Talk:Sanctum Academy/@comment-5430952-20160705023532/@comment-26397825-20160706114459

They couldn't get communication between Patch and Vale, despite them both being in the same kingdom and shown in the WoR episode to have had short range communication between them beforehand.

I think it's a case of 'new technology has come along which is better, ditch the old technology.' Like VHS and DVDs. No one uses VHS anymore because they're larger and clunkier than DVDs and hold less on the tapes. But if they were still in circulation they'd work just as well as they had all along. They didn't stop working, we just got better technology and stopped using it.

The same could have happened with the original short-range communication system that was up before the CCT was built. When the CCT was built, they went "This is much better, lets stop wasting money on that less effective thing and just use this now." Short-range radio communication fell to the wayside as everyone moved to CCT communication. And when things fall to the wayside, they get worse until they stop working, ad then when you want to use them again, you have to fix them.

This is why I was suggesting that they may have intrakingdom communication up and running again; they've fixed the old short-range radios that were in use before the CCT was built, and could be working on getting the CCT back online with just three towers. Or they could possibly be building a brand new tower for Vale in a new location somewhere inside the city itself, which would take the place of the Beacon CCT.