Aculia Voland
Protecting her children from the shadows.
Meiro Intergrated Anti-Deactivation System
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To act as a countermeasure against Missile Deactivation Transmitters, reducing their effectiveness at close to medium ranges.
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- Permissions: Permission to affiliate Mandal-Elysium Arms
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Voland Military Enterprises, Mandal-Elysium Arms
- Affiliation: Elysium Empire,
Aculia Voland
, authorized clients. - Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: 001
- Modularity: No, it's designed for a specific purpose.
- Production: Minor.
- Material: Graphite, silicon, gold, durasteel, duraplast.
- Strong encryption technologies that are hard to quickly bypass and break through at short to medium distances or in large numbers without large computing focus and power.
- Significantly reduces the effects of Missile Deactivation Transmitters, becoming more and more effective the closer the missiles are launched towards a target since they have less time to break through the Meiro's encryption protocols and technologies. This is particularly effective at close range where it can become hard to deactivate the missiles in such a short time period.
- Can be integrated relatively easily into both missiles and starships, allowing for refitting of existing vessels and missiles without forcing major redesigns.
- Large amounts of missiles become very difficult to disable without huge amounts of computing power, since each missile has its own unique code to disarm tied into the ship firing it.
- Due to being integrated and synchronized into the systems of each individual ship and not shared with the wider fleet for security, if a ship that has launched missiles is destroyed, it becomes impossible to deactivate said missiles by friendly forces if they are activated and launched.
- Quick deactivation of large amounts of missiles from strategic command can be challenging due to the time lag required since each pilot or weapons officer must individually receive orders and transmit the unique codes themselves. The closer a missile is to a target or the more missiles being fired the more likely it is there will not be time to deactivate all the missiles. This can easily lead to friendly fire if one is not careful with their shots.
- Not as effective with slower missiles or torpedoes fired at longer ranges, as this gives the enemy more time to break through the encryption technology and negate the system's effectiveness.
DESCRIPTION
The Meiro Anti-Jamming System is an integrated network of chips and transmitters designed to counteract and reduce the effectiveness of Missile Deactivation Transmitters for both ships and missiles, developed as part of Admiral
Aculia Voland
's experience against Mawite Commander
Tu'teggacha
at the Battle of Tython. During the battle, the crafty Mawite sought to use such transmitters to reduce the effectiveness of the missiles being fired at his task force, which proved to be a significant hurdle for the 14th Battlegroup's strikecraft that were heavily reliant on missiles. It was only due to the fact that enough Argus SAWACs were free to bolster encryption efforts and that the Mawite was forced to spread out his limited resources due to facing overwhelming firepower that this was not particularly effective. Realizing that this was a significant weakness of her carrier forces, Aculia and her engineers began to brainstorm ways of mitigating this vulnerability without having to significantly rely on dedicated craft that could be better used to scout and conduct other ECCM and command/control operations.Thus, they came up with the Meiro Anti-Jamming System, an embedded chip and transmitter system utilizing a variety of encryption technologies including Quantum Firewalls, Synchronized Ship-Missile shifting timed authenticators, multi-language codes and dictionaries, long bit length, and other technologies to significantly increase the time and complexity required to crack the deactivation codes of each missile. An opponent must successfully break through all of these in a short period of time to properly disable each individual missile fired at them, requiring ever increasing amounts of computing power and energy the more and more missiles are fired at them, becoming very difficult to do the closer the missiles are fired or the more of them there are.
Of course, like anything in the galaxy, the system is not foolproof, at longer ranges, in smaller numbers, or against an enemy who diverts a large amount of their energy and resources to missile decryption and defense at the cost of other considerations, the effectiveness of the Meiro system may wane, but such a thing will always include tradeoffs for both the user and their given opponent. In the context of the 14th Battlegroup it was designed to bolster, it is usually integrated on fighters and bombers, where it is hoped to provide a significant bonus to combat effectiveness and make an enemy severely regret not having a proper anti-starfighter screen.
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