Ship Sensor Suite

A Ship’s Sensor Suite is the detection package equipped in most ships.

• It is comprised of a number of different sensors including Densitometers, Radar, LIDAR, and more.

Description (Specifications)

TBD

Sensor Detection

Sensor Detection:

• Ordinary or commercial starships can detect other ships out to a range of about one-half light-second; about 1,500 kilometers.
• Military and scout starships have detection ranges out to two light-seconds; 6,000 kilometers.

Vessel Tracking

Vessel Tracking:

• Once a vessel has been detected, it can be tracked by anyone up to three light-seconds (about 9,000 kilometers).

History & Background (Dossier)

Silent Running:

• Ships which are maintaining complete silence cannot be detected at distances of greater than half detection range; ships in orbit around a world and also maintaining complete silence cannot be detected at distances greater than one-eighth detection range.
• Planetary masses and stars will completely conceal a ship from detection.

References & contributors (Sources)

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• Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), TBD.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science