Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a standardized capital ship control system in Lucerne Labs product catalog
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- Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
- Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi Concord, Lucerne Labs Customers
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Sawano-series Bridge Architecture
- Modularity: basic architecture can be expanded to work on different sizes and types of ships; can easily be integrated with other software and starship systems
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Agrinium casing, Calor-series Bio-computers, Biolux Organoform Circuitry, Bia series Portable Fusion Generators, holoprojectors, datacreens, software code & various electronics
- Automated Aid: Sawano is designed to make it easier for a smaller bridge crew to run the ship by automating much of the basic command and control systems through Calor-series Bio-Computers. While designed primarily to run the typical and mundane aspects of running a starship (monitoring life support, sensors, communications, etc), these computers can also use their parallel computing abilities along with their partial reconfigurable nature to swiftly respond and adapt to unusual circumstances. Given a little time to internally reconfigure, the computers can fully automate the tasks of effectively running a ship's weaponry, shields, engines, and other subsystems. A ship with Sawano Bridge Architecture typically uses half the crew needed by more legacy style bridges.
- Artificial Intelligence Host: Sawano comes with a larger number of computers than many bridge layouts in order to better automate many tasks. With that, the bridge tends to have more memory and processing power than many of its contemporaries, which in turn makes it an excellent host for many artificial intelligences. Seeking to make the most of this opportunity, Sawano bridges typically come with a holo-projector(s) and datascreens dedicated to communicating with the said artificial intelligence, better integrating them into running the ship or its systems.
- Damage Control: Sawano is optimized for running damage control, with onboard computers having direct access to airlocks, fire suppression systems, diagnostic programs, and emergency response systems on all bridge console. This allows any bridge crew member to quickly access these programs, get a quick understanding of the situation, and start acting. Sawano's computers can also be set up to automatically start responding to damage and various emergencies, though it is strictly governed and limited by predetermined protocols. This can be particularly useful in heavy combat or when exploring especially hazardous regions of space.
- Redundant Systems Pathways: Sawano takes full advantage of Calor-series Bio-Computers ability to internally reconfigure itself by including software back-ups within the various consoles which allow the consoles to jointly come together to replace an otherwise destroyed or offline console. As example, if the navigation computer was destroyed, other Calor-series bio-computers could siphon off some of their processing power along with navigation systems partitioned in their hard drives to effectively recreate the navigation computer console on one of the surviving consoles, though this will lower the capabilities of the other computers. While Sawano systems normally run directly on the ship's main power sources, Sawano architecture includes several back-up Bia-series Fusion Generators to provide it with an independent source of power during emergencies.
- Holographic Overlays: Sawano can project holographs throughout the bridge by either voice command or computer terminal commands. This makes it convenient for crew members (or groups of crewmembers) to easily pull up information no matter where they are or with whoever they want to share it with while on the bridge.
- Droid Coordinator: Sawano's computers can facilitate ship-wide coordination of droid complements by the vessel's command crew, effectively acting as a middle manager/coordinator. It can thus send out orders, retrieve and analysis reports from droids, schedule maintenance, and facilitate other such similar tasks.
- Integrated Security: Sawano's computers come with rapid repetition defense measures and several layers of pyrowalls running in all software, making it more difficult than many computers to hack. Additionally, each bridge console can only be activated through an appropriate code cylinder that matches the person trying to use the console.
- Automated Assistance: Sawano largely automates many of the basic command and control functions from the bridge, reducing crew overhead and improving subsystems efficiency.
- Damage Control: Sawano makes command and control functions more resilient by having redundant systems pathways and automated responses to a variety of situations, making it more likely that the ship will survive a rough encounter. The biocomputers and organoform circuitry which facilitate most of Sawano's unique abilities are resistant to ion/EMP weapons and are capable to a limited extent of repairing themselves.
- Radiation Susceptible: Sawano achieves its abilities largely through advanced bio-computers networked together through organoform circuitry - both of which are highly susceptible to radiation weapons.
- Not Easy to Repair: While the living nature of biocomputers and organoform circuitry mean that they can heal themselves through natural processes, it also makes them more difficult to repair if damaged because of the nonstandard and complex nature of the biotechnology involved.
Starship bridges are often called the brains of a starship, where the ship's officers and bridge crew make decisions that can easily alter the fate of a ship. In an effort to help bridge crews make better decisions and reduce the workload on them, Lucerne Labs devised a bridge computer architecture system that relies heavily on its advanced bio-computers and organoform circuitry to largely automate many tasks as well as to more speedily diagnose and easily bring problems to the crew's attention.
As Lucerne Labs is primarily involved in making warships, a priority in Sawano's design was increasing ship and crew survivability. To that end, Sawano's computers constantly monitor vessel diagnostics and can in many instances can immediately act without crew input to quickly to mitigate damage - useful in situations when mere seconds can be the difference between life or death for at least some of the crew. Sawano itself is designed to be resistant to damage itself, with most components being covered in agrinium plating to protect against physical damage while the software that runs the ship is buffered by pyrowalls and patrolled by rapid repetition defense measures. Additionally, due to the partially reconfigurable nature of each bio-computer, they pool their processing power and memories together to replace damaged or destroyed consoles.
However, even when not in battle, crewmembers often find Sawano architecture making their lives easier. Not only does it automate many of the ship's basic functions, but it better enables interactions with host artificial intelligences or even simply discussing items with other crewmembers due to its ability to project multiple holos throughout the bridge itself.
Sawano is slated to become a staple feature of many of Lucerne Labs's fourth generation of starships, with company engineers believing it might give its crews a subtle edge in particularly dire combat conditions and with marketing executives believing that simple convenience will make it attractive to many buyers. In either case, Lucerne Labs as a whole seems committed to this product for at least its smaller capital ships, though there is rumbling of other, more specialized designs being introduced for larger or more specialized craft.
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