TechMemo:Sensors:Augur
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Star Fleet Engineering
Bureau of Starship and Starcraft Technology
Star Fleet Engineering
Technical Memorandum
Stardate: 120807 (7 August 2001)
Edited: 170408 (8 April 2005)
RE: Augur Sensor System
The Augur sensor suite is an attempt at radical miniaturization of state-of-the-art long range sensor systems so as to be able to incorporate them into a destroyer of average size. The focus of short-range sensor package that accompanies the Augur is scientific, rather than tactical operation.
An outgrowth of the technology used in the Delphi and Oracle suites, the Augur sensor suite uses a system similar to the subspace field balancing coil of three nacelled ships like Solar, Caesar Augustus, and Fenris to focus a subspace scanning beam which allows faster-than-light (long range) sensor readings at far higher resolutions than any conventional sensor system with a fraction of the computer processing overhead of the Delphi and Oracle systems, both of which require dedicated computer cores. In addition, the Augur is designed to tie into the ship's communication systems to act as a high-power signal relay station or a jamming station.
When the sensor system is operating in high power mode, the warp field is distorted to such an extent that it actually impacts the performance of the starship's propulsion system. This is in part due to the configuration of the Tsyklon class which allows the Augur system to directly interact with the warp nacelles, a necessity for the high sensor resolutions of the system.
As with the Delphi systems, the nature of the warp field distortions which provide the Augur suite with its enhanced range, the enhancement is very directional and provide only for extremely long range scans over a narrow arc of space at any one instant.
This text is based on the Tsyklon-class destroyer notes written by Jason Bostjancic.
