The One and Prime PWN

The One and Prime PWN is the Planet-Wide Network of Aldaain, one of the most advanced computer networks in the Galaxy. Staggering amounts of information pass through countless of communication methods and protocols, computer systems, and people every second, at speeds faster than light. Not simply limited to the surface of Aldaain, the planet's moons are also linked directly into the network, as are most orbital platforms as well as some starships.

In addition to handling the data processing needs of the local population, the One and Prime is one of the central nodes of the entire the Collective Network, handling a large portion of Delta Quadrant transmissions of the Collective. The central nodes of such critical networks as GovNET, ColonyNET and PRIMENET are part of this system. Massive levels of subspatial and other tachyonic communications are constantly received and relayed from interstellar distances and broadcasted back into the void by vast arrays of transceivers.

Like all PWNs, the One and Prime PWN is overseen by an Administrator. The particular Administrator of Aldaain, once an ordinary Hemmoian, has long since evolved beyond his corporeal body, existing only within the network as a highly advanced intelligence. He no longer simply operates the network, rather, he has become the network.

History

The One and Prime PWN evolved progressively out of OrcNet 2.0, the earlier planet-spanning network on Aldaain.

In the Hemmoian Civil War, the PWN was attacked by a radical renegade faction of the Rebellion. Like the Rebellion in general, these radicals had extensive knowledge of the Collective protocols and managed to infiltrate the PWN security systems, inserting a highly damaging, fractal-polymorphic parallel processing virus into the network, disabling critical systems at a geometric rate. Meanwhile, real world bombs were dropped to the surface of Aldaain, including EMP munitions which further disabled electronic systems and caused incomprehensible damage to the planetary infrastructure, heavily relied on the functionality of the Collective.

Eventually because of this chaotic development, the subspace broadcasting relays on and around Aldaain were overloaded and shut down, resulting in a communications blackout felt in ripples throughout the Collective as the central nodes of critical networks such as PRIMENET went off the grid. This event became known as The Darkening and was one of the key factors that eventually resulted in a cease-fire between the rebels and the Great Council, signalling the end of the Civil War.

See also

• Primary Data Loop, interstellar Collective core network