Yeah makes you wonder what the "Internet" of a space-faring humanity will be like... You'll have local planetary networks (including their moons) where communication can happen roughly real-time, but interplanetary messages will be on a delay
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Things are further complicated in this game by the fact that nothing is new and everything has to be salvaged from junk.
Big war between intergalactic corporations resulted in the means of production falling apart, resulting in tribalism.
It's a cool game.