Army Signal Corps

United Stars Army Signal Corps



The United Stars Army Signal Corps develops, tests, provides, and manages communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined arms forces. It was established on Terra Pre Astro times in 1860, the brainchild of United States Army Major Albert J. Myer, and has had an important role from the American Civil War through the current day. Over its history, it had the initial responsibility for a number of functions and new technologies that are currently managed by other organizations, including military intelligence, weather forecasting, and aviation.

It has been an Important part of the United Earth Forces and has become a part of the United Stars Armed Forces early on.

Today it is one of the most impotant military organizations and by far the biggest Union Army department, even bigger than the Army Corps of Engineers.

It maintains the militaty version of GalCom[1] and is licensend by SII to know the full functionality of GalCom and GalNet.

The ComSpec Engineers of the USASC are highly trained specialists who “know the other secret”[2] Com Spec enigneers are the instructors for Communication officers of the fleet.

All relay buoys are under the auspice of the USASC.

To maintain this vast net USASC sometimes hires private contractors (SII exclusive of course) and maintain a fleet of highly specialized ships that are FTL capable but not called ships, but Buoy Tenders.

The USASC also has a research division to develop new communication technlogies and to develop better ways to listen, broadcast and monitor any form of existing communication systems.[3]

(The ALLCOMM MODULE part of every Union Fleet ship is a direct development of that research

All Z-Point Stations are under the authority of the Signal Corps.

It closley works with NAVINT and the Fleet.

The USASC has also a highly secret department conducting Signal intelligence





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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">[1]The Military uses a federal version of GalCom. Officially designated NavCom but no one not even the Communications officers use the term. Virtually everybody in the Union says GalCom Call or GalNet Connection.

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">[2] The ability of instant communication is seen as a vital as the secret of Transform cannons and is almost as jealously guarded.

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">[3] Including Long range telepathics and psionics