SOS has become an application platform. Applications now install onto a citizen’s terminal and are permitted by what that citizen is entitled to run. This is how MacroSol says it should always have worked, and the company has said so with some feeling.
The first new arrival is Longhand, a command application that sits alongside Vantage. Vantage gives you a view over the world. Longhand lets you say what you want done, in full, rather than pointing at it. Type a question mark and it tells you what can be said where you are. Type “aegis” and it understands that you mean 1st VSC · Aegis Station. Anything that costs you something asks first.
“Longhand does nothing the desktop cannot,” a MacroSol spokesperson said. “It simply lets you put it in writing. Some of our citizens have been asking for this since the first landings.”