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The Expeditionary Flotilla, a crucial component of the Tolesian Commonwealth's mission to chart stellar systems, faces a daunting challenge due to the vast number of star systems. While ships and their stellar cartographers are equipped with various instruments to identify new opportunities or threats, the pace of stellar navigation often requires additional support. In response to this need, the VUX probe line was developed by Imperial Light and Machine Works (ILMW). This all-purpose satellite plays a pivotal role in the Commonwealth's mission, providing a wide variety of instrumentation to aid in charting stellar systems.
The VVX probe line is equipped with an ultra-high temperature superconducting tunnel junction imaging array, a marvel of technology as one of the most extensive and most complicated single image sensors in the Commonwealth, that collects a wide variety of light data, from UV to IR, with unparalleled precision and accuracy. This instrument is particularly adept at detecting small objects such as orbiting planets.
Complementing this is a passive radio observatory, which provides a wide field of view and the ability to detect and triangulate emissions. Onboard are two sets of computers: two dedicated image process units and three redundant general computers. A radio thermal generator and/or solar panels provide power. Communications are provided via high bandwidth antenna. Faster-than-light communications are conducted through an n-way communication apparatus. While the bandwidth can only send basic images and notifications, it is sufficient to decide to warrant a data transfer pickup via shuttle or drone. Triangulation of the satellite's position in deep space is achieved through gravimetric and pulsar monitoring.
When a planet is located, the probe can use its instrumentation to spectrographically analyze a planet's atmosphere. If it looks promising, this probe may be loaded onto a shuttle and placed into a (usually) geosynchronous orbit for a scouting party. This turns the probe into an omnipurpose spy satellite, providing a scouting party with overwatch, weather forecasting, electronics intercepts, electronic counter and counter-countermeasures, and general data and voice communications between separate parties, should they be deployed and a ship is not in the local area. Regardless, these systems provide crucial data to away teams who may not be familiar with local phenomena.
Obviously, all of this comes with a cost. While ILMW created a high-precision lab and telescope that could survive some of the most dangerous foes, such as general mistreatment at the hands of Imperial Sailors and Marines, the rigors of precision manufacturing greatly hamper mass manufacturing. While ILMW doesn't have a traditional budget, given its unique position in Tolesian society, only a few facilities manufacture the necessary parts, and even fewer are qualified to assemble them. In deep space, qualified personnel maintain probes in a particular area of the ship, not unlike weapons of mass destruction. As planets are colonized more, these probes are replaced by cheaper and more dedicated platforms as soon as possible, and these probes are refurbished for deployment elsewhere.
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The VVX probe line is equipped with an ultra-high temperature superconducting tunnel junction imaging array, a marvel of technology as one of the most extensive and most complicated single image sensors in the Commonwealth, that collects a wide variety of light data, from UV to IR, with unparalleled precision and accuracy. This instrument is particularly adept at detecting small objects such as orbiting planets.
Complementing this is a passive radio observatory, which provides a wide field of view and the ability to detect and triangulate emissions. Onboard are two sets of computers: two dedicated image process units and three redundant general computers. A radio thermal generator and/or solar panels provide power. Communications are provided via high bandwidth antenna. Faster-than-light communications are conducted through an n-way communication apparatus. While the bandwidth can only send basic images and notifications, it is sufficient to decide to warrant a data transfer pickup via shuttle or drone. Triangulation of the satellite's position in deep space is achieved through gravimetric and pulsar monitoring.
When a planet is located, the probe can use its instrumentation to spectrographically analyze a planet's atmosphere. If it looks promising, this probe may be loaded onto a shuttle and placed into a (usually) geosynchronous orbit for a scouting party. This turns the probe into an omnipurpose spy satellite, providing a scouting party with overwatch, weather forecasting, electronics intercepts, electronic counter and counter-countermeasures, and general data and voice communications between separate parties, should they be deployed and a ship is not in the local area. Regardless, these systems provide crucial data to away teams who may not be familiar with local phenomena.
Obviously, all of this comes with a cost. While ILMW created a high-precision lab and telescope that could survive some of the most dangerous foes, such as general mistreatment at the hands of Imperial Sailors and Marines, the rigors of precision manufacturing greatly hamper mass manufacturing. While ILMW doesn't have a traditional budget, given its unique position in Tolesian society, only a few facilities manufacture the necessary parts, and even fewer are qualified to assemble them. In deep space, qualified personnel maintain probes in a particular area of the ship, not unlike weapons of mass destruction. As planets are colonized more, these probes are replaced by cheaper and more dedicated platforms as soon as possible, and these probes are refurbished for deployment elsewhere.
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Done by the ever amazing Hard-Lighter. Once again thanks
Posted using PostyBirb
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Alien (Other)
Size 3434 x 1073px
File Size 1.77 MB
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