Delphi

Delphi is the ESPF's quantum computer system, used to provide both military and civilian support.

Description & Characteristics
Quantum computing has long been considered a pinnacle of computational technology, providing a revolutionary new method of processing mathematical issues, making the system dramatic more powerful than a conventional binary based computer. Delphi serves as the Federation's shared quantum computer, technically being a mainframe distributed into various nodes, communicating via Hyperwaves to distribute data accordingly. Each node is a superconductor-based system housed within an extremely well-insulated environment to block out external magnetic fields, allowing the superconductive circuitry to successfully realise qubits (units of quantum information, able to be in a superposition of both 0 and 1 simultaneously).

While each node is only slightly larger than the early quantum prototypes, Delphi distributes its workload across multiple nodes spread throughout the Earth, Moon and various colonies. The Peacekeepers maintain access to several reserved cores, while civilians can request processing time on public ones. Delphi is most often used for scientific and economic analysis, as well as cyber security, weather prediction and managing space traffic. The Peacekeepers and Praetorians initially also used Delphi for strategic prediction and maintaining fleet infrastructure, but later also for Cyber-Transcendants to enhance their abilities. Delphi's nodes are also more than capable of housing transferred consciousnesses due to their quantum processing power, until they are downloaded into a compatible body.

Delphi can be accessed conventionally through the internet for most of its civilian functions, but military nodes can only use authorised lines or direct Hyperwave connections in order to reduce illegal access. The nodes themselves are built within earthquake-resistant structures underground on a planet or within the core structure of a space colony. By using a distributed system, Delphi cannot be truly disabled or destroyed until every node is offline. Multiple DIs run within Delphi for both user interfacing and self-regulation to ensure at least basic self-maintenance is performed.

Notes & Trivia

 * Delphi shares several traits with Mobile Suit Gundam 00's, but differs in that Delphi was built as a public tool from its inception and is not used as a database or executive authority.