On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 20:35:57 -0700 (PDT), Thomas RUX <xxxxxx@comcast.net>
wrote:

>Hello Cian,
>
>
>I know I've heard of ansible, but not in Traveller, after a search online I found that the device was found in Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

I believe that the original use of the term was by Ursula K. LeGuin in her
Hainish Ecumen novels; it has since been widely picked up by just about any
author that has faster-than-travel/faster-than-light communications in
their novel settings.

FWIW, I had a thread on ansibles in Traveller here on the list some time
back, wherein I assumed that it was essentially a FTT/FTL
"telephone/vidphone" or "rich-media email" system; the results of that
discussion were beaten into article shape, and printed as
https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/tech/ansibles.html

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