After leaving the backyard, Liluh picked the comm from his room and put it back on.
During the whole exchange, his father wasn't wearing a comm at all.
Unlike in rest of the federation, comms here were seen as links used by officials to track them down.
Back then, the army infiltrated comms of every big power in Orion, one of the cities in Uranus cluster and found crucial data about the Shadow Order and Chaos families.
It was a painful lesson, and the shady powers changed to Alpha Orbs—Abyssal alternative to comms.
But they were limited in ways. They couldn't act as information storages nor could they link to the meta net.
In fact, they weren't even technology per se. But rather some kind of treasure like swords that could spit fire and arrows that could freeze space.
However, due to the one single function of 'communication', all big powers used them.