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--- shellac_records [2025/06/10 05:15] – [In the Beta Age] admin
+++ shellac_records [2025/09/08 05:08] (current) – [Related Pages and Further Information] admin
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 Shellac records — an [[the_humans|exohuman]] [[the_earth|Earth]]-era medium first popularised in the 19th century — experienced an unlikely renaissance on [[the_planet_voi_700_d|VOI 700 D]].
-When the colony ark [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] crashed on [[day_zero|Day Zero]], the settlers lost their quantum internet, most high-density drives, and any hope of cloud computing. The Tier-1 AGI [[gaia|GAIA]], suddenly marooned in isolated vaults, still needed a way to push firmware patches, security keys, and medical data to each Local Hub — but every byte had to travel on minimal power and leave a tamper-evident audit trail.
+When the colony ark [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] crashed on [[day_zero|Day Zero]], the settlers lost their quantum internet, most high-density drives, and any hope of cloud computing. The Tier-1 AGI [[gaia|GAIA]], suddenly marooned in isolated vaults, still needed a way to push firmware patches, security keys, and medical data to each [[local_gaia_hub|Local GAIA Hub]] — but every byte had to travel on minimal power and leave a tamper-evident audit trail.
 To meet that need, engineers in [[new kourou|New Kourou]] founded the [[New Kourou Shellac Corporation (NKSC)|New Kourou Shellac Corporation (NKSC)]] in 2625. What they made:
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   * Hand-cranked “lathe-writers” that engrave tone-encoded files onto the disks.
   * Clockwork and piezo-pickup sequencers that decode those tones back into GAIA-readable text.
+  * Usage of the [[weber_communication_company|Weber Communication Company's]] [[shortwave_radio_network_of_the_exohumans|Shortwave Network]] for the transmission of the files between settlements.
 Beginning in 2627 NKSC used the same presses for culture: every Friday [[weber_broadcasting_services|Weber Broadcasting Services]]  cut a “Studio Master” live-session disk that couriers of the [[new_kourou_courier_service|New Kourou Courier Service]] and [[firetown_courier_service|Firetown Courier Service]] rushed to pubs across the [[free_state_of_settlers|Free State of Settlers]]. Owning the week’s groove became a status symbol and forged a shared playlist between settlements.
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 The crash vaporised the orbital relays and toasted most mass-storage hardware. When the [[free_state_of_settlers|Free State of Settlers]] formed, it ran a laissez-faire economy — no central planning, no nightly ledgers to collect. Communication therefore flowed almost entirely downward from the sole surviving GAIA core in New Kourou:
-  * **Kernel burst (≈23:30) —** each Friday the Kernel pushed firmware patches, security keys, and medical encyclopedia updates over short-wave.
+  * **Kernel burst (≈23:30) —** each Friday the Kernel pushed firmware patches, security keys, and medical encyclopedia updates over the Shortwave Network, operated by the Weber Communication Company.
   * **Disk engraving (00:00 – 02:00) —** local scribes in the Local Hubs of each settlement cut the received data onto shellac, verified the checksum tone, then filed the disk in the hub’s vault.
   * **Hub flash (dawn) —** technicians halted GAIA for ten minutes, swapped in the new build, and logged the CRC on a paper register.
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 ===== Technical Details =====
-==== Encoding and Storage Capacity: ====
+==== Transmission ====
-  * Shellac records were encoded with up to 6 GB of data using tone-based encryption.
+  * Tone files were broadcast over the Weber Shortwave Network
-  * Text data was stored at a rate of 30 tones per second, allowing up to 9,000 characters on a five-minute record.
+  * Encoding and Storage Capacity: Shellac records were encoded with up to 6 GB of data using tone‑based encryption.
+  * Text data was stored at a rate of 30 tones per second, allowing up to 9,000 characters on a five‑minute record.
 ==== Reading Devices: ====
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   * [[the_gamma_age|Gamma Age]]
   * [[gaia|GAIA]]
+  * [[local_gaia_hub|Local GAIA Hubs]]
   * [[gaia_system|Federal GAIA Agency]] (Gamma Age)
   * [[New Kourou Shellac Corporation (NKSC)|New Kourou Shellac Corporation (NKSC)]]
-  * [[Federal Shellac Manufactory (FSM)|Federal Shellac Manufactory (FSM]]
+  * [[Federal Shellac Manufactory (FSM)|Federal Shellac Manufactory (FSM)]]
   * [[shortwave_radio_network_of_the_exohumans|Shortwave Radio Transmission]]
+  * [[weber_communication_company|Weber Communication Company]]
   * [[weber_broadcasting_services|Weber Broadcasting Services]]
   * [[exohuman_technology_of_the_beta_age|Exohuman Technology in the Beta Age]]