Automated Aerial Defense Network

With an increasing threat of aircraft as well as missile types such as Scud and Exocet missiles that could destroy Foundation vessels above PATHOS or harm the structural integrity of the facility itself, the Foundation has commissioned an advanced missile defense system. Named after its cold war U.S. counterpart, STAR WARS uses the advanced computational power aboard the SCPS Olympus as well as multiple observation posts on coastlines within range of PATHOS, as well as a limited number of covert reconnaissance satellites acting under the guise of company network spacecraft for the Foundations cover organizations to actively seek, disable and even recover missiles, aircraft, artillery and other forms of vehicle or projectiles for further examination or use. The STAR WARS missile defense system renders a target useless by disabling any electronics it may have and rapidly identifying the systems it has onboard. By disabling the guidance systems onboard guided and smart munitions, they can be safely disabled in the sea, recovered and traced so that MTF strike teams can identify and destroy the source. Should they be unguided projectiles such as naval artillery or strafing rounds, STAR WARS will focus an incredible amount of particles onto a target, forcing rapid detonation in flight.

However, the targeting systems are not perfect. If a SMART munition can not be disabled within 3 seconds, the system will attempt to destroy it by any means necessary; making efforts at recovery and tracing nearly impossible. It also takes up an incredible amount of electrical and computational power and can therefore only be installed upon fixed sites or expansive vessels, making mobile use and defense impractical. 

While the Manufacturing Department wishes to implement a system of ‘triage’ where the missile defense systems will actively seek to find the largest threat among a grouping of multiple munitions, it is currently unable to do such and as a result overwhelming amounts of artillery may lead to high damage due to the fact that the missile defense network is only capable of tracking and destroying a single munition at a time.

The Foundations Particle Beam Grid, colloquially referred to as the ‘lasers’ offers a form of protection against incoming projectiles in close proximity to PATHOS itself, however their effective range is no higher than 30,000 feet and as a result the Foundation relies on an alternate, more conventional system for long-range munitions as well, more importantly, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles launched from both ground-based platforms and submarines across the world. Nuclear Weapons are a rare threat, however they pose the obvious risk of destroying the entry points into the facility and starving both it and Site Upsilon, or striking the facility itself and causing the Dark Matter Reactor to implode as a result. The Foundation, using intelligence gained from former UNGOC relations and raids on Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd. facilities currently operates [6] Aerial Monitoring & Response Sites in covert areas - all of which contain [124] large VLS Silos, stylized around those placed on naval vessels, capable of launching warheads modelled around the United States ‘Multi-Object Kill Vehicle’ capable of identifying, tracking and disabling Nuclear Warheads destined to strike Foundation assets in their burn phase, all the way through to their terminal phase.

The ‘STRIKER’ Anti-Ballistic Missile System is operated from fixed positions in conjunction with advanced monitoring systems detailed in Section-4, and flies directly towards nuclear warheads deemed to be within impact range of Foundation installations and releases [6] ‘kill vehicles’ which will independently guide themselves to any radio and infrared signature produced by the warheads, before attaching to their hull, firing an EMP and rapidly introducing Compound ████-███ into the missiles fuel supply, before working together to guide the missile to any body of water that is not linked directly to the Atlantic Ocean.

There is however a large chance that the kill vehicles will not reach or successfully attach to their target, or will be overwhelmed by missile systems. As a result, multiple anti-ballistic missiles are fired at once, giving the STRIKER the ability to almost certainly engage its target or disable it to the point where it may come into the range of the Foundations Particle Beam Grid.