Planetary Networks

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Planetary Networks
Planetary Networks.png
“We can pool our knowledge with a worldwide database”
Requires Information Networks
Leads to Cyberethics, Industrial Automation
Enables
Weapon Probe Module
Unit Probe Team
Facility Hologram Theatre
Secret Project The Virtual World
Specialist Librarian
Social choice Planned
AI priority
Conquer: 0, Discover: 4, Build: 3, Explore: 1
If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps

this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our
collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are
at last ready to accept life’s fundamental truth: that life’s only
purpose is life itself.

—Chairman Sheng-ji Yang
“Looking God in the Eye”

Once the colonists discovered how to survive, they focus on recreating some of the organizational tools left behind on Earth. Following the implementation of simple Information Networks, the creation of a standard for Planetary Networks emerges as a high priority for the scientific community.