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'''Communication relays''' are [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] planetary [[cOM|communication]] facilities. A single colony may have at least three local carrier hubs that connect to a primary communications facility responsible for interstellar communication.<ref name="overlook">'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', ''[[Halo: Reach radio conversations#Overlook|Overlook radio conversation]]''</ref> Communication relays also apparently manage connections to a planet's reconnaissance satellites.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[Noble Actual]]'' (''"...hit a relay to take out our eyes and ears..."'')</ref> On [[Reach]], the [[Visegrád Relay|Visegrad Relay]] was one of the planet's three northern carrier hubs.<ref name="overlook"/>

Due to their importance, communications hubs can be optimal targets for [[Insurrectionist]] attacks. In early [[2552]], rebels on [[Harmony]] disabled a relay and stole two dry-docked [[freighter]]s. Similarly, it was assumed that the communications disruption at the Visegrad relay station on July 23, 2552 was caused by insurgents, before it was revealed to be the work of a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] advance party instead.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''Noble Actual''</ref>