Communication array

A communication array is a small network of transmitting and receiving antennas, sometimes containing subspace amplifiers, designed to enhance or support communications through interstellar space. Communication arrays are often interconnected with sensor arrays and can be deployed as platforms in space, as essential components of starships, or in larger installations on planets.

A communication array can be individual installations such as Epsilon IX station, or linked into networks as in the Hirogen communications network. 

The Corado I transmitter array was a communication array. 

Communication arrays are a vital form of technology for interstellar travel and can have tremendous scientific as well as military value. The Dominion communication array on AR-558 is an example of the latter and was the focus of considerable resources during the Dominion War. 

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