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Advanced Cyberwarfare Programme
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: To create a cyberwarfare programme
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- Manufacturer: Phaseera Manufacturing
- Affiliation: Phaseera Manufacturing
- Market Status: Closed-Market
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- Modularity: Can be reprogrammed
- Production: Minor
- Material: Electronic components, code, digits
- Relatively sophisticated AI programming for live adaptation and advanced calculations.
- Advanced slicer capabilities.
- Advanced interference capabilities.
- Advanced disruptive scrambling capabilities.
- Advanced ECM capabilities.
- System integration module.
- Cyberwarfare specialist: The ACP is specialised in cyberwarfare and will attempt to disrupt hostiles through a wide array of methods ranging from scrambling weapon tracking systems to cutting internal communications to slicing into internal systems to sabotage power stations or engines.
- Never idle: While cyberwarfare is not always called for, the ACP is never idle as it can instead focus on making use of its sophisticated AI by enhancing other system's capabilities.
- Adaptable: The sophisticated AI is capable of adapting to situations on its own without manual input and can thus remain formidable when facing a greater foe or a new challenge.
- Scaling capacity: With its advanced AI and attachability to other systems, the ACP is capable of growing tremendously in capacity as it can improve both by learning over time and being attached to systems with greater capabilities with varying natures. Since it can grow in multiple dimensions, the ACP has incredible potential.
- Energy intensive: The ACP is energy intensive and requires a relatively large capacity which means that it cannot be used portably by a single person or be carried by a small vehicle or a starfighter. It has to either be fixed or carried by a larger vehicle or ship.
- Need to focus: While the ACP is adaptable and can fit into different roles aside from its speciality in cyberwarfare, it has to focus on one task and cannot conduct cyberwarfare at the same time as other tasks. In regards to other tasks, it cannot support functions which are too different at the same time either.
- Specific targets: Cyberwarfare is only effective against things which can be hacked or interfered with in similar means. Purely mechanical or organic items are typically not susceptible to the ACP.
- Reliant: The ACP has a heavy reliance on whatever system it is attached to and will struggle to be of much use without, for instance, the capacity for long-range communications
Developed by Phaseera Manufacturing, the Advanced Cyberwarfare Programme (ACP) has seen limited use throughout its lifetime up until 864 ABY. This, however, has more to do with the system's obscurity and high cost than its quality which is widely considered to be high. In general, it is used either in military bases, essential governmental buildings or on ships as it is too energy intensive to be carried by a single individual or by a small vehicle. In the same spirit, it is typically not mounted onto planet-bound vehicles as it is often hard to motivate from a price and capacity perspective. While its production managed to avoid any controversies, there were numerous concerns about the risk of the AI going rogue in the development team. These concerns accumulated in a number of shackles being installed as a safeguard against such behaviour, although at the cost of more limited capabilities and growth potential.
Typically, the ACP operates by being connected to a powerful power source and the system which it is meant to work with. With these two connections established, it can conduct cyberwarfare and enhance the systems which it is attached to and is adaptable enough to aid in a wide range of activities ranging from calibrating weapons to predicting the weather. Naturally, these enhancement capabilities are limited as the system is specialised in cyberwarfare but with its sophisticated AI, it can often aid in some way, even if it is merely making low-priority calculations to alleviate the main system which it is enhancing and thus enhancing its capacity. Here, however, it becomes relevant for the ACP to focus on one task, meaning that it cannot both conduct cyberwarfare and enhance the capacities of another system at the same time.
The ACP is, however, highly capable in its own field of expertise and has drawn from many earlier devices and programmes to reach its current capacity and efficiency. Although it can never be guaranteed to succeed, the programme is highly adept at slicing into computers from whatever distance the comms and sensors it is attached to allows for. Even if it is not successful in the slicing process, the ACP can still attack the hostile systems by other means, for instance by overloading their capacity by sending it spam signals with useless and redundant information. While this may be counteracted by a shutdown of the hostile's communications systems, that may be a victory in itself.
Slicing into a hostile system may be one of the most potent weapons of the ACP but it can be used for lesser goals too. For instance by sending signals to shut off engines of other ships or turning off power sources or perhaps producing enough interference to scramble weapon systems to prevent effective targeting. Another example may be in how it can make an effort to scramble communications or disable or neutralise guided warheads and drones. Of course, its sophisticated AI allows it to be adaptive and creative in its approach to make use of all of its tools to, in creative ways, attack its foes.
Naturally, the cyberwarfare capabilities can also be used defensively to ward against hostile usage of such means against the systems to which it is attached.
As has been noted, there are ways in which to ward against the ACP. For instance, a similar system can defend against it and signal and communications receiving devices can be deactivated. The programme is also of limited use against organic foes or purely mechanical devices. It will, for instance, not be able to prevent a normal blaster from being fired or a Nexu from biting its prey through the means of traditional cyberwarfare.
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