Help with a video phone/radio

[jguerin]

How can I build a video conference Phone/radio? I am trying to make a simple communication system from an orbiting spacestation to the planet below that does both voice and video.

 

I was thinking something like HRRP(12pts); OAF (Bulkey), Flased as sight , Hearing, and radio grou linked with Megascale (1 hex = 1,000km, scalable to 1 hex-1km)

 

Is this the simplest and best way to build it?

[BobGreenwade]

Re: Help with a video phone/radio

 

That works for me.

[Sir Ofeelya]

Re: Help with a video phone/radio

 

Or you coould just say "it is a bulky combined phone/video that allows you to communicate from orbit to surface". I personally don't understand the need to define everything in the game world in Hero System terms.

 

If that is your thing however, how do you build a cup of tea in Hero system?

[jguerin]

Re: Help with a video phone/radio

 

Someone just showed me the terran empire book with its write up of an Orbital Communicator..after seeing it I decided to go with:

 

HRRP (Radio Group) (12 Active points); OIF Bulky (-1), Affected As Sight And Hearing Group As Well As Radio Group (-1/2) (total cost: 5pts); plus MegaScale (1 billion km per Active Point, can scale down to 1 km per Active Point; +2 3/4) (33 Active Points); OIF Bulky (-1); Lightspeed Delay (-1/2) (total cost: 13 points). Total Cost: 18 points.

 

My GM pointed out that "technically" there is no range for the HRRP sense...a signal will eventually get to another galaxy but agreed to limit the range to allow for FTL communications later in the campaign. Instead of just sending a signal to the planets surface it can actually go anywhere in the Solar system but with some lag time.