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[Arvash]

Looking for whether anyone is aware of any PF - or Generally Accepted Hypotheses - around two items:

1) How do crews "communicate home" (e.g. call their friends on other ships, in stations or on planets while in flight)? I've always assumed the capsuleers themselves can do pretty much whatever - up to and including holographic projection at the receiving end. However, I'm assuming that crews wouldn't be granted this much "bandwidth" and would be restricted to more mundane voice or text communications. Is there anything out there one way or the other that gives guidance on this?

2) Do any PF communications rules change in wormholes? Is there an argument to go so far as to make wormhole crews forced to use asynchronous communications, meaning they would be effectively blacked out any time the ship is not in K-Space?

Thoughts and leads on this appreciated.

[Silver Night]

For 1) I think it's fairly up to interpretation.

For 2) the PF on it suggests that distance is a non-factor (it uses quantum entanglement and handwavium to transmit information, IIRC). That being said, you do need fluid routers - so there might be some wiggle room there, depending on the exact mechanics of it.

[lallara zhuul]

The capsuleers use exactly the same communications system as the rest of the ship.

The fluid routers that are part of the brain scanning mechanism are separate from the comms system, they are also not part of original capsule technology and have been added later on with the marriage of cloning and the capsule. I would think that using them for anything else than their original purpose would void a capsuleers clone contract, kind of like voiding your warranty by tampering with your home technology. Imagine a cloning company getting sued for failed re-burning of a brain because the capsuleer was playing on-line poker holographically.

The FTL communications network of the empires is connected to the gates.

Hence the wormhole space would come across at least bandwidth problems, mainly for the fact that fluid routers are supposed to be quite expensive and part of the infrastructure would have to be rebuilt every time one of the pairs in the quantum bonding thingamabob would be destroyed.

[Safai]

There's a scientific article on FTL Communications and a chronicle on the committee that handles these communications.

Not sure if these help answer your questions but there they are.