Out-of-line satellite systems
One of the primary concerns with the idea of manufacturing powerful "psychic
systems" (mechanical TK, pyro, omniscience, basis lock or other higher power
thrower systems) is ensuring ground-level security. Once powerful spacetime
computers came into being in the 1950s, it was realized that any one single
sucessful security breach would leave the breacher in charge of the world.
But, these systems had to be deployed to protect the masters of the world
against alien encroachment on the solar system. So it was decided to use
gate systems to put massive satellites into the solar system, there to be
called upon to defend the solar system against _any_ alien incursion -
friendly or not (shudder...).
U.S. Army Janxon orbiters:
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There are three of these sitting in translunar orbit. They are composed of
three main systems and a concealtor core:
* Core "technical" - A junctions-TK emisser (see the telekinesis document).
* Guidance - a simple TK-ish program designed to keep the sat in translunar
orbit, run in the core technical.
* Armamenture: A large set of technical programs designed to rebuild society
after a nuclear holocaust. The sats were to set down, attract people,
distribute power systems and knowledge and rebuild a government and civil society.
The concealtor core is a "predator system" - it warps light around the sat,
making it completely invisible.
U.S. Navy knocker buoy:
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This device contains a completely incomprehensible physics core. All that
the theoreticians knew was that the system would "make everything alright".
A complex "social weaver" was thrown into the fabric of spacetime, designed
to seek out a stable solution of every one of the tens of thousands of social
conditions given as constants. No one knew what the "solution" was, only
that it would come flowing at the human race out of spacetime.
U.S. Navy "Big bobby" submersible:
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Not a satellite, but out-of-line enough to deserve mention. Big Bobby
floats in the middle of the Marianas Trench, about three miles down. It
contains a TK flight and guidance core, a primitive omniscient computer, a
TK matter synthesizer which runs off the elements in seawater, and a crew of
20. Big Bobby was designed to leave the oceans in case of nuclear
emergency, fly into space, and begin to repair society with TK.
U.S. Navy hypersats:
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These sats were manufactured through completely automated computer-throws from
1975 to 1997. The most current series is the hypersat series 11. These sats
contain thousands of distinct emisser types, and run off of a standard space
physics computer core. Most of these sats exist in alternate dimentional cores
for concealment purposes, and run autonomously without any sort of ground control.
NRO mipe-sats:
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There are four of these in solar orbit. No one knows what these systems do,
but they assume that they come from the NRO since they have more out-of-line
technology than anyone else around. The most powerful prober systems in
existence cannot penetrate these craft's shields.
NRO Keyholes:
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Slightly more primitive than the mipe-sats, these systems (in addition to
their normal classified down-looking camera systems) contain out-of-line
programmable field-emissive cores. These are used to program and contain
the telepathic community. In an emergency (decided by ground stations -
these sats have no computational cores), the keyholes could fly themselves
with a space physics "TK-ism" to avoid ground fire.
Russian gedanya sats:
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Roughtly analogous to a Navy hypersat, these sats contain a brace of emisser cores.
These sats were operational in series from 1967-1987, until the failing Soviet Union
decided to get out of the solar system-protection business and leave it to the United
States DoD.
Chinese wang-wei 'turbosatellites':
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These sats ditched the idea of a core brace for a hyper-programmable general-purpose
'sark emisser'. These sats are distributed all over the solar system - _billions_ of
them, all cooperating to work as a group-set.
French 'sarvades':
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Tiny (30 cm in diameter) 'microsats', these are some of the most sophisticated
physical-materials-based sats ever developed. Each of the approximately 20,000
microsats in orbit contains a different power emisser, to spread out the difficulty
of taking out any significant portion of the total 'power grid' in case of space
warfare.
One of the primary concerns with the idea of manufacturing powerful "psychic
systems" (mechanical TK, pyro, omniscience, basis lock or other higher power
thrower systems) is ensuring ground-level security. Once powerful spacetime
computers came into being in the 1950s, it was realized that any one single
sucessful security breach would leave the breacher in charge of the world.
But, these systems had to be deployed to protect the masters of the world
against alien encroachment on the solar system. So it was decided to use
gate systems to put massive satellites into the solar system, there to be
called upon to defend the solar system against _any_ alien incursion -
friendly or not (shudder...).
U.S. Army Janxon orbiters:
--------------------------
There are three of these sitting in translunar orbit. They are composed of
three main systems and a concealtor core:
* Core "technical" - A junctions-TK emisser (see the telekinesis document).
* Guidance - a simple TK-ish program designed to keep the sat in translunar
orbit, run in the core technical.
* Armamenture: A large set of technical programs designed to rebuild society
after a nuclear holocaust. The sats were to set down, attract people,
distribute power systems and knowledge and rebuild a government and civil society.
The concealtor core is a "predator system" - it warps light around the sat,
making it completely invisible.
U.S. Navy knocker buoy:
-----------------------
This device contains a completely incomprehensible physics core. All that
the theoreticians knew was that the system would "make everything alright".
A complex "social weaver" was thrown into the fabric of spacetime, designed
to seek out a stable solution of every one of the tens of thousands of social
conditions given as constants. No one knew what the "solution" was, only
that it would come flowing at the human race out of spacetime.
U.S. Navy "Big bobby" submersible:
----------------------------------
Not a satellite, but out-of-line enough to deserve mention. Big Bobby
floats in the middle of the Marianas Trench, about three miles down. It
contains a TK flight and guidance core, a primitive omniscient computer, a
TK matter synthesizer which runs off the elements in seawater, and a crew of
20. Big Bobby was designed to leave the oceans in case of nuclear
emergency, fly into space, and begin to repair society with TK.
U.S. Navy hypersats:
--------------------
These sats were manufactured through completely automated computer-throws from
1975 to 1997. The most current series is the hypersat series 11. These sats
contain thousands of distinct emisser types, and run off of a standard space
physics computer core. Most of these sats exist in alternate dimentional cores
for concealment purposes, and run autonomously without any sort of ground control.
NRO mipe-sats:
--------------
There are four of these in solar orbit. No one knows what these systems do,
but they assume that they come from the NRO since they have more out-of-line
technology than anyone else around. The most powerful prober systems in
existence cannot penetrate these craft's shields.
NRO Keyholes:
-------------
Slightly more primitive than the mipe-sats, these systems (in addition to
their normal classified down-looking camera systems) contain out-of-line
programmable field-emissive cores. These are used to program and contain
the telepathic community. In an emergency (decided by ground stations -
these sats have no computational cores), the keyholes could fly themselves
with a space physics "TK-ism" to avoid ground fire.
Russian gedanya sats:
---------------------
Roughtly analogous to a Navy hypersat, these sats contain a brace of emisser cores.
These sats were operational in series from 1967-1987, until the failing Soviet Union
decided to get out of the solar system-protection business and leave it to the United
States DoD.
Chinese wang-wei 'turbosatellites':
-----------------------------------
These sats ditched the idea of a core brace for a hyper-programmable general-purpose
'sark emisser'. These sats are distributed all over the solar system - _billions_ of
them, all cooperating to work as a group-set.
French 'sarvades':
------------------
Tiny (30 cm in diameter) 'microsats', these are some of the most sophisticated
physical-materials-based sats ever developed. Each of the approximately 20,000
microsats in orbit contains a different power emisser, to spread out the difficulty
of taking out any significant portion of the total 'power grid' in case of space
warfare.
