Suhara Villow
The Crimson Flower
OUT-OF-CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a flight helmet for Chantemerian Fighter Pilots
- Image Source: Gundam 00
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: F-35 Helmet
- Manufacturer: Chantemer Astral Horizons
- Affiliation: Chantemer
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Adrian Helmet Mounted Display System (AHMDS) First Generation
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Duraplast
- Perspex
- Integrated atmosphere processor
- ComTech Sensa-Mic
- Dysonic Motivator
- Aux Power Cells
- Diagnostech life support unit
- 3D-Audio/Active Noise Reduction
- Shock-absorbing liner
- AR simulator head mount
- "Blink-And-Kill" off-boresight locking
- "X-Ray" Vision
- Awareness: The AHMDS First Generation grants the wearer unparalleled situational awareness of the entire battlefield, practically giving the average pilot the same capabilities in understanding the situation as a commander on a flagship though filtered down to usable levels.
The pilot can see through the hull of their starfighter and directly through the sensors of their aircraft in low-visibility conditions. It can magnify its vision onto distant starfighters where its image recognition systems can correctly identify its type and make it long before the two ever get within engagement range. Its audio technology allows pilots to cut through the chatter and focus on specific calls while able to still processing the other dozen flooding in.
- "Blink-And-Kill": Eye-tracking technology allows the ship's targeting systems to slave to the pilot's vision. A pilot can lock onto an enemy target by simply looking at it and blinking even if it is off-boresight from sensors, allowing lasers and missiles to be fired from seemingly impossible angles.
- Custom: The nature of the Adrian skull-based liner and precise eye alignment necessitates that every single helmet must be custom-made to fit the user. If another user were to use it, systems such as eye-tracking would be imprecise or outright malfunction. Most of the time it just won't fit their head.
- Difficulty of use: The sheer information density, even after data fusion, is difficult for all but the best-trained pilots. The Adrian was developed primarily for use by the elite Chantemerian pilots that make up the starfighter core and as a result match their standard. Their pilots are often trained to process data to such an extent that your average Chantemerian can read two books at the same time, each with a separate eyeball (depending on the species). Pilots that use the Adrian as a result must be highly skilled in processing data, sometimes requiring re-training.
It can be used without training but pilots will have to dedicate a large portion of their attention and mental faculties to processing the data, leaving limited space for tactics and informed split-second decisions.
While other designs like it exist on the Galactic Market, Chantemer Astral Horizons sought to create one based on home-grown components to avoid import shocks as war spread through the galaxy and the Poutine regime also wished to negate the effects of potential sanctions. The result was that the Adrian Helmet Mounted Display System (AHMDS). The Adrian is one of the most advanced pilot systems designed in recent years, birthed from the loins of Chantemerian ingenuity and a not-minuscule price of 10,000 credits per unit. It deploys a curve wave-guided holographic display (CWGHD) that tracks the eye movement and blink patterns of the pilot and possesses a ComTech Sensa-Mic while using a Dysonic Motivator and Aux Power Cells to power the multitude of systems.
Due to the poor volume control in the cockpit and vibration from its ion engines the AHMDS possesses a 3D-Audio/Active Noise Reduction system that controls noise levels acoustically and electrically. When listening to alerts and updates from flight systems, it employs spatial separation of messages where messages are directional in the earphones of the pilot. It essentially allows the pilot is focus on one message while being able to process a multitude of others granting them exceptional awareness even in the most chaotic of battlespaces.
The Adrian features a shock-absorbing liner made from a shear-thickening non-newtonian fluid and is constructed from a carbon nanotube-reinforced carbon fiber Duraplast which is custom molded to the head of each individual pilot to prevent internal damage should the pilot strike their head against their cockpit. The lightweight nature of the material means that even while appearing bulky, the Adrian is extremely lightweight which reduces neck and spine strain on pilots during high-stress maneuvers. A nozzle connects the Adrian to a Diagnostech life support unit though the helmet itself can be sealed to provide the pilot with 12 hours of breathable air.
The vision of the pilot is fed through a DAMARUNG-CLASS artificial reality simulator head mount using a CWGHD display to provide a 210-degree horizontal arc and 185 vertical forward-facing field of view. Eye measurements of pilots are taken to ensure that images projected into their visors converge perfectly with their natural field of view. The visor allows the pilot to tap directly into the sensors of the craft when flying in low-visibility conditions using a Electron Bombarded Active Pixel Sensor which incorporates new non-blooming, low halo tech with automatic gain control with a 1000 hertz refresh rate, allowing the pilot to see what the aircraft sees. It can focus and track targets up to 500 levels of magnification.
An 81-axis internal measurement unit (IMU) and a substrate-guided wave (SGW) based eye tracking system built into the Adrian provide tracking of the pilot's eye movement and allow targeting systems to slave to the pilot's vision. The "blink-and-kill" feature means that a pilot can lock onto an enemy target by simply looking at it and blinking in a pre-selected pattern even if it is off-boresight from sensors, allowing lasers and missiles to be fired from seemingly impossible angles.
If the starfighter possesses the A.V.A.L.O.N (Automated Versatile Advanced Linking Operations Network) Fusion System or multiple Multispectral Distributed Aperture System (MDAS) cameras placed on their aircraft, the Adrian allows these multiple viewpoints to be stitched together into a single 360-degree spherical image, allowing the pilot to see through their own-starcraft. To track pilot head motion to ensure harmony between movement and view, Adrian uses a magnetic field and detects changes in that field to record direction. Combined with the "blink-and-kill" feature, if an enemy starfighter gets on a pilot's rear that pilot can look backward and cleanly fire off a missile backwards. If the correct data banks are downloaded onto the starship, a pilot can choose to look at an enemy starship and object recognition programs will identify the model while providing vital information on its capabilities.
If damaged, the display can be lifted to use the backup panoramic polarized visor lined with perspex for eye protection and anti-glare functions. This visor lacks the capability of being able to tap directly into the sensors and has inferior eye-tracking capabilities though retains all other capabilities.
