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Intent: To create a starship component for future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Pythona Slicing Unit
Modularity: None
Production: Unique
Material(s)/Component(s):
To say the Thoth A.I. is cantankerous or confrontational is, well, generous. The fact is that a serious glitch in the A.I.’s programming has made him anything but user-friendly. So how do you use a narcissistic, mean-spirited, and generally hateful A.I. to its best possible ends? You give it to your enemies, of course.
The Pythona Slicing Unit uses the ill-tempered digital jerk as the brains behind this unit’s incredible slicing powers. Able to remotely attack an enemy system or computer from multiple-vectors simultaneously, using a host of techniques, methods, and strategies all found within its exhaustive slicing database, it is able to surreptitiously gain access to an enemy’s data, systems controls, even to gain control over an entire ship without being detected. Once inside, Thoth pours through data in record time, scouring through directories and subdirectories at lightning fast speeds, extrapolating pertinent information, organizing and analyzing volumes of data into clear, concise strategy, tactical recommendations, and other useful reports to give the ‘good guys’ a leg up! The Pythona, using Thoth’s surly yet superior command-and-control programming can take over individual systems or even a whole ship in some cases, wreaking havoc and remotely shutting down shields and life support, taking engines offline, preventing it from launching or docking fighters, disrupting hyperdrive functions, shutting down communications or sensors, or turning a ship’s weapons on friendly targets. In short, letting Thoth take out his aggressive tendencies in a not-so-passive way and where it can do the most good!
Pythona’s not perfect, because – let’s face it – slicing is more art than science and many factors can prevent or inhibit the effectiveness of it. For starters, it doesn’t have the best range, only 120km max. which means you need to be fairly close to your target for it to work and thus leave yourself open to detection or attack. A well-protected target, such as an underground bunker or well-armored dreadnaught is going to be challenging, if not impossible, to penetrate, and many factors can disrupt or diminish effective attacks in the process. Electrical storms, ion clouds, and more can all lower effectiveness at times, and a well-encrypted system using innovative and original anti-slicing methods can pose a challenge as well.
In the end however, Pythona is just the unit, the ‘vehicle’ that Thoth needs to let his darker tendencies and spitefulness out to play. This way, the one suffering however isn’t you. Instead, it’s exactly the one who deserves it!
Intent: To create a starship component for future submissions and role-playing.
Image Source: N/A
Canon Link: N/A
Primary Source(s):
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Pythona Slicing Unit
Modularity: None
Production: Unique
Material(s)/Component(s):
- NEEDLE Remote-Slicing Unit
- Diagnostic System Diverter
- Modified Snooper Program
- Slicer Chip
- Encryption/Decryption Module
- Heuristic Processors
- Thoth A.I.
- Gabonna Memory Crystals
- Reinforced Duraplast Casing
- Electronics Components
- Slicing Database – Containing extensive knowledge of known computer programming language, operating software, computer systems security programming, encryption/decryption methods, various slicing methods and protocols, etc.
- Functioning via the communications systems and components with which it is paired, it enables remote slicing across distances of up to 120km, allowing for slicing from orbit, ship-to-ship, or against targets over an hour’s travel away.
- Uses powerful programming and components to launch covert yet massively powerful attacks, able to bypass extensive security protocols and encryption and digest through volumes of data rapidly and thoroughly to obtain information or assume control over targeted systems, then can effectively end the attack without a trace or wreak havoc on enemy systems as its user decides.
- Can function autonomously, conducting attacks or remotely-controlling systems independently of its user, enabling them to carry out other tasks simultaneously.
- Uses a tremendous programming package and slicing database, able to provide a potent slicing methodology and information foundation, able to react with impressive efficiency, effectiveness, and power to overcome a variety of security methods.
- Able to launch a simultaneous multi-vector attack, effectively operating as several attacks at once, able to defeat several security protocols at the same time and speed up slicing attack times significantly.
- Thoth A.I., once inside an enemy system, effectively takes over the target, pillaging its databases, dominating its systems, even controlling entire starships in defiance of their crews and even if expelled, results in a viral contamination which – unless stopped - renders the ship disabled.
- Vast database of slicing methods, computer languages, encryption/decryption, operating systems, programming, etc. makes it an effective tool against a vast range of types of systems, protocols, and programming.
- Able to learn from its experiences, the unit’s capabilities grow with every use.
