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The NET-GRID Super Structure
When mankind created the internet, he created a web of computer networks that relayed information throughout his world. Eventually around the early 21st. century, talk of making these networks push together into clusters that could be used to not only maximize their own computing power through shared resources, but to streamline the new cyber structure to provide more speed and bandwidth. The proposed "GRID" became a reality in 2023. As mankind rebuilt itself after the "Final War" and space became the hope for the future, the UEF tried to create a new system for computers for the future. The GRID was being assembled prior to The Xilien invasion, however the decimation ceased its evolution. In 2023, a group of scientists got together and created in a year, a small grid of interlocking computer networks that worked by amplifying their own computing power and making them more efficient. It would take three years to perfect the GRID and take seven years of assimilation before all the UEF networks ran on the GRID. However, the GRID did interact with the original internet through the various assimilated networks and their basic connections with the net.

It took another six years for the public to hear about the GRID and another four before 50% of the major computer networks around the world were plugged into it and the net served as the travel way for information from GRID point to far away GRID point to travel. The net served as a way for information to blaze across the GRID by laying as a sublayer to provide extra speed. However with the advent of the space colony the networks had been slowed down by a large margin. The travel of information between Earth and the orbitting colonies was about a minute and 2.5 minutes for the moon colonies. Mars became the hardest with a four minute weight period of sending back and forth information. It would be almost sixty years before a real solution was found.

In 2103, a man named Timothy Ryan Castle, from one of the Martian colonies called FREEDOM, was the man who solved the big information travel issue. Being a student of physics and computer technology he used the science of quantum physics to solve the issue. He had a device that would basically, on the quantum level, interact almost instantaneously with another device and basically copy information by sending beams of ultraviolet radiation around the solar system. This brought down the time of transmission. Now the Earth could send information to Mars and recieve a reply within a wait time of seventen seconds. Castle, twenty two years later, would create a network of these devices, expediating the transmission process even further, and would shrink their size down from the size of a microwave to the size of a cd player. This works on a principle hypothezised by IBM's Charles H. Bennett in 1993 using quantum entanglement. However, due to long distance, this was limited. Castle would by the end of 2140, three years before his unexpected death, had a series of twenty satellites sent between the orbits of Venus and Mercury to use the Sun's UV rays to boost communications to an almost instantaneous speed. Even when the Outer colonies past Jupiter were built the wait time was no more than 1 and a half minute due to the quantum entanglement of data that was being sent through the GRID in a cascade of data.

Then when the UEF joined the Galactic Community Council and built colonies in different solar systems, this conundrum was brought back up once again. The Daggra of the Federal Stellar Union helped. They had a systems of GRID's that were united by an internet entity that would be the relay between the GRID's in one solar system. The United Earth Federation moved toward this model and used this as a means of quick communication. What they did to speed along transfer time was to use hyperspatial theory to allow data that was being transmitted through the NET portion of the Superstructure to allow the data to skim along a miniature hyperspactial bypass, boosting it at an amazing rate. So, communications from the UEF to the far away Karin Horde of Akelon, takes maybe a fifteen minute wait time. The UEF has also made parts of the Superstructure that link up with various other alien cyber networks.