compnetwork | 1st Strategy

[The pause before recording and the view wobbles, as though the person using the watch doesn't have the first thing about cameras or recording devices. Which he doesn't.]

...Hello! My name is Morgan, and I'm new to this Outrealm - I mean, to this city! It's a beautiful city, by the way. I've heard a little bit about what's going on from the government workers, but there's a lot that I'm curious about. Like this "COMP." How does it work? Being able to talk to people over long distances seems amazingly valuable, tactically speaking. That is if I really am speaking to someone. It's still strange talking to myself but actually expecting other people to listen--

Sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself again. There's something more important I was wondering about. I heard that we all have a "Persona" and it's supposed to be something that represents us, right? Do I still get one if I don't know myself? You see, I have amnesia, so if this Persona thing knows a lot about me I really want to meet it.

Thanks in advance if you can answer my questions! I don't mind if you can't, though. I just think it's friendly to introduce myself when I'm in a new place.

Oh and, Mother... or any of the other Ylissean Shepherds! If anyone else is here, I think meeting up would be a good idea too.

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The instructions on how to use it? I've been looking at those. [because honestly, he wouldn't have the first idea what to do otherwise. The government workers had to show him how to switch it on...] I meant more why it works. We don't have anything like this where I'm from. If you want to talk to someone a long ways away, you have to tie a letter to a carrier pigeon.

The COMP functions as a fusion of spiritual energy and modern nanotechnology. It's composed of a series of tiny machines that enter the bloodstream of the user and bond directly to their DNA. The nanomachines are self-aware and capable of learning just as a human is, so they will also constantly and automatically update their own capabilities and knowledge base to share with the user.

As for the voice and video functions themselves, they're transmitted via radio waves between units. Each COMP acts as a receiver for these waves, picking them up and converting the information contained within into a usable form understandable to the human eye and ear. An electronic filter is employed to separate out unwanted interference, an amplifier to increase the signal's power, with the desired information separated out by demodulation.

[....You lost him at nanotechnology. And DNA. And radio waves. And electronic filter...]

So in other words, there's not much chance of me building some when I get home again.

With medieval technology, I sincerely doubt it. Although depending on your facility with magic, you may be able to replicate the effects. I'd say that would be your best bet.

[It's not entirely outside the realm of possibility.]

[....] Well, it's an idea to give to Laurent if he ever shows up here too. He and his mother are a lot better with magic and science than I am.

You did much better than most people who show up here from technologically undeveloped worlds, though. Plenty of them never figure out how to use the COMP.

[He laughs...] I won't pretend this isn't a long way from anything I'm familiar with... but I've always been a quick study!

It's admirable that you're making the effort.

I don't see any reason not to. It's always to your advantage to know as much about a situation as possible... and these things seem pretty important to people here.

They're a very convenient way to keep in touch, yes.

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