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Not exactly. Building K-F drives is not cheap and takes some rare materials. As such, the experimentation you're proposing isn't cheap, and would require a lot of time to build up the infrastructure to support. That's one of the major reasons the tech plateaued even in the Star League era...

Oh right, I forgot it was duplexing on top of all the rest of the stuff... yeah, real time coms not being a thing across the Inner Sphere really has nothing to do with ComStar withholding stuff, it really is energy and infastructure intensive to the point of making it impractical.

You're confusing the two different FTL communication techs. HPGs are digital communications that are said to use "data streams" and can be encrypted. The plot point you're remembering was from the Blood of Kerensky Trilogy and had to do with the Black Boxes (AKA "Fax Machines") which were an...