Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a new type of socketguard for Aurora Industries to use and sell
- Image Source: https://depositphotos.com/251610518/stock-video-circle-hud-head-display-interface.html
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Socketguard Quantum-switch Code Key
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Aurora Industries
- Affiliation: Aurora Industries, Closed-Market
- Model: Evo QuantumGuard
- Modularity: None
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material:
- Shapeshifting Data Interface Lattice
- Biometric Scanner
- Two Virtual Intelligences
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Using a constantly shifting interface lattice, the QuantumGuard is designed to only accept specially designed interface keys to allow access to terminals installed with the device. The keys solidify the lattice into a specific setting that will only form if the correct key is inserted. Current computer spikes and incorrect keys will never solidify the lattice into the correct interface, denying access to a potential slicer or spy.
- As a compliment to the shifting lattice, the QuantumGuard also scans the biometrics of the being attempting to access the terminal. If the biometrics do not match those within the security system, access will be denied even if the correct key is inserted.
- As a further measure, just in case a savvy slicer is able to fool both the lattice and biometrics, the QuantumGuard is equipped with two virtual intelligences designed off slicer droid brains that will counter efforts to hack the terminal by initiating a counter-slice, alerting security, or locking the interface lattice into an incorrect position.
STRENGTHS
- The QuantumGuard was created to make it nigh impossible to access an equipped terminal by slicers using a three tiered system of checks between the shifting data lattice, the biometric scanner, and the installed virtual intelligences.
- Installation is simple as any terminal that accepts current socketguards can be equipped with the new system or have the old system swapped out.
WEAKNESSES
- While the QuantumGuard is a new system designed to stop slicers from accessing secure data, with current slicing techniques being checked, it does not mean that a savvy slicer prepared to face such a device wouldn't be able to figure out a way around it.
- A Force-user very skilled in mechu-deru would be able to fool the virtual intelligences and the data lattice.
DESCRIPTION
In the middle of Aurora Industries' Phase Two for their modernization program, it struck Ary Jaxson that the security systems used by many companies, galactic factions, and even normal people had been woefully neglected in upgrades. Almost every design, for instance, used the same socketguard systems to protect against slicers that had been in use for time immemorable. Sure, the internals might get changed around, the programming changed, or the keys altered, but by and large, the system had remained the same and exploitable. Jaxson decided it was time to update the venerable system.
Jaxson personally designed the new system and sent it off for fabrication by the design team on Erilnar. The new system, called the Evo QuantumGuard, was created with a core shifting interface lattice that could be keyed to specific cards and only be able to read those. Anything else would not create the proper lattice alignment for access. A biometric scanner was also added that would scan the user as they attempted access, making sure their data matched that stored within personnel files. A final feature was the addition of two virtual intelligences, created from the droid brains of slicer droids, that could counter-slice any criminal and alert security subtly.
