>>6165333Behold, Agents. The solution to our tacnet based worries about disruption to our comms grid and hostile intrusion into our combined meshnetwork.
Herbie! 2.0.
The limited onboard processing capability of the standard techwear headset is the real performance cut-off for field-grade mesh protocols. The Stonedogs have their fancy exo suits, UNCC operatives get full satelitte backing and spooky quantum entanglement *cheats*, the Hong8 piggyback off of the infrastructure of the city, the Red Cranes run everything through their command vehicles, but they're all *frauds* who went and did it the easy way. Our fully integrated peer to peer enmeshed tactical network is state of the actual art and it's one of our relational edges compared to peer or near-peer adversaries and antagonists. It can't be traced, it doesn't run off of infrastructure that can be shut down or destroyed, it proxies everything and it seamlessly integrates enormous amounts of information. Yeah, yeah, the Stonedogs do the same thing but A) They're the Stonedogs and B) they have to roll up a Class Two Advanced Command Vehicle and rock out in power armor and meanwhile I am but one overworked specialist working out of an improvised setup doing all this on some headsets and scratch-built customized code. And it *works*. I'm surprised every time but it does! It provably shouldn't.
But our limited hardware and low footprint? It's a series of compromises and processing bottlenecks. What we need, Agents, is some kind of small, portable, reliable, nay, loyal system that can, eh-he-he-he, clean our signals out in the field and . . . dust off . . . our communications so they're . . . sparkling fresh . . and no ... dirty... interlopers get into our internal systems! Heheheh. Heh. Heheheh. Oh I just thought of another one, ahem, it'll really. . . detergent... them from trying to hack us!
stop groaning i workshopped these for ten minutes before I called you
Anyway. Normally you'd need twenty-three million and spare change to burn on advanced IFVs with electronic warfare capabil|tiies to get a hardened field grade centralised processing cluster up and running.
But I wired a minirature computing cluster to a cleaning drone chassis and had Agent Monarch duct-tape some rotounits to it and then transfered over the basic operations package from Herbie's systems, kludged up some customized filtering meshops and tadaaah!
The Signal Cleaner! Keep it functional in the field and while it's active and operational it'll run tactical integrations.
Which is to say: Herbsie here teamworks your meshops, providing spare power.
