Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Intent: To create a modular countermeasures package as a Star Wars version of this piece of technology.
Development Thread: No
Manufacturer: Silk Holdings
Model: QQ-C1R-C3 Defensive Decoy Module
Affiliation: Open market
Modularity: It is, as it happens, a module.
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Electronics, plastoid barrel
Description: The QQ-C1R-C3 is a favorite countermeasure of salvagers and smugglers, though it has its legitimate uses, such as baiting pirates and raiders. Its most commonly used configurations are, of course, those which lend themselves to illegality in many systems. As a result, the unit is not heavily marketed, and is mainly manufactured and distributed in remote systems or starbases throughout the Outer Rim. In civilized space, it is marketed as an anti-pirate decoy.
One module contains ten plastoid barrels. Each barrel combines the following components.
Each module requires 5 tons of cargo space near a cargo door, or can be bolted to a vessel's exterior. If attached externally, the module still takes up 5 tons of lift capacity. While not exactly prohibitive, the weight requirement can compound with other add-ons and cut into profit margins. Costs can thus be problematic for independent shippers. These are the same modest disadvantages shared by many modular attachments of a certain size. Buyers should be aware that the QQ-C1R-C3 is not always legal in a given star system or territory, and should be carried internally when legality is a concern.
The module's broadcast range is comparable to most civilian vessels; it can usually be detected from anywhere within an average star system. When faced with jamming measures, the simple device continues to broadcast as before; it is as easily scrambled as most civilian intrasystem comms.
Development Thread: No
Manufacturer: Silk Holdings
Model: QQ-C1R-C3 Defensive Decoy Module
Affiliation: Open market
Modularity: It is, as it happens, a module.
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Electronics, plastoid barrel
Description: The QQ-C1R-C3 is a favorite countermeasure of salvagers and smugglers, though it has its legitimate uses, such as baiting pirates and raiders. Its most commonly used configurations are, of course, those which lend themselves to illegality in many systems. As a result, the unit is not heavily marketed, and is mainly manufactured and distributed in remote systems or starbases throughout the Outer Rim. In civilized space, it is marketed as an anti-pirate decoy.
One module contains ten plastoid barrels. Each barrel combines the following components.
- Trickster Decoy - Can fool long-range sensors and midrange visual/sensor investigation with an electromagnetic, sensor, and holographic profile chosen from a variety of common yachts, bulk freighters, and high-end personal transports. Closer inspections will always unmask the decoy.
- Distress Beacon - Randomized combination of voice profiles, languages, static blur, and overlapping background noises. Thousands of possible combinations of sound. Exhaustively tested, each distress beacon sounds reasonably authentic, and matches the trickster decoy (no Ithorian medical vessels claiming to be Hapan princesses' retinues, for example).
- Self-Destruct Mechanism - Detonates on close-range, high-intensity scan, ionization, or tampering. Only sufficient to wreck the beacon's internal components and wipe their data.
Each module requires 5 tons of cargo space near a cargo door, or can be bolted to a vessel's exterior. If attached externally, the module still takes up 5 tons of lift capacity. While not exactly prohibitive, the weight requirement can compound with other add-ons and cut into profit margins. Costs can thus be problematic for independent shippers. These are the same modest disadvantages shared by many modular attachments of a certain size. Buyers should be aware that the QQ-C1R-C3 is not always legal in a given star system or territory, and should be carried internally when legality is a concern.
The module's broadcast range is comparable to most civilian vessels; it can usually be detected from anywhere within an average star system. When faced with jamming measures, the simple device continues to broadcast as before; it is as easily scrambled as most civilian intrasystem comms.
