Unreviewed Breshig War Forge Consolidated 'Ori'haa'yam'ika' Deployable Sensor Beacon

[Shuklaar Kyrdol]

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
• Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated and Strill Securities.
• Material: Reflec laced fiberplast coating, Molecularly bonded Duranium frame, Molecularly bonded Duranium-reinforced Duraplast composite plating, Condensed-matter composite reinforcements, Agrinium and Thermal gel lining, Anti-corr coating, combat de-ionizer, and Ultrachrome wiring, circuitry and electronics.
• Modularity: Variants exist for all the company's mass-driver (including accelerator cannon) weapon offerings.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Detection, Targeting and Tracking

Data Fusion: The system compares and correlates the data coming in from the myriad systems, showing the operator the combined picture from the various systems to reduce errors and outliers as much as is possible.

Audio Sensors Optics Sensors and Scanners Tracking

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  • Aural Sensor array with Aural Amplifier and Sonic Dampener.
  • Externally mounted, concealed Audio Pickup array.
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  360-degree FOV Coverage Wide-angle Electro Photo Receptor(s) with Electrotelescope functions:
  
  • Automatic Anti-Flash functions.
  • Feed Recording: The composite sensor feed can be recorded to data cards or other storage mediums connected either wired or wirelessly.
  • Light Amplification functions.
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  • Full-spectrum transceiver Array(s)
  • Dedicated Energy Receptor Array(s)
  • Spy Ray
  • Hyperwave Signal Interceptor
  • Long-range Heat Detector(s)
  • LIDAR
  • Fast-target Compensator
  • Terrain-following Sensor
  • Mutisensor Airflow Analyzer
  • Collision Avoidance System
  • Proximity Indicator
  • EMS Scanner: The EMS Scanner can be used for targeting and tracking purposes of specific EM signatures or can store specific EM signatures for later use.
  • General Purpose Scanner (Lifeform Scanner unable to bypass stealth systems)
  • Environment Scanner
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  • Target Acquisition and Tracking, Countermeasures Compensation augmented Tracking Computer

Navigational Suite

• The navigation suite uses the different systems to best ascertain the sensor's location.
  • Navigational Sensor
  • Long-range Environment Scanner
  • Long-range GeoScanner

Software

• Mapping: The deployable sensor utilizes its navigation suite along with its other systems to create a map of the area.
• Positional Mapping: The system tracks the positions of friendly, hostile and neutral contacts on the map generated by the navigational suite and is constantly updated based on local and networked data.

Networking

Each beacon deployed that is within comms range of each other are all linked together in a mesh network. They can then link to additional devices such as starships, stations, satellites, drones and other automated defensive systems. but they also have transmit only link functions with the 'Manda'-M Tactical Battlenet or any other battlenet patched to function with 'Manda' style data-sharing and processing.

Comms

Encryption/Decryption Suite Location Spoofing/Scrambling Communications Suite Backup Communication Systems Security Systems

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  • Comm Unit Scrambler
  • Communication Wave Descrambler
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  • Ion Scrambler
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  When connected to compatible systems, the communication suite is an auto-negotiating, frequency hopping system with a self-modulating encryption key, making it extremely resistant to jamming and interception. The comm-lasers can mimic this by rapidly shifting their broadcast spectrum.
  
  • Comm Laser
  • Hypercomm
  • Holographic Comm Unit
  • Emergency Jammer Function: Each of the aforementioned devices can generate artificial noise.
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  • PTP Link (w/ PTP Encryption Device)
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  • RRDM
  • Socketguard
  • Echo Pulse
  • Pyrowall
  • Holotrace
    • Connection Trace functionality

Power

• Backup Rylith Power Cell (provides approximately 3 months of use on a full charge)

Propusion

The sensors maintain a configurable distance from each other by using their propulsion systems to spread out.

• TibannaX burning IR suppressed thrust trace dampened vectored ion-atmospheric hybrid thruster(s) w/ scramjet booster
• Repulsorlift(s)

STRENGTHS

• Jamming Resistant: The system's data fusion prevents interference generated by jamming or other electronic warfare from overwhelming the system, with only extremely heavy electronic warfare being able to cause any real issues to the system.
• A Million Eyes: The additional sensor beacons can greatly improve a formation's sensor coverage and overall battlefield awareness.

WEAKNESSES

• Packed In: There is not a lot of space in the beacon. A penetrating shot is likely to damage one of the beacon's many components.
• Not Stealth: Though possessing an extraordinarily small sensor profile for something of its size, the beacon is in fact entirely detectable by particularly advanced military grade sensor suites, especially those that cross check data from different sensor and scanner systems such as the missile's own.
• EMP/Ion: Should the system actually sustain EMP/Ion damage that bypasses it's defenses, then it can cause all manner of havoc, such as data corruption, sensor damage, forced reboots and even total system failure.

DESCRIPTION

The 'Ori'haa'yam'ika' is the space and orbit based version of the 'Haa'yam'ika'. Networked sensor suites and cross-platform networking are a proven solution but the unfortunate truth of warfare is that you cannot place units to cover every single blind spot effectively. This is the problem Strill Securities faced both on ground and in orbit. The ground-based solution was scaled up and fitted with starship-grade sensor, scanner and tracking equipment and software for deployment in space and in orbit.

The sensor, scanner and optical system on the beacons have a full 360-degree coverage and employ data fusion, giving them great resistance to jamming and other electronic warfare. Particularly electronic warfare dense zones can notably reduce the effectiveness of some of the systems in the suite, but not totally prevent them from functioning. This comprehensive, data-fused suite and extremely fast data processing capabilities gives the beacons considerable detection capability, virtually ensuring that barring full sensor and optical stealth virtually nothing would reasonably be able to evade detection by it.

Like the smaller variant the beacons will automatically space out to a configurable distance from each other. Additionally, the beacons are networked, allowing them to dramatically increase transmission range. Additionally, these beacons are also networked into the 'Manda' battlenet via one-way transmit only function.

With this in mind, the system has a number of flaws. Should the system actually sustain EMP/Ion damage that bypasses it's defenses, then it can cause all manner of havoc, such as data corruption, sensor damage, forced reboots and even total system failure. Additionally, there is not a lot of space in the beacon. A penetrating shot is likely to damage one of the beacon's many components. Finally, while jamming resistant, particularly electronic warfare dense zones can notably reduce the effectiveness of some of the systems in the suite, but not totally prevent them from functioning.