Talk:Sanctum Academy/@comment-5430952-20160705023532/@comment-27144409-20160706213549

Gas did bring up the concept of using a suborbital relay network of airships, which seems like a viable idea, but as has been brought up before, we don't know how high Grimm can fly, but then again the presumably unmanned lesser relay stations used by the CCTS are on the ground outside of the kingdoms proper. I know we've talked about this before.

Reconfiguring the CCTS to either run on the other three towers, or to replace the tower that was Beacon with a new tower for Vale would require international cooperation. I'm pretty sure that Vale has learned enough about how the system works to build another tower, but that would take time, and the other nations would probably need to partly authorize its integration as a critical hub in the system.

Working around Vale would require a collabaration composed of the other kingdom on reprogramming the entire system, and it would set a precedent for excluding a kingdom while keeping the CCTS for the others. This would allow hostile kingdoms to potentially silence their neighbors. This could undermine the cooperative nature of the system.

It seems to me that in the kingdoms proper, the tower would handle things. The other relays appear to be for letting those living outside of the kingdoms proper or traveling between kingdoms access the network.

I would expect at least rudimentary intrakingdom communications being established in 8 months, but it might be as simple as using runners. That is even more likely for how villages would communicate in some ways. That said, I'd guess that some people are using more advanced methods.