SUBSPACE
Relay service in continuous operation since stardate filing 47.2

Nothing arrives instantly. Nothing ever did.

Subspace holds every message for the transit time your stated coordinates require, issues every group chat a bridge roster, and reviews your outbound text against the established material before anyone reads it. Median delivery is nine minutes. Nobody has asked us to shorten it.

09:14median transit
2,411relays online
188channels under review
6,902messages held

What the service does to your messages

glazing schedule / lights I–III

Three behaviours, all of them mandatory, none of them configurable. They apply on the free tier and on the eight thousand four hundred dollar tier in exactly the same way.

Light I

Transit is calculated, not simulated

You enter your position. We take it at face value. Every message is then held for the exact interval a signal would need to cross that distance, down to the second, and released without further comment. Most crews sit between four and eleven minutes apart. One pair sits at 4.24 years. They have filed nothing.

shortest pair on record 00:04:12
longest pair on record 4.24 yr
override requests granted 0
Light II

Every channel has a bridge

Group chats are issued a roster: Comms, Helm, Science, Engineering, Medical. Only the officer holding Comms may transmit. Everyone else files into the suggestion log, which Comms is under no obligation to open. Rotation runs weekly, is published fourteen days out, and cannot be edited by anyone including us.

stations per channel 5
watch length 7 days
suggestion log entries never opened 71%
Light III

Continuity is reviewed before delivery

An on-device reviewer checks each outbound message against 1,140 hours of established material. A contradiction is not deleted. It is held, logged, cited, and attached to your continuity score, which is visible to every member of the channel and does not reset.

reference hours indexed 1,140
median review time 0.31 s
held for contradiction this week 6,902

Crew on the record

chapter register / three of 41,908
Dana Restrepo, photographed head-on under a single cold light.
“The delay read as a defect for about two weeks. Then I understood it was the entire product and I stopped complaining.”
Dana Restrepo
Volunteer Continuity Officer, Regional Fan Federation, Chapter 12
register 12-0441 / continuity 88
Neil Abbasi, photographed head-on under a single cold light.
“I held Comms for six days. I transmitted four times. All four were correct and the log shows it.”
Neil Abbasi
Night Supervisor, Municipal Water Treatment, and Helm on three channels
register 09-1177 / continuity 94
Gordon Pike, photographed head-on under a single cold light.
“My continuity score is 61. My wife’s is 94. We have agreed not to discuss it at the table.”
Gordon Pike
Assistant Manager, Tire and Lube Center 402, and Chapter Archivist
register 22-0038 / continuity 61

Commission schedule

effective this fiscal year / revised without notice
rank
commission
what the rank permits
Cadet
$0Receive. Observe. Wait for a station.
  • Read every channel you are assigned to
  • File into the suggestion log without limit
  • Standard transit delay, no priority routing
  • Continuity score calculated and published
Duty Officer
$19 / monthYou may transmit during your watch.
  • Transmit while holding Comms
  • Rotation schedule visible fourteen days out
  • Three continuity appeals per quarter
  • Delivery receipts with relay path
Flag Officer
$8,400 / yearBilled per fiscal year. Non-transferable. Reviewed annually.
  • Permanent Comms on up to four channels
  • Two delay overrides per year, logged publicly
  • Your continuity score is withheld from the channel
  • Direct line to the continuity board, which does not answer

Commissions are granted, not purchased. Payment begins a review. Review outcomes are final and are not communicated.

The channel is already assembled. You are not on the roster yet.

Open a bridge channel and watch a message sit in transit for nine minutes while five people who cannot transmit look at it.