Comms Center

Comms Center
In-game Description	Maintenance Stats
The Comms Center allows contact to be made with distant networks. This ultra-modern Comms Center is where research findings are analysed, collated and combined with radar information etc. It also allows you to establish long-distance communication channels.	Repair: 12% Dismantle: no Sabotage: 6% Slime target: yes
Location
Bridge
Comms Center Display: In-game tips: Establishing a connection is always the first step in any communication. This action can be performed by any crewmember. Establishing contact earns morale points for the whole crew and unlocks new actions for the Comms Officer If contact is not established, at least signal quality will be improved and the chances of establishing future contact are improved. Contact Action: Establish Contact Display: Signal strength NERON Vx.yy Action: Update NERON Display: Current version (x) and progress (yy%) for NERON updates Xyloph DB Action: Contact Xyloph Display: DB already obtained Rebel Base Network Action: Decode Rebel Signal Display: Rebel Bases contacted/ transmitting Status of decoding

The Comms Center is an equipment located in the Bridge. Communications is accessed from here. Must be clean.

The main terminal of the Comms Center, in the heat of the action

Actions

Access: Radio

• Requires: Must not be Dirty
  
• Effect: Opens the Shortwave Radio Terminal
  

• Public log: [Person] has accessed the Comms Center.
  

Access Terminal

• Requires: Must not be Dirty
  
• Effect: Opens the Main Communications Terminal
  
• Public log: [Person] has accessed the Comms Center.
  

Comms Terminal

Main article: Communications.

Contact

2 Establish Comms

• Success chance: Signal quality
  
• Requires: No Link (connection is not available)
  
• Effect: Establish contact with Sol
  • (first success:) +3 for the whole crew (not for those who are still in cryo-sleep, if any)
  • (fail:) signal quality is improved by 4%(6% if Radio Expert in room and 8% for Radio Expert herself)
    
  • Available: Once per day per character.
• Affected by: Radio Expert, Antenna, Spatial Wave Radar, IT Expert
  

• Private log:
  • (success:) You have managed to establish a connection between the Daedalus and the Sol solar system!
  • (fail:) You failed to establish communication with the Sol system, but you did improve the signal quality. You can try again tomorrow.
    

NERON Vx.xx

2 Upgrade NERON

• Requires: Title Communications Officer, Available connection.
  
• Effect: Raises NERON Version by a random amount
  • Each time an upgrade is complete, a new random NERON Project is installed (nothing happens if all projects are either complete or seen in Nexus)
  • The increase depends on the version number: the higher the version, the more upgrades you'll need to perform to get a new project.
    
• Affected by: IT Expert
  

• Public log:
  • (complete version:) [character] has successfully completed the update. The version number of NERON has increased. The surplus CPU processing power freed up by a happier NERON has been injected into a project.
  • Invisible if incomplete
    

Xyloph DB

2 Contact Xyloph

• Requires: Title Communications Officer, Available connection, Available Xyloph
  
• Effect: Instantly decode a random Xyloph DB among 12
  
• Affected by: IT Expert
  

• Public log: The tabulatrix lets out an astonishing groan. Something is printing... (for each document, if any)
  
• Private log: (depends on DB)
  

Rebel Base Network

2 Decode Rebel Signal

• Requires: Title Communications Officer, Available connection, A transmitting Rebel Base is selected
  
• Effect: Receive a random fraction of the signal currently transmitted
  
• Affected by: Kivanc, IT Expert
  
• Invisible
  

Shortwave Radio

Main article: Trading. This terminal lists offers from surrounding traders. It also shows the items Confirm: and characters present in all storage rooms of the ship.

TODO: sold! and never! actions (privacy?)