Communication

HU, despite being entirely a very advanced culture, still deals with the problem of lightspeed communication; radio waves simply cannot move faster than the speed of light, which hampers ship-to-ship, interstellar, and interuniversal communication between HU forces. However, such distances only matter if there ARE distances. Given that HU possesses the capability of not only bridging the barriers between universes, but also creating stable pocket universes, it was not that much of a stretch to establish a series of pocket universes for the express purpose of communication.

This causes some minor problems and issues with proper communication between and within battlegroups, but such problems are easily outweighed by the advantages of such systems; ships patrol class and above can easily run silent while still proceeding with heavy communications with other ships and bases, due to the fact that the antennae can be placed next to the stable wormhole used to connect with the pocket universe, and a faraday cage can be placed around the entire set-up. This allows HU ships to run silent even in the middle of ship-to-ship combat, which is rather unnerving for enemies that are unaware of HU's chosen form of communication, as their ships seem to form patterns and carry out plans of en mass of their own accord while appearing not to communicate at all.

The Process of Creating CPUs, or Communication Pocket Universes
CPU's are created for the sole purpose of aiding a speeding lightspeed communications by making distances between starships and bases irrelevant. There are some several hundred managed CPU's currently in service, managed by the HUAF Communications Department on Osrisis, which is one of the largest consumers of energy on the planet due to their constant maintaining of said CPU's.

I: Initial Set-Up
A CPU is formed by making a small stable bubble of space unphased to any existing universe, in much the same way Osrisis' pocket universe was formed five hundred and thirty-six years before present date. This new space is allowed to stabilize for twenty-four to forty-eight hours before Step II begins.

II: Instillation of Communications Array
After the CPU is allowed to stabilize and fully form, a communications array, pre-built to be free floating and wired to a battery of equipment on Osrisis. The purpose of this communications array is to release and receive general alerts, announcements and orders to and from starships and HU installations, as well as monitoring communications to both detect unusual signals and communique, and to ensure that all starships and installations set to this particular CPU are using it for the correct purpose. It can also relay messages from CPU to CPU by way of hardwired connections between arrays in different CPU's.