Shuklaar Kyrdol
CEO of Breshig War Forge Consolidated
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create an advanced hyperdrive-navicomputer module for Breshig War Forge Consolidated, Strill Securities and select others.
- Image Source: N/A.
- Canon Link: N/A.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: Hyperdrive, Navicomputer.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
- Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated and Strill Securities.
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: 'Ori'karbakar' Advanced Hyperdrive-Navicomputer Module.
- Modularity: Various variants for varying tonnages can be integrated into starships and stations. The drive is relatively easy to work with and modify.
- Production:
- 'Standard' version: Minor.
- Internal Use for Prototypes and Flagships and trusted customers: Semi-Unique.
- Material: Duranium frame, reinforced Duraplast-molecularly bonded Duranium composite armor plating, Agrinium mesh and Thermal gel lining, cryoban cooling system, combat de-ionizer, Condensed-matter composite lined housing, hyperdrive components, Ultrachrome circuitry, electronics and wiring.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Built-in Advanced Navicomputer:
- Early-warning System: The early warning system checks the route the platform's travelling with its own sensor suite against the nav data stored. If an anomaly is detected, the system can be configured to automatically drop out of hyperspace, or chart a route around it thanks to it's navcomp route astrogation bypass module, or if manual override is engaged, it'll present the options to the crew.
- Micro-jump Capable: The navicomputer is perfectly capable of charting expertly calculated precision jumps, and is capable of charting a course that intentionally uses an artificial gravity well detected by it's early-warning system to drop it out of hyperspace at that precise location.
- Asteroid Orbital Drift Chart: The computer's charts are regularly updated from company servers whenever a new update is available provided the ship or station is in holocom range.
- Slave Circuit Code: The Navicomputer can share or make use of shared slave circuit codes to make coordinated jumps, which is especially useful for fleets and other naval formations.
- Datacard Port(s)
- NavaCard Port(s)
- Emergency Calibration System
- Gyrocomputer
- Nav Computer Route Astrogation Bypass
- Interstellar Jump Schedule copy (updated at each major station)
- Reckoner
- Detailed Astrogation Maps of known space.
- Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainer (Semi-Unique model)
- Low-observability Mode: The drive features a low-observability mode deceleration, where the drive slows down to the speed of a Class 20 drive for the last 15-30 minutes of the jump, ideally avoiding setting off gemcutters, reversion sensors or similar technology. Unfortunately, this reversion takes about 4-5 seconds for large starfighters, and proportionately longer for larger ships. This slowed revision takes about 4-5 seconds for a large starfighter, and is proportionately longer for larger ships. During this time, a ship is unable to fire weapons and is more or less a sitting duck.
- Advanced Geometry Hyperspace Bubble: The advanced geometry hyperspace bubble generated by the drive enables it to retain a low profile when dropping out of hyperspace, making it significantly harder to detect by hyperspace early warning systems, hyperwave monitors and signal interceptors.
- Emergency S-thread Booster: In the absence of a viable route, the drive can force open a tunnel between two known safe locations using nav data from the integrated navicomputer.
- Jump Capacitor(s): Features capacitors that allow it to store up energy for multiple jumps. Micro-jumps take less energy, with one micro-jump taking roughly half the energy of a standard short range hyperspace jump. The number of capacitors installed depends on the platform.
- Safety Features:
- Hyperspace Shunt(s)
- Transpacitor(s)
- Mineral Spotter: An integrated mineral spotter scans the area around the drive for firegems, and shuts down the drive if any are detected as well as alerts the crew to this fact.
- Diagnostic Suite: The drive's diagnostic suite will checking that the entire module is functioning correctly both before and after a jump, and keep the crew apprised of any issues. Should a critical malfunction or damage be detected, the suite will lock the drive down and prevent it from being actuated.
STRENGTHS
- Fast Recharge: Thanks to it's jump capacitors, the drive can recharge quickly and make several jumps or micro-jumps in quick succession.
- Subtle: The advanced geometry hyperspace bubble and the low-observability jump mode make the Ori'karbakar a very subtle hyperdrive indeed.
