| [Carver is gloating over a seemingly beaten Bond] Elliot Carver: You're too late again, Mr. Bond. It's a bad habit. There's nothing you can do. The missile is fully programmed, it can't be stopped. In a matter of minutes, my plan will succeed, and thanks largely to your efforts, the British Navy will destroy the evidence. [Bond surreptiously activates the sea-drill behind them] And I'll be out of here, in a Carver News helicopter covering the event. It's going to be a fantastic show! James Bond: I may have some breaking news for you, Elliot. [Carver notices the approaching drill as it breaks through a window; Bond uses the distraction to overpower him] You forgot the first rule of mass media, Elliot! Give the people what they want! [Bond leaves Carver in the drill's path] Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) |
The media in Wandering Star is as broad as the stars it encompasses. Each planet and society has its own sphere of electronics media and connectivity, and the versatility of digital formats and ease of communication found (save for anything going faster than light) allows these spheres to intersect with each other and bleed throughout, creating a media space with many niches and rabbit-holes of specialised and strange content, flirting alongside the fruits of media conglomerations with mass-appeal content with targeted marketing.
Some of the mediums of media available in Wandering Star include, but aren't limited to: Digital Broadcasts, Tape-Media, Video Games and Interactive Experiences, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Social Networking, Movies, Serials, Animations, Comic Books, Music, and Hypertexts. Various formats and standards of broadcast, capture, and viewing are spread throughout the vast network as well - with some format and data standardisation taking place between the major spheres of influence.
This is an index of the media available throughout Wandering Star's universe.
The following companies in Wandering Star Online produce, or interact heavily with media.