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UMBRA
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a sensor and comms package for small ships for future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: VisTech Diversified Industries, LLC
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Umbra Communications / Sensor Suite
Modularity: None
Production: Semi-Unique
Material(s):
- Agrinium-infused Betaplast Housing
- Ultrachrome Wiring
- Electronic Components
- Broadband Antenna
- Investigation and Analysis Computer
- Planetary Sensor Array
- Atmosphere Sensor
- Motion Sensor
- Long-range Sensor Array
- 9320B Sensor Pack
- PA-94 Long-Range Tachyon Detector Array
- Full Spectrum Transceiver
- Dedicated Energy Receptor
- Geoscanner
- Weather Monitor
- Chemical Sensor
- Radiation Sensor
- Sonar Mapper
- Gravity Sensor
- Terrain Following Sensor
- HoloNet Transceiver
- Shadowcloak
- TunnelNet VPN
- Mithril Security Software
- IFF Transponder
- WhisperSpy Communications System
- Quantum-encrypted Long-Range Commlink
- Micronized communications and sensor package enable powerful and secure long-range sensors and communications with solid anti-slicing, encryption, and anonymity software.
- Capable of delivering users a comprehensive assessment of a planet, moon, or other astronomical object’s geography, atmosphere, geology, and biology, making it ideal for surveys, exploration, or anyone who wishes to know exactly what they’re getting into.
- Ideal for small-sized scout vessels, shuttles, or starfighters, its small size and low power demands promise big performance for relatively little cost.
- Can turn a small vessel into a mobile ‘listening post’ and scout/survey probe, able to collect incredibly detailed data concerning various planets, moons, etc. and monitoring signals and communications throughout an entire system.
- Offers users a great deal of anonymity, anti-slicing and security confidence, and protection against detection by low-to-medium grade sensors and passive scanning even by larger ships.
- Advanced systems can be delicately calibrated and severe or persistent kinetic damage to the vessel upon which the Umbra is installed may diminish or disable one or more of its components.
- Nothing is 100% secure, and the Umbra – while strongly protected against slicers and signal interception – can still be compromised by a master slicer or two with the right tools, time, and knowledge; or else by powerful communications sensors with slicing protocols, the types of which can be found on very large military-grade vessels.
- Exceedingly powerful ion storms or similar natural occurrences can disrupt the sensors and communications signal quality, diminishing their usefulness, range, or integrity.
Designed to enable vessels to monitor, detect, intercept, and decrypt communications throughout an entire star system and provide users with potent survey-quality sensors and secure, anonymous, long-range communications, the Umbra does exactly what it was meant to. Transforming a small vessel into a mobile ‘listening post’ or else enabling the scouting and survey of various astronomical objects and providing them with secure long-range communications to report those findings, the Umbra is a potent little package that can provide terrific performance.
Susceptible to kinetic damage, the Umbra is a delicate system and relies on being used aboard well-shielded vessels to be able to operate at its fullest potential. Extreme ion storms or similar conditions can degrade signal integrity or inhibit range, even disrupting communications and scans. While it is well protected against slicers and comms scans, it can be detected with powerful dedicated active sensors and a master slicer with the right tools and enough time can, and likely will eventually, penetrate its security.
Giving users secure encrypted long-range communications over hyperwave and HoloNet media, the additive of the Shadowcloak system and TunnelNet VPN provides users with safe, anonymous communication capabilities. The powerful sensors can both survey a planet’s biology, geology, atmosphere, and geography and scan for and detect other communications, even intercepting and decrypting them. The perfect tool for scouting out an unexplored system, performing reconnaissance in enemy-occupied spaces, or searching for particular resources or activity amid a crowded star system.
