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SCOUT System
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a new technology for future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Scout Full-Spectrum Vehicle Sensor System
Modularity: Yes; can be integrated into or added to various vehicle types and designs.
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Various electronic components.
SPECIAL COMPONENTS:
- Spatial Anomaly Detector
- Groundsweeper-3
- Proximity Sensor
- FullSpec Sensor Package
- Environmental Sensor
- Soil and Water Analyzer
- K220 Heavy-Duty Peripheral Processor
- Ore Sensor
- Metal Detector
- Life-Form Scanner
- Atmosphere Sensor
- Chem-Sniffer
- Droid Detector
- Radiation Sensor
- Electromagnetic Field Receptor
- Geoscanner
- Weapon Detector
- Weather Monitor
- Motion Sensor
- Infrared Motion Sensor
- RADAR
- Lock-Threat Warning System
- Capable of conducting a full geological, meteorological, and geographical survey of area within 3,000m, monitoring weather conditions, atmospheric content, radiation, and detecting/identifying various flora/fauna (including droids) within those parameters. This extends to soil, water, and mineral compositions.
- Can detect weapons signatures, power sources, vehicle and ship emissions, motion, and develop a full and detailed cartographic report of an area quickly and accurately.
- Provides excellent and up-to-second situational and locational awareness to users/crews, giving a wide array of information and understanding to command staff.
- Not designed to function outside of a planet’s inner atmosphere, making it entirely unsuited to airspeeders and starships.
- Requires powerful power supply and therefore cannot be used apart from vehicles, as by dismounted forces (including those in powered armor suits), thereby limiting its versatility.
- System is unshielded and dependent upon vehicle shielding to protect it from weapons fire, EMP/Ion, etc.
- Cannot detect stealth technologies in most cases, except where emissions, etc. might provide vulnerability.
Designed for use aboard terrestrial vehicles, maritime craft, or low-flying speeders, the Scout is entirely capable of giving an accurate, up-to-the-second picture to crews of their environs, including soil, water, and mineral compositions, flora/fauna, droids and other machinery, movement, environmental conditions, etc. Using this system, the crew of a battle tank, for example, can accurately know everything happening around it, using that knowledge to plan and adjust tactics and strategy accordingly. Additionally, this system can help to perform detail surveillance and reconnaissance of an area, including acting as an area survey collector. Finally, the logged data can be transmitted over encrypted communications to a central computer, which collects reports every five minutes from linked vehicles using this system, compiling the data and producing an incredibly accurate and virtually real-time assessment of the area over which these systems are employed, thus giving battlefield commanders a potent resource for command and coordination of their forces or allowing a central base to compile and create a large-area survey in a fraction of the time of other systems.
While incredibly sensitive, it does have its limitations. It cannot locate or track stealth vehicles, ships, or individuals using stealth armor, etc. in most cases, nor can it always penetrate through dense rock formations, various materials (depending on type and thickness), or through severe ion or electrical storms for example. It must be used aboard a vehicle, being too reliant on larger power systems to be useful as a portable system or integrated into power armor, etc. It will not work in space, and was designed only to be used inside of a planet’s inner atmosphere, meaning that if used by airspeeders or starships operating in upper levels of a planet’s atmosphere or in space it will not calibrate properly and will give inaccurate or false reports. Finally, the system is unshielded, meaning it must rely on the shielding of the vehicle(s) it is used aboard to stand against weapons fire, EMP/Ion threats, etc.
