Kildar
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Sorry Cliff, but to the best of my knowledge this is actually incorrect.omnidirectionally propagate to be picked up by every HPG receiver within range. The Inner Sphere had used a hub-and-spoke network of large, long-range 'class A' HPGs at key nodal points and shorter-ranged 'class B' HPGs on almost every inhabited world to propagate packet transmission across the entire network, each node forwarding a packet one step closer to its listed destination until they arrived with the 'all HPGs in range receive the signal' feature used to prevent packet loss via redundant transmission routes.
You had most of it right, but a HPG actually acts more like a laser communicator, not a radio. It basically opens up a path through hyperspace (wormhole) that radio waves gets beamed through. It's one way, because it's basically a "constant jump event", but that's still one of the best ways to describe it.
The difference between A and B class facilities, is how long the transmission can be held for AND how often the transmission can be made.
Honestly though, the update doesn't need much alteration as it was only roughly a paragraph. The rest is bang on and even matches my theories about why the star league used HPGs.
I'm guessing you were reading about the black box and thought they worked the same way? That's what it read like, as that part was exactly how the black box works.