Approved Tech Tra'palon Active Mapping Array

[Ashin Varanin]

Intent: An aid to exploration in highly weird regions of space.
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Clan Rekali, Inc.
Model: Tra'palon Active Mapping Array
Affiliation: Clan Rekali, select customers
Modularity: It is a module. Specifically, the Tra'palon is a component for elite exploration and prospecting vessels.
Production: Limited
Material: Electronics
Description: The Tra'palon Active Mapping Array is a unique composite of technologies, designed to detect, analyze, and influence space-time and hyperspace anomalies. It has much in common with the following systems, among others:

• Crystal gravfield trap
• Gravity well projector
• Gravitic polarization beam

Space-time and hyperspace anomalies of various kinds can conceal and shield valuable routes and resources. The Tra'palon was built with an eye to exploiting the Hard Roil, the Chiloon Rift, the Tyus Cluster, the Maw, the Unknown Regions, the galactic edge, and other astronomical regions where space-time anomalies are constant obstacles. The Tra'palon allows a vessel to detect space-time and hyperspace disruptions, phenomena, rifts, ongoing effects, and so forth. These disruptions can then be mapped, cataloged, and analyzed, for scientific and navigational purposes. Precisely calibrated gravitic polarization beams and fields can be used to alter the distortions as necessary, generally in low-order ways such as the reduction of navigational hazards or the exaggeration of an interesting phenomenon. Note that firm upper limits exist on the Tra'palon. Unlike a full-scale gravitic polarization beam, for example, a Tra'palon cannot create subspace phenomena, merely alter existing phenomena, generally in subtle ways. Anyone looking to create a wormhole would be disappointed.

• The Tra'palon can be installed on any vessel larger than a fighter or bomber. However, its power requirements are significant. It is recommended that the Tra'palon be installed only on vessels with high-end/exotic reactor types, vessels which are not excessively armed. The Tra'palon is not designed for front-line combat purposes. The Tra'palon's polarization beam output is proportional to the size and strength of the power source involved (with a theoretical maximum somewhere around a command ship's level -- it's a mapping gadget, not a superweapon). So even though you could shoehorn one onto a gun-heavy light freighter with a great reactor, you wouldn't be able to do much about the anomalies you detected, and your detection range would suffer.
• The Tra'palon array is not optimized for detecting cloaked vessels.
• Likewise, it is not capable of creating any kind of instant or near-instant transit exploit.
• It is also worth noting that the Tra'palon is designed to influence anomalies on a relatively small scale; anomalies like the Chiloon Rift or the Maw, for example, are several orders of magnitude larger than the appropriate range of target phenomena.
• It should go without saying, but the Tra'palon should only be operated by skilled technicians who have substantial experience in the Roil, the Chiloon Rift, the Tyus Cluster, the Maw, the Unknown Regions, etc.

Primary Source: Not influenced by any Chaos canon submissions.

 

[Ellie Mors]

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[Ellie Mors]

The Tra'palon's polarization beam output is proportional to the size and strength of the power source involved.

Precisely calibrated gravitic polarization beams and fields can be used to alter the distortions as necessary, generally in low-order ways such as the reduction of navigational hazards or the exaggeration of an interesting phenomenon.

I need a clearer indication of the upper limit of this utility's output. The gravitic polarization beam found in canon was a superweapon which created a wormhole and ripped apart matter on the subatomic level.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

Note that firm upper limits exist on the Tra'palon. Unlike a full-scale gravitic polarization beam, for example, a Tra'palon cannot create subspace phenomena, merely alter existing phenomena, generally in subtle ways. Anyone looking to create a wormhole would be disappointed.

• The Tra'palon's polarization beam output is proportional to the size and strength of the power source involved (with a theoretical maximum somewhere around a command ship's level -- it's a mapping gadget, not a superweapon).

[member="Bianca"] - That work for you?

 

[Ellie Mors]

Awesome. Pending Admin Approval. Thanks! [member="Spencer Jacobs"]

 

[Cira]

Approved.