Roth Likonis
Industrialist
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a safety backup drive for future LIKON computer projects
- Image Source: Link
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: EI-9 Network security droid / central processor / Rapidprogram module / management circuitry / Forb basic / pyrowall / codepatch
- Manufacturer: LIKON, Ltd.
- Affiliation: LIKON, Ltd.
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: L1CC
- 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, universal access ports, high capacity datacard reader.
- LIKON scalability: Like many LIKON products, the core concepts of this product consist of basic principles in a simple package - the product can be scaled down to the personal level, or scaled up to the starship and station level.
- + Safely saved: the L1CC features ion surge shielding and ionization buffer technology in order to ensure that its internal computer components cannot be wiped or corrupted - protecting the backup in case of ion assault.
- + Flash restoration: the L1CC can rapidly restore a corrupted processor, droid brain, or computer system to original functionality in seconds.
- + Off-network: the L1CC exists off-network, and can only be corrupted or sliced manually (re, physically) on site.
- - Hard updates: the L1CC exists isolated and off network, meaning it can only be updated manually through its datacard slots. This presents problems when the L1CC is deployed en masse, potentially meaning a slew of devices may be updating to older versions.
- - Rotten at the core: while unlikely, should the L1CC be corrupted or sliced manually, the redundancy of the system means that any patches, repairs, and debugging also have to occur manually. This can wreak havoc on a system that is constantly backing up to a sliced version of its "original" programming.
- - Encased but not armored: Ion shielded, and housed in a shock dissipating polyplast housing, the L1CC can withstand the rigors of war - but this model is not an armored computer core. Its light plasteel armor is no match for a blaster pistol bolt, let alone anything heavier.
Inspired by the ancient EI-9 Network security droid, the L1CC backup drive was designed to be a companion core to a main processor, computing brain, or primary core. Existing off network and in close physical proximity to its primary, each L1CC scans its companion's management circuitry and cogitative theory unit base functions for corruption, malware, and other aberration. Because such circuitry and functions are so fundamental to an advanced computer system (and exceedingly hard to replicate without first slicing periphery systems), the L1CC can detect corruption at extremely early stages by noticing recursive errors in function and logic.
When a reset is needed, the L1CC activates a quick load Rapidprogram module that wipes the core functions of the unit, and then reinstalls these core functions with a hidden pyrowalled codepatch that bypasses corrupted components and systems. Within the patch is a counterpart encryption core function that utilizes forb basic; the function essentially works to allow the two versions to safely examine background, periphery, and core function data of each affected system, matching it against the stored backup, and then wiping - system by system - until an exact copy is achieved. Said process typically takes mere seconds, and is extremely effective at restoring corrupted machinery.
