Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-162.197.96.15-20150621022300/@comment-24891101-20150621031320

Ironwood is aboard, or it's on the ground. It'd be intended for battlefield or even theatre command of large numbers of Atlesian combat robots, in accordance with doctrine. Each Knight would necessarily have a transmitter aboard, because how else coul it send data back. They form a network on the battlefield, and their audio-visual data (and possibly local threat ID, depending on their individual processing power) is sent through the military network on which they operate back to headquarters, whether aboard a command vessel or on the ground with transmitters.

Militaries don't transmit data on the battlefield through the internet, but through their own networks entirely isolated from such. There's no reason to involve the CCT at all, if for no other reason than if the Knights have sufficiently powerful transmitters to talk to command (as they'd need), then command surely has sufficiently powerful transmitters to talk to them. As to processing power, the CCT is a massive data hub designed to sort message traffic. It is not intended to coordinate military robotics. The headquarters unit which commands vast numbers of robots is intended to do that.