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Intent: An advanced sensor module for specialty use and restricted sales.
Development Thread:
Model: QQ-4L-Y354 Angel Eye Sensor Suite
Affiliation: Restricted sales
Modularity: No
Production: Minor
Material: Electronics
Description: The Angel Eye sensor suite is an advanced starfighter/transport sensor package. Apart from standard sensor functionality, the suite includes two closely linked short-range components of special purpose.
One is a miniaturized crystalline gravitic sensor, a CGT or Crystal Gravfield Trap. Normally, CGTs are capable of detecting objects in orbit, from tens of thousands of kilometres away. The CGT contained within the Angel Eye suite has a maximum range several orders of magnitude lower. At 500 metres, its gravitic sensor radius is far smaller than the rest of the sensors, which are of standard range for advanced starfighter sensors. This miniaturized gravitic sensor is capable of detecting heavily stealthed vessels within 500 metres, a far smaller range than the scope of most space battlefields. Excepted, of course, are vessels which are protected by gravitic modulators as well as their stealth systems and/or cloaking devices.
The other miniaturized component is a gravitic amplitude modulator or GAM. Originally designed to jam yammosks over immense distances, the GAM has been downscaled significantly, and its effective range of 500 metres is far too short for effective anti-yammosk use (though nearby coralskippers would be blocked from yammosk assistance and awareness). A GAM projects a randomized graviton noise waveform, and this particular GAM is optimized to maximize that effect within the 500-metre radius. This waveform has no adverse effects on any ships within the radius, as with a standard GAM.
Two components, then, both originally designed for whole-battlefield use, both miniaturized and stripped down to less than one percent of their original operating radius. Why? The answer lies in the link between them, a high-functioning little droid brain specialized for one purpose and one purpose only: near-instantaneous data transmission between the mini CGT and the mini GAM. These three components comprise the Angel Eye's gravitic sensor subsystem.
When the Angel Eye's gravitic subsystem is activated (a process which incurs enough power drain to reduce shield recharge rates by 10% during the its period of use), the mini GAM deploys its randomized graviton waveform omnidirectionally. If a gravitic modulator is active within 500 metres, it will be forced to make minute adjustments to avoid becoming a blip on a CGT. Such minute adjustments are common to gravitic modulators, which often need to function around Lagrange points, dovin basals, and other gravitic phenomena -- to say nothing of the adjustments necessary as a ship moves relative to a planet, moon, or star. Gravitic modulators find it more difficult to adjust to the randomized, quick nature of the GAM wavefront. For microseconds, perhaps even one or two tenths of a second depending on the quality of manufacture of the gravitic modulator in question, the adjustment lags behind the random GAM signal. On average, faint gravitic signals are detected a half dozen times a second, allowing the droid brain and targeting computers to plot and display the gravitic anomaly's position and course in real time. The droid link conveys the randomized wavefront information from the GAM to the CGT, and allows the CGT to cancel it out. Sensor contacts are likewise incorporated into the analysis. The Angel Eye is also capable of filtering out other gravitic disturbances, such as the use of other GAMs elsewhere on the battlefield. The result is that vessels shielded by gravitic modulators, regardless of other stealth systems, can be detected within the astronomically tiny effective radius of the Angel Eye sensor's gravitic subsystem.
This advanced sensor suite counts as two Advanced Systems, partially or wholly precluding the use of other Advanced Systems on a given small craft. This holds true on highly modular advanced Silk designs, such as the Rassilon-class elite starfighter, where the choice of any three advanced systems would be dialed down to only one after the Angel Eye's installation. The Angel Eye would never be suitable for installation in mass-produced craft, as there are nowhere near enough of them. Though the Angel Eye could be installed on capital craft, most capital ships are larger than the detection radius, and the radius is too small for the majority of capital ship tactical purposes. If enough Angel Eyes were installed to give blanket coverage for 500m around the ship, it would suffer from the 10% shield recharge rate reduction, a steep price to pay for an extremely localized benefit.
