Roth Likonis
Industrialist
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a gunnery processor to work in tandem with future LIKON weapon mounts
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Auto-tracking fire controller / LIKON L-01x precision targeting laser / LIKON L1CC backup drive
- Manufacturer: LIKON, Ltd.
- Affiliation: LIKON, Ltd.
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: L.FC1v
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Plasteel shell, shock absorbing polyplast housing, backup micrel power cells, duralloy encased central processor, ion surge shielding, ionization buffer, non-visual composite radiation sensor, circuit multiplexer, target tracker, core processors (dual-linked analyzer circuits, logic and processing unit, sensory-response module, logic circuits, neural chipsets, neural processor)
- LIKON scalability: Like many LIKON products, the core concepts of this product consist of basic principles in a simple package: the L.FC1v can function as a fully automated auto-tracking fire controller, automating turreted mounts that it is installed in, and can be configured for everything from small antipersonnel weapons, to large siege weaponry.
- + Cyber protection: the L.FC1v features ion surge shielding and ionization buffer technology in order to ensure that its internal computer components cannot be wiped, with an integrated L1CC backup drive in case of programming and firmware corruption.
- + Computer coordinated: the L.FC1v can compute firing solutions, analyze targeting data, and adapt to targets much faster than organics - it is superior to organic gunners in terms of accuracy and speed. This ability becomes boosted when it is networked with other L.FC1v's, as clustered sharing of targeting data improves collective accuracy and reliability.
- + Crack shot: the L.FC1v is designed to be paired with a wide selection of targeting arrays, but works best with the LIKON L-01x precision targeting laser; when paired, the L.FC1v is exceptionally accurate and deadly (but subject to the limitations of its targeting laser).
- - Reactive, not intuitive: to make the L.FC1v affordable, the L.FC1v is not a full droid brain, nor does it have any kind of heuristic processor. Despite its speed and accuracy, it lacks intuition, creativity, and foresight, being relatively limited to a given set of commands. This creates issues if, say, a command bridge is destroyed, or if there is no one to give orders or issue commands; the L.FC1v will simply robotically execute its last order. Commands are as follows...
- Attack target
- Attack subsystem
- Defend target
- Defend subsystem
- Standby
- - Encased but not armored: Ion shielded, and housed in a shock dissipating polyplast housing, the L.FC1v can withstand the rigors of war - but its light plasteel armor and duralloy casing is no match to a heavy blaster pistol bolt, let alone a laser cannon blast.
The L.FC1v automated fire controller is designed as a relatively simple two-part system; a dual-linked analyzer circuit manages a sensory-response module, circuit multiplexer, and integrated target tracker circuit to coordinate and validate that turret control fire solutions match targeting data fed by the targeting array. A sensory-response module, in conjunction with a non-visual composite radiation sensor confirm targeting solutions visually as the weapon is fired. In this way, data analysis and solution plotting between targeting array and turret hydraulics are reconciled.
Governing these two parts and consolidating them into a whole unit is the L.FC1v's core processor; a mix of neural chipsets, logic circuits, and advanced LPU - the L.FC1v's resulting neural processor isn't as strong as a full-fledged droid brain, instead selectively excising certain "skills" from a droid brain (in this case gunnery programming), and then running them singularly instead of in parallel to other functions. While this results in a highly competent processor excelling in a certain skillset, it highly limits intuition, creativity, and foresight as it cannot rely on other systems and processing functions to inform that skillset.
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