The Info Dump

Interstellar Communication from Subspace Radio to ComStar on the Info Dump

Episode Summary

Space to space collect call from the Info Dump. CJ calls in Paul on this episode to discuss the history of space communication, including Ansibles, Subspace Radio, Quantum Entanglement Communicators, the Holo Net and a dive into the history of ComStar, Battletech’s all spanning interstellar telecommunication company with their fingers in the pie of every successor state.

Episode Notes

References in this episode include: 

Garcia, Mark. "Top Five Technologies Needed for a Spacecraft to Survive Deep Space." NASA, July 30,2018. www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/orion/

ComStar, p. 9 "The Collapse of the Star League"

Williams, Sean, and Shane Dix. The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic: Remnant. Ballantine, 2003.

"Message in a Bottle." Star Trek Voyager, created by Nancy Malone, Season 4, Episode 14, Paramount, January 21, 1998.