- Emergency Contingencies: The module has a number of contingencies, whether for detecting potentially fatal damage or malfunction, avoiding artificial gravity wells, or making jumps in tumultuous conditions, the module has a number of countermeasures that can allow it to function.
- Fast, Precise Navigation: The navicomputer is extremely powerful and has a number of navigational and scheduling aids to allow it to perform fast, precise calculations such that the mounting platform gets where it needs to be on time as far as is possible.
WEAKNESSES
- Immobile and Passive: During the revision process for the low-observability jump mode, a ship is more or less a sitting duck and unable to fire back or maneuver.
- EMP/Ion: These modules are designed with combat condition service in mind, however, given the proliferation of extremely powerful EMP and Ion weapons, the chance of such damage bypassing the defensive measures of the module is high. Should this occur, the chance of irreparable damage is high.
- The Force: There is no inbuilt protection against the various offensive force powers that exist to deal devastating damage or to sabotage technology.
- Sensors: The early-warning system is entirely reliant on the sensor suite of it's mounting platform. A low resolution sensor suite will be unreliable in detecting artificial gravity wells, while one lacking the requisite sensors will invalidate this function entirely.
- Space: Larger vessels require more energy per jump, and as a result, require more capacitors which takes up more space.
DESCRIPTION
The Ori'karbakar was designed by the company to be the last hyperdrive that would be needed, performing all the necessary functions that could be required whilst not being too difficult for the company to produce at scale. The decision to pair the navicomputer and hyperdrive together had been to ease production, but also helps the marketability of the drive, as most people in the market for a drive wouldn't mind spending extra on a markedly improved navicomputer. Of course, being designed for combat condition service, the module has a number of features that are focused towards military use, and as a result is more expensive than many equivalent drives on the market.
One of the main features of the drive is its fast-charge feature, thanks to the jump capacitors installed. This allows the ship to make multiple standard or micro-jumps in quick succession.Though on larger vessels, the increased energy requirements per jump necessitates an increased number of capacitors, and as such the amount of space the module takes is higher than comparable drives.
Another key consideration when the drive was being designed was low-observability, to allow vessels, especially those with advanced stealth features, to retain the element of surprise by not being immediately given away once they've dropped out of hyperspace. As such, two measures were taken. The first was a advanced geometry hyperspace bubble, which allows it to retain a low profile when dropping out of hyperspace, making it significantly more difficult to detect by hyperspace early warning systems, hyperave monitors, signal interceptors and the like. The second measure was the low-observability jump mode, which slowed the deceleration of the drive to the speed of a Class 20 drive for the last fifteen to thirty minutes of the jump, idealling avoiding setting off gemcutters, reversion sensors or similar technology. This reversion takes about 4-5 seconds for large starfighters and proportionately longer for larger ships, during which the ship is unable to fire weapons or maneuver.
The Navicomputer included with the module is extremely advanced, allowing for fast, precise calculations thanks to an asteroid orbital drift chart, detail astrogation maps as well as a constantly updated copy of the interstellar jump schedule. This generally means that the ship or station gets to where it needs to be almost always when it needs to be there. This, however, is hardly what makes the navicomputer stand out. The navicomputer features an early-warning system that scans the route using the platform's sensors to check for artificial mass shadows, at which point if one is detected the system can be configured to automatically drop out of hyperspace, or chart a route around it thanks to it's navcomp route astrogation bypass module. Alternatively, if manual override is engaged, it'll present the options to the crew.
The drive's housing is built to take a lot of damage, and a diagnostic suite keeps the crew alerted to any damage, and prevents the drive from being activated should any of that damage prove to be critical. An integrated mineral spotter checks for firegems around the drive and ensures that any sabotage attempts using firegems does not go undetected. That said, however, the drive is still vulnerable to EMP and Ion damage, and should any such damage bypass the protective measures put in place, the damage is very likely to be irreparable or extremely difficult in the very least. Finally, the force has several techniques that can be used to damage or destroy the module and the module has no protection against most of them.
