John Locke
V U L K A N
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a mesh communications program for use in later submissions
Image Source: Hothardware
Canon Link: n/a
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Locke and Key Mechanics
Affiliation: Closed-Market (Any character can use this if they have explicit permission through, for example, a marketplace purchase)
Model: Legion Networking Software
Modularity: No
Production: Mass-Produced. (Anyone.) Characters refer to NPCs & PCs.
Material: ones and zeros
SPECIAL FEATURES
Uses routing to ensure that data packets can flow up and down a network with maximum efficiency.
Being a Locke and Key product the system is designed to work with both the Navi and Padlocke technologies to create a complete cybersecurity and data management package.
Strengths:
Constantly sends data up and down the network to check it’s integrity, allowing the self-healing algorithms to constantly adjust the network to bypass weak connections or damaged/corrupted nodes.
Allows data to be transmitted despite ECM by transmitting each data packet only a short distance to the next node.
Weaknesses:
A network is only as strong as it’s weakest link, the Legion programme doesn’t differentiate between the data being sent along it, trusting the individual nodes to protect themselves, if one is compromised, the entire system can be compromised until someone cuts out the infected node.
Unlike the networking capability of the Freyja Communications System, the Legion is only capable of connection to one network at a time making it tactically useful, while making it a strategic liability since everyone will have access to all the data.
DESCRIPTION
In the Freyja Communications system, Locke and Key Mechanics created a powerful communications system. While the variety and adaptability of the system still stand it in high regard, the true strength of the Freyja was its ability to set up and manage multiple communications networks. This ability to create networks to share information rapidly proved it’s usefulness in combat, leading Locke and Key to examine ways they could apply this technology to a wider scope.
Legion was the end result of this, a mesh networking program designed to create a network out of whatever nodes it was installed into. Legion was designed to manage the dataflow of a network, allowing it to operate at maximum efficiency, bypassing slow connections and corrupted nodes to allow the rapid propagation of information across the network.
