John Locke
V U L K A N
- Intent: To create a component for use in later submissions
- Image Source: 123rf.com
- Canon Link: N/a
- Primary Source:
Battle Analysis Computer - Navi
- Manufacturer: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Affiliation: Company Name: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Model: B.A.R.C.A. - Battle Analysis and Real-time Combat Assistant
- Modularity: Software can be updated
Production: Mass-Produced. (Anyone.) Characters refer to NPCs & PCs.
- Material: 1s and 0s; Software
- Able to process data from sensors to provide the user with analysis and suggestions and statistics.
- Scalable from a droid or armour all the way to ship.
- Able to function as an add-on for a Navi system
- Can scan multiple data streams, collating the data into a more digestible form for it's user.
- The data can also be run through algorithms for analysis of the data, allowing a better understanding of the situation.
- Data can also be run through a predictive algorithm which will give possible outcomes of the situation for the user to react to or plan around.
- The system if heavily dependant on the data streams coming in, if this is compromised or altered in anyway then the very foundation of the system and it's advice is suspect.
- Prediction is based on probabilities, and so can't account for random chance or decisions.
The modern battlefield is complicated, there is no other way to describe it, every soldier is tied into a communications network, with orders and data constantly flowing up and down the network. Add to that the myriad of streams of information you can receive from your armour sensors and weapons and it's very easy for any combatant to feel overwhelmed. This was a situation that Locke and Key Mechanics set out to fix with the release of the B.A.R.C.A.
Based on the popular Navi system, the B.A.R.C.A. is a Battle Analysis system designed with two purpose in mind.
The first is to take all the data steaming in to the user and transforms it into a usable format. Sensors, shared tactical data, the B.A.R.C.A. takes everything and runs it though the analysis software presenting the user with a summation of the data, but more importantly it could run the data through predictive algorithms, presenting a series of options based on the most likely response of opponents. While the predictive matrix is not 100% effective the trials found that it was very effective, mainly useful on a strategic level a sufficiently skilled and fast user could utilise it on a tactical level on fights.
The second purpose of the B.A.R.C.A. was to link up with the Navi, or another similar system, providing the artificial assistant with a superior data analysis and predictive matrix. The uses of the B.A.R.C.A. don't are not solely restricted to military matters, but can be used to analyse financial, population or voting data and provide reports and predictions based on the data provided.
