Corporate Shogun
- Intent: CIWS capable of defending starships from turbolasers & other energy based weapons
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- Manufacturer: Osato Aerospace
- Affiliation: NAKAIOMA & Subsidiaries
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Yahata M80 PDS
- Modularity: No
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Classification: Energy Dissipation
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Power Cell
- Ammunition Capacity: Average
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Rate of Fire: High
- Damage Output: Extreme
- Recoil: High
- Fully automated, requiring only limited human oversight.
- Forward tracking capabilities allow it to accurately predict laser paths in-order to fire interception rounds ahead of the laser for successful contact.
- 360 Rotation enables the Yahata to engage a number of incoming lasers from any direction, both horizontally and vertically.
- Threat assessment protocols for the prioritisation of incoming lasers. Maximising both time and ammunition efficiency and effectiveness.
- Users can manually input specific protocols for engagements or certain varieties of incoming weaponry or attacking vessels.
- An in-built database which can be shared among multiple Yahatas allows learned information to be compiled and analysed by both the systems and their human owners.
- Reliable Friend/Foe identification via the direction in which targets are going, outgoing targets are assumed to be friendly, incoming are enemy. Users can assign Friend/Foe IFFs to identified vessels in range, enabling the Yahata to determine targets based off of this information too.
- Turbolaser Begone: Capable of dissipating the energy from turbolaser shots mid-flight, the Yahata CIWS is unique in that its point-defense capabilities are directed solely towards laser cannons, as opposed to more conventional projectile weapons like many other point-defense systems. In this job it is relatively effective, though its capabilities depends on the amount of energy within the shot it is intercepting and how large it is. Most times it will dissipate a majority of the shot's power, lessening the workload on the defending starship's shields.
- Range: Providing significant distance advantages to the defending party, the Yahata's effective range allows multiple attempts at interception before the turbolaser's shots hit the intended target. This gives the crew more time to react and the weapon more time to intercept all incoming shots.
- Machine Learning: Embedded with an advanced neural network, the Yahata is capable of learning preferred enemy firing angles, patterns and even the time between shots. It is capable of learning all of this in the middle of an engagement, leading to a highly adaptive and intelligent weapons system which will not only prioritise which shots should be intercepted first in-order to maximise time and ammunition efficiency, but also triangulate the intended target on the ship and prioritise interceptions based on this and the strength of the defending starship's shield in the intended target area. Any information it learns can then be distributed to other Yahata platforms on the same ship, or even across multiple ships if desired and programmed to apply to a specific type of enemy or opposing vessel, so these learned tactics can be activated if the same enemy is encountered again.
- Rate of Fire: Displaying a higher rate of fire than some other point-defense systems may, this ability to fire interceptions at a fast pace combined with the Yahata's long range and machine learning enables it to effectively engage a sizable portion of the incoming enemy lasers.
- Defense Grid: Never acting as a single platform if there is more than one Yahata installed on a ship, or numerous allied ships, Yahatas exist in full communication with one another, allowing multiple platforms to quickly coordinate a combined defensive strategy, assisting one another to intercept determined shots. Manual user input can also assign specific Yahatas to a specific direction or enemy vessel. If allowed to act autonomously they will divvy responsibilities among themselves.
- Size: Being very large both in physical size and in its weight in-order for its main gun to retain usefulness against a variety of turbolasers and other energy weapons, the Yahata CIWS is best suited for larger ships, and will likely only be able to be used in few numbers on smaller ships. This size also may make it a larger target for enemy fire.
- Maintenance: Primarily due to the system's neural network and advanced learning processes, the Yahata is more high maintenance and costlier than other point-defense systems. Although its unique energy-dissipating gun does contribute to this fact as well. Personnel must be specifically taught how to maintain this system in-order for it to work.
Osato Aerospace's latest high-profile foray into on-board naval defense technology, the Yahata Point-Defense System could certainly be described as an impressive entry onto the field. Marketed primarily towards larger spacefaring organizations such as navies, shipping corporations and other such entities, the corporation often poses little to no restrictions on purchases and has been known to sell the system to even single individual or small group vessels. Currently manufactured in smaller numbers than many of the corporation's other, more widespread sophisticated weapons systems, this is due primarily to the balance of cost and demand, as the Yahata is indeed an expensive and complicated weapon to manufacture, while the demand is not as great as say a blaster rifle or even a tank.
Developed throughout the 850s by a combined team from and Osato Aerospace and Nakaioma Fleet Systems, which was at this point still a recently reorganized subdivsion of NDD. The Yahata CIWS was originally designed for ship defense against projectile weapons. This would change following the development of several other energy dissipation related technologies within PETROCORE and Fukashi Electric, two of Osato's sister subsidiary corporations, and the experimentation with advanced machine learning by Nakaioma Cyber Security. Negotiating contracts for the application of these technologies into what would eventually become the Yahata, the project was turned fully towards an effective point-defense system to be used against turbolasers and any other variety of energy weapon. In the field it performs its tasks well and in many reported cases has saved entire vessels from being destroyed.
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