: [[T5]] [[Agent of the Imperium]] 
| Trav Editorial Team
| Author & Contributor: [[User:Mitchberg|Mitchberg]]
| Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]
}}
 

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