Artificial Quantum Singularity Drive
One of the most advanced and scalable powergrid of Maltese ships. Constructed close to Razgriz Blackhole in Omicron Phi, it relies on catching the virtual particles of Hawking radiation before "igniting" the process. The amount of particles collected decides on what power the core has. It might sound simple, but this process takes nearly a day for Rapier class powercore and about a month for Ranseur. Exact inner working are a closely guarded secret, but it's known that the drive is notoriously hard to detect and emits small amount of fast traveling Neutrinos. And due to it's nature and creation place, it's nearly impossible to reverse engineer.
"It works by creating a dense gravity well where Black hole's virtual particles are spawned and attract their corresponding antiparticle. These antiparticles are then held inside dense energy field and forced onto each other to form either an Electron Neutrino or Muon Neutrino. Fusion of this scale releases massive amounts of energy and cannot be run continuously or else the reactor would undergo a fast meltdown. Therefore it's done in approximately 1 second intervals and these sudden surges run through Fusion diodes to Nanocapacitors. Initial spark from a 3rd party device is required as this device is not capable of self recovering after prolonged sleep due to Nanocapacitors having internal resistance and loosing power overtime. On the other side, there's virtually no need to disable the reactor inside Capital ships"
Energy Field Equipment: 100
Gravity Field Stabilizers: 100
Superconductors: 100
Super Alloy: 100
Fusion Diodes: 100
Magnetic Superconductors: 100
Nanocapacitors: 100
Docking rings in Edge worlds are of an oddity, due to Ageira being the exclusive builder of those within Houses. But Maltese didn't lack behind, and much like Corsica's history, and connection with Nomads, it is possible that Malta received it as a gift from unknown sources. Adminstrators are working on recreation of these ancient blueprints from the time of Malta's settlement. The technology it mainly uses to safely deliver a ship through atmosphere is a temporary decreased gravitational pull coupled with ground scanners for additional precision and synchronization based on high orbit layers environment. Ship is then pulled through this decreased gravity well while Gravity-Field Stabilizers on ground are holding the balance between the well and planet.
These contain anywhere from one to four Advanced deep scanners, Bio-neural Arrays and Bio-neural Processors. Powered by a regular fusion drive and outfitted with short range weapons, are used to check, verify and archive every ship that passes jump holes within Maltese space. This information is marked as trusted when two separate entities (bases, stations,battleships) receive the data stream. System solid-state-drives that hold the operating system and all the necessary data are read-only, which means it's not possible to control or change the behaviour of these platforms remotely, unless the political stance with a certain group is changed at Malta.
In case of Omicron Alpha, Weapons platform at Omicron Beta jumphole communicate with Santa Verna and Ibiza Base, securing believable data further transmitted to Malta and available Navy commanders on the field.
Either on dry land or island on the acidic ocean, there're strategically and symmetrically rocket silos spread all over the Malta. Combined with early warning Asteroid weapons platforms and a powerful scanner grid on the ground of Malta ensures that any would-be siege will be met with harsh consequences.As these silos hold not only Nightmare torpedoes refitted to escape atmosphere, but even Institute's own torpedo based on releasing antimatter payload upon touching the hostile vessel. Causing its hull to be immediately ruptured, coupled with a dangerously high amount of released fast neutrons, also known as ionozing radiation. Therefore when such act is approved, Maltese vessels should clear the Malta's orbit and ensure the attackers have their shields down from distance, for Antimatter to take their ships down with them.
Additional layer of defense includes Heavy Mortars. Special upgrades have been included which further "supercharge" the antimatter bolt. Due to the sheer size and power requirements, it was decided to plant these only at the most desert places of Malta. Where the conditions are extreme enough for any Maltese to approach without protective equipment. These weapons of last-line-defense are kept in secret, and only the most trustable groups know about the weapons themselves, let alone their positions. Each "Silo" requires huge investments and is a nightmare construction-wise.
Created as the most violent means of spreading Cardamine addiction among humans. Cardamine particles intermixed with Oxygen and released to air using either a small explosive or dropping air tanks. Grenades containing the gas have been created, but so far, no strategic use has been found except when the window of opportunity is too small to catch the target and therefore is decided to at least create a dependency. There are reports of a lost Maltese vessel "Mantello" containing a unique mini-lab that infused Terraforming gas with Cardamine. These reports have been confirmed by The Institute's Administrator some time ago and a scanned copy was reconstructed to a working state at Corsica Outer Sanctum. Specialized Laser technology is used to deconstruct Cardamine powder into Molecules, which are easier to spread.
