Radio stations

Radio stations have persisted into the dawn of the 28th century; such a phenomenon is thanks to their relative cheapness to create and maintain over that of more sophisticated communication systems. 
Practically all operating radio stations are civilian and simplistic in nature, as military (and often megacorporate) communications having shifted into other, more complex vectors of signal transmission.
== History ==
== Functionality ==
=== Land-based radio stations ===
For radio stations servicing land populations, such as the hundreds of thousands of major native radio stations across the surface of Hyperion, they are operating within atmospheres; as a result, they must contend with the interfering nature that atmospheres often exhibit with radio waves. Most legitimate radio stations operate massive antennae, either by themselves or on top of stratoscrapers, that utilize the troposphere as an amplificatory medium. They also utilize the e-layer of ionospheres to further broadcast their signal, allowing transmission across thousands of miles on a planet's surface with sufficient equipment.
Illegal, or pirate, radio stations operating on worlds will often hijack antennae through hacking or covertly set up their own, less-powered antennae. 
=== Space-based radio stations ===
Unlike planet-bound radio, stations operating from space have the ability to project their radio waves across huge swaths of interplanetary space without noticeable interference. Known as "lag-stations" due to their waves only propagating at the speed of light, space-based radio can service interplanetary pilots and space stations across huge swaths of a star system with high fidelity.
Pirate radio is much more common in space due to its lower relative law enforcement presence and the time needed for ships to investigate a source. Most pirate radio is transmitted from autonomous drones or small ships that consistently travel to avoid interception, or hosted in areas such as asteroid fields.
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