Unreviewed Aal'briik-type System Jammer Suite

[Thyr Kyron]

A A L ' B R I I K​

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a starship technology for the Iron Covenant.
• Image Source: N/A
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: Roble Manufacturing
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Kestri Heavy Engineering
• Affiliation: The Iron Covenant
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Aal'briik-type System Jammer Suite
• Modularity: No
• Production: Mass-Produced
• Material:
  • Capacitators
  • Duranium Structure
  • Multi-layer armor plating
    • Impervium carbide, outer thermal spray coating
    • Quadanium steel base
  • Chromium-titanium internal protective casing
  • Liquid-Aenite Coating
  • Laminanium Superconducting Core
  • Gadolinium magnoelectronic components
  • Dolovite Heat Insulation
  • SACG-23S Shock-Absorbent Gel

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Hyperwave comm scanners
• Dedicated Sim'olan droid brain core
  • Artificial intelligence management of jamming frequencies
• Chromium-titanium internal protective casing
  • Resists interdimensional stress
  • Protects against harmful radiation
• Liquid-aenite coating
  • Effective anti-EMP and ion protection
• Tri-spine rotational emitter arrays (primary broadband interference system)
  • Relay pulse antennae
  • Subspace communications antennae
  • Broadband antennae
  • Dedicated energy receptors detect EM radiation, scanning for tightbeam frequencies
• Command sensor jammer suite
  • Voice and encryption-mimic falsification system
  • Directed anti-targeting projection
  • Multi-cell capacitator block
  • IFF Manipulation Engine
  • Interference projection matrix
• System-wide Environmental EM Saturation Field
• Hyperspace Transmission Suppression field
  • S-Thread Disruption Suite
  • Subspace relay corruption core
  • Hyperwave Transciever Fragmentation Injectors
• Orbital relay satellite network
  • Micro-orbital relay satellites, interference range amplification
    • Rudimentary propulsion systems; trajectory-adjustment only
    • Reflec coating
  • Launch tubes

STRENGTHS

• Blackout: The Aal'briik is designed to induce a blanket communications interference of holonet transmissions, comms, radio, and subspace communications, even hyperwave communications, effectively blacking out communications system-wide. Its rotational emitter arrays and orbital relay satellite amplification network enable it to shut down transmissions system-wide.
• Anti-Targeting: Although not a blanket effect, the Aal'briik can be used to directly obstruct the target lock systems of enemy ships
• Durable Under Stress: The emitter arrays are protected by anti-ion, anti-radiation, and anti-penetration. The satellites deployed are small and coated with reflec, making it difficult and time-consuming to systematically destroy, especially in a pitched battle environment.

WEAKNESSES

• Visible Target: The emitter arrays present themselves as an external target to attack. The orbital relay satellites have minimal defenses and are vulnerable to attack.
• Overwhelming Numbers: In combat scenarios in which there are multiple capital ships, the directed anti-targeting jammers of the suite are unable to handle such high numbers and only focus on the capital ships; small craft (starfighters) are left unaffected.
• Non-Modular: As a semi-external component, starship hulls must be designed around and integrate the system jammer; it cannot be merely "slotted" in.
• Satellite Recall: Recalling the satellites is a lengthy hunt and retrieve process.

DESCRIPTION
The Aal'briik-type System Jammer Suite is an all-use Mandalorian jammer designed by Kestri Heavy Engineering for the Mythos Fleet to increase its tactical edge in naval engagements. It is designed to be a primary EWAR suite of an electronics warfare cruiser.

The system's primary EWAR capabilities give it complete dominance over all wavelengths, from radio to microwave to low-energy subspace transmissions, up to hyperwave frequencies. It's S-Thread disruptor suite, powered by onboard hyperwave transcievers allows it to interject disruption into and hijack transmissions through normally-safe holonet transmission frequencies. In effect, the Ka'yatr-class can blanket a star system in static, wiping it from the holonet, or hijack into all transmission frequencies, allowing Mandalorians to transmit counter-frequencies and disrupt enemy communications, while to a casual observer, nothing would appear to be the matter.

System-wide blanket jamming is achieved through deployable orbital relay-satellite interference amplifiers, deployed via specialized launch tubes similar to those used by Mandalorian boarding pods. Once they have achieved an optimal radius around a planet, including reaching out into Lagrange points, a single cruiser creates a constellation of transmission interference. The control suite in the cruiser affords its crew complete comms control of a celestial body and its orbital environment. The time it takes to complete this domination varies with the size of a celestial body and its circumstellar region, but the variable, while non-negligible, does not increase or decrease drastically with the standard deviation of planet-sized celestial bodies.

Unlike communications jamming, the sensor jamming components of the Aal'briik are not blanket applied but rather targeted to specific ships. The jammers' multi-cell capacitator block gives it a power draw designed to cut through even the most powerful transmission waves, making it highly effective in combat against all classes of ships. The directed nature of the Aal'briik anti-targeting jammer systems results in the unfortunate side effect that, in high-volume engagements of multiple capital ships, most starfighters end up being unaffected by the targeting lock interference.