Quote:That depends on how easy it is to connect to the FTL communications network. I could see the FTL comms being the nodes of a "star" topography network, connected to each other and serving data to and from the lightspeed comms around them.
Also there has been some back and forth how widespread FTL comms are, so a method that relies on communication would probably not be a good currency.
We've established that FTL nodes exist at Venus/Crystal Tokyo, Earth, Luna/Tranquility Base, L5/Stellvia, Mars/Starbase 1, Phobos, Belt/Greenwood, Belt/Hephaestus, and Alpha Centauri/Starbase 2 - that covers the majority of Fenspace, and only Starbase 2 is too far away for near-instant communications over the FTL net. Folks near any of those locations (or The Island between Earth and Mars, or Grovers' Corners wherever they want to be) could hook into the system and communicate with the banks on Earth with practically zero timelag.
Although we should put a FTL comm or six in the outer system, as well... Would there be room for one on Hades?
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