Space Punks 2: Nightingale's Song by Anna Mocikat

Author:Anna Mocikat [Mocikat, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

Mission Dossier, Entry #955

Stealth

Stealth technology is almost as old as space travel itself, although it has constantly evolved over the last two hundred years. The tech is highly complex and sophisticated, yet it’s based on a relatively simple principle.

Space is huge. Unimaginably huge. The chances of stumbling upon something by coincidence are basically zero. Even the distance between Mars and Ceres, which are considered relatively close together, is a hundred and thirty-four million kilometers (and that only when both planets are aligned in their closest proximity of each other; when both stand on the far side of their orbits around the sun, the distance can be three times as much). That’s more than eighteen billion square kilometers of space.

To put it simply, if you don’t know an object’s exact coordinates in space, you’ll never find it.

To make an object such as a spaceship or a space station invisible, two relatively simple measures are required. For one, the hull must be matte black to prevent it from reflecting light. A stealth ship can’t have any windows either, but since most stealth ships are also warships, that’s a given. Only an idiot would build a warship with windows.

Secondly, and more importantly, the hull must be coated with metamaterials, which significantly muffle the energy emitted from the ship’s power core. An extra layer of nanomaterials will camouflage the ship, making it appear like its surroundings. The most advanced models combine these measures with a constant electromagnetic field that cloaks the propulsion emission even more.

Space might be unimaginably huge, but detecting a ship’s power signature as far away as Proxima Centauri is relatively easy. The Pentad monitors all ship movement in the solar system closely, and unless a ship is equipped with advanced stealth, it’s impossible to stay undetected.

Pentad warships and special forces such as ARES are equipped with state-of-the-art cloaking systems and are practically invisible, no matter if they are a million kilometers or fifty meters away.

The Seraph class was fitted out with the most advanced stealth. Those ships had to be capable of sneaking into enemy territory undetected by countless hostile ships and drones—which they successfully did. It remains impossible to detect a ship of the Seraph class today.

Also see:

The Pentad

The Great War

The Seraphs

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