Superluminal communications

A project page on superluminal communications.

Overview
Most faster-than-light communicators known today use wavespace, a colloquial term for an aspect of slipspace optimal for signal transmission.

Limitations
Wavespace has several limits endemic to its nature.

Late-war to post-war: ansibles
It should be emphasized that the impact of the superluminal communicator — henceforth referred to as the ansible, for now — would be huge. The notion of real-time, or nearly real-time, communication with other star systems, or even other planets in the same system would be if not alien, at least a speculative fancy at best to most people even in the 26th century. And it will revolutionize how people and societies conceptualize themselves in the overall framework of the human sphere, a new information revolution akin to the telephone or the internet on Earth.

The first ansibles were installed on Navy starships circa 2550-2551.