Radio transmissions are really only a concern if the Gbaba are within the system itself or, at worst, maybe a few light-years from it. The inverse-square law means that terrestrial radio signals aren't going to stand out above the cosmic background at interstellar distances.
Radio devices have gotten "quieter" over successive generations; early transmitters required more power to punch out a signal that could be picked up. And once you get to digital signals, the power requirements drop drastically as does overall leakage. So long as you don't have any assholes powering up massive transmitters to direct a message back towards the Gbaba, it's not really an issue. Especially since any search for Safehold would have been over for centuries.
If you look at the tech transfers (for lack of a better term) that have already occurred, such as steam engines, the Inner Circle has tried to skip as many intermediate steps as they can get away with. That trend will only continue, and after the great Reveal, it'll accelerate as quickly as they can get away with. When they do start out producing radios (which'll be pretty quickly after the Reveal, just to improve their ability to respond to the social upheaval that'll result), Safehold-produced units will be much more efficient than early Terran examples. The gap between the introduction of radios and the transition to digital signals will be very short by comparison.
I think we'll see a lot of that sort of acceleration with the future books. It'll have a lot of benefits, but one of the biggest is taking advantage of their higher birth rates (for farm labor and to combat infant mortality, despite it being less of a problem than it was on Earth) before industrialization leads a cultural shift that results in a drop in birth rates like we've seen with industrialized nations here on Earth. We'll see modern TF tech, particularly in medicine and with antigerone treatments since they'll need every warm body they can get and Cayleb isn't an asshole who will let children die from treatable cancers, coexisting alongside homegrown tech.
lyonheart wrote:Hi Evil Author,
If it is fully described then no longer proscribed, wide experimentation is only to be expected, but how does the inner circle and just two PICA's prevent radio transmissions potentially alerting the Gbabba?
Policing the whole planet could wear OWL and dozens of PICA's out, so how quickly could or can the inner circle reveal their very superior 'quiet' communications network?
Will it be that the Seijins reveal their network and offer it worldwide to avoid such dangers?
That certainly won't stop the very curious, especially without an explanation of the Gbabba, which requires the 'great reveal', thereby causing another religious war.
Isn't life complicated?
L
