Approved Tech Tactical Perception Suite

[Ethanael Halscott]

Tactical Perception Suite​

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a new SIGINT-relevant system for future Commonwealth ship subs.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Imperial Commonwealth of Dosuun
• Affiliation: Imperial Commonwealth of Dosuun
• Market Status: Closed
• Model: CDT-STPS-M1 “Tactical Perception Suite”
• Modularity: Y
• Production: Limited
• Material: Durasteel housings, sensor-grade transparisteel apertures, shielded cabling, hardened signal processors, modular emitter/receiver arrays

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Multi-Spectrum Sensor Fusion Core: Integrates active scans, passive detection, and ESM feeds into a single battlespace picture.
• Long-Baseline Distributed Sensor Geometry: Widely spaced sensor apertures (often across wing-like structures or lateral spars) improve triangulation, parallax resolution, and contact refinement.
• Electronic Support Measures (ESM) Package: Passive detection of hostile emissions including fire-control pings, targeting locks, power spikes, and comms leakage.
• Early-Warning Threat Cueing: Automated pre-lock alerts and classification cues to the host ship’s tactical team before hostile weapons fully come online.
• Low-Emission Operating Modes: Optimized passive-first workflows to reduce reliance on active scanning when discretion is required.

STRENGTHS

• Superior Battlespace Awareness: Detects, refines, and tracks contacts at longer effective ranges than standard escort sensor fits.
• Passive Spotting Advantage: ESM and fusion logic allow the host vessel to identify threats without broadcasting continuous active scans.
• Stealth/ECM Resilience: Fusion across multiple sensor types reduces the effectiveness of single-spectrum masking and some electronic deception tactics.

WEAKNESSES

• High Complexity, High Training Burden: Requires specialized operators and doctrinal discipline; crews that treat it like “just better sensors” will underperform.
• Vulnerable to Sensor Saturation: Can be degraded by dense debris fields, heavy jamming environments, or intentionally spoofed battlespaces, forcing slower confirmation cycles.
• Maintenance Intensive: Distributed apertures and hardened processing nodes demand frequent calibration; performance drops if upkeep is neglected.
• Power/Heat Budget: Sustained high-fidelity fusion and wide-spectrum monitoring increases power draw and thermal load compared to baseline suites.

DESCRIPTION
The Tactical Perception Suite (TPS) is an integrated sensor-and-ESM package designed to give specialist light escorts and exploration-tasked vessels the practical equivalent of a “scout’s vision advantage” in contested space. Rather than relying on one oversized active scanner, TPS combines multi-spectrum sensor fusion, long-baseline distributed geometry, and passive ESM collection to produce a coherent, continuously updated battlespace model. In practice, this allows a ship like the Conyers III-class Light Tactical Escort to “light up the board” for the rest of a task group: detecting contacts earlier, refining their vectors faster, and identifying hostile intent through emissions and fire-control behavior before weapons are fully brought to bear.

TPS excels in environments where information arrives fragmented—stealthy opponents, emission-disciplined raiders, and ECM-heavy skirmishers—because it reduces the fleet’s dependency on any single sensor channel. However, it is not invincible. In cluttered zones (debris, dense atmospherics, heavy subspace interference) or during high-intensity electronic warfare, TPS can suffer from saturation and false positives, demanding time and skill to validate tracks. The suite is also maintenance-heavy and training-intensive: the ships that use TPS effectively do so through doctrine—remaining mobile, operating passive-first when appropriate, and relaying refined contacts to allied escorts rather than chasing kills.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

Under Review.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

Ethanael Halscott

Looks good. Approved.