Question about satelites

Thucydides wrote:To counter the natural orbital path of a satellite will require some sort of application of energy, which should be obvious to outside observers (especially the orbiting bombardment system).

Using known technology, you wold have to be thrusting constantly with some sort of rocket, or suspended beneath a huge solar sail (Statite). If using anti gravity, you are somehow building a "mountain" out of space/time to lift yourself out of the gravity well, which should have all kinds of odd effects that the enemy AI would notice.

So using some sort of "handwavium" to suspend yourself in space in defiance of orbital mechanics will draw unwanted attention to yourself.

Kytheros wrote:
The monitoring systems are mostly designed to go after the early indicators of technological advancement. Early experimentation on electricity is no doubt on the list of triggers, and electricity production and transmission. They're designed with the preconception that any Federation-level technology is an Angel or Archangel, or one of their trusted agents, and therefore approved. The system may track/monitor/record the activities of Federation-level technologies, but it's not going to trigger an alarm just on movement or communications. It'd probably alert on Federation-level energy-intensive weapons fire (energy weapons, and possibly railguns/mass drivers).

Dilandu wrote:On the other hands, the most possible location of Rakurai system is the Lagrange points of Safehold-Langhorne system. Probably the L4 and L5 points, the most stable equilibrium.

And to see something from this distance should be... difficult, at least by passive scans.

Joat42 wrote:

Dilandu wrote:On the other hands, the most possible location of Rakurai system is the Lagrange points of Safehold-Langhorne system. Probably the L4 and L5 points, the most stable equilibrium.

And to see something from this distance should be... difficult, at least by passive scans.

And top of that the SNARC's are heavily stealthed...

fallsfromtrees wrote:OTOH, since the SNARCs are heavily stealthed, is it not possible that the OBS has SNARCs of its own in close orbit around the planet to provide remote monitoring of activity on the planet? Certainly if Merlin has access to them, then the builders of the OBS did as well.

Dilandu wrote:

fallsfromtrees wrote:OTOH, since the SNARCs are heavily stealthed, is it not possible that the OBS has SNARCs of its own in close orbit around the planet to provide remote monitoring of activity on the planet? Certainly if Merlin has access to them, then the builders of the OBS did as well.

Too hard to mantain active low orbital platforms for millenia. The atmosphere friction would eventually drag them down; so you need the working engines for a very, very long time.

Maybe for first centuries after the war agains fallen, Archangels mantain some sort of low-orbit surveillance - just in case that some stubborn Fallen may decide to hide and wait until the Archangels would be no more - but they clearly could not suggest that some scheme may be prepared for eight centuries!

Dilandu wrote:

fallsfromtrees wrote:OTOH, since the SNARCs are heavily stealthed, is it not possible that the OBS has SNARCs of its own in close orbit around the planet to provide remote monitoring of activity on the planet? Certainly if Merlin has access to them, then the builders of the OBS did as well.

Too hard to mantain active low orbital platforms for millenia. The atmosphere friction would eventually drag them down; so you need the working engines for a very, very long time.

Maybe for first centuries after the war agains fallen, Archangels mantain some sort of low-orbit surveillance - just in case that some stubborn Fallen may decide to hide and wait until the Archangels would be no more - but they clearly could not suggest that some scheme may be prepared for eight centuries!

n7axw wrote:We have to presume that there would be sensor coverage of the entire planet, but not necessarily snarcs.

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