Raziel
Dark Jedi Spymaster
Image Source: NASA
Intent: To define the backbone of the Spynet’s most secure network. OOC to prevent lazy slicers.
Development Thread:
Manufacturer: Design Prototype Lab Q, satellites XR-05 from Baktoid, datapads custom builds by lab Q using COTS parts.
Model: Darknet
Affiliation: Spynet (ASA)
Modularity: Yes. Comms equipment requires refresh to prevent intrusion. Hardware Crypto modules are replaced frequently.
Production: Minor
Material: Durasteel and standard for comms equipment
Description: The Spynet Darknet is the wide area network used to sending the organisations most sensitive information. As such it is built on an entirely separate network of bearers that is not accessible to the public. The is different to the Spynet’s Greynet that uses encryption to send less sensitive information over the Holonet.
The backbone of the network is a series of XR-05 satellites purchased from Baktoid industries. The software on these was completely removed, checked and re-written in house, to ensure corporate espionage was not a valid method of attack. These are placed at strategic locations within ASA space, and occasionally venturing just beyond its borders.
Each transmitting and receiving node utilised quantum cryptography to ensure that photons sent into hyperspace using hyperwave transceivers are as secure as possible. If the satellite network is broken into, and even a single qubit is measured along its path, algorithms used by the system will immediately inform the nodes that communications have been breached and transmission of further qubits is stopped. An alternate route will be arranged, and new crypto arrangements will be rapidly put in place.
Weaknesses: whilst this makes it almost impossible to intercept and decrypt the most secure communications, the bearers are not able to transmit holodata. Only 2D video and files can be sent. There is also significant lag from the crypto. The devices – known as spynet Black terminals – are also still susceptible to theft and attack. These are never connected directly to the holonet and still have locally encrypted data however.
