Communications on Prospero’s Dream
(and in Mothership)
Wardens! In need of ideas or organised thoughts on how people communicate in Mothership/on Prospero's Dream? Fear not! I've made an evolving list here.
Oh! And also see this other blog post.
(loose) Categories:
Word of mouth; couriers; pneumatic tubes
Physical/holo ads/news; drones and
other robots
Semaphores; visual symbology (including
mathematical; QR code)
Graffiti/street art/street code
Newspapers/letters/flyers (physical,
digital); including post
The Oracle (corpo.: newsfeed, livestream, newspaper)
The
Watchdog Magenta (independent)
Prospero’s Observer (tabloid)
(The Weekly) Teamsters’
Union Local 32819L
Your
Sol (Solarian Church regular pamphlets)
Independent media
Radio (local or satellite broadcast to
comms/phones; RFID)
Main
channels
Music,
talkradio and other broadcasts
Teletext
(radio-to-text with fax, vidscreens, terminals, HUDs etc.)
The
Solarian Church open chatline
Teamsters’ Union Local 32819L (encrypted channels
exist)
Restricted
channels: (only certain devices can
attune; illegal to have)
Novos
Tempest
(What? No self-respecting CANYONHEAVY.market hacker uses radio!)
Solsignals (Solarian Church
light-comms with lenses and mirrors)
Dreamwire (station WIFI; signal quality variable; monitored by CANYONHEAVY.market)
Vidphone/screen (analog/radio and
digital)
1-to-1
or party vidphone call
Vidscreen
(~TV; linked to WIFI/landline/Dreamline)
Terminal jack/cyberdeck/Dreamwire (all
digital)
The
Dreamline (open; text, video, etc.; many, many channels)
Private
networks (many)
Darkweb
(CANYONHEAVY.market; etc.)
Agentic
proxy (AI) / virus
High-tech means:
Slickworld
VR/AR
Holovid
(rumoured) Oxygen-meme
transmission; “memomones”
Neural
link mind-mind biological interface
Psychic hivemind
Hyperspace system-to-system (via physical vessel intermediary)
transmission
Quantum entanglement
(instant; “ansible”) communications (Coreworlds tech)
Transdimensional
xenoesotericism (merely theoretical…)
