Created Saturday 15 October 2022
The Interstellar Network of Unified Technologies (INOUT), and later the System of Communications for the Extension of Prosperity Among the Kammakan of Houses (SCEPAKH) was an interstellar system of linked computer systems capable of transferring encrypted data quickly over long distances. INOUT was developed and maintained by AION, an administration of the Interstellar Planetary Coherence, for public use by the interstellar community. After the Great Transition and the dissolution of the IPC, control of INOUT was passed onto the Kammakan of Houses, which re-organized it into SCEPAKH for exclusive use by the noble houses and those rich enough to pay. SCEPAKH was then sold to [corporation name], a private corporation that held monopolistic control over the network's systems.
History
Beginning in [] TEC, INOUT was initially developed by an unincorporated group of scientists and engineers within the IPC, though the necessity of INOUT's development was the cause for the creation of AION, which completed development in [] TEC. INOUT's original reported purpose was to allow for fast communication between necessary governmental entities separated by interstellar space, which up to that point had only been possible using couriers, which was expensive, slow, and generally untrustworthy. Quickly, though, AION realized how important such a massive and quick network would be for the developemnt of interstellar society, so it was decided that INOUT would be publicly available and free to use for anyone who had access to INOUT-compliant equipment.
INOUT's initial technical conception involved using specialized sight-seers to transmit packets of data using sub-material travel, though this idea was deemed either impossible or too ineffective and was scrapped. The next concept, being the one that prevailed, was to use a large-scale version of the already-existing QTC system to communicate instantaneously from one computer system to any other on the network. To do this, a physical system had to be created to allow for QTC signals to be transmitted further than previously possible. What was decided was a system of microscopic QTC repeaters spread throughout interstellar space. This effectively created a physical network with which participants of INOUT could communicate. A side-effect of this roll-out of repeaters was the newfound ability to transmit standard QTC signals over long distances without the necessity for participation in INOUT, though eventually INOUT became so univeral and so much more secure than QTC that unencrypted QTC transmission became more of a novelty.