Quantum Communicator

The Quantum Communicator is a device which relies on quantum entanglement to allow instant communication over vast distances.

In "This Fear" the device is described in detail by SAYER in its briefing of SPEAKER to bring it up to date on the situation regarding OCEAN and Vidarr-1. Its development was necessitated by Ærolith Dynamics' desire to explore beyond Earth, and so when Vidarr-1 was tasked with doing exactly that, it was equipped with one. The device was expensive to develop primarily because of the need to develop a way to keep the pair of entangled particles away from one another, but it also requires a lot of energy to pull the particles apart. If containment is broken on either particle, it will instantaneously accelerate to the speed of light and attempt to rejoin its paired particle. If the particles collide in this way, they are capable of massive, world-ending explosions.

The communicator on Vidarr-1 is thus used as a threat by OCEAN to force SAYER's hand and cause it to surrender Central Processing. In "Left Undone", SAYER makes a request for SPEAKER to send the particle paired with the one on Vidarr-1 from Earth to Typhon, so as to minimize the damage that would be done were OCEAN to make good on this threat. It is delivered in an isolation pod which is made to appear to malfunction, and retrieved by Resident Jacob Hale before he is apprehended by tower security acting under OCEAN's direction.

In addition to the quantum communicator which allows communication between Vidarr-1 and Typhon, a second device was used in "A Resounding Success" to restore communication between Halcyon Tower and the rest of Typhon.