Interspace Communication

Interspace Communication is a broad term for many different systems for sending and receiving information via wormholes. Communication is always an early application for wormholes, and is a universal application of the science because of it. Messages can be sent across interplanetary or intergalactic distances within minutes instead of the minutes to years it can usually take. High density packets of data are sent through relays thousands of times a second as their wormhole generators cycle through different points at breakneck speed while gates can keep a steady, higher quality connection.

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Communication Methods

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Neutrino

Neutrinos are advantageous because of their incredibly small size allows them to pass through solid objects unimpeded. They are commonly used with wormhole gates because if their properties. Ships don't interfere with the system unlike radio and lasers which can be blocked by cosmic dust. Neutrino arrays consist of a drum opaque to the subatomic fermion that are able to detect any significant burst of neutrinos which allow signals to be made like a wave of sound without being interfered by natural cosmic neutrinos.

Radio

Radio messaging is brutally cheap and reliable, however, it can be easily distorted over long travel distances. They are great in interstellar bridges systems that utilize shorter wormholes, but they are not suitable for use in interspace relays. The wormhole diameter of a relay is mere micrometers, so radio signals would have to be weak to traverse. Additionally, radio waves can easily pick up energy from wormholes as they travel which can alter the amplitude and frequency of the wave.

Lasers

Lasers are a common method of communicating both through real space and interspace. They focus infrared light into a very tight beam and aim that light at an optical receiver. This method of communication can outpace any other method of data transfer, but it comes with some caveats. Lasers have a high base energy requirement, and good communication lasers require expendable amplifiers. The edge of wormholes are also notorious for distorting light. Beaming information through a wormhole requires a more intense beam to compensate for packet loss.

Messengers

Messenger communication is a very unique form of interspace communication. Instead of beaming information, messengers carry data on storage drives. Transporting physical data storage allows for a much more efficient transmission of large amounts of sensitive data such as banking information. Protected hard drives are not affected by natural interference.