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=== Development Sequence === | === Development Sequence === | ||
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=== Technological Overview of Ship's Computers === | === Technological Overview of Ship's Computers === | ||
Revision as of 21:51, 18 January 2019
Ship’s Computer: The computer installed on a ship controls all activity within, and is especially used to enhance weapons fire and defensive activity. [1]
- It is an object and a technological device, a product of Information Technology. [2]
- The simple hardiness of ship’s computers makes them extremely durable. [3]
- Almost all are designed to use lower technology repair components in most functionalities. For this reason, ship’s computers tend to be much larger and more voluminous than strictly function-based microelectronics. [4]
- Many call them robotic or ship brains. More sophisticated models are called ship minds.
Description (Specifications)
A Ship’s Computer also transmits control impulses for maneuver and jump drives, and conducts the routine operation of all ship systems. What the computer actually does is based on the programs actually installed and operating at any one time. [5]
Selected Ship's Computer Types
- Model/1 Computer
- Model/2 Computer
- Model/3 Computer
- Model/4 Computer
- Model/5 Computer
- Model/6 Computer
- Model/7 Computer
- Model/8 Computer
- Model/9 Computer
Selected Ship's Computer Modifiers
History & Background (Dossier)
Ship’s Computers within Charted Space are intentionally built to work under a number of different operating systems, different technology levels of computers, and to be extensively toughened for use under hard vacuum and heavy exposure to cosmic radiation if necessary. [6]
Development Sequence
- Compass → Astrolabe → Sextant → Analog Computer → Electromechanical Computer → Electronic Computer → Positronic Computer → Psychotronic Computer
Technological Overview of Ship's Computers
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References & Contributors (Sources)
This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.
- Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 38.
- Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), TBD.
- Gareth Hanrahan, Dom Mooney. High Guard (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), TBD.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 38.
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 38.
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak