Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Intent: An advanced navicomputer.
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps (‘Theed Hangar’)
Model: Ric Olie-type Astrogational Guidance System (pronounced ‘oh-lee-eh’ or ‘ol-yay’)
Affiliation: Naboo, Galactic Alliance, select customers
Modularity: It is a module, and is compatible with a wide variety of hyperdrives.
Production: Limited
Material: Electronics
Strengths:
Description: The Ric Olie-type Astrogational Guidance System, or Olie AGS, is a top-quality navicomputer compatible with a variety of hyperdrives, and suitable for elite personal transports. It was influenced by a series of ambitious Clan Rekali hyperdrives that had unique strengths and weaknesses; by comparison, the Olie AGS does exactly one thing and does it very well.
The Olie, like a few historical navigational systems, permits starships to change course radically without decanting from hyperspace. The Olie has no real bells or whistles apart from that capability, and requires a skilled navigator/astrogator to reach its full potential. When in the hands of a talented interstellar navigator, however, the Olie can even allow a ship to about-face and return to its port of origin without reverting to realspace, or maneuver around otherwise deadly hyperspace obstacles. By some measurements, the Olie is one of the finest navicomputers available on the civilian market, and surpasses many military-grade examples.
Primary Source: This navicomputer operates much like those found aboard the Carrion Spike and the T-70 X-Wing. The Carrion Spike’s “state of the art navicomputer allowed the corvette to travel from the Outer Rim to Coruscant without reverting to real space to retrieve routing data from relay stations or hyperwave beacons (less advanced ships had to exit hyperspace to check navigation data while travelling from one system to another).”* The official novelization of The Force Awakens notes that the T-70 X-Wing could travel in an arc-shaped course around Starkiller Base, then change direction by ninety degrees, while still in hyperspace, for the final approach.
This navicomputer is similar to the Kol Mark IV navicomputer, but lacks some of the Kol’s unique strengths and weaknesses, as well as its production level.
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps (‘Theed Hangar’)
Model: Ric Olie-type Astrogational Guidance System (pronounced ‘oh-lee-eh’ or ‘ol-yay’)
Affiliation: Naboo, Galactic Alliance, select customers
Modularity: It is a module, and is compatible with a wide variety of hyperdrives.
Production: Limited
Material: Electronics
Strengths:
- Capable of non-linear hyperspace transit, i.e. of changing course radically without reverting to realspace.
- Reliable in the extreme.
- Requires a relatively skilled navigator to unlock its full potential.
- Quite expensive; most suitable for personal transports (limited production or less).
Description: The Ric Olie-type Astrogational Guidance System, or Olie AGS, is a top-quality navicomputer compatible with a variety of hyperdrives, and suitable for elite personal transports. It was influenced by a series of ambitious Clan Rekali hyperdrives that had unique strengths and weaknesses; by comparison, the Olie AGS does exactly one thing and does it very well.
The Olie, like a few historical navigational systems, permits starships to change course radically without decanting from hyperspace. The Olie has no real bells or whistles apart from that capability, and requires a skilled navigator/astrogator to reach its full potential. When in the hands of a talented interstellar navigator, however, the Olie can even allow a ship to about-face and return to its port of origin without reverting to realspace, or maneuver around otherwise deadly hyperspace obstacles. By some measurements, the Olie is one of the finest navicomputers available on the civilian market, and surpasses many military-grade examples.
Primary Source: This navicomputer operates much like those found aboard the Carrion Spike and the T-70 X-Wing. The Carrion Spike’s “state of the art navicomputer allowed the corvette to travel from the Outer Rim to Coruscant without reverting to real space to retrieve routing data from relay stations or hyperwave beacons (less advanced ships had to exit hyperspace to check navigation data while travelling from one system to another).”* The official novelization of The Force Awakens notes that the T-70 X-Wing could travel in an arc-shaped course around Starkiller Base, then change direction by ninety degrees, while still in hyperspace, for the final approach.
This navicomputer is similar to the Kol Mark IV navicomputer, but lacks some of the Kol’s unique strengths and weaknesses, as well as its production level.
