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[[File:Panopticon.png|thumb|230px|right|Logo of the Panopticon Agency]]
  
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The Dokhtar-e Ahriman (Daughter of Ahriman) is the living receptacle of the live panopticon feed which links directly into her surgically augmented visual cortex via the adapted optic nerve (normally the right eye is removed to facilitate this). The recipient achieves full situational and information awareness, which in the first few test subjects resulted in fatigue, disorientation and ultimately psychological trauma as the perception of self is overwhelmed by the relentless flow of raw data.
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The '''Panopticon''' is a Babkhano-Elwynnese technological system designed to capture and process information in an improved manner that greatly enhances the battlefield commander's situational awareness, removes ambiguity - the notorious fog of war - and reduces the time taken for each step in the decision making cycle.
  
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In order to prevent such undesired side effects recurring selected Breeding Farms and SAVAK Hygiene Facilities have been tasked with producing specimens capable of processing information whilst enduring a heightened sense of reality without being distracted by incidental details - such as the nature of the operator's integration into the operating system.
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The name of the ''Panopticon'' derives from the principles explored by Babkhan penal reformers whereby a small group of prison guards would be able to watch all prisoners in the circular prison.
  
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The breakthrough was achieved when specimens taken from certain ethnicities on the Norashti coast, noted for prizing matrilineal descent, and induced to cross-bloodlines, resulted in a new crop with the desired cognitive profile.
 
  
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Further study showed that the most efficient method for processing received inputs was not through inducing the subject to replicate the ways of a computer processor but rather to order patterns in an occult manner, similar to the dream journeys of the primitive steppe shamans who claimed to mediate between the spirit and physical worlds. This requires a REM-dreaming state, audio-visual stimulation, certain chemical compounds, and a strongly reinforced cultural narrative.
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Accordingly the test subjects, their breeding partners and those who work around them, have been encouraged to believe in the more outlandish aspects of the occult belief and parapsychology. To reinforce this test subjects are all females taken from matrilineal lines where the sensitivity is most pronounced. Those we have termed Daughters of Ahriman have been induced by the means outlined to perceive reality through the prism of the Jadu ye Siyah (Black Arts).
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Each Panopticon Suite comprises a 'Targeted Surveillance Autonomous Radar System' that enables ground surveillance to develop an understanding of the enemy situation and to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces.
  
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Inbreeding and cultural conditioning has enhanced the uncanny aspect of the test subjects making their situation all the more believable, both to themselves and those with-whom they interact. Indeed it very quickly ceased to be a requirement on the part of researchers to simulate supernatural occurrences as test subjects and those in proximity to them have made numerous reports of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis - demonstrating once again how beneficial the power of suggestion can be in upholding Orthodoxy.  
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The primary system is the dual-mode [[Gaelen Technologies Corporation|ES-27]] Synthetic Aperture / Moving Target Indication (SAR/MTI) radar, known as 'Froyalan', which feeds, via secure fibre optic cables, into the optic nerve of the central processing unit.
  
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The recent notable drop off in mortality rates, we believe that Crop Seven, an initial batch of thirteen, are ready for installation with the Panopticon Suites of new equipment coming into service. The Sinbad Class Scout Submersible has been selected as a test bed for bio-mechanical integration, with retrospective installation onto other platforms if trials prove a success.
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Panopticon information captures are also exportable, via secure ES-26 VERITAS telex-relays, to command and control (C&C) and Electronic Warfare (EW) vehicles such as the [[GV(CV)-4 Red Queen|Red Queen]] and [[GAV(U)-4 Jackalope|Jackalope]] of [[Red Bear LLC]] and the [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|ESB Horjin]], providing up to the minute battlefield data for Imperial commanders and security experts..[[File:PanopticonPoster.png|250px|thumb|left|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Elwynnese [[wikipedia:propaganda|information poster]] celebrating the introduction of the first Panopticon system on the ''Horus Blimp''.</div> ]]
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The [[IRS Medusa]] and [[Elwynn Class Corvette]] were selected as a test bed for bio-mechanical integration, with integration into selected platforms was in progress during the 1650s:<br/>
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1652: [[IRS Medusa]];<br/>
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1654: [[Elwynn Class Corvette]]s;<br/>
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1655: [[Duchy Class Destroyer]]s.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 19:55, 29 January 2018

Logo of the Panopticon Agency

The Panopticon is a Babkhano-Elwynnese technological system designed to capture and process information in an improved manner that greatly enhances the battlefield commander's situational awareness, removes ambiguity - the notorious fog of war - and reduces the time taken for each step in the decision making cycle.

The name of the Panopticon derives from the principles explored by Babkhan penal reformers whereby a small group of prison guards would be able to watch all prisoners in the circular prison.


Sensor Suite

Each Panopticon Suite comprises a 'Targeted Surveillance Autonomous Radar System' that enables ground surveillance to develop an understanding of the enemy situation and to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces.

The primary system is the dual-mode ES-27 Synthetic Aperture / Moving Target Indication (SAR/MTI) radar, known as 'Froyalan', which feeds, via secure fibre optic cables, into the optic nerve of the central processing unit.

Panopticon information captures are also exportable, via secure ES-26 VERITAS telex-relays, to command and control (C&C) and Electronic Warfare (EW) vehicles such as the Red Queen and Jackalope of Red Bear LLC and the ESB Horjin, providing up to the minute battlefield data for Imperial commanders and security experts..

Elwynnese information poster celebrating the introduction of the first Panopticon system on the Horus Blimp.


The IRS Medusa and Elwynn Class Corvette were selected as a test bed for bio-mechanical integration, with integration into selected platforms was in progress during the 1650s:
1652: IRS Medusa;
1654: Elwynn Class Corvettes;
1655: Duchy Class Destroyers.

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