TJE R&D 1
<li>Name and DesignationAnti-Cloaking Laser Identification System (ACLIS)
<li>Purpose
To identify and track cloaked warships
<li>Design Specifications
The ACLIS shoots out a series of thousands of little tiny lasers - totally invisible and totally harmless - in every direction which are more or less little lights. These lights go out twelve kilometers, and their distance is tracked by an ACLIS Sensor Officer.
When a craft travels in the path of these "lasers" the ACLIS Sensor Officer reads the disturbance and will be able to get a profile of the ship from that.
They are not difficult to make, and are even used in general stores (OOC and IC) and even regular doors and chambers.
Unfortunately the technology can only be applied to Imperial-Class Star Destroyers at the expense of twenty five percent armament and two percent speed.
Comments
#5 7:29am 14/05/03
how exactly can ya tell your lights being bent, just wonderin...
#4 5:56am 14/05/03
How exactly would it both bend light AND have it go straight through?
If it bends light, the light is altered.
That is what the scanning officers look for, the beam of light to be altered in any such way, especially if such by a cloaking device.
Whether it renders cloaked ships inoperable or not is not the point.
The point of this device is to tell if there is something cloaked out there. It can tell this by either being reflected or bent or tampered with.
#3 1:36am 14/05/03
My point is this:
If a cloaking device interrupted the course of the light which it effectivly 'bends' around itself, not only would the ship be visable via an apparent distortion of space but, also easily detected by even passive sensors as a spacial annomaly.
Your device would render Stealth technologies, like Shadow Pain, useless. It would not, however; be useful against cloaking devices which 'bend' a pocket of space around themselves.
The beam would simply pass through a cloaked ship as if uninterrupted, much akin to the countless other forms of sensor and scanner technology that use the same theories to drive them.
Cloakable ships are extremely rare in the Galaxy and widly regarded as a falicy in application. There are very few manufactueres of cloaking devices... Aeten II belonging to Black Sun and being the only source of Stygium Crystals, Double-Blind cloaks being commonly accepted as more hazardous then they are worth, Twilight and Shroud Cruisers have only been encountered in a few insatnces, Bounty Hunters Guild has yet to reveal any cloaking technology to the Galaxy. The development of such a technology may be regarded, In Character and otherwise, as suspect.
#2 4:19am 13/05/03
It's very simple.
Even when cloaked, the object is there.
These beams shoot straight out in every direction, if something blocks its path, even if it absorbs it, we know something is there.
It is very similar to the lasers before doors IRL. It emits a small laser beam, when the laser cannot reach the other side, the door opens (I.E. when you step in front of it).
Very similar here, we simply read how far the "lasers" go out. If they go out a certain distance and are, say, absorbed, we know something is there.
If they are adjusted so that they can "travel through the ship" then they are being twisted and turned, or reflected, and that too is an indication as to where the enemy is.
#1 9:54pm 12/05/03
I want more information on how this R&D works. An out-line detail of something of this proportion will not suffice.
Your device relies on lasers, aka; beams of coherant light.
Many cloaking devices, Stygium Cloaking Device for example, bend space around the craft to which they are applied. Thus: your beams of light would be bent around and through the ship and pass without detection.
Extraploate and explain, please.
Anyone else?
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