- Able to launch multiple simultaneous attacks, utilizing different techniques and methods, it can bypass numerous security protocols, or search through and decrypt massive databases at once, reducing time needed to obtain its objectives.
- Able to quickly, accurately, and thoroughly search through, process, and organize information, targeting specific data files or locating specific systems controls rapidly and efficiently, making the time required notably less and improving the effectiveness of the unit exponentially; can utilize vast amounts of data collected to extrapolate strategies and tactics to assist Captains and crews.
- Can end an attack without leaving a trace and allowing for covert slicing and subtle functionality the entire duration of the attack, it is incredibly hard to detect and/or counter.
- Can remotely assume partial or even full control over one or more systems, wreaking havoc on enemy ships, vehicles, communications, computers, etc. and even launch destructive attacks by prompting power surges, inserting false files, uploading malware or spyware, and more, depending on the user’s desires.
- Sophisticated software allows for anonymous, highly encrypted, and largely incorruptible/undetectable collection of data, significantly lowering vulnerability to interception, counter-attacks, or tracing of attacks by enemy systems or monitors.
- Only as good as the communications system it works through, meaning if that system is jammed, disrupted, or disabled the effectiveness of the unit can be diminished, compromised, or altogether thwarted.
- Cannot penetrate through dense physical protection, such as hardened bunkers, caves, or shielded vessels, meaning that an orbital attack on an enemy system located in an underground facility – for example – is almost sure to fail.
- Powerful electrical storms, electromagnetic fields, ion radiation, or similar conditions can prevent, slow, or disable an attack.
- Premature cessation of an attack may prevent ‘no trace’ protocols from occurring (if elected) which will alert an enemy system or monitor that an attack has occurred.
- As with all slicing, particularly well-defended systems will require more time to penetrate, and thus increase likelihood of interruption, detection, or counter-attack.
- Due to the remote nature of the unit, attacks against truly massive databases/systems or those with intensive levels of encryption may be less effective than direct in-person attacks.
- Limited range (120km maximum effective range) meaning that even though the paired communications systems may operate much further, that doesn’t translate to the unit, which still requires a relative closeness to its target to be effective.
- No matter how much information the slicing database has, there’s always a chance that the unit may encounter a security system or protocol that it is unfamiliar with, and thus will be delayed or prevented from penetrating its target.
To say the Thoth A.I. is cantankerous or confrontational is, well, generous. The fact is that a serious glitch in the A.I.’s programming has made him anything but user-friendly. So how do you use a narcissistic, mean-spirited, and generally hateful A.I. to its best possible ends? You give it to your enemies, of course.
The Pythona Slicing Unit uses the ill-tempered digital jerk as the brains behind this unit’s incredible slicing powers. Able to remotely attack an enemy system or computer from multiple-vectors simultaneously, using a host of techniques, methods, and strategies all found within its exhaustive slicing database, it is able to surreptitiously gain access to an enemy’s data, systems controls, even to gain control over an entire ship without being detected. Once inside, Thoth pours through data in record time, scouring through directories and subdirectories at lightning fast speeds, extrapolating pertinent information, organizing and analyzing volumes of data into clear, concise strategy, tactical recommendations, and other useful reports to give the ‘good guys’ a leg up! The Pythona, using Thoth’s surly yet superior command-and-control programming can take over individual systems or even a whole ship in some cases, wreaking havoc and remotely shutting down shields and life support, taking engines offline, preventing it from launching or docking fighters, disrupting hyperdrive functions, shutting down communications or sensors, or turning a ship’s weapons on friendly targets. In short, letting Thoth take out his aggressive tendencies in a not-so-passive way and where it can do the most good!
Pythona’s not perfect, because – let’s face it – slicing is more art than science and many factors can prevent or inhibit the effectiveness of it. For starters, it doesn’t have the best range, only 120km max. which means you need to be fairly close to your target for it to work and thus leave yourself open to detection or attack. A well-protected target, such as an underground bunker or well-armored dreadnaught is going to be challenging, if not impossible, to penetrate, and many factors can disrupt or diminish effective attacks in the process. Electrical storms, ion clouds, and more can all lower effectiveness at times, and a well-encrypted system using innovative and original anti-slicing methods can pose a challenge as well.
In the end however, Pythona is just the unit, the ‘vehicle’ that Thoth needs to let his darker tendencies and spitefulness out to play. This way, the one suffering however isn’t you. Instead, it’s exactly the one who deserves it!
