Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make an exploration focused sensor array in Lucerne Labs product catalog
- Image Source: screenshot of video found here
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
- Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi Concord, Lucerne Biological Systems Customers
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Orontes Sensor Array
- Modularity: can have auxiliary information sources such as other sensors, probe droids, etc
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Durasteel casing, Calor-series Bio-computers, Biolux Organoform Circuitry, typical sensor and computer components
- Full-spectrum Transceiver Network: Orontes uses at least six, large full-spectrum transceivers mounted equidistantly across a ship's hull to provide omnidirectional sensor coverage from all "x", "y", and "z" axes. Each dish is comparable in performance to the sensors found on the ANq-51, which makes it a fairly powerful piece of equipment for general surveying and surveillance work. Typically, these sensors are used passively to detect active phenomena, but it's not uncommon for one FST dish to be used actively scan celestial and/or artificial objects of interest to provide general data.
- Electrotelescope Cluster Turrets: Orontes uses several Electrotelescope turrets, each of which has two to three electrotelescopes. It's not uncommon for one telescope to be used in a general scanning mode while the other is used to focus in a small detailed scan on a small area or object. Its ability to visualize objects is close to that of the MRX-BR Pacifier's sensor, also capable of counting the leaves on a tree from orbit.
- DERs
- Heat Particle Detector
- Energy Scanner
- Hyperspace Tracker
- Environment Scanner
- Geoscanner
- Long-Range Spectrometry Equipment
- Spy Ray
- Sensor Network Hub: Orontes's biocomputers are designed to easily integrate other sources of information into the feed provide by Orontes's sensors. This allows other ships, supplemental sensors, probes, probe droids, and the like to provide additional information for analysis.
- AutoCharting: Orontes automatically compiles all information found by its sensors to automatically make detailed maps, complete with entries on celestial and artificial objects found by its sensors in those areas. Most of this information found in such entries is fairly basic, but crew can addend notes of their own to these entries. Depending on how long autochart feature is on, this can consume a great amount of dataspace, but it greatly reduces the effort by the crew and potential errors when surveying areas of space.
- Exploration Sensor Suite: Orontes is designed for survey and exploration work, having excellent detection range and capable of providing a wealth of general data about a general area, celestial object, or artificial construct.
- AutoMapChart: Orontes automatically can create charts and maps for areas of subspace, hyperlanes, and terrestial objects
- Generalist Suite: Orontes is designed for exploration, largely in detecting or identifying objects from long range, but it tends to provide very general information, rather than specifics. It is also not specifically designed to provide combat information, such as specific starship model identification or the identification of starship subsystems.
- Memory Hog: Orontes's AutoCharting feature can take up a lot of memory that goes beyond its own inherent computer systems, which can cause performance issues for the host ship's computers depending on the scale of the project.
The Orontes is designed to provide scouts and exploration craft with an exceptional ability to survey an area with depth and precision. At the heart of the Orontes is a number of large Full Spectrum Transceiver (FST) dishes which are adept at passively gathering large amounts of basic data over vast areas of space to automatically map areas and the objects found within. A variety of other sensors then add supplementary data to data gathered by the FST. Most commonly, Electrotelescope turrets provide very fine-tuned visual images along with supplemental energy signature readings, which in turn can be verified or augmented by additional readings from the spy ray and/or dedicated energy receptors. While primarily designed to chart subspace, Orontes does have use in charting hyperspace routes and planet themselves.
Data gathered by Orontes in subspace includes most celestial objects, with such scans providing information on size, location, projected path, and mass. This information thus allows Orontes to automatically provide all of the information needed to safely calculate hyperspace routes. Its autochart feature then automatically starts producing possible hyperspace routes of areas that it has scanned, though often some editing is needed by organic crew to make routes that are efficient or avoid possible social or cultural issues (such as buzzing too close to inhabitated worlds without regard to local navigation laws, etc). Additionally, the Orontes includes a hyperspace tracker, which can be used in a number of innovative ways to help further chart hyperlanes. Most commonly and benignly, the ship using Orontes can fire off a probe which the Orontes can follow with its hyperspace tracker until something happens to the probe or it safely reverts to realspace. But it can also be used to tail other ships or even purrgil as they move through hyperspace to discover new routes for the sensor's users.
For planetary surveys, the Orontes basic FST and electrotelescopes can provide a great deal of basic information about worlds from the surface. But the geoscanner can provide a lot more geological information than is normally available to most ships, including areas of potential mineral wealth. Its environment scanner provide information about the ability of organics to survive on the world as the ship skims the upper atmosphere. As always, information gathered by the Orontes is automatically mapped, meaning that its entirely possible to create detailed holo-maps of the surface with several passes.
Orontes is expected to be fielded on exploration and tactical scout ships, where its powerful sensor abilities can provide detailed understanding of the lay of land as well conveniently package this information for use by other parties, such as merchants looking for quicker trade routes or military commanders for planning future campaigns.
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