M&G/Hiad Engineering Watcher Sensor Buoy

Watcher Buoy
Craft: M&G/Hiad Engineering Watcher Sensor Buoy
Type: Autonomous Sensor Buoy
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 1.5 meters
Skill: Sensors.
Crew: None, automated
Crew Skill: Search 7D, Sensors 8D
Consumables: 10 years (energy cells)
Cost: 5,000 credits (new)
Availability: 2,R
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 1 (maneuvering jets)
Hull: 1D
Shields: 0D
Weight: 250kg
Sensors:
Passive: 25/1D
Scan: 50/2D
Search: 75/3D
Focus: 3/4D
Stealth: +2D to Sensor difficulties to detect
Com. Range: Transmits data up to 100 light years to base/mothership
Weapons:
Self Destruct
Scale: Starfighter
Fire Arc: All
Fire Control: 0D
Range: 2
Damage: 3D
Description: A Sensor buoy is an extremely helpful and important item of equipment for starships which operate in the deep space. These tiny objects can be launched from the mother ship and then transmit every piece of information caught by its sensors back to the mother ship. Transmissions can be received by the mother ship up to a distance of more than 100 light years, depending on the size and quality of the buoy. Sensor buoys are also used to mark the path through space of the mother ship to help following ships in locating and assisting the sensor ship. Due to the stealth technology on the buoys, they are barely detectable by enemy vessels.
A well-known example of sensor buoys is a co-production by Myskeler & Gorlan Star Drives and Hiad Engineering. It is a very reliable buoy of high quality. It looks like turned round truncated cone, bristling with antennas and other sensor technology. Its energy cells keep the buoy active for about ten years, while small maneuvering jets guarantee the bouy will remain in the optimal position. In the case that enemy forces should somehow discover the buoy despite its sensor stealth and try to steal the collected information of the buoy, a self-destruct charge is activated to prevent the information of falling into the wrong hands.
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