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This information is only supplementary; relevant data about the universe will be presented in-story as it arises, if you'd prefer to learn as you read. Information in this encyclopedia is subject to change without warning as the story develops.

Realities (And citizens)

• "Home"
  • Meiko Mirai
  • Eiko Mirai
  • Lorelei
  • Kisei
  • Mallory Heisenberg
• Antiparadisia
  • Auntie Mae
  • Mike
  • QwikSlvr
• Arboria
  • Duke
• Aquarius
• Drome
• Grep
  • Xyzzy
• Grünwald
  • Josef Heisenberg
• I's Land
  • Mellow Fellow
• Nippon
  • Ryo Noyori
• Nocturn
• Pia Pia
• Reality Prime / RealWare
  • Gillian Bates
  • Mr. Tanner
  • Multi
• Restless
• SubUrbana
• "The First Reality"
• Tribal Alpha
  • Steel Blades
  • D3THL0RDZ
  • Campers
• Urbana

Terms & Tech

• "Blue Sky of Death, The"
  (And other RealWare problems)
• Passport Processing
• Docks
• Multiverse
• NullSpace
• Open Engines
• Points (Economy)
• Realities
• RealNet
  • Audio Receivers
  • Nodes
  • Messaging
  • Video Network Sets
  • Workstations
• Reality Engines (for Mobiles)
• Reality Engines (for Realities)
• Reality Engineers
• RealWare
• REC Test
• Safety Mode (see BSOD)
• Transients

Culture

• 8 Bit Commandos
• Drugs
• Hawt Stuph!
• Joe's
• Krap
• Love & Hate
• Onsen-of-the-Month
• Open Reality Movement
• Ping Pong
• Religion
• The Last Word
• Twoday's Guidebook

(unreal estate copyright
2001 stefan gagne)
[unauthorized use is
strictly prohibited]

RealNet Nodes

Shorthand for a specific location with information made available on RealNet. General information sites, browsable by RealNet Workstations, is stored on nodes. Typically nodes won't use audio streams or video streams, since that technology is tightly controlled by RealWare. There are nodes for fans of various video shows, nodes for collectors of 8-Bit Commandos to trade cards, nodes for persons to sign up for the class action lawsuit against Joe's for the rat content of their milkshakes which is lower than advertised... and so on, and so on.

Space on nodes are rented out to individual RealNet hobbyists, since owning a Workstation capable of being a node is not cheap... unless it's a renegade node.

The technology that drives RealNet is shrouded in corporate intellectual property driven mystery, but the Open Reality Movement has a branch devoted to hacking the protocols and establishing renegade nodes that use alternative computing solutions. They have had success recently, and despite RealNet's best efforts to get the nodes kicked off the network, the ORM coders are always one step ahead. Renegade nodes tend to offer free content rather than pay-for-play, so the consumers happily gobble it up even if it's lower quality than polished RealNet content.