Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a communications device that cannot be hampered by electronic disruptions
- Image Source: https://scryfall.com/card/c21/258/pristine-talisman
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Aurora Industries
- Affiliation: Aurora Industries, Individuals and Factions that have permission to use it.
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Neahtid Earpiece
- Modularity: Can be integrated into most soldiers' helmet systems
- Production: Minor-production
- Material:
- Nihil Smokestone
- Altered Hiridiu Crystal
- Altered Seoularian Crystal
- Instead of relying upon radio and other electronic converters of sound waves, Neahtid Earpieces transmit and receive thoughts through the creation of a telepathic network with attuned Nihil Smokestone working in tandem with altered Hiridiu and Seoularian Crystals. A key crystal, generally given to a company's commanding officer, acts as the anchor for the network with each earpiece being attuned to the commander's own earpiece to create an isolated telepathic link between squad members to receive orders and other information from their squadmates.
- Key crystals can also be tuned to an anchor crystal that would be stationed with an overall operations' commander, such as at an army base or the flagship of a fleet. This allows higher ranking officers to communicate with field officers or even directly to soldiers themselves, while also isolating the individual networks to avoid psychic backlash to either the commanding officer or the individual field commanders and soldiers.
- Thoughts transmitted through a Neahtid Earpiece to others within the network are received near instantaneously, with the network's range boosted by the Hiridiu crystals in their use to about one hundred and fifty kilometers.
- Because they do not rely on electronics or standard communication mediums such as radio and sound waves, Neahtid Earpieces can't be jammed by electrical interference such as by a storm, ion or EMP weaponry, or even signal and frequency jammers as used in modern EWAR.
- Multiple devices can be linked to a single key crystal for the squad, and in turn, each key crystal can be attuned to an anchor crystal to allow entire armies or fleets the ability to communicate rapidly from orders on high down to individual soldiers on the field.
- A trained Force User in telepathy would be able to eavesdrop on the telepathic network, discerning what battle plans and other information might be passing through it. The trained Force User could also break the network if they become aware of it and are skilled enough in mentalism.
- If the crystals used in the earpiece are broken, that person won't be able to communicate through the telepathic network or receive orders through that medium, with Aurora Industries suggesting the use of standard comm systems as a backup for soldiers in the field.
- Destroying the key crystal of the commanding officer will disrupt the entire network, causing it to collapse and likely give the soldiers wearing the earpieces some psychic feedback in the form of headaches.
With a heavy focus on electronic warfare in the galaxy currently, Aurora Industries began experimenting and researching on how to create a device that cannot be jammed, but can still be effective in issuing orders to soldiers in the field. Initially, the research and development team wanted to explore a joint project with Spaarti Creations on creating some sort of new villip, but the sister company passed on the project. The team then decided to focus their research in a different direction; a telepathic network much like that created by some organizations in the past to issue orders to subordinates.
Eschewing the meltmassif, and especially wanting to avoid the gruesomeness of having to implant the crystal into a user's head, the team settled on using Nihil Smokestone as the basis for their thought transmitter and receiver. Creating an earpiece that could be spliced into many helmet systems currently in use in the galactic powers', the team began altering the structure of some Hiridiu and Seoularian crystals to integrate them with the Nihil Smokestone. The Hiridiu would augment the range of the transmitted thought while the Seoularian crystal would act as a sort of anchor for the network itself, with the team utilizing its unique ability to be attuned to have multiple crystals be linked to a key crystal. Once the new earpiece is placed in the ear, the wearer is able to send mental information and commands near instantaneously over a hundred and fifty kilometer radius, and to make sure no errant thoughts might irritate commanding officers and amuse their squad mates, the device only transmit thoughts when a finger is pressed to the central crystal, much like a standard comm earpiece.
The new network, generally a squad, can then be linked by the commanding officer to an even larger network of key crystals to a central anchor crystal that would be kept at the command post of whichever general or admiral is in command of the operation. Once the network is established across an army or fleet, one need not worry about pesky environmental disruptions such as from an electrical storm or ion interference or artificial disruptions such as a communications jammer.
