Karagin
01/14/11 09:46 AM
178.76.138.173
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Can an HPG equipped ship intercept an out going or incoming HPG transmission without the either side of the HPG link knowing it?
Karagin
Given time and plenty of paper, a philosopher can prove anything.
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Frabby
01/14/11 10:19 AM
87.164.163.246
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That depends on how the HPG message was sent.
For starters, you don't need a HPG to receive HPG messages; a simple radio will do. What a HPG does is create an omnidirectional micro-jumpfield that emits radiation. The HPG impulse does not cross space between its HPG and the target area and is impossible to "intercept" in-between.
Planetary HPGs (the ComStar grid) send very weak and extremely carefully aimed impulses to other HPG "receivers". The weak hyperpulse means that they can be operated within the proximity limit in the first place (unlike, say, JumpShip operation) and the weak and carefully aimed burst at the destination means it neither destroys stuff such as frying radio equipment nor does it carry very far from the receiving site.
In space, HPG transmissions may be aimed at a greater area such as the general area of the Zenith jump point, for example. Then the burst would "materialize" just like an arriving JumpShip and anyone in the vicinity can receive the data.
I believe this is how naval/mobile HPG operation is conducted. It has to be, because ships move too much to receive a directed weak HPG signal like ground stations do.
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Christopher_Perkins
01/14/11 01:33 PM
138.162.128.54
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How do Verigraphs work that are sent from one world to another, generally couriered by ComStar and their dark helmet brothers?
I would posit that ComStar would scan the verigraphed message, transmit it, and then reproduce it at the other end...
If that is the case, then ComStar wouldn't need to "Forge" any thing being the one that reproduces actual Verigraphed Messages.
Humm, did verigraphs go out of use with Operation Scorpian?
Christopher Robin Perkins
It is my opinion that all statements should be questioned, digested, disected, tasted, and then either spit out or adopted... RHIP is not a god given shield
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Cray
01/15/11 05:36 PM
173.168.112.109
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Can an HPG equipped ship intercept an out going or incoming HPG transmission without the either side of the HPG link knowing it?
This is explained in some depth in Explorer Corps.
HPGs are, basically, ways of jumping conventional radio waves to a destination. According to Explorer Corps, after the radio signal is jumped, it propagates normally.
So if a Comstar transmission does not arrive in a heavily shielded chamber but instead arrives in space over a planet, everyone with a radio on the correct frequency will get the signal. For this reason, Comstar encrypts the shit out of its transmissions. It doesn't want to lose the monopoly. But, encryption aside, no one will know you intercepted the radio transmission anymore than a radio station knows if you're listening to it on your car radio.
There is no way to intercept the hyperspace portion of the HPG signal. That's basically "point to point." Hyperspace signals - be they from an HPG or be they a transiting JumpShip - do not travel across intervening distances, but rather "jump" and avoid the space in between. (Which is why the very first JumpShip test drone passed effortlessly through the Sun's core - it didn't go through the core. It went from Terra's zenith point to Terra's nadir point without passing through stuff in between.)
An HPG is the same. If you get a radio receiver near the destination, or tap into the HPG's receiving chamber, then you can hear the signal and no one will be the wiser unless they find your tap.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
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