Personal Comm Dish

Item

Image Satellite-Dish25.jpg
Description This complex device, when hooked up at a secure location, should connect your comm to a personal network. Now, it's only one part of the plan… you'll need the main dish too and a ton of hijacked Net sites.

It probably won't work as well as the corporate networks, because there's no way you're getting satellites into the mix after the Orbital Wars. But it should let you communicate in absolute security and interface with your network rather painlessly.
Type Furniture
Use You set up the personal comm dish. It has a connection to feed into a TV, but you don't think it'll be improving your reception, just feeding over any messages it receives from the broader network.

Sources

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
toolbelt.jpg Four Dish Segments, a Magnetic Coil, a Buffered PDA running Signal Finder, and a Comm Dish Core
= Personal Comm Dish

This item was briefly available from the scrap pit because of an in game bug.

Uses

If used when no TV installed:

You take a quick nap in your ramshackle apartment. As always, your wounds heal far faster than it seems that they should.

You regain 30 hit points!

If used with a Descrambled TV installed will give a random TV program followed by a message (conditions unknown):

The comm dish has stayed pretty silent this whole time. Either nobody's calling or the signal isn't getting through.

As you finish watching TV, a message from the comm network comes through mostly intact. You can tell it's from ashuri, reporting in from Dockside Sewers. It sounds pretty calm, though. Probably nothing to worry about.

(When GoldS had his clones defeated in the waterfront roughly ~12 hours before and in Southside ~16 hours ago) As you finish watching TV, a message from the comm network comes through mostly intact. You can tell it's from GoldS, reporting in from Southside Park. It sounds like things are a bit chaotic down there.

As you finish watching TV, a message from the comm network crackles through. It's clear enough to tell it's from Viscerator in Waterfront, but that's about it.

As you finish watching TV, a message from the comm network crackles through. Someone is trying to check in from Waterfront, but you can't even tell who. They make it sound pretty routine, though.

As you finish watching TV, a report comes through from the comm network. You report in from Waterfront and you sound confident.

As you finish watching TV, a report comes through loud and clear from the comm network. <person> calls in from <area>. Things sound pretty stable down there. That said, he sounds like <s/he> could use a medic.

(And if the reporter is yourself) It's sort of weird hearing your own voice like that. Seems like transmission speed is the price you pay for this sort of network.

As you finish watching TV, a message from the comm network comes through mostly intact. You can tell it's from <Player>, reporting in from <Area>. It sounds like full-scale gang war has broken out down there.

A shorted TV gives one of these messages instead:

The TV is still nothing but static when you wake up, although you can't tell how much of that is the TV being broken and how much is the comm dish not giving it a signal.

You remember something in your dream about (gangmate) in (area).

You remember something in your dream about (gangmate) in (area) and the endless mutterings of the oppressed.

You remember a scene from your dream… something about (gangmate) in (area)… and blood, some of it his own.

You faintly remember something in your dream about dark figures marching through (area).

A scene from your dream remains burnt into your memory on waking. (Gangmate) walked through (area) covered with blood, some of it his own, rambling about how "They" are waiting for the right moment to strike.

Hammer25.jpg This item is not a component for any kind of crafting.
toolbox.jpg This item cannot be salvaged.
GoldCoins.jpg 1.00 Goods
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