Subspace connector node

Subspace connector nodes were space-based transmitters that, with the help of ground-based transmitters, transferred signals between other nodes of a matching frequency, allowing spacers access to the Internet and to fast communications. In areas where there were less than a dozen connector nodes, it could take several years before a signal reached its destination (assuming it made it there at all), whereas in areas with several dozens to hundreds of nodes communications across a sector could take only minutes if not seconds. As node frequencies varied depending on which corporation owned the nodes, so did a spacer's availability to the Internet and subspace communications based on which corporation their communication systems were linked to. Some spacers, however, used an illegal General Communications Frequency, allowing all signals directed towards their ship's communication signature to run through nearly all public connector nodes regardless of what corporation their ship's comms were linked to. Some nodes were in place solely for the purpose of military communication, such as the many nodes that made up the Imperial Navy Subspace Communications Array. The HoloNet Corporation owned over two thousand connector nodes and several hundred planetary transmitters across the galaxy, granting spacers linked to the HoloNet Connection Array access to near-instant communications.