Comm Dish Core

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Description	It's said that the most complex tasks of hardware should be offloaded to software, but that message doesn't seem to have gotten through to whoever designed this. Thankfully, those same designers saw fit to include an instruction manual. This particular hardware is intended as the core for an old-fashioned "satellite dish" serving as the backbone for a comm network. It doesn't go into details on how it handles all the routing and encryption, but does describe how to connect and interface it with the actual dish.
Type	Usable (not consumed)
Requires	1 Energy
Use	(on first use) You look over the instructions, finding them extremely thorough, if rather technical. You'll have to find some comm dish segments to follow these directions. They're valuable enough that they're usually recycled, so it's hard to say where you should start searching. You've learned a new device recipe: Comm Dish - Construct a comm dish for your gang from forty Dish Segments, four Polysteel Supports, four Magnetic Coils, a Buffered PDA running Signal Finder, and a Comm Dish Core (10 Energy) You've learned a new device recipe: Personal Comm Dish - Construct it from four Dish Segments, a Magnetic Coil, a Buffered PDA running Signal Finder, and a Comm Dish Core (5 Energy) (afterwards, first use with collapsed integrator in inventory?) You look over the instructions, finding them extremely thorough, if rather technical. You'll have to find some comm dish segments to follow these directions. They're valuable enough that they're usually recycled, so it's hard to say where you should start searching. Hmmmm… on a second reading, it looks like this could become the heart for a piece of hardware to support that collapsed integrator. You've learned a new device recipe: Handheld Core - Build hardware from a Expanded Handheld, a Comm Dish Core, a Magnetic Coil, and eight Signal Buffers around a Collapsed Integrator (on following uses) You look over the instructions, finding them extremely thorough, if rather technical. You'll have to find some comm dish segments to follow these directions. They're valuable enough that they're usually recycled, so it's hard to say where you should start searching. (followed by, if you have the handheld core recipe too:) Hmmmm… on a second reading, it looks like this could become the heart for a piece of hardware to support that collapsed integrator.

Sources

From having one of the 5 biggest relay nets during Virus Event 2011
Winning Subversion Testing

Uses

Build hardware from a Expanded Handheld, a Comm Dish Core, a magnetic coil, and eight signal buffers around a Collapsed Integrator

Learn recipe from using a Comm Dish Core with a collapsed integrator in inventory

Expanded Handheld, Comm Dish Core, Magnetic Coil, 8 Signal Buffers, Collapsed Integrator

=	Handheld Core

Construct it from four Dish Segments, a Magnetic Coil, a Buffered PDA running Signal Finder, and a Comm Dish Core (5 Energy)

Learn recipe from using a Comm Dish Core

Four Dish Segments, a Magnetic Coil, a Buffered PDA running Signal Finder, and a Comm Dish Core

=	Personal Comm Dish

gold processor, magnetic coil, signal analysis circuit, signal buffer

.50 Goods