ThinksMarkedly wrote:Also, after the latest Sonja & Shannon brainstorm that we've heard of, non-Keyhole II ships can use their regular FTL comms to communicate via a recon drone to the ACMs. Obviously, it's not the same quality and efficiency, otherwise KH2 wouldn't have been needed in the first place (FTL comms are not control links), but it does allow sending some limited control commands.
If you're talking of the brainstorm we're told about in UH that's not quite correct.
It's not talking to ACMs, and it's not using the ship's nor the recon drones' transmitters. (Though it is a brainstorm to give limited FTL control of missiles to ships that lack Keyhole II)
It's using Hermes buoys transmitters on both ends, and using the recon drones just to move some of them downrange. But the downrange Hermes buoys are (presumably) talking to the Mk16s that RMN doctrine has the Agamemnons carry[1].
Uncompromising Honor wrote:For all intents and purposes, their suggestion is that we use Hermes buoys in conjunction with Ghost Rider. The Agamemnons have plenty of telemetry links; their links just don’t have an FTL capability. So the idea is that we strap Hermes buoys onto Ghost Rider recon drones and then tractor four or five more buoys just outside an Agamemnon’s wedge perimeter and let them talk to each other. Hermes has a lot more bandwidth—and more channels—than the standard shipboard grav com, Elizabeth. So if we pair buoys between those tractored to the ship and the ones mounted on the recon platforms then feed the telemetry links through the buoy channels and use the ones on the recon platforms to talk to the missiles…”
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[1] If they could talk (or at least were talking) to ACMs then there would be no need to push additional Hermes buoys downrange -- you'd just have the ones tractored outside the wedge talking to ACMs.