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description_info = "This device allows someone to speak to another player sourced from the observer pool, as well as other communicators linked to it. \
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To use the device, use it in your hand, and it will open an interface with various buttons. Near the bottom will be a list of devices currently available \
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for you to call, both from communications on the station, and communicators very far away (observers). To call someone, send a communications request to \
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someone and hope they respond, or receive one yourself and respond to them. Hanging up is also simple, and is handled in the 'Manage Connections' tab."
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description_fluff = "As a concept, a device that allows long-distance communication has existed for over five hundred years. A device that can accomplish \
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that while in space, across star systems, and that the consumer can afford and use without training, is much more recent, and is thanks to the backbone \
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that is the Exonet.<br>\
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<br>\
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The Exonet is the predominant interstellar telecom system, servicing trillions of devices across a large portion of human-controlled space. \
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It is distributed by a massive network of telecommunication satellites, some privately owned and others owned by the systems’ local governments, \
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that utilize FTL technologies to bounce data between satellites at speeds that would not be possible at sub-light technology. This communicator \
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uses a protocol called Exonet Protocol Version 2, generally shortened to EPv2.<br>\
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<br>\
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EPv2 is the most common communications protocol in the Exonet, and was specifically designed for it. It was designed to facilitate communication \
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between any device in a star system, and have the ability to forward interstellar requests at the root node of that system’s Exonet. \
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It is also built to cope with the reality that the numerous nodes in a system will likely have frequent outages. The protocol allows for \
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up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 unique addresses, one of which is assigned to this device."
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description_antag = "Electromagnetic pulses will cause the device to disconnect all linked communicators. Turning off the Exonet node at the Telecomms \
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satellite will also accomplish this, but for all communicators on and near the station. This may be needed to allow for a quiet kill or capture." |