Okay, this is my two cents worth as a player - and as someone who role plays as an AI character or two.
We currently have bluetooth technology with people able to walk around with the phones on their hip and the little thing in their ears, and of course with all the interesting apps that Apple has for the I-phone - like checking your bank accounts, sending e-mail, watching TV.
So I see the Neural Net as simply a set of mastoid implants that avoid the use of something external like the headset and phone on the belt. We're already effectively able to do that now. You're not plugged in like in the Matrix, you're simply talking and with the use of special contact lenses, I'm sure you'd be able to view video as well.
For ship to ship communications, the game uses the standard Hollywood trick, where light (and radio transmissions) move at the speed of the plot. In game play, we probably and effectively do the same, still using standard RF signals, only digital signals. The nice thing with a digital signal is that it doesn't matter what the source is - whether it's a microphone that converts and send that signal out, or a computer that ends up generating the signal in the first place.
So for AI ships, when communicating between human bio-units and the unit processor of the ship, standard RF communication is used. When sending data between ships to the full AI central core, they still use RF moving at the speed of plot, but it's a compressed signal that doesn't need the extra words of English - you're transferring files just as we do now when we upload and download. And as for dealing with Nomad bio-units - the current established RP is that Nomad characters and full AI characters CANNOT interact. The Nomads communicate via thoughts - the AI's communicate strictly via RF and don't have minds for the Nomads to send thoughts into. Wilde and Isejin characters CAN interact with AI characters, since those are infested humans. However, if the AI character happens to have some Nomad npc's in his hold, then the Nomad character can detect the bodies and will probably attack them.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
