Universal internet?

[Kilikian]

Been playing a lot of shadowrun lately and I couldn't find anything about it as I scrolled down the forums but, has there been announced anything about an "internet" that spans the system? Perhaps something diverse and involving like shadowruns AR and VR, or even something as simple as the net from Star Wars that seemed to span the entire of the galaxy, sharing information of certain worlds and allowing people to stay easily connected and up to date with events at large.

Perhaps I am thinking too large but if any one is in the know, I'd love to hear about it. And if no one knows anything, share your thoughts!

[khadgar567]

Its basicly a teory but we might get some sort of hybrid between holonet and matrix were some classes jump there to do exculusive thing either via mystical means or special class defining items but if we get internet as dimension than things get very weird very fast like justice gundam vs imperial dramon kinda way

[Fardragon]

I think it's more useful to severely limit the speed or availability of intersteller communication. Making the various interpretations of "the Net" local gives GMs more flexability to tune worlds to thier liking whilst still using the official Starfinder universe.

Edit: wrong universe.

[Tom Kalbfus]

Why would you need an internet? You already have magic! I would suggest a mundane internet limited to the speed of light, if you want to communicate in real time, there are always crystal balls!

[Archmage Variel]

"Can I borrow your crystal ball to look something up?"

"Ya. Sure."

"Thanks"

"WAIT! I FORGOT TO CLEAR MY SCRYING HISTORY!"

"..."

"..."

[Matthew Shelton]

Every planet might have its own real-time internet, where 'uploads' of important data get uploaded to a courier ship and sent off to a deep space hub for multi-network information exchange (like a server for a star topology network). Then the same courier-ship gets downloads from the other planets and returns to its point of origin to share info across the star systems.

[Archmage Variel]

Here's an idea. A drift based network, in which information travels through the drift to the necessary solar systems?

[Tom Kalbfus]

Traveller has something called X-boats, they hang out beyond the 100 diameter jump limit of a planet, they receive information transmitted to them and store them in memory ant at an appointed time, they make a jump to jump space, spend about 5 days in jump space, then emerge back in normal space just beyond 100 diameters from their destination planet and then begin transmitting everything they received from the sender planet to the destination planet. In Traveller all jumps, regardless of distance take 5 days, and the distance covered depending on the type of jump drive can be from 1 parsec up to 6 parsecs, and each jump drive requires 10% of the ship's hull volume in liquid hydrogen for each parsec traveled while in jump. I don't know how the Drift Drive works compared to that, but this is how communication is done in Traveller information travels at the speed of the fastest ship. In Starfinder, who knows, there are scrying devices and other magical means of communication, there is teleporting, I don't know what the speed of these things are over interstellar distances.

[Cosmo]

Removed a post that was over the line. Please keep your posts and commentary civil.

[coldbringer]

The writeup on Iseph mentions planetary info-spheres, sounds like planets have their own networks at the very least.

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

I hope it's a bit Age of Sail in that there are Internet satellites in colonised systems that are updated with data packets whenever a new ship arrives in that system. So distant star systems might have outdated information if they rarely get space traffic.

[Umbral Reaver]

Planets not hooked up to the Pact Worlds iinformation network, in whatever form it takes, would be the best places to hide if you're a public enemy.