Architect
Fleet Tactical Data & Targeting Network
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a new SIGINT-relevant system for future Commonwealth ship subs.
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- Manufacturer: Imperial Commonwealth of Dosuun
- Affiliation: Imperial Commonwealth of Dosuun
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: CDT-FCTS-M1 “Fleet Tactical Data & Targeting Network”
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Limited
- Material: Durasteel housings, hardened encryption chips, shielded comms cabling, subspace transceiver arrays, signal processors, redundant data-bus nodes
- Target Solution Relay Network: Shares refined tracks, firing solutions, and vector data to allied units to reduce acquisition time and improve engagement efficiency.
- FleetNet Integration Layer: Interfaces with Commonwealth FleetNet doctrine for standardized contact reporting, threat tagging, and distributed targeting workflows.
- SIGINT Interface Node: Accepts SIGINT-derived intelligence products and converts them into actionable, time-sensitive tactical cues (identity flags, pattern alerts, emission fingerprints).
- Low-Latency Burst Transmission: Optimized for short, high-value data bursts to minimize exposure while maintaining strong targeting support.
- Authentication & Encryption Suite: Multi-key verification and hardened protocols reduce spoofing and false-track injection in contested electronic environments.
- Cross-Platform Compatibility: Designed to support escorts, strike craft, missile platforms, and command nodes without requiring identical sensor packages on every vessel.
- Force Multiplier Targeting: Improves fleet hit probability and reduces lock-on time without increasing the host ship’s offensive armament.
- Shared Situational Awareness: “Lights up the board” for the task group by distributing validated contacts quickly and consistently.
- SIGINT to Tactical Conversion: Turns strategic intelligence into immediate battlefield advantage, especially against emission-disciplined or ECM-heavy opponents.
- Network Dependency: Benefits degrade sharply if allied units lack compatible receivers, are operating under comms silence, or are heavily jammed.
- EW Contested Vulnerability: Although hardened, the network can be slowed or degraded by intense jamming, deception, and link disruption, forcing fallback to local sensors.
- Bandwidth & Prioritization Limits: In large engagements, the system must triage what gets transmitted; poor doctrine can lead to clutter, delayed updates, or missed high-priority cues.
- Security Burden: Strong encryption and authentication require disciplined key management; compromised keys can force throttling, isolation, or temporary loss of shared targeting.
The Fleet Tactical Data & Targeting Network (FTDTN) is a Commonwealth distributed engagement suite designed to ensure that spotting becomes killing power—without turning every escort into a heavier gunship. Built around a Target Solution Relay Network and a hardened FleetNet / SIGINT Interface Node, FTDTN takes the refined contacts produced by specialist assets and pushes them across the task group in low-latency bursts. Escorts acquire targets faster, fighters receive cleaner intercept vectors, and missile platforms waste fewer shots on poor locks. The suite’s defining value is that it elevates the entire formation’s lethality through information rather than additional firepower.
FTDTN also bridges the usual gap between SIGINT and fleet combat. Where SIGINT platforms excel at long-horizon collection and pattern analysis, FTDTN converts that intelligence into time-sensitive tactical cues—identity flags, emission fingerprints, and behavior warnings—so a task group can respond before an enemy’s first salvo lands. The system is not invulnerable: in heavy electronic warfare environments, its links can be degraded, delayed, or forced into strict transmission discipline, reducing the “board-lighting” effect. Overreliance can also become a liability if commanders forget that shared targeting is only as good as the network’s integrity and prioritization. In properly trained hands, however, FTDTN is the quiet difference between a chaotic brawl and a short, efficient engagement.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a new SIGINT-relevant system for future Commonwealth ship subs.
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https://www.midjourney.com
Canon Link:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
N/A
Technical Information
Affiliation:
Imperial Commonwealth of Dosuun
Model:
CDT-FCTS-M1 “Fleet Tactical Data & Targeting Network”
Modular:
Yes
Material:
Durasteel housings, hardened encryption chips, shielded comms cabling, subspace transceiver arrays, signal processors, redundant data-bus nodes
