Approved Tech Tran'ca'nara-type Astrogation Computer

[Thyr Kyron]

T R A N ' C A ' N A R A​

"The Manda is the light that charts our way through the dark."
- Tytos Saxon

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a starship technology for the Iron Covenant.
• Image Source: N/A
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: Roble Manufacturing
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Kestri Heavy Engineering
• Affiliation: The Iron Covenant
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Tran'ca'nara-type Astrogation Computer
• Modularity: No
• Production: Mass-Produced
• Material:
  • Capacitators
  • Duranium Structure
  • Multi-layer armor plating
    • Impervium carbide, outer thermal spray coating
    • Quadanium steel base
  • Chromium-titanium internal protective casing
  • Liquid-Aenite Coating
  • Laminanium Superconducting Core
  • Gadolinium magnoelectronic components
  • Dolovite Heat Insulation
  • SACG-23S Shock-Absorbent Gel

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Multi-nodal encryption core
  • Variable key, token creation
  • Direct integration with the Nau'braar
• Liquid-aenite coating
  • Effective anti-EMP and ion protection
• Encrypted hyperspace emitter arrays
  • Relay pulse antennae
  • Hyperwave comm scanners
  • Hyperwave Transceiver
• Anti-slicing sensor jammer suite
  • Rotating encryption code, firewall system
  • Interference projection matrix
  • Multi-cell capacitator block
  • Interference projection matrix

STRENGTHS

• Sundial Astrograph: The Tran'ca'nara receives hyperspace routes directly from the Nau'braar's live stellar arrays and Astrocartograph Command rather than calculating them independently, translating the Lighthouse's continuously updated charts into executable jump solutions with a speed and precision no isolated navicomputer can match. Because every unit draws from the same live data feed, Iron Covenant vessels can execute coordinated fleet-wide jumps with ease.
• Electronic Integrity: The Tran'ca'nara's jammer suite exists to protect itself. The interference projection matrix and complex firewall systems work in concert to make the unit a hostile environment for anyone attempting to slice its encryption network. The liquid-aenite coating and chromium-titanium internal casing further harden the unit against EMP, ion disruption, and physical combat damage.

WEAKNESSES

• Connection Required: Without a live authenticated link to the Nau'braar, the Tran'ca'nara is completely non-functional.
• Closed Architecture: The Tran'ca'nara's encryption and integration protocols are entirely proprietary to Kestri Heavy Engineering. It cannot interface with standard astrogation databases or third-party navicomputer networks, and a unit removed from a Covenant vessel cannot be sliced into operation without destroying the encryption core in the process.

DESCRIPTION
The Tran'ca'nara-type Astrogation Computer is Kestri Heavy Engineering's answer integrating component to the Nau'braar, the beating heart of the Mythos Fleet and the means by which the Iron Covenant charts the stars.

Installed across Mythos Fleet vessels as the standard astrogation and communications system, the Tran'ca'nara maintains a continuous encrypted hyperwave link to the Nau'braar's Astrocartograph Command. Every jump solution it executes comes directly from the Beacon's live stellar data; routes calculated by Iron Covenant astrocartographers and droid-brain systems, refined in real time, and transmitted to individual vessels as authenticated, executable coordinates. The navigator aboard a Tran'ca'nara-equipped ship does not chart a course so much as receive one, trusting the Beacon to have already done the harder work of finding where it is safe to go.

This makes the Tran'ca'nara extraordinarily capable within its intended operating environment. When the Nau'braar has identified a traversable gap in the Blackwall and a shaman on the Astral Platform has confirmed the window through Kadir'litr working, the Tran'ca'nara propagates the jump solution to the ships oiwn navigation systems through its encrypted hyperwave transceiver network. Fleets may synchronize across a single transmission, ensuring that every vessel receives the same coordinates at the same moment and remains coordinated through hyperspace travel.

The computer features an anti-slicing sensor jammer suite because the Tran'ca'nara's designers understood its vulnerability clearly. A system this dependent on a live external connection is a system that can be targeted through that connection, sliced, spoofed, interdicted, or mirrored back against the vessels running it. The jammer suite does not attempt to blind enemy sensors or jam enemy communications. It makes itself a hostile environment for anyone trying to do the same to it. Any hostile attempt to intercept the Beacon link is deflected and falsified. Essentially, trying to hack the Tran'ca'nara would feel like you are being hacked yourself.

What it cannot do is work without the Nau'braar. The Tran'ca'nara has no fallback mode, no cached data, and no degraded operation state. When the link to the Lighthouse fails, the Sundial stops. If this leaves a Mandalorian fleet stranded in a precarious position, that is the risk they take.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Simple Enough

Approved