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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a ship system that would provide early detection of gravity well phenomena.
- Image Source: Luis Guggenberger
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Federal Cooperative - [ Manufactured in Anaxes, Commenor, and Raithal ]
- Affiliation: Open-Market - [ Available for theft or marketplace purchase ]
- Model: FedCo TS-01 Gravity Well Early Warning System
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Production
- Material:
- Alusteel Antenna
- The Gravity Well Early Warning System can identify gravity wells that appear along well-established hyperlanes. The amount of forewarning can range from mere moments to a couple of minutes.
- Early Earning – As implied in the name, the Gravity Well Early Warning System alerts the ship's crew when they’re approaching a gravity well. This technology will provide the ship's crew with anywhere from a few minutes to moments, depending on the circumstances, to make a decision on what to do next.
- On the Rails – The Gravity Well Early Warning System depends on the vast quantity of data that has previously collected over millennia on well-established hyperlanes. This technology ceases to work once a ship attempts to travel to a system that is not situated directly on a hyperlane pathway.
- Large Apparatus – The Gravity Well Early Warning System involves a significant installation. This technology cannot be installed on any ship that is smaller than two-hundred meters.
- Easy Target – The antenna of the Gravity Well Early Warning System protrudes from the hull of the ship and can be an easy target for the enemy to target.
The Gravity Well Early Warning System was developed to allow ships to circumnavigate gravity wells that weren’t initially predicted by the navigation computer. This was intended as a safety measure to avoid natural phenomena that could cause a ship to be destroyed. However, the military applications of the technology were apparent at the beginning. It could serve as a cost-effective alternative to the Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainer. The technology though had some downsides. Chiefly, it relied on the vast amount of data that had been collected over twenty-six millennia, to function. This meant that ships using the technology could only use previously established, well-traveled hyperlanes, to attempt to circumnavigate interdiction fields. Despite this drawback, the advantages of the technology ensured it’s mass production and widespread sell across many sectors.
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