D I R E C T O R
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To software package designed to detect gravity wells and artificial hyperspace anomalies and alter hyperspace navigational routes accordingly.
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Roble Manufacturing
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Model: NAV-RH1 Interdiction Countermeasures Package
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Electronics, Code
- NAV-RH1 uses a ship's inbuilt sensor systems to detect artificial and non-artificial gravity wells, obstructions or other hyperspace anomalies along the planned route of a ship. If any anomalies are detected, the system will either advise multiple optimal courses of action for the ship to take, or immediately stop the ship if the anomaly is too close for organic deliberation.
- Bye Bye Surprise: The NAV-HR1 is able to quickly assess any anomalies or potential dangers along a planned hyperspace route or jump, and can act quickly with full automation to prevent any catastrophic jump into hyperspace or stop a ship in time for it to not be disabled by an interdiction field. The NAV-HR1 also has logic systems that can assess whether an anomaly is too close for navigational deliberation or whether there is enough time for multiple courses of actions to be pursued.
- Versatile: Due to its small size, the NAV-HR1 can be installed on virtually any ship that is capable of making its own hyperspace jump making it a much better option for smaller freighters, corvettes and frigates than a Hyperspace Inertial Momentum Sustainer while still being a useful navigational asset for larger starships.
- Not An HIMS: While it does, in a sense, counter interdiction technologies by stopping a spaceship before it is caught in an artificial gravity well, the NAV-RH1 is merely an inbuilt safeguard that prevents travel through a gravity well, and thus interdiction technologies would still be able to stop or reroute a ship with the NAV-RH1 installed.
- Stop: When an interdiction field or other anomaly is too close for organic deliberation, in other terms time for other crew to decide the best course of action, the NAV-RH1 is programmed to immediately stopped; this default cannot be changed and thus ships with the NAV-RH1 can still be trapped by well-placed interdiction fields or certain anomalies.
Built to be a smaller, more affordable version of a Hyperspace Inertial Momentum Sustainer but with reduced technological capacity, the NAV-RH1 Interdiction Countermeasures Package is in sense an add-on navigational system that, unlike an HIMS which allows a spaceship to travel through a gravitational well without any effect to its forward momentum, merely prevents travel through said gravitational well in the first place. Due to its small size as a bunch of code and electrical parts, the NAV-RH1 can also be installed on virtually any ship large enough to contain a hyperdrive. However, the package does have some limits as it cannot allow a ship to simply fly through a gravitational well or anomaly, which means that to an extent interdiction technologies can still be used to trap a ship and prevent escape. However, it does offer a ship the ability to prevent being completely disabled by the jarring effect that a interdiction field will have on a ship travelling through hyperspace, which means that all around it is a useful navigational asset for any well-built ship.
