Hypernet

The Hypernet, also known as the Meganet or the Holonet, is the final stage of human intercommunication within the Coalition of Congressional Republics. Composing all of the individual stellar-wide networks of various star systems and interconnecting them through the use of courier ships and server stations, the Hypernet makes use of the vital faster-than-light travel employed by the Coalition via barospace to systematically disseminate information on an interstellar scale.
The hypernet is highly synonymous with, but is not to be confused with, the InfoScape; it serves as the hypernet platform for almost all human digital applications and products.
== Function ==
In essence, the Hypernet serves as an amalgam of all individual and functional "starnets", or networks that exist within the astronomical confines of a star system. These starnets use light-speed communications for intrasystem communication, but must rely on courier ships that use faster-than-light travel through barospace in order to disseminate this information on an interstellar scale.
When courier ships arrive in a target star system, they dock at a server station and upload all astrocoded information that was downloaded onto their databanks from a prior star system. This means that digital information bound for the next star system over do not get transferred during this process - unless caught by interception at the server station.
For processes that extend over several star systems, such as the superturing cyber defense artificial intelligence known as PROMETHEUS, partitioning occurs - often with the use of courier ships specifically allocated for that process. For example, PROMETHEUS uses its own array of courier ships to maintain vigilance over the miscellany of individual starnets of the Coalition, and splits its intelligence into smaller portions autonomous to specific starnets that disseminate information to the mother intelligence in the Solar System. 
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