The Sundered Stars: The Starnet

[Steve]

Tannhauser Points, in addition to allowing FTL interstellar travel, also allow for FTL interstellar communications. On Earth, this has become known as the Starnet, although some choose to call it other names, like Diracnet.

 

Using a currently unknown method, Seraphim somehow utilize the Tannhauser Points to link together into a single network, allowing data transmission from one star system to another at FTL speeds. Human scientists theorize that a form of sympathetic vibration occurs between different Tannhauser Points, like they share a common membrane. A signal beam strikes this membrane, causing a sympathetic vibration at another Tannhauser Point that can then be read by another Seraphim. This communication method is two-way as near as can be determined.

 

Those Seraphim then broadcast and receive at light speed within a system to each other, since one or more Seraphim will be stationed in orbit over inhabited worlds. Ground stations receive continuous data updates that can then be disseminated to individuals.

 

In effect, Starnet functions much like the modern-day Internet, limited by light speed delays between different Seraphim. Since the solar system has several Tannhauser Points at different distances from Sol, signal delay times vary.