Domino
Warden of the Ice
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Intent: Flesh out an NPC submission.
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Phenex Industries
Model: BP-Long Range Boosted Comms
Affiliation: Silver Jedi, Katarina Marines
Modularity: Back Pack contents can be swapped & pouches moved/added/removed.
Production: Mass-Produced.
Material: Hybrid plexisteel & High-grade Comm Materials, desh-terethium weave mixed with 1000 denier nylon for the pack. Diatium power cells.
Strengths: Cuts through minor jamming, Long range communications, encrypted
Weaknesses: Heavy, Makes wearer a target, Voice/data only
Description: A BP-LR Boosted Comm is a man-portable, frequency modulated receiver/transmitter used to provide secure long-range multi-channel voice communication above the squad level for military operations. Typically this means one radio per squad or 'element' so that communication with command structures can be maintained over a greater distance or in worse conditions than might otherwise be achieved with standard helmet communications.
The larger size and antenna give it the power to punch through most civilian and low-mid grade jamming and, if un-jammed, the unit has the range for in-system communications off planet. Encryption ensures secure communication between the sets and is achieved by loading the same alpha/numeric key into all radios in a group establishing a 'channel group' and rendering intercepted transmissions as gibberish. Plans will need to be in place on the command level to determine responses to a radio with the key being lost or stolen. Often this is easily managed by having more than one encryption key that can be swapped out to on the fly or by adding the missing radio to an exclusion list. How to determine if a radio is lost in the field as opposed to out of communication is up to the commander.
Each radio can be in up to ten 'Channel Groups' at once, usually one will be low security channel for day-to-day communication while several will be more restricted to certain parties on the tactical level. Ideally sets in the field will have no more than three keyed in at any given time, the general channel, one to command, and a third for inter-squad communications in an element. The option for more was included for flexibility and command radios interacting with multiple groups.
Primary Source: BLR-C/S-M1
