Instant Relay System

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Communication across dimensions has been a technical challenge since the creation of the Dominium. On of the solution is the Multinets, though it is flawed in many regards. First, both the Overnet and the Lednet are property of the I.D.E.A. and mainly aimed toward companies, and it does a better job at accessing information than real communication.

SyRy Digital

Founded by Syman Rehtak and Ryan Porter, SyRy Digital is the first company to propose an alternative to the multinets, designed with real-time communication as their ultimate goal. The start-up grew bigger and imposed its domination after signing an exclusive contract over 3875 dimensions and 8003 gates for a duration of 50 years. The price of such a contract should be exorbitant even for a major company, thus a lot of rumours circulated about the young company and their criminal ties. Without proof and due to a lack of interest, hearsays died down and the company strived.

Nowadays, SyRy Digital, now rebranded Syry after the departure of founder Ryan Porter, is a leader in the field of telecoms, with prestigious clients like the United Nations of Terra. With the liberation of the patent over the IRS technology, rival companies began to bloom, offering a more limited services. None has been able to threaten Syry's hegemony.

The IRS

Though not really instant, the system exploits crudely the limitation imposed by the gates. It consists of two relays on each side of the gate, both facing each others in the strange aether between the dimensions. The emission of a message is a three-steps process:

1. Terminal-Relay

First, the compatible terminal issued by Syry uses the local internet to carry the message through their home made protocol to the target relay. As it is a same-dimension process, it is only a matter of milliseconds, more if the network is saturated like it happens sometimes on Terra.

2. Relay-Relay

Once the relay has received the core of the message, it strips it of any metadata others than the Syry identifier of the target, carves the information on a platinum-cobalt chip and toss it through the gate automatically. The writing process can take up to five seconds in cases of messages nearing the hard limit. The travel time between the two gates is the biggest unknown there, as it is generally quick but unexplained anomalies can occurs, losing the chip for days or years. The platinum-cobalt alloy is supposed to reduce this eventuality, but it is not perfect.

3. Relay-Terminal

Finally, on the other side of the gate, a receiver magnetically attracts the chip and reads it instantly before sending the decoded message through the local internet and to the receiver. To avoid breaking the system with simultaneous arrivals, three receiver relays are set for one sender, with a swift-response laser detecting multiple chips and dispatching them on the different relays. Once again, the read operation is faster, capping at only a second for the longest messages.