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LANA
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a full-survey sensor and analysis system for future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: VisTech Diversified Industries, LLC
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Land-Atmospheric Terrain Analysis “LANA” System
Modularity: None
Production: Minor
Material(s): Electronic components, Reinforced Duraplast Casing
Component(s):
- Automap
- PINS
- Pocket Navigator
- Directional Transceiver
- Droid Sensorscope
- Proximity Sensor
- Lifeform Scanner
- Repulsor Sensor
- Environmental Sensor
- FullSpec Sensor Package
- Hemisphere Sensor Screen
- ChemDetect
- 9000 Energy Scanner
- Weather Monitor
- 7000 Geoscanner
- Soil and Water Analyzer
- Weapons Detector
- Sonar Mapper
- Spectrameter
- Encephalon-34 Droid Brain
- Handheld Survey Datapad with Docking Station Mount
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Unit can be mounted inside of a vehicle or to a speeder bike, enabling it to conduct survey readings autonomously and directly linked to that vehicle’s power supply and communications system.
- Able to conduct a planetary survey, including soil, water, and atmospheric analysis; weather monitoring, terrain mapping; flora and fauna identification; scan for mineral deposits, metals, and more; survey seismic and volcanic activity; and ascertain directional information.
- Will detect nearby lifeforms, seeking to identify them, and can also ascertain nearby weapons, movements, repulsor/engine/power signatures, and movements.
- Can detect, monitor, and even link into communications signals such as GPS satellites, media casts, even traffic information and news channels if present.
- Unit can be removed and operate on its own battery power for up to 24 standard hours on a full charge before needed to be returned to its dock to recharge. However, in such cases it will wirelessly pair to friendly communications systems also carried, being unable to link to the usually more powerful systems in a vehicle if it is moved more than 20m from that signal.
- LANA Systems can request and store encyclopedic information from various databases, and can cooperate with the sensors of ships in orbit via communications to create incredibly accurate surveys and mapping for exploration and scouting.
STRENGTHS:
- The LANA is a scout’s best friend, able to conduct numerous survey applications, organize and store immense amounts of information, and – using friendly communications – even relay its findings to ships in orbit.
- The LANA is capable of providing early warning-type detection as well, discovering and detecting communications signals, nearby weapons, lifeforms, movements, and energy signatures from propulsion systems and generators.
- The LANA, again using paired comms, can draw upon reference databases for encyclopedic information and technical and field manuals when desired/needed.
- The LANA’s onboard droid brain can collect, organize, analyze, and inventory copious amounts of data in incredibly fast and accurate ways, producing a full planetary survey report as it goes.
- The LANA is durable and resilient, able to withstand the rugged environs in which it is often most needed and used and is hardened against EMP/Ion interference.
WEAKNESSES:
- The LANA’s ‘bluetooth’ range is relatively short, roughly 15-20m before it is cut off from connectivity to a communications system. This greatly reduces both its abilities and causes the unit to shift into a memory-saver mode, taking only limited and general data to preserve memory space until it can ‘upload and dump’ its stored information again.
- The LANA’s fully-charged battery life is just 24 standard hours, after which it shuts itself down until it can be recharged.
- The LANA’s scanning range is relatively short – only about 1.62km when working apart from its docking station and going up to a maximum of 16km when docked inside a vehicle or speeder bike, depending on the power supply available. Further, beyond 4.82km, the sensors act only in the most general way, lacking the detail of closer studies.
- While built tough to resist dust, dirt, and grime, as well as being waterproof up to being submerged to 50m and shockproof against falls from up to 5m, it is not invulnerable. Serious damage or rough treatment can disable or destroy it, as can weapons fire, and too much of its being banged about will throw off the sensitivity and calibration of the system, greatly reducing accuracy and performance.
- Incredibly expensive and complex, field repairs are not likely to happen and getting a replacement way ‘out there’ on the fringe is not likely, so once damaged or destroyed, unless you have a back-up, you’re just plain out of luck until you can get back to civilization.
- It’s not encrypted, and signals between the handheld and the docking station/vehicle communications systems are easily sliced, detected, and monitored.
DESCRIPTION:
The LANA is the device every scout wishes they had. Powerful, accurate, and full-spectrum survey and sensory scans enable users to make complete planetary surveys and create precision maps when cooperating with ships in orbit, and provide scouts with a measure of situational awareness that is beyond the scope of most sensor systems and survey equipment – and more, do so in a convenient, tough, and portable little device that can docked inside of vehicle or else carried with the scout on foot.
The LANA is capable of assessing, analyzing, surveying, and recording vast amounts of information, including the following:
- Topography
- Soil, Water, and Atmospheric make-up and contents
- Potential hazards including toxins, radiation, and airborne pathogens
- Lifeforms (Flora and fauna; sentient and non-sentient)
- Geology (including mineral deposits, metals, seismic and volcanic activity, composition, and more)
- Directional information and cartographic generation
- Energy signatures, weapons signatures, and communications signals
- Proximity and motion of nearby lifeforms
- Weather monitoring, including temperature, humidity, pressure systems, storm systems (type, direction, and intensity), and more.
- Monitoring and recording unencrypted mass communications, such as broadcast news, traffic networks, media, etc.
Furthermore, the LANA can pair with friendly communications to relay its findings to ships or base camps, draw upon databases, and even download and access reference materials and manuals, making it the perfect device for keeping a survey team informed and able to compile intense amounts of data. The onboard droid brain is able to collect, process, sort, analyze, and organize this information, generating a comprehensive survey and map even as it collects more and more raw data. Using repeated samples, the LANA can even extrapolate weather patterns such as seasons and storm cycles, life cycle information about flora and fauna, and assess the technological levels of indigenous species.
But it is a finely-tuned piece of equipment – very expensive, very complex, and very hard to come by in most parts of the galaxy. Despite being built to take the sort of rough-and-tumble punishment scouting and exploration entails, there’s a fine line. Serious damage can occur, reducing the device’s usefulness, range, accuracy, and even cause it to be disabled or destroyed. It’s onboard power supply can operate at optimal levels only for 24 hours before needing to be recharged, and if brought more than 20m away from friendly communications systems – making it unable to pair and thus upload its collected data to larger systems – it begins to finds its survey’s details and range diminished, switching to a low-power, memory-saving mode instead. Furthermore, the LANA isn’t a spy tool or a military-grade gadget, and thus its signals to and from friendly comms are not encrypted, making them easily detected, monitored, and even sliced.
Yet, it still constitutes one of the galaxy’s finest and most portable survey tools going. Any scout with the means to attain one, or better yet two or more, will find their work becomes exponentially easier with the LANA!
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