Development Thread:
- Development of the Angel Eye
- Advanced gravitic research, prerequisite for this project
- Advanced gravitic research, prerequisite for this project (Crashed)
Model: QQ-4L-Y354 Angel Eye Sensor Suite
Affiliation: Restricted sales
Modularity: No
Production: Minor
Material: Electronics
Description: The Angel Eye sensor suite is an advanced starfighter/transport sensor package. Apart from standard sensor functionality, the suite includes two closely linked short-range components of special purpose.
One is a miniaturized crystalline gravitic sensor, a CGT or Crystal Gravfield Trap. Normally, CGTs are capable of detecting objects in orbit, from tens of thousands of kilometres away. The CGT contained within the Angel Eye suite has a maximum range several orders of magnitude lower. At 500 metres, its gravitic sensor radius is far smaller than the rest of the sensors, which are of standard range for advanced starfighter sensors. This miniaturized gravitic sensor is capable of detecting heavily stealthed vessels within 500 metres, a far smaller range than the scope of most space battlefields. Excepted, of course, are vessels which are protected by gravitic modulators as well as their stealth systems and/or cloaking devices.
The other miniaturized component is a gravitic amplitude modulator or GAM. Originally designed to jam yammosks over immense distances, the GAM has been downscaled significantly, and its effective range of 500 metres is far too short for effective anti-yammosk use (though nearby coralskippers would be blocked from yammosk assistance and awareness). A GAM projects a randomized graviton noise waveform, and this particular GAM is optimized to maximize that effect within the 500-metre radius. This waveform has no adverse effects on any ships within the radius, as with a standard GAM.
Two components, then, both originally designed for whole-battlefield use, both miniaturized and stripped down to less than one percent of their original operating radius. Why? The answer lies in the link between them, a high-functioning little droid brain specialized for one purpose and one purpose only: near-instantaneous data transmission between the mini CGT and the mini GAM. These three components comprise the Angel Eye's gravitic sensor subsystem.
When the Angel Eye's gravitic subsystem is activated (a process which incurs enough power drain to reduce shield recharge rates by 10% during the its period of use), the mini GAM deploys its randomized graviton waveform omnidirectionally. If a gravitic modulator is active within 500 metres, it will be forced to make minute adjustments to avoid becoming a blip on a CGT. Such minute adjustments are common to gravitic modulators, which often need to function around Lagrange points, dovin basals, and other gravitic phenomena -- to say nothing of the adjustments necessary as a ship moves relative to a planet, moon, or star. Gravitic modulators find it more difficult to adjust to the randomized, quick nature of the GAM wavefront. For microseconds, perhaps even one or two tenths of a second depending on the quality of manufacture of the gravitic modulator in question, the adjustment lags behind the random GAM signal. On average, faint gravitic signals are detected a half dozen times a second, allowing the droid brain and targeting computers to plot and display the gravitic anomaly's position and course in real time. The droid link conveys the randomized wavefront information from the GAM to the CGT, and allows the CGT to cancel it out. Sensor contacts are likewise incorporated into the analysis. The Angel Eye is also capable of filtering out other gravitic disturbances, such as the use of other GAMs elsewhere on the battlefield. The result is that vessels shielded by gravitic modulators, regardless of other stealth systems, can be detected within the astronomically tiny effective radius of the Angel Eye sensor's gravitic subsystem.
This advanced sensor suite counts as two Advanced Systems, partially or wholly precluding the use of other Advanced Systems on a given small craft. This holds true on highly modular advanced Silk designs, such as the Rassilon-class elite starfighter, where the choice of any three advanced systems would be dialed down to only one after the Angel Eye's installation. The Angel Eye would never be suitable for installation in mass-produced craft, as there are nowhere near enough of them. Though the Angel Eye could be installed on capital craft, most capital ships are larger than the detection radius, and the radius is too small for the majority of capital ship tactical purposes. If enough Angel Eyes were installed to give blanket coverage for 500m around the ship, it would suffer from the 10% shield recharge rate reduction, a steep price to pay for an extremely localized benefit.
