Sensors and Lock-on

[Spartan159]

If one ship in a fleet has detection or makes a sensor Lock-on, can that be shared with other ships in the fleet via Laser Com or similar, or do they need to each roll?

 

[phavoc]

If we are talking military ships, I'd say it should be a no-brainer. We have that tech today. However, as an operational aspect, each ship would try to gain and maintain it's own lock-on in order to prevent the one lock from being broken and all ships having to re-acquire it.

For civilian ships, I would say no.

 

[Spartan159]

In this particular case it's a Nishemani corsair (which I am treating as a former Navy Commerce Raider gone bad), a Broadsword class cruiser and 2 modified Sulieman scouts. Opposing is a Stealthed Dragon, a Fiery class escort and a Protected Merchant with advanced sensors/comm. The Dragon is undetected atm but not for long against the Nish, TL 12 adv. stealth vs Adv. Sensors w/enhanced signal processing, DMs cancel out but the Nish has an Elite sensor Op (Rolled 2d/3 for skill and got a 12)

 

[Condottiere]

We're working on netability, what one plane knows, all know.

 

[GarethL]

We're working on netability, what one plane knows, all know.

We are,

And we're also working on 'hackability' in order to screw with those that use it

 

[-Daniel-]

We're working on netability, what one plane knows, all know.

We are,

And we're also working on 'hackability' in order to screw with those that use it

As a very smart instructor told us one.... "When a new fool proof system comes out there are a hundred fools working to break it the same day". :mrgreen:

 

[Condottiere]

The joke's on them, even we don't know how to make it work.

 

[rust2]

As a very smart instructor told us one.... "When a new fool proof system comes out there are a hundred fools working to break it the same day". :mrgreen:

Or, as we were once told, while the new foolproof system may be proof against fools, the clever ones will break it. 8)

 

[AnotherDilbert]

If one ship in a fleet has detection or makes a sensor Lock-on, can that be shared with other ships in the fleet via Laser Com or similar, or do they need to each roll?

We have no rules for sharing detection, but it seems reasonable that we can. It might be a capability of better sensor systems, say Military sensors or better can do it.

The sensor lock rule states very specifically that the locker gains an advantage against the lockee, and nothing else:

Sensor Lock (Sensor Operator)
An improved target lock may be obtained on an enemy spacecraft with a successful Electronics (sensors) check. Attacks made by the spacecraft against this target gain a Boon until the sensor lock is broken (see Electronic Warfare).

So it seems sensor locks cannot be shared. (And if they could everyone would have a lock on everyone else, and attack roll with a boon would be the new normal.)

 

[Condottiere]

I think there's a system somewhere that takes over all adjacent ships weapon systems, so you could centralize fire control.

 

[AndrewW]

I think there's a system somewhere that takes over all adjacent ships weapon systems, so you could centralize fire control.

Fire Control Grid (Trillion Credit Squadron).

 

[Condottiere]

You could have recon ships acting as forward observers, but the enemy tends to be moving targets.