News Services of Charted Space

Perhaps the most important commodity of all within Charted Space has always been and continues to remain: Information.

• The News Services of Charted Space are controlled and/or regulated by many different actors on the interstellar relations stage: polities, megacorporations, varies sophont races, and 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.

Description (Specifications)

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 message-laden starships. Lesser frequented spaceways might only receive mail transmissions, physical mail packages or letters, and other communications once every few weeks. 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.

Media Formats

Nearly every System-World contains media specific to its locality with local news prevailing as the primary news content. But while there are literally thousands of various news sources, a very few, perhaps a hundred or so across Charted Space dominate the news-ways and they are actively sought out by discerning sophonts everywhere.

Holovid Datanet

No information yet available.

• Traveller News Service

Periodicals

No information yet available.

• Magazines
  • The Emperor's Eye
  • Mora World Review
  • Travellers' Digest

Hard Copy Publications

No information yet available.

• Books

History & Background (Dossier)

Charted Space contains a vast variety of technological information systems. While standard exists, news is typically formatted into a number of different media based upon bandwith, 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 starships for news transfer. 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

Media Technologies of the Second Millenium

No information yet available. Reckoning by Imperial calendar of the Third Imperium

• Datapads
• Music Crystals
• Television
• Tri-D
• Wireless communication
• Radio
• Laser communications system
• Satellite communication networks

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• Author & Contributor: Mitchberg
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science