Talk:Atlesian Knight-130/@comment-26317073-20150605172739/@comment-24891101-20150608032834

Because more likely than not Atlas lost the war, and created the CCT as reparations? They'd not be allowed to own it. No country would be. It's too critical. Either each nation owns its towers (they've got to have multiple, the country's too big to not) or they're international territory. Even if Atlas didn't lose, no country would ever agree to those terms. This is like the US allowing Russia to own its entire telephone system, and countenancing routing diplomatic or other important traffic through it. Not going to happen.

Regardless, no military would ever route communication through something like that. Diplomatic communication is likely also not routed through it. They've got their own dedicated networks. Each of those large airships seems to serve as a mothership for its complement. They'd have their own transmitters powerful enough to communicate directly home, probably bouncing off satellites. And all the robots in question would be within a certain AO, which would be commanded using those powerful transmitters from whereever Ironwood's headquarters is set up.

Basically, I'm drawing parallels to what I know of modern military doctrine, derived from our modern techbase and concerns with such, and in line with best practices. This is readily applicable to this setting because similar problems and solutions exist. No military would ever send signals through assets it cannot rely upon or which are not firmly under their control. Given the diplomatic impossibilty of Atlas owning the CCTs, they must have their own system.