HRogge Wrote:Are the position of the Vaults secret? If yes, connecting them all with FTL might give their position away.Some varieties of FTL tell you nothing about the location of the transmitters or receivers; it's to do with the physics of their design (you might be able to tell they were within a certain radius, by measuring the propagation time, but the radius would likely be at least light-minutes). It would be smart to use something like that if you are hiding the locations of the Annexes, as one part of the protection for The Vault.
One reason for connecting them is it prevents the "single point of failure" that would occur if you had all the inmates in the same location, allowing a mass breakout, probably given external help - far too common in the source material.
Edit: original text altered to make it clearer they've thought about this problem.
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