Approved Tech Grave-Current Datacord & Kill-Chain Bus Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To field a Kainate exclusive formation datalink that carries lane timing, depth keys, seam windows, and ordnance status between strike craft without using open spectrum, keeping kill-chains intact even under jamming and battle damage.
• Image Source:
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Grave-Current Datacord & Kill-Chain Bus Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Bloodsteel Conduit Rails
  • Bloodpane Edge Couplers And Gaskets
  • Grimglass Line-Of-Sight Opto-Transceivers
  • Hexphase Timing Oscillators
  • Ebonwell RF Sink Foils
  • Sigil-Wire Handshake Lattice
  • Bonekey Hardware Tokens

• Wingborne Tight-Beam Datacord: A contour hugging optical bus runs along the forebody and wing roots, projecting a tight, formation-locked beam to sister craft. The beam rides the geometry of the aircraft, not empty space, which keeps energy low and spill minimal. Interceptors outside the formation receive nothing useful, only glints that read as background scatter.
• Kill-Chain Continuity Protocol: The bus shares drop order, seam dwell, depth keys, and live ordnance inventory in a rolling schedule that updates several times per second. If a lead bomber dies, the next node inherits the plan without a spoken word and the attack cadence persists. This leaderless token system prevents a single loss from collapsing the entire strike.
• Nullshock-Hard Physical Layer: Grimglass optics, Bloodpane gasketing, and Ebonwell sink foils isolate the datacord from EMP, ion splash, and surge backwash. Hexphase oscillators recover timing after shocks without dropping sessions, maintaining continuity while other links stutter. The result is a databus that remains readable and disciplined inside the worst electrical weather.
• Bonekey Gate And One-Way Black Channel: A physical Bonekey token inside each node signs critical messages that change arming states or alter lane timing. In emergencies the bus exposes a one-way "black channel" that pushes a single execute or abort pulse train even if the rest of the network is degraded. Because the token is hardware and air-gapped, hostile logic cannot counterfeit authority.
• Low-Signature Burst Discipline: Sigil-Wire handshakes pace the bus to formation kinematics so updates fire only at moments of lowest observability. Micro-bursts are short, randomized, and spectrally lean, then immediately bled into Ebonwell sinks. The craft communicate while remaining inside Nightcloak-class signature envelopes.
• Seam-Aware Framing: When paired with shield-breach doctrine, packet framing includes seam width, opening vector, and closing rate for the next window. Bomb bays and lance crews see a live countdown that reflects the lane the formation actually owns, not a guess. This prevents late drops, doubles, and wasted passes.

• Jam-Silent Coordination: The datacord does not live on open RF, so wideband jamming and noise storms do little to it. Formation members pass kill-chain data with almost no radiative footprint, keeping the strike quiet and coordinated at the same time. Even in heavy countermeasures, cadence and sequencing stay sharp.
• Leader Loss Immunity: The continuity protocol keeps a rolling copy of the plan distributed across all nodes. When a leader is destroyed, another node assumes timing and drop authority in a breath. This preserves the murderous rhythm that Kainate tactics demand, turning ambushes on the spearhead into wasted effort.
• EMP And Ion Resilience: Opto-isolated links and Ebonwell sink foils ride out EMP spikes and ion fog without corrupting packets. Hexphase clocks re-lock within microseconds, so packet order and checksums remain valid. Where radio nets falter and reboot, Grave-Current keeps whispering orders that matter.
• Tight Security Posture: Bonekey tokens and Bloodpane-sealed housings force command signals to originate in hardware, not software. An enemy can neither inject false timing nor escalate arming states from outside the bus. The system resists spoofing because authority is a physical object, not a variable.
• Precision Kill-Windowing: Seam-aware framing feeds pilots and co-processors exact corridor width and dwell as it changes. Bombs thread live lanes rather than stale ones, and lance shots time to real openings instead of old plots. Waste drops fall away, and each pass buys the maximum return.

• Force Nullification: While under Force Nullification, the Sigil-Wire handshake loses its biasing finesse. The bus falls back to bare optical bursts and fixed timers, which reduces update rate and makes the black channel the preferred path for critical signaling. It still works, but cadence and certainty are both thinner until clear of the null.
• Line-Of-Sight And Formation Geometry: The datacord assumes formation-tight sightlines along hull contours. Hard occlusions, debris clouds, or deep break turns can momentarily sever a node and force a brief resync on the next window. Crews who scatter beyond geometry limits lose the bus until they reform.

The Grave-Current Datacord & Kill-Chain Bus Mk. I was engineered in the vaults of Malsheem to solve a brutal truth of modern strikes. Radio nets are loud and easy to poison, yet precision bombing lives and dies on shared timing. The Kainate answered by weaving a datacord into the airframes themselves, a low-glow beam that laces between Velakorrs at blade-length distance and never touches the open sky. Bloodsteel rails carry Grimglass emitters along the wing roots, Bloodpane gaskets lock the housings tight, and Ebonwell foils drink the faint leakage before it ever becomes a trail to follow.

In flight the bus feels like a second nervous system stretched across the formation. Hexphase clocks keep every node on the same tick, and Sigil-Wire handshakes cue micro-bursts only when the kinematics say the formation is masked. The data that rides those threads is the essence of the strike: who drops first, which seam opens next, how wide it will be, how long it will breathe, and which weapons remain alive to exploit it. If a bomber is torn out of the sky, the plan does not die with it. The token passes, a new node takes the point, and the chain of murders continues with no words at all.

The bus is not a radio, not a broadcast, and not a bright network. It is a taught wire made of light and blooded craftwork, meant for the last two minutes of approach and the first two minutes of escape. In null fields its elegance fades and crews lean on the hard one-way channel and fixed timing, and when formations scatter wide the cord goes slack until they pull back together. Within the profile it was built for, Grave-Current provides exactly what the Kainate requires from its tools. Silence. Precision. Continuity. A strike that remains a strike even when the lead's wreckage is still burning.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

Very cool, as always.

Approved.