So... intercom's are a thing on a ship.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Like... why? wouldn't everybody use there chronocoms? Or do you think there is a reason Chronocoms don't get used like Star Trek communicators? I was wondering if the ship's hull might interefer with the signal but you would think they would just build that into the ship (as in some sort of voice over IP style addition to the computer network).</div><div><br /></div><div>Granted our game came out before the rise of the cell phone. Why in star trek TOS did they rarely use communicators instead of the ship intercom system? I'm thinking it was just the culture of the time the show was being produced.</div><div><br /></div><div>My possible explanations are... they work but dialing a Chronocom takes liek 10 - 30 seconds and the default for intercom terminals is when you hit the button it sends your voice message to the bridge. Maybe come areas of the ship do interfear with a chronocom signal (like nearer the engines) or my last reason might be that they could build voice over IP style tech into the ship but they just choose to not do it on older/smaller UPF ships but customs ships and maybe newer destroyers might have that sort of thing.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Any other thoughts? When I run my "Big Ship" game for my players I'm certain this will come up.</div>
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