Personal communicator

Personal communications equipment is small and versatile. Most units are mounted in a light headset or contained in a single earplug and integrate into the user's bodycomp. These devices are generally voice-activated and can function with sub-vocalisations or bone conduction. These radios operate on a broad spectrum of frequencies and often contains scanners. Military grade personal comms are usually integrated into combat helmets and run frequency hopping and scrambling programs. A basic comms set has a line of sight range of 10 kilometres.

Longer range communication is normally done with uplink communicators. Satellite communication on Poseidon is often problematic. Severe weather, sat malfunctions and sabotage, jamming signals, and constantly changing security protocols make reliable communications difficult. There are several strictly commercial public sat systems online, but their operation and maintenance is unregulated and therefore unreliable. They are also very expensive, usually requiring payment authorisation in advance.