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xizor
just a few things that i dont think were covered in the books, or things that i missed reading about (the more likely event)

-If I have a couple of drones; do they share their sensor data?
Do I need to buy yet another part to get them to do this?
(An example for you, a rigger has a couple aerial drones are looking at the same target but from different angles, neither drone has enough successes to properly ID the target, could they pool their sensor data to identify the target?)

-What happens to the signature of my gas SUV when I turn it off?
Does the signature rating improve?

-This is sort of inspired by Starwars so please bear with me,
are there any anti-sensor camouflage nets that I can spread over my truck to hide it in the woods?
I do know that I could just use a camo net and get a +4 to visual searches, but I am looking for something that works against vehicle sensors that is not ruthy polymers.

thank you for any response you feel like giving
Austere Emancipator
QUOTE (xizor)
-What happens to the signature of my gas SUV when I turn it off?
Does the signature rating improve?

Considering how important the type of power plant is in determining the Signature of a vehicle, it probably should improve, at least once the engine has had time to cool down. Slowly improving the Sig to what it would be if the SUV had an EFC power plant.

QUOTE (xizor)
-This is sort of inspired by Starwars so please bear with me,
are there any anti-sensor camouflage nets that I can spread over my truck to hide it in the woods?
I do know that I could just use a camo net and get a +4 to visual searches, but I am looking for something that works against vehicle sensors that is not ruthy polymers.

Dunno if there are any in the rules, but there absolutely should be some. Radar scattering, IR and heat blocking camo nets should be common in the 2060s, and should give a similar TN penalty to Sensor tests to spot the vehicle. Maybe not the full +4, because it probably still doesn't fool all sensors, but at least +2 or +3. And much more expensive than a simple camo net, too.
KillaJ
Isnt there a camoflage pattern that specifically affects sensors in CC? I think that it only works at night but I dont really remember the details though.

Edit- There it is. Page 97 CC.
mrobviousjosh
Not a clue but I'm curious if anyone knows an answer to the first part of his question. The only thing I can think of is reduced TNs for multiple target acquisition???
Link
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-If I have a couple of drones; do they share their sensor data?
Do I need to buy yet another part to get them to do this?
(An example for you, a rigger has a couple aerial drones are looking at the same target but from different angles, neither drone has enough successes to properly ID the target, could they pool their sensor data to identify the target?)


Two additions that allow for drones to share info are Battletac IVIS and FDDM. None relate to identifying targets specifically.

No rules exist for adding drone sensor successes together for improved recognition which is reasonable - both drone are probably receiving much the same sensor returns.

You could extend the perception test rules to include multiple drones where you you take the lowest sensor rating and add 1 dice per additional drone to sensor tests. This would give a higher chance to better ID targets.

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are there any anti-sensor camouflage nets that I can spread over my truck to hide it in the woods?
I do know that I could just use a camo net and get a +4 to visual searches, but I am looking for something that works against vehicle sensors that is not ruthy polymers.


Extend the rules for armour mods from Cannon Companion to camouflage nets with up to 4 points of such modification. The thermo option would give (up to) +4 to signature.
mfb
the Indirect Fire rules in CC are, as i recall, relevant to the question of drones sharing data.
Lucyfersam
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are there any anti-sensor camouflage nets that I can spread over my truck to hide it in the woods?
I do know that I could just use a camo net and get a +4 to visual searches, but I am looking for something that works against vehicle sensors that is not ruthy polymers.


Camouflage Netting, pp 74 SotA
Johnson
Well with a battle tactical monitor you can script lame program to follow.

Drone one get engaged drone 2 and 3 lock drone 1 gps position and assist.

You can right small simple programs for you drones to follow.
grendel
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-If I have a couple of drones; do they share their sensor data?
Do I need to buy yet another part to get them to do this?
(An example for you, a rigger has a couple aerial drones are looking at the same target but from different angles, neither drone has enough successes to properly ID the target, could they pool their sensor data to identify the target?)


BattleTac FDDM is specifically designed to allow drones to share targeting information between them. That is, when one FDDM drone has a lock on a particular target, all drones then function as if they had the same lock. There is nothing specific related to collating sensor data to enhance passive or active perception of a surveilled target. What you can do is purchase an autosoft system and the clearsight autosoft, which could be interpreted as doing something similar.

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-What happens to the signature of my gas SUV when I turn it off?
Does the signature rating improve?


Since signature is a composite of the visual/radar/thermal/aural aspects of the vehicle, it should remain relatively static. An improvement in one or two aspects (thermal, aural since the vehicle's powerplant is shutdown) will be matched by a decrease in other aspects (radar, visual, since the vehicle is no longer moving and thus cannot be lost in ground clutter, nor is it likely to break LOS).

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-This is sort of inspired by Starwars so please bear with me,
are there any anti-sensor camouflage nets that I can spread over my truck to hide it in the woods?


As mentioned above, anti-sensor camo netting is listed in Cannon Companion.
Austere Emancipator
QUOTE (grendel)
An improvement in one or two aspects (thermal, aural since the vehicle's powerplant is shutdown) will be matched by a decrease in other aspects (radar, visual, since the vehicle is no longer moving and thus cannot be lost in ground clutter, nor is it likely to break LOS).

The conventional wisdom is that a still vehicle is much harder to spot by visual clues than a moving one. I don't know exactly how a radar fares with a still target vs a moving target, but you've more likely got an improvement in thermal, aural and visual vs a possible decrease in radar. If you already consider intermittent loss of LoS as part of the Signature rating, then that will slightly shift as visual doesn't get that much better and radar gets somewhat worse.
Apathy
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I am looking for something that works against vehicle sensors

I remember that real Army camouflage nets had little pieces of lightweight metal (tin? aluminum?) sewn into the netting, supposedly with the intent of breaking up the radar image.
mfb
stainless steel fibers, and that's exactly what they're for. i didn't know they came in non-radar-scattering varieties, though. learn something every day!
xizor
cool that was the sort of thing that i was looking for, what do you think it would do to the signature? i didn't know that they acctualy got used tough.. i wonder if they are being used in iraq and afganistan.
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