Viceroy Caratore has unveiled a multi-year and multi-billion zark project to completely replace communications in MBO-NS from person to person radios all the way through to datalinks between facilities. All communications will be protected by fractal encryption and be virtually secure from any kind of enemy eavesdropping. The new communications links will also have greater bandwidth.
The project is vast however, and the new communications will be installed alongside the existing systems so a switch over can occur seamlessly. Caratore said the final switch over would be no later than 2130 though key systems will be live long before that.
Work already quietly began last year on the project with a mandate for all new communication equipment fitted to ships be compatible with the future system, this equipment is being fitted to new build ships and also ships receiving upgrades. Over the next two years the backbone datalinks between the planets in UNP space and MBO-NS bases will be upgraded. Caratore said by 2125 all strategic communications would be covered by the fractal encryption and the majority of ship to ship and ship to base communications.
