Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Intent: An advanced navicomputer coupled with a navigational sensor package.
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Clan Rekali, Inc.
Model: Kol Mark IV Navicomputer
Affiliation: Clan Rekali, open market
Modularity: No
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Electronics
Description: The Kol Mark IV is an advanced navicomputer suitable for vessels of frigate size or smaller. Larger host vessels' intense hyperspace bubbles have been known to interfere with the navigational sensors, producing false positive readings of major mass shadows. (For clarity, this applies only to the hyperspace bubble of a large vessel in which the Kol Mark IV might be installed.)
The navicomputer is comparable to other high-end navicomputers on the market, in that it works much like the computer on Wilhuff Tarkin's corvette Carrion Spike:
The sensor package centers on an extrapolation of classic hyperspace compass technology. The hyperspace compass is a rudimentary sensor which allows a vessel to orient itself relative to the center of the galaxy, or rather to the center of the aggregate mass shadows of a galaxy's astronomical bodies. Most ships have hyperspace compasses by default. The Kol Mark IV package contains a hyperspace sensor which can orient a vessel relative to multiple points of reference, if such points of reference are available. Hypermassive stars, large black holes, pulsars, and major star clusters (Hapes, for example) can all be used as secondary points of reference within a maximum threshold of roughly 5,000 light years. (For OOC reference, an Essential Atlas galaxy map square is roughly 5,000 light years across.)
This permits the Kol Mark IV to track its ship's location in real time. When vessels revert to realspace unexpectedly or inaccurately (as from a poorly calculated jump, an accident, or interdiction) they must spent significant time -- often hours -- to determine their present coordinates. With the Kol Mark IV, assuming appropriate secondary points of reference are available, current coordinates can be divined in minutes or less, and can be available without reverting to realspace. As noted above, when the Kol Mark IV is installed on ships larger than a frigate, the vessels' intense hyperspace bubbles have been known to interfere with the navigational sensors, producing false positive readings of major mass shadows. This makes the sensor package highly unreliable if installed in a vessel above frigate scale.
The Kol Mark IV can be paired with any hyperdrive.
Primary Source: Carrion Spike, hyperspace compass
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Clan Rekali, Inc.
Model: Kol Mark IV Navicomputer
Affiliation: Clan Rekali, open market
Modularity: No
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Electronics
Description: The Kol Mark IV is an advanced navicomputer suitable for vessels of frigate size or smaller. Larger host vessels' intense hyperspace bubbles have been known to interfere with the navigational sensors, producing false positive readings of major mass shadows. (For clarity, this applies only to the hyperspace bubble of a large vessel in which the Kol Mark IV might be installed.)
The navicomputer is comparable to other high-end navicomputers on the market, in that it works much like the computer on Wilhuff Tarkin's corvette Carrion Spike:
In service to this functionality, each Kol Mark IV navicomputer is pre-loaded with a complete set of star charts, including advanced charts available only via an agreement with Baobab Astrography.
The sensor package centers on an extrapolation of classic hyperspace compass technology. The hyperspace compass is a rudimentary sensor which allows a vessel to orient itself relative to the center of the galaxy, or rather to the center of the aggregate mass shadows of a galaxy's astronomical bodies. Most ships have hyperspace compasses by default. The Kol Mark IV package contains a hyperspace sensor which can orient a vessel relative to multiple points of reference, if such points of reference are available. Hypermassive stars, large black holes, pulsars, and major star clusters (Hapes, for example) can all be used as secondary points of reference within a maximum threshold of roughly 5,000 light years. (For OOC reference, an Essential Atlas galaxy map square is roughly 5,000 light years across.)
This permits the Kol Mark IV to track its ship's location in real time. When vessels revert to realspace unexpectedly or inaccurately (as from a poorly calculated jump, an accident, or interdiction) they must spent significant time -- often hours -- to determine their present coordinates. With the Kol Mark IV, assuming appropriate secondary points of reference are available, current coordinates can be divined in minutes or less, and can be available without reverting to realspace. As noted above, when the Kol Mark IV is installed on ships larger than a frigate, the vessels' intense hyperspace bubbles have been known to interfere with the navigational sensors, producing false positive readings of major mass shadows. This makes the sensor package highly unreliable if installed in a vessel above frigate scale.
The Kol Mark IV can be paired with any hyperdrive.
Primary Source: Carrion Spike, hyperspace compass
