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PANOPTES INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS SYSTEM V1.3

TRANSCRIPTION OF COLLECTED LYRICS FOLLOWS

NOTE: This barely-modified version of a 19th-Century Earth song is traditional among wandering spacers, and about a place of plenty and convenience. It is one of countless that evoke the “Land of Milk and Honey” concept from a modern, space-faring point of view. It is also one of many erroneously credited to the Blind Singer.

NOTE 2: For unknown reasons, the traditionally more splendid and ridiculous fantasies of those songs have been reduced in this case to a more modest one: a fast food location which seems simply better than adequate.

NOTE 3: The Prime Galactic Regency has limited the number of Burger World locations within its borders for classified reasons. However in all other known space, the restaurants are so numerous and so widespread that countless exploration probes have reached uncharted positions, only to discover that a franchise has already been established there.

NOTE 4: Apparently in pursuit of a location for the "Real Burger World" mentioned in the song, multiple intrusion attempts by unknown hackers have occurred on the PANOPTES military database, including this file.

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Erik Lind

Burger World always finds out!

CassiopeiaQuinn

You don't get billions of people's financial information across an incredibly wide reach of space without becoming a powerful intelligence organization by default.

John Trauger

In a universe where there is routine, low-lag interstellar commuication, it's easy for a chain restaurant to set up a server network that tracks customer accounts across various star systems. While the people we follow travel to multiple star systems, one expects the norm is people choose a planet (or are simply born/hatched, etc on a planet) and they stick with it, so having a customer account follow the customer is not going to incur a lot of overhead. With that in mind, the expected data model would have server nodes scattered around a planet depending on how settled it is. If transmission is sufficiently cheap and bandwidth sufficiently large, one server node could end up supporting operations across a whole planet of even multiple star systems.