Like most of the similiar Sirian tech, Maltese Thruster is propelled by a chemical reaction, except one addition, and that's the chemical reaction between certain materials and concentrated acid from Malta's oceans. Latter is used as a primary fuel, while there's still a compatibility to everyday fuels like H-Fuel. Administrators are working on MOX compatibility small enough to fit the thruster. It's orange trail color was added artificially.
Ever since Administrators reworked the original concept of "Artificial Quantum Singularity Drive" and found the byproduct being Neutrinos (particles which are able to fly through entire planets), there was a lot of investment to gradually change into Neutrino engines, which would be an immense gain for Maltese society since engines would run on particles emitted from powercore. And as such, a lot of time is invested into this new technology, slowly but steadily replacing H-Fuel dependency. Energy Field Equipment and Gravity Field Stabilizers are the most critical equipment required, as Neutrinos as very stable and small particles, only intense gravity wells can hold them in place. Exact inner workings of these engines are unknown to public and only the observable data have been published, upgrades of this class are freely done by Administrators on Corsica Outer Sanctum.
Each node contains technology known as Quantum Key Distribution that generates Entangled photons which can be separated by light-years of distance, but when their spin is observed at exactly the same time, the sibling particle is always of the opposite spin. These nodes are powered by an internal fusion reactor, coupled with eletro-magnetic shield (superconductors) that can convert sun-wind into electricity, and a pair of solar panels should the other systems fail.
• Second layer:
Each node generates a new pair of encryption keys after every message and connection is never longer than the duration of a data exchange between nodes, which in effect, creates only bursts of information instead of continual communication which could be played with.
• Third layer:
A method of achieving the spreading of a given signal is provided by the modulation scheme. With DSSS, the message signal is used to modulate a bit sequence known as a Pseudo Noise (PN) code; this PN code consists of a radio pulse that is much shorter in duration (larger bandwidth) than the original message signal. This modulation of the message signal scrambles and spreads the pieces of data, and thereby resulting in a bandwidth size nearly identical to that of the PN sequence. In this context, the duration of the radio pulse for the PN code is referred to as the chip duration. The smaller this duration, the larger the bandwidth of the resulting DSSS signal; more bandwidth multiplexed to the message signal results in better resistance against interference.
DSSS phase-shifts a sine wave pseudorandomly with a continuous string of pseudonoise (PN) code symbols called "chips", each of which has a much shorter duration than an information bit. That is, each information bit modulates a sequence of much faster chips. Therefore, the chip rate is much higher than the information signal bit rate.
DSSS uses a signal structure in which the sequence of chips produced by the transmitter is already known by the receiver. The receiver can then use the same PN sequence to counteract the effect of the PN sequence on the received signal in order to reconstruct the information signal.
• Fourth layer:
While regular communication occurs, Nodes "ping" each other with random amounts of data to observe the health of each given node and report the neighbouring nodes about the current health of the network. Anyone with "client" node can use the network if they have been granted access. Upon connecting, their vessel is scanned and information about it archived. If there would be somebody capable of spoofing identity of a client that has access, the network for that purpose compares current information about the vessel with what's stored in archives. Should the client be marked as untrustworthy, there's always the ability of receiving party silently dropping the message without noticining the sender about its arrival.
• Fifth layer:
Custom hardware based on quantum effects of the microspace than electricity, encapsulated inside what would seem like ordinary integrated circuits. With specialized Real-Time Operating system built from scratch, oriented towards security and effectivity with minimal requiremenets to function.
A simple rule was employed during the creation of this entire project "Always assume everyone is trying to cheat the system"
Currently, only authorized Maltese forces have access to the Sensor network.
Covered scanning area: Omicron Alpha, Omicron Beta, Omicron Phi, Omicron Tau
In an effort to clean their ranks, the Tissue scanner is a station class internal chamber's scanner capable of long range biological inspection of user's body for foreign organisms or technology. Nomad infection has been a problem of trust between Maltese for long enough time for them to realize there's no real value out of it anymore. The function of the device is rather simple, using millimeter waves with the tickrate of various interval between 60 and 600 seconds, it scans everybody on the station and compares to thousands of clean bodies which were used for experimentation and no Foreign entities were found within.
Each device is indiscriminate and chooses its targets at random to keep the electromagnetic flashes of radiation at minimum. And therefore it's very likely to choose large groups of people over single individuals, unless the person has not been scanned in a reasonably long time. Several modes of depth scan allow to find any kind of "hidden" device.
Upon finding an anomaly, silent alarm is raised and Administrators along with Guards receive the information about a potential infectee. Such situation is very delicate and has to be handled with utmost care. Depending on the environment, Snipers may take posts on tall buildings and general code is to pretend nothing is up. Eventually separating the infectee from the rest and keeping it alive until an Administrator can speak with it.
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Superseded: Artificial Quantum Singularity Drive 
