Olivia Dem'adas
Chief of Clan Dem'adas
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To make a custom Starship Sensor System for use by the Outer Rim Coalition
Image Source: NA
Canon Link: NA
Primary Source: Soliton Antenna, Energy-Wave Detector, Gravitic Sensor,
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Outer Rim Coalition / Pimbrellan League
Model: Soliton Tracking And Reversion Sensor Suite "STARSCAN Suite / STARSCAN Probe"
Affiliation: Outer Rim Coalition / Pimbrellan League / Closed Market
Modularity: Limited
Production: Minor
Material:
Classification: Ship-based Sensor System
Probe Size: 6 meter wide sphere
SPECIAL FEATURES (of probes)
The Probe-launching Hyperspace Monitor Suite is a two part starship component. The main part of the component includes a large storage area, a small landing bay, a small maintenance bay, and three launch tubes that are usually placed on the dorsal or ventral side of a starship. The more important part of this starship component is a number of 6 meter wide spherical probes. These probes, called Hyperspace Monitor Probes (or H.M.P. for short), are similar in many ways to a small starfighter and incorporate a slow, cheap Hyperdrive, a weak power source, and enough fuel to travel from one side of a solar system to the other as sublight speeds. Each probe also includes an advanced sensor suite made up of high powered versions of a number of common hyperspace monitoring sensors.
Launched in a volley of three, these probes immediately jump to hyperspace where they slowly drift for several seconds before reverting back to realspace. Upon entering Hyperspace, each probe will use their Soliton Antenna and a number of other sensor systems to emit three "Compression Waves" of energy that pulse through Hyperspace. The first and last pulse emitted by each probe is made in unison. The second pulse each probe makes is timed so that none of the three probes emit their second pulse at the same time. When these waves of energy impact a solid object in Hyperspace, the object disrupts the wave of energy and reflects a portion of that wave back towards the probes. The probes use sophisticated sensors to detect the fluctuations in these energy waves and detect the return reflections not just of their own pulses, but of the pulses emitted by the two other probes.
Relying on an entire suite of sensors, these probes are able to detect a range of Hyperspace anomalies. Part of this sensor suite includes Gravitic Sensors that detect the presence, intensity, and range of gravitational fields in realspace via their effect on Hyperspace.
When in Hyperspace, each probe uses Soliton Antenna to detect the position of the other two probes in relation to itself and detects the presence of objects in Hyperspace (via the above mentioned energy wave), the size of said objects, and their position in Hyperspace in relation to themselves. The probes also record not just the reactions objects have with their own pulses, but also the pulses of the other probes. This ensures that each probe records at least five signatures and can record as many as nine signatures depending on the distance between the probes and the object they are detecting. Before returning to Realspace, each probe transmits its recorded data to the other two probes and each probe stores the recorded data of all three probes.
When these probes return to realspace, they broadcast their recorded data via subspace frequencies and immediately begin to return to the ship that launched them via sublight engines and maneuvering thrusters so that they can be recovered, reset, repaired, and refueled before being used again. However, because these probes can take several minutes to several hours to return to the ship, each ship equipped with these probes typically keeps a supply of several such probes aboard the ship so that the odds of running out during emergency situations remains as low as possible. While the specific number of probes varies from ship to ship, most smaller ships typically only carry six to twenty four probes and some larger exploration and monitor ships have been known to store as many as sixty probes.
Once the host ship has received the transmitted data from these probe (or has retrieved the probes and had the data manually downloaded, in the event of comm failure), the ship's computer processes the data. Each probe records the presence, intensity, and distance of realspace gravitational fields in relation to itself for several seconds, records the presence, angle-of-approach, and distance of the other probes in relation to itself, and records the presence, intensity, angle-of-approach, and distance of other objects in space in relation to itself. By comparing all of this data via triangulation methods, the computer is able to track the relative position of each probe in hyperspace relative to a physical position in realspace, the position of other objects in hyperspace relative to a physical position in realspace, and track the movement these objects over several seconds in relation to the host ship's position at that time.
With this data, the ship's computer can then compare the movement of objects in Hyperspace against known Hyperspace Routes. Should a match present itself, the ship's computer will have predicted the most likely point of entry for the object in question, and will be able to extrapolate the most likely point of reversion for a given object (if it actually turns out to be a ship). Secondary to this, the ship's computer also sorts through the realspace gravitational data collected by the probes and uses triangulation software to get a more accurate reading of local space over a vary wide area, often enabling fairly accurate scans of an entire solar system at a time. And while this may not enable a ship to chart the relative positions of objects within an asteroid field or to detect individual objects sitting in a low orbit, it does allow for the host ship to notice a number of stellar anomalies throughout the void that makes up most of a solar system, chart the movement of these anomalies over several seconds, predict their path and current location, and allows a ship's sensor operators to slate objects of interest for further observation with other sensor systems. Through this method, a ship equipped with these sensors can often locate and later identify a ship drifting through "deep space" in a solar system, though more often than naught, these signatures prove to simply be drifting asteroids and comets.
