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Approved Tech Star Hunter Sensor Array, SF-1.0M

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

Intent: To create a compact, advanced sensor array for starfighters for use in future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market (CIS Only)
Model: Star Hunter Sensor Array, SF-1.0M
Modularity: None.
Production: Mass Production
Material(s): Stygian Triprismatic Reinforced Duraplast, electronic components, sensor components.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
STRENGTHS:
  • Two-stage system allows optimal and incredibly broad-range sensor capabilities for hyperspace and realspace.
  • Signal-boosting technologies incorporated into the design provides greater range and precision than most other systems used on starfighters presently.
WEAKNESSES:
  • For all of its signal-boosting and broad-range sensor capabilities, the Star Hunter is still limited in its range and lacks the ability to reach as far or be as precise or detailed as sensor arrays found on larger vessels, despite being one of the most powerful systems for starfighters available.
  • The Star Hunter system relies on cooperation with the ships’ computers, ECM, targeting, and communications arrays to maximize effectiveness, and if and when these systems become damaged or compromised, so too will the effectiveness of the Star Hunter.
  • The Star Hunter, due to the sheer number of miniaturized components involved, requires a com-scan and droid brain to manage it, both of which are included into the design. However, these are vulnerable – with sufficient skill and adequate time – to dedicated slicing attacks and carry the risk of compromise and possible partial or full deactivation through this means.
  • The Star Hunter requires a notable amount of power, and can only achieve maximum performance on starfighters which have excellent power plants and / or power management, or else if a separate power source is used.
DESCRIPTION
To create an effective sensor suite for today’s starfighters, given the enormity of existing technologies was not simple task. Engineers on this project combed through literally thousands of hours of research, reaching back far into the past, as well as studying cutting-edge emerging technologies before reaching their conclusions. The new sensor array had to be a hybrid of new and old, a coming together of ancient technology and modern innovation, and the result of this was the Star Hunter Sensor Array.

The first element of this new sensor array was to create a potent hyperspace sensor package. Developed during the First Order-Resistance War by First Order scientists and technicians, active trackers were once large proprietary systems, often highly guarded to protect the secrets of these (formerly) cutting-edge sensors. However, in the centuries since then, like most forms of technology, they have been increasingly miniaturized and their once-guarded secrets are now widely used. Able to track ships even through hyperspace, active trackers can ‘lock’ on to a ship or fleet and continue to track it like a bloodhound on a trail, relentlessly pursuing their targets virtually anywhere. Coupled with this, long-range phased tachyon detectors, gravitic sensors, and spatial flux dilation spectrometers which could pinpoint a ship entering or existing hyperspace or else scan for mass shadows and other threats while in hyperspace, even detecting very powerful gravity wells or interdiction fields before exiting hyperspace – avoiding traps and navigational risks – making a powerful hyperspace sensor package.

Next up, they sought to create long-range realspace sensors, beginning with a navigational sensor, then adding a full-spectrum transceiver (Similar to the ones created by Fabritech which were used in the X-Wing starfighters), dedicated energy receptor, energy scanner, energy wave detector, radiation sensor, and finally, a targeting sensor. These sensors, miniaturized (as everything in the Star Hunter is) and working in tandem both actively and passively surveyed the areas around the ship, locating and identifying anomalies, assisting avionics and piloting, tracking other ships, communications, energy signatures, radiation (including ion emissions – the most commonly used propulsion being ion engines), and much, much more. A pilot, with such breadth and depth available to them, would have a detailed and real-time picture of the space surrounding him. To this end, a K-Blakan mini sensor was added, providing rear warning capabilities working in concert with the ship’s ECM suite. A PN-4 component was used also. Originally developed for long-range exploration, these components could boost sensor ranges terrifically and allow pilots to see much further than their enemy counterparts.

In all, the Star Hunter represents one of the best and most powerful two-stage sensor packages available for starfighters today!

[OOC - Production changed to Mass Production on 9/16/2019 per Factory Suggestion]
 
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