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EARTH ALLIANCE IDENTI-CARD
Personal identity cards, also known at Identicards or "PICS" are the primary means of identification used in the "Earth Alliance" and all other major space fairing races visiting Earth colonies, space stations and outposts and, for all intent and purposes, the Identicard is a high-tech driver's licence. Identicards are mandated to contain a person's name, photo, birth date and point of origin, as well as their Identicard registration number. Many people however use the Identicard for such a wide variety of purposes, everything from passport to use as a credit card. As such, these little digital cards often possess almost every bit of personal information one could immagine; everything from medical records, personal callenders and banking accounts can be found stored on these cards. The more information one stores on a Indenticard, the greater the need for security. Thus many Identicards can also include finger print, retina and DNA security measures that can all be verified with the use of any computer terminal. While there are ways around these theft countermeasures, these security precautions generally make it unprofitable for someone to steal a person's identicard in anything short of large numbers. PICS use a crystalline memory module with a 2.7 terabytes data storage capacity. The system also contains a reactive holographic playback screen and a kinetic/solar rechargable power source.
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