You seem entertained on the IC, so I'll wait until you finish fooling around before making you enter Ragol's atmospheres.
It would also be nice if you have your characters fully polished out when that happens.
Actually I planned on using his Infusions, repair/disable, & knowledge out of combat. Which shouldn't be too big of a deal given no access to the rather abusive one. I did use PB25 rather than none-elite array through.
Now that's ok, altough remember mechas are immune to non-damage effects from non-mechas smaller than them unless they affect an area bigger than the mecha. Even benefical ones.
Jokes aside, good to know. What about a more local reception? Local signals and radio waves.
Depends heavily on the planet. In a place like Parum, you can get 50 meseta devices for easy, almost instantaneous communication with other willing people you have the contact of and are willing plus basic databases (altough the Android Administration can and does jam communications in certain areas to "help keep order" as they see fit).
Planets with more exotic atmospheres and/or less communication infrastructure will demand more expensive devices for worst results.
Bag of Tricks to have it on hand. What's the market price on a lollipop?
In a colony ship? 1 meseta each.
Also in case it wasn't obvious, 1 meseta equals 1 gold coin.