Approved Tech Veilstorm Ghost-Net Buoy Web Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a deployable occult sensor-buoy network used by Kainate reconnaissance craft such as the Varnyss-class Sith Recon Prowler, enabling long-range early warning, intelligence gathering, and perimeter monitoring.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Veilstorm Ghost-Net Buoy Web Mk. I
• Modularity: Yes - Individual buoy loadouts may be swapped, but the relay spine and occult imprint cannot be altered without re-consecration.
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron
  • Bloodsteel Micro-Filament Lattice
  • Whisperstone Relay Shards
  • Sith Rune Sealed Circuitry
  • Umbricore Insulation Layer

• Distributed Occult Sensor Buoys: Miniature, semi-autonomous sensor nodes that can be seeded in clusters or dispersed patterns. Each one behaves like a tiny, patient picket that "listens" to local traffic and phenomena, building up a picture of movement over time. Provides incredibly accurate data over areas.
• Whisperstone Relay Shards: Each buoy carries a low-power, ritual-attenuated relay for silent-burst communications. Rather than constant chatter, they hoard data and then exhale it in short, encrypted pulses that are hard to localize, using communication connected to the Ebon Psicom network the Kainate utilizes.
• Veil-Scan Integration: Fully compatible with Varnyx-class sensor suites to create shared detection overlays. On the prowler's displays, buoy returns merge seamlessly with onboard scans, giving the crew one continuous recon picture instead of scattered blips.
• Ghost-Lattice Synchronization: Buoys interlink through a weak dark-side resonance, improving accuracy when multiple buoys detect the same object. The more nodes that "agree" on a contact, the sharper and more reliable its track and classification become.
• Low-Emission Profile: Designed to read more than they broadcast; Nearly invisible to common passive scans but not perfect stealth. Most ships will fly through or past a Ghost-Net without ever realizing they've been watched and recorded.
• Predictive Lane Mapping: When deployed in chokepoints, they generate hyperspace-lane movement predictions for Shadow Mind. Over time, they don't just report that ships passed, they reveal which routes are becoming favored corridors and where ambushes will hurt the most. They record gravity well interdiction nets along with much more data.
• Ritual Anchoring: Each buoy carries a micro-sigil-binding that helps stabilize the network's cohesion in sensor-cluttered regions. This occult "glue" keeps the web coherent in nebulae, debris fields, or ECM-heavy warzones where normal networks would fragment.
• Silent Recall Burn: Most buoys self-neutralize when the Varnyx withdraws, leaving no traceable evidence. To outside observers, they simply vanish into background noise or dust, denying enemies both salvage and proof the Kainate was ever watching.

• Shrouded Early-Warning Net: Incredibly difficult to detect, provides long-range notice of starship movement and probing fleets along with pivotal data. A single Veilstorm deployment can quietly monitor a border or corridor for weeks before the enemy realizes their approach patterns are compromised.
• Distributed Detection: Multiple buoys refine each other's data, improving clarity and reducing false positives. Even the most hidden or jamming-heavy ships become easier to pin down when several nodes catch different facets of their passage.
• Long-Term Recon Persistence: Can remain dormant and functional for months, feeding data back in low-power bursts. This lets the Kainate "pre-scout" regions long before a campaign actually begins, arriving with months of background traffic intelligence already in hand.
• Hidden: Emits negligible energy unless transmitting, making them incredibly difficult to hunt without specialized equipment. They are tailor-made to support Sith recon craft that cannot afford to compromise their own position by active scanning.
• Shadow Mind Link: Shared data enhances predictive analysis for ambush planning and fleet-wide reconnaissance. Once the Ghost-Net's reports hit Shadow Mind, entire sectors can be reshaped into kill-boxes, trap corridors, and pre-calculated interception points.

• Force Nullification: Fields of Force Nullification cause them to lose efficiency, and weaken their coordination. In such zones, individual buoys behave like cheap, conventional high grade sensor pods with none of the eerie "networked" edge.
• Counter-ECM Susceptibility: Dedicated detection or buoy-hunting platforms can degrade the web if searching specifically for it. Once the enemy knows Ghost-Nets are in play, they can start using specialized sweeps, mine-clearing drones, or "buoy scrubbing" tactics to reclaim their lanes.

The Veilstorm Ghost-Net Buoy Web Mk. I is the Kainate's signature distributed reconnaissance system, an occult, data-driven surveillance web deployed by the Varnyx-class Sith Reconnaissance Prowler. Far more than simple sensor buoys, each Ghost-Net node is a micro-ritual engine built from alchemized alloys, whisperstone fragments, and an ultra-low-emission sensor core. Alone, a single buoy is little more than silent debris drifting in the void. But in clusters, in chains, or seeded along hyperspace junctions, they knit themselves together into a shadow lattice that quietly maps every ship, signal, heat wake, and hyperspace disturbance across an entire region.

Each buoy carries a tiny Whisperstone Relay Shard, allowing it to transmit predictive movement data in silent, encrypted bursts to the Varnyx or directly to Shadow Mind command infrastructure. Their emissions are nearly imperceptible, masked beneath cosmic background radiation and the faint occult murmur woven into each unit's micro-sigil binding. To most scanners, they are nothing, dust, metallic grains, forgotten junk. Only specialized buoy-hunters or Force trained observers can attempt to find them.

Over time, a persistent Ghost-Net web begins to generate traffic prediction chains, analyzing shifts in hyperspace lanes, tracking deviations in shipping patterns, and triangulating hidden fleet movements. When multiple buoys capture the same phenomena, their dark-side resonance synchronizes, refining clarity and reducing false positives until the network produces a near-perfect detection overlay. This makes a Ghost-Net seeded system effectively impossible to enter without being seen, unless one is entirely cloaked or buried within Force Nullification.

Once the Varnyx clears, most buoys perform a silent recall burn, slagging themselves or drifting into decoy clusters to ensure nothing remains that can be traced back to the Kainate. What remains behind is not evidence, only the memory of surveillance, unknowable and unproven, the shadow of an eye that was watching.

In strategic theaters, Ghost-Net Webs become the backbone of Sith reconnaissance doctrine. They allow the Kainate to stalk enemies across systems, to lay traps along predicted retreat routes, to map invasion corridors long before fleets arrive. A single Veilstorm Ghost-Net deployment can shift an entire campaign, anchoring ambushes and pre-scripted kill zones weeks in advance. When the Shadow Hand requires total awareness of an enemy's movements, it is always a Ghost-Net that listens first, whispering everything it sees back to the heart of the Kainate.

 

[Krass Wyms]

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