VASCO

Explorer and Survey Division Central Computronic ( VASCO )

Virtual All Space Complete Objects (Data base)

Large non sentient computronic data base of all explored space including objects such as planets, moons, planetoids, asteroids, comets, nebula, asteroid belts, cosmic gas amd matter clouds, black holes, suns, black objects. artificial objects and anything observable or measurable.

VASCO is not an AI but linked to several Union Super AIs such as ALBERT, SENECA , CENTRON , NELSON and NELSON II , MATA HARI , UGLON ,ORACLE and others.

It is operated by the Astrographical division of the Explorer and Survey Department of the Science Corps and has three locations and a fourth physical data and document center[1]

The three locations are : Vault IV, Alexandria planet and Pluribus Unum.

90 % of the data is accessible by Union Citizens via GalNet-VASCO link.

9 % is deemed sensitive but may be accessed by any citizen willing to undergo a security clearance certification (Blue-Blue )

1% is deemed Classified and highly classified - up to Level Red-Red-Red

The data base is constantly updated and recieves a flood of data from the Explorer and surveyor service.

It is named after a famous Pre Astro Earth Explorer Vasco Da Gama. However as a pure data base it has no "simulated personality" on its own but the GalNet interface does feature a selection of animated Search assistants modeled after the human explorer.

[1] The physical Libary of the Assembly - with hard copies on data crystals, books, paper, film, tablets, scrolls, photographs, audio records etc. is located on planet Union Archive.