CONGRATULATIONS, DRIFT FLEET!
WE MADE IT!Our characters have a network of our own now.Thanks to
anyone that donated money last time, and a special call out to all nerds and engineers that would dedicate time to this, plus Lup's communication spells and our duo from Panem with the experience on encryption. All these things made it easier for this project to become possible. :D
So here's how things will work out:
Shiro comes with the idea and visits the ships to tell crews about it, word of mouth runs from there. You can handwave that you heard it from him or another person involved in the project, no biggie (we can thread it too, more on that in a sec). This has happened early in the month! So everyone would've been working on it the last few weeks. The project would be done by the end of the month. (This needed to be approved by mods first, that's why nothing was done ICly so far, just fyi on the backdating.)
Once the network is done,
anyone can put it in a communicator of their own. Just ask any engineer or knowledgeable nerd about it. A tablet, a phone, a helmet, your choice! Whatever they buy in a system! As long as it isn't in actual Atroma computers (like the ships' systems or the initial game communicators), it's valid. This also means what you can do with this network will depend on what device you use. A tablet will be able to store information and send files, an old Nokia brick can only do audio and maybe text. Stuff from home also counts if you regained anything like it! It can be now, it can be next month, no hurries; in one or more devices, it doesn't matter. The network is ours now so we can use it whenever we want.
If you're new and are reading this months later, no worries! Your character can also learn about this and ask for their own device, handwaved it or threaded, that's up to you.
If you post to the IC comm from now on and are using this network instead of the Atroma one, please make note of that so characters know how to reply! Another nice perk of this plot is that
this new network can be used to talk to the Interceptors in a more secure way. I'll make Shiro text them to tell them about this, so the Interceptors can add us to their address book, so to speak. Chat with them whenever you feel like it.
Lastly,
Atroma knows about this. Just gonna quote the mods here: "This network is pretty large, and Atroma is always watching. Atroma will know it exists. There's no way around that. And, like the current line open to the Interceptors only, Atroma is going to be trying very hard to get into your network. We promise that you will be given a significant amount of forewarning and heads-up if Atroma actually manages to make any amount of progress toward getting in. Rest assured that 1) the odds of it happening are slim, 2) this would be way into the future, and we wouldn't just completely upend all of your hard work! An incredibly hard move on our part such as this would come with a lot of discussion and working together, as the consequences would be severe."
So there you have it! We're safe from now.
Here is a mingle so we can thread out the activities through the month, be talking about it, working on it, putting it in devices later, etc. Good job, everyone. Looking forward to see what we can do with this. ♥
PS: So I don't spam the ooc comm, reminder here that Enable Me Please is coming next week. Use
this post to add/remove/modify your ad if you wish to do so.
PS2: Starting this week, Shiro has a
new arm now.
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