Approved Tech Graveslit Aligner Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a Kainate exclusive alignment system that reads enemy shield facets in the terminal seconds of a run and auto-biases a craft's nose and bay axis so breach corridors can be threaded with precision by bombs, lances, or missiles.
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  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Graveslit Aligner Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Bloodsteel Micro-Gimbal Cradle
  • Bloodpane Sensor Dome
  • Lignan-Doped Fringe Crystals
  • Hexphase Timing Core
  • Sigil-Wire Control Lattice
  • Ebonwell Thermal-RF Couplers
  • Ashen-Seal Isolation Stub
  • Gravitic Trim Vanes
  • Black-Ink Phase-Foil Baffles

• Facet-Reading Fringe Interferometer: A forward chin array uses Lignan-doped fringe crystals behind a Bloodpane dome to sample the target's live shield facet at multiple wavelengths. By measuring minute phase ripples and return timing, the array resolves where a breach corridor begins to open and how its walls move. The sensor favors short dwell, high confidence returns so it can function inside point-defense clutter and glare.
• Micro-Gimbal Nose Biasing: The Aligner rides in a Bloodsteel micro-gimbal cradle tied into the flight director and bay axis. In the last two seconds it applies tiny attitude trims and roll bias so the craft's drop line is centered on the corridor's spine. Corrections are small enough not to spoil stealth windows, yet precise enough to rescue a release after the pilot has already committed.
• Seam Telemetry HUD Callouts: The system paints seam width, drift, and dwell time in the HUD as simple bars and ticks. A countdown ribbon shows how long the corridor will persist and a lane reticle changes thickness as width narrows. Pilots get a clean, readable picture in the exact half-second where clarity matters most.
• Gravitic Trim Vane Coupling: For airframes with fine course-correction capability, the Aligner can nudge gravitic trim vanes to create slight vector changes without firing visible thrusters. These nudges keep the lane centered even when the target yaws or slews under thrust. The result is a quiet, signature-sparing correction that preserves low profile doctrine.
• Hexphase Timing Core: A deterministic Hexphase core gates sample cadence and actuator output so the Aligner reacts on the same timing grid as release logic. The core prevents "chasing the seam" and instead steps corrections in stable increments that match bomb-bay interlocks. This keeps geometry true between sensor, gimbal, and payload.
• Ashen-Seal Isolated Power: The Aligner sits on its own Ashen-Seal stub so spikes from flak or arc flash cannot backfeed into flight controls. If the sensor head takes damage the stub fences the fault and the pilot reverts to manual cues without losing other avionics. Isolation keeps the rest of the strike stack clean and alive.
• Black-Ink Phase-Foil Baffles: Thin baffles around the chin cut stray reflections from bay lips and hull hardpoints. The foils tame specular pops that would otherwise pollute fringe measurements at high angles of attack. Cleaner returns mean the corridor is measured, not guessed.
• Cross-Hull Integration Kit: Mounting shoes, power filters, and control adapters allow the Aligner to fit bombers, corvettes, and assault shuttles. The kit preserves identical HUD grammar and timing on every platform. Crews moving between hulls keep the same sight picture and muscle memory.

• Thread-The-Needle Accuracy: By biasing attitude and bay axis to the corridor's live centerline, the Aligner raises first-pass hit probability on shield-gated targets. Follow-on bombs and lances waste less time skidding the seam edges and more time striking hearts and spines. Less ordnance is required to achieve structural breaks and generator kills.
• Motion Immunity In The Window: Targets that yaw, roll, or crab after commitment typically defeat manual timing. The Aligner reads those motions as facet drift and trims the nose so the lane remains true. Pilots get back a clean release even when the enemy captain throws the ship off balance to spoil the shot.
• Low-Signature Corrections: Gravitic vane nudges and micro-gimbal bias apply control without obvious thruster flares or actuator noise. This preserves Nightcloak and egress veils while maintaining alignment. Survivability and precision rise together instead of trading against each other.
• Fleetwide Doctrine Fit: The system's HUD callouts and timing core speak the same language as Kainate strike tools. Crews learn one cadence and apply it across bombers and escorts. Mission planning can count on repeatable behavior regardless of hull or wing composition.

• Force Nullification: While under Force Nullification the fringe crystals lose much of their phase bias and the Sigil-Wire lattice cannot apply fine timing nudges. The sensor still functions as a conventional interferometer, but seam confidence drops and corrections become more conservative. Pilots must rely more heavily on manual sight and timing until clear of the field.
• Harmonic Countermeasures And Dirty Facets: Shields that aggressively jitter phase, lace their faces with decoy returns, or vent ion haze can shorten dwell and smear width readings. The Aligner will still provide cues, but tolerance bands widen and the last-second rescue becomes harder to guarantee. Targets with such defenses reduce the system's elegance and demand closer formation coordination.

The Graveslit Aligner Mk. I was built to answer a brutal truth of shield warfare. Opening a corridor is only half the problem. Holding your lane through that corridor while a capital ship writhes under thrust is the other half, and it is the half that wastes bombs and breaks lances. Malsheem engineers solved it with a chin-mounted sensor head and a blood-forged gimbal that bias a craft by millidegrees in the final heartbeat before release.

In practice the flow is simple. As a breach corridor begins to open along a deflector face, the Aligner's fringe crystals read the facet's live ripple and map the centerline. The Hexphase core steps tiny pitch, roll, and yaw trims through the Bloodsteel cradle so the bomb-bay axis and lane spine overlap. In the HUD, seam width and dwell appear as a bar that breathes with the target's motion. When the bar is fat and the dwell clock is full, ordnance walks straight into the ship's heart.

The device is not tied to one airframe. Its cross-hull kit brings identical cues to any Kainate craft that throws bombs or lances through shield cuts. It prefers quiet control and offers it through gravitic vanes and micro-gimbal geometry, keeping corrections almost invisible to watchful scopes. Under Force null the system keeps working but with less finesse, and the dirtiest shield tricks can thin its margin. Even so, across normal engagements it returns the one resource pilots never have enough of in the last two seconds. Certainty. The lane stays where it should, the bay stays true, and the kill that was earned by opening the seam is not lost at the threshold.

 

[MANIAC]

Darth Prazutis

As always, amazing sub.

Approved.