The memory module was Doc's idea. I think we were on a power trip about how amazing things could be because ITS THE FUTURE. I thought it was ridiculous, but rolled with it because FUTURE. I'll revise it a bit and just say good materials engineering co-pioneered by PSG and Origin instead of a tiny FTL field controlling it. I could change the analogy to crystal and fluid intelligence, pioneered by Raymond Cattell, developed further by John L. Horn, and utilised in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
Though, if something like this did have a tiny FTL field in it, you'd have an excellent weapon in handy radio form to launch out of torpedo tubes. Use it to catch up with friends - faster than the speed of light. I think what Doc was going for was fibre optics with the light/signals going even faster thanks to FTL.
I'll revise this soon. SARP's connection is a bit funny at the moment.