Intent: To make a custom Starship Sensor System for use by the Outer Rim Coalition
Image Source: NA
Canon Link: NA
Primary Source: Soliton Antenna, Energy-Wave Detector, Gravitic Sensor,
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Outer Rim Coalition / Pimbrellan League
Model: Soliton Tracking And Reversion Sensor Suite "STARSCAN Suite / STARSCAN Probe"
Affiliation: Outer Rim Coalition / Pimbrellan League / Closed Market
Modularity: Limited
Production: Minor
Material:
- Alusteel
Classification: Ship-based Sensor System
Probe Size: 6 meter wide sphere
SPECIAL FEATURES (of probes)
- Hyperspace Navigation Computer
- Class 15 Hyperdrive
- Ion Drives and Maneuvering Thrusters
- Advanced Sensor Suite (SA/GS/EWD)
- Civilian Grade Shielding Systems
- Early warning hyperspace monitoring device
- Can often identify a ship's last point of entry to hyperspace and extrapolate their next reversion to realspace
- Can monitor the location of gravitational forces in realspace
- Can sometimes detect particularly large starships in realspace
- Equipping this device on a starship requires the sacrifice of at least a squadron's worth of hangar space to make room for Probe launch and retrieval bays
- Can take several minutes to several hours for probes to return to ship
- Probes occasionally go missing, are destroyed, or return to realspace too far away to return to ship
- Ships (in realspace) hiding in known stellar phenomena are easily missed
- Ships (in realspace) sticking close to larger gravitational forces are easily missed
- Smaller ships (in realspace) are harder to detect with this sensor system
The Probe-launching Hyperspace Monitor Suite is a two part starship component. The main part of the component includes a large storage area, a small landing bay, a small maintenance bay, and three launch tubes that are usually placed on the dorsal or ventral side of a starship. The more important part of this starship component is a number of 6 meter wide spherical probes. These probes, called Hyperspace Monitor Probes (or H.M.P. for short), are similar in many ways to a small starfighter and incorporate a slow, cheap Hyperdrive, a weak power source, and enough fuel to travel from one side of a solar system to the other as sublight speeds. Each probe also includes an advanced sensor suite made up of high powered versions of a number of common hyperspace monitoring sensors.
Launched in a volley of three, these probes immediately jump to hyperspace where they slowly drift for several seconds before reverting back to realspace. Upon entering Hyperspace, each probe will use their Soliton Antenna and a number of other sensor systems to emit three "Compression Waves" of energy that pulse through Hyperspace. The first and last pulse emitted by each probe is made in unison. The second pulse each probe makes is timed so that none of the three probes emit their second pulse at the same time. When these waves of energy impact a solid object in Hyperspace, the object disrupts the wave of energy and reflects a portion of that wave back towards the probes. The probes use sophisticated sensors to detect the fluctuations in these energy waves and detect the return reflections not just of their own pulses, but of the pulses emitted by the two other probes.
Relying on an entire suite of sensors, these probes are able to detect a range of Hyperspace anomalies. Part of this sensor suite includes Gravitic Sensors that detect the presence, intensity, and range of gravitational fields in realspace via their effect on Hyperspace.
When in Hyperspace, each probe uses Soliton Antenna to detect the position of the other two probes in relation to itself and detects the presence of objects in Hyperspace (via the above mentioned energy wave), the size of said objects, and their position in Hyperspace in relation to themselves. The probes also record not just the reactions objects have with their own pulses, but also the pulses of the other probes. This ensures that each probe records at least five signatures and can record as many as nine signatures depending on the distance between the probes and the object they are detecting. Before returning to Realspace, each probe transmits its recorded data to the other two probes and each probe stores the recorded data of all three probes.
When these probes return to realspace, they broadcast their recorded data via subspace frequencies and immediately begin to return to the ship that launched them via sublight engines and maneuvering thrusters so that they can be recovered, reset, repaired, and refueled before being used again. However, because these probes can take several minutes to several hours to return to the ship, each ship equipped with these probes typically keeps a supply of several such probes aboard the ship so that the odds of running out during emergency situations remains as low as possible. While the specific number of probes varies from ship to ship, most smaller ships typically only carry six to twenty four probes and some larger exploration and monitor ships have been known to store as many as sixty probes.
Once the host ship has received the transmitted data from these probe (or has retrieved the probes and had the data manually downloaded, in the event of comm failure), the ship's computer processes the data. Each probe records the presence, intensity, and distance of realspace gravitational fields in relation to itself for several seconds, records the presence, angle-of-approach, and distance of the other probes in relation to itself, and records the presence, intensity, angle-of-approach, and distance of other objects in space in relation to itself. By comparing all of this data via triangulation methods, the computer is able to track the relative position of each probe in hyperspace relative to a physical position in realspace, the position of other objects in hyperspace relative to a physical position in realspace, and track the movement these objects over several seconds in relation to the host ship's position at that time.
With this data, the ship's computer can then compare the movement of objects in Hyperspace against known Hyperspace Routes. Should a match present itself, the ship's computer will have predicted the most likely point of entry for the object in question, and will be able to extrapolate the most likely point of reversion for a given object (if it actually turns out to be a ship). Secondary to this, the ship's computer also sorts through the realspace gravitational data collected by the probes and uses triangulation software to get a more accurate reading of local space over a vary wide area, often enabling fairly accurate scans of an entire solar system at a time. And while this may not enable a ship to chart the relative positions of objects within an asteroid field or to detect individual objects sitting in a low orbit, it does allow for the host ship to notice a number of stellar anomalies throughout the void that makes up most of a solar system, chart the movement of these anomalies over several seconds, predict their path and current location, and allows a ship's sensor operators to slate objects of interest for further observation with other sensor systems. Through this method, a ship equipped with these sensors can often locate and later identify a ship drifting through "deep space" in a solar system, though more often than naught, these signatures prove to simply be drifting asteroids and comets.
