Did Someone Order a War?
When one Eye is Never Enough.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A robust Vehicle, Starfighter, Structure, and Ship Targeting, Sensors and Comms Package
- Image Source: 1st Here | 2nd Here
- Canon Link: Hud | Tracking Computer | 840
- Permissions: FFE are owned by me.
- Primary Source: OS-PDS | Scylla AI
- Manufacturer: Fire For Effect
- Affiliation: Fire For Effect, Closed Market.
- Model: Horus-DCP, Horus Dynamic Combat Package
- Modularity: Software, Firmware Upgrades. Interlinking with other Scylla AI-based systems.
- Production: Mass Produced
- Material: Crystasteel Screens | Codoan Copper, Nickle, Rubber, Electrite Crystal Internal | Laminasteel Frame
As Minimal or data-heavy as you need.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Targetting tracking and data feed. Ability to acquire or send information via a Holonet uplink, with standard Packet Firewall and Proxy Server Firewall as in case of a cyberattack. Personal and Target vitals, as well as statistical feeds, live broadcasting, and three key encrypted data transfer. Proxy server firewalls are remote and can be monitored by trained ECCM specialists or FFE's own techs.
- Scylla AI Enhanced and ATRS fitted as standard, Scylla is based on the original OS-PDS, making the unit great at coordinating fire from multiple weapons to deny flightpaths, suppress units and formations, as well as take down things like jump troopers or drones.
- Many Sensor Spectrums. Infrared, Ultraviolet, Thermal Heat/Cold, Motion Detection, Audio and Visual. With as little or as much data as you want on-screen at once.
- Standard ECCM, Electronic counter-countermeasure, ability to resist spoofing, jamming and sensor hopping.
- Target information, and personal system damage as well as hull integrity via Live Feed. Robust sensor package. Holonet data search and live statistical feeds. Holonet broadcasting and transmission possible, allowing for an encrypted secondary communication medium if standard comms are blocked.
- Scylla AI Enhanced targetting solutions and suggested firing patterns. Vulnerability analysis and target prediction with self-learning capabilities. Two firewalls exist to protect the system, a Packet Firewall and a Proxy Server Firewall watched by FFE themselves or a faction's own ECCM operatives.
- Wide range of Possible Sensor Spectrums. Infrared, Ultraviolet, Thermal Heat/Cold, Motion Detection, Audio and Visual. Allowing for some Electronic warfare self-protection (EWSP) from the various spectrums the user has available.
- Standard ECCM, resistance to senor spoofing, standard signal jamming and sensor hopping. Motion detection and multi-spectrum scanning further assist with identifying real signals from fake ones. If the user takes the time to search, the various spectrums available to them can help manually identify targets as well.
- The Scylla AI is vulnerable to hacking. The slicer needs to beat two firewalls, the second being monitored by FFE's own Droidtechs or a faction's own ECCM operatives who may interfere in case of an attack. Behavioral Inhibitors will likely be present on the AI, so creativity is the key. Simply saying crash or shoot your friends is too obvious to work.
- Expensive and Hard to Repair. This unit is not easy to fix when it's broken. It's costly to install and aboard a larger starship with multiple weapons, for example, it will often require extra crew.
- Power Drain. This unit is power-hungry. These features come at a cost certainly on smaller starfighters and vehicles. Systems fitted with this need to be balanced with other components to draw less power to compensate or additional power cells and generators are required.
- Vulnerable to the physical side of ECM, or Electronic countermeasures. Vulnerable to EA electronic attack with anti-radiation weaponry, No hard counter to EP Electronic Protection on false signals generated by physical flares and physical countermeasures. No ES, or Electronic warfare support built in to assist sensors, requiring additional tech or systems for this role. Though the user has a wide range of spectrums to manually track targets, that is up to their ability and know-how.
- Not designed for infantry, man-sized droids or smaller use. The system requires too much space and often too much power.
Horus-DCP, Horus Dynamic Combat Package some might say is the result of one too many whiskey crates, spice induced hallucinations or all-around strokes of genius, that can only come from creatively dodging the deathstick dealers looking to collect their weekly credchit. At least Sere Reene's crew think so and wear that badge proudly.
Really this design is the result of selling a lot of guns for a very long time to a lot of people, taking feedback, testing and generally being involved in supplying many long-dead factions, armies, criminals, militias and rebellions well into the yesteryears. Forgotten wars most won't even remember. Sere doesn't remember much either, she just enjoys solving problems by inventing new and creative ways to kill people, it's the gift that keeps on giving.
Enter the Horus-DCP, a hud that can have as little or as much on-screen information as you want. Able to be fitted to vehicles and starfighters, the unit excels at providing target feedback, damage, personal vitals, and projected enemy flight paths. Further, when fitted to craft using multiple weapons, it coordinates fire as well as anything on the market via the learning and adapting Scylla AI custom-built for this purpose.
ECCM standardization is included because to be honest most sensors don't even bother defending against even basic ECM. They may regret that oversight later... Though it proved too costly to mass-produce a full ECCM suite, the system still comes with the basics which are more than most will do. Three key encryption on data transfer called TDES or 3DES is more common these days than one key, simply tripling the time most people spend breaking the encrypted signal codes, which is down to the skill of the slicer.
As usual, nobody was available from the company for comment, so we found one of the weapontechs at the local bar ten hours past closing and got told that he quite liked the project, but sadly didn't remember a thing or where his house was. The bartender could be overheard saying, get the hell off the table, but declined further comment.
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