re_alignment | [video] Edge of Solus' quadrant, crystal tree forest

Since the Firstforged are leaving, unknown for how long, I was thinking we might want to patrol more consistently towards the borders of Haven, especially in the direction of the Badlands.

[She needs some distraction and she's been considering bringing this up since she talked to Solus either way.]

Where, and how far, do the police force patrol? Though, anyone who can and feel like it should probably assist, but coordination would probably make it more effective. So far I've kept it mostly around the edge of Solus Prime's outer border.

[Elita walks as she speaks, looking more at the now rather impressively large crystal "trees" around her than the screen, but not just for admiring them - rather looking for something.]

Also, would anyone be capable of making some form of alarms we could put around the edges? Simple motion-detection ones might be useful enough, but I was thinking of something that might be able to detect the type of energy the Badlands contain.

[Nothing she can do, but hopefully someone else would be - or could try to.]

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Yeah, the size is the issue, but if we just cover the temples and populated area's first, it won't be that big of an issue.

[Sadly, this is something she's grown all to familiar with both here and back home.]

Even with limited resources, it should still be possible with all the scrap in the junkyard. We just need to re-purpose a few things.

Perhaps we should start there, but something further out would give a more advance warning... [She shakes her helm slowly.] That, of course, runs against the problem of how many alarms we could make and how wide we want to make the net.

Too wide and it's ineffective, even if supplemented with patrols, too fine and we probably wouldn't have enough to cover anything but a very small area.

[Probably not even a single quadrant's outer border towards the "wilderness".]

Hopefully. This should probably have been started earlier, but I suppose it's somewhat easy to get... complacent.

[And she's actually never been in a situation quite like this, or engaged in full, actual warfare organisation.]

A net is just another kind of web and if there's anything this spider is good at, it's weaving a web. I'm sure we can come up with a layout that incorporates both an early warning system and patrols.

But first, we cover the vital areas then work from there. We might be able to make up for the lack of amount of the sensors we need of we give them a wide enough range to start with.

[You already have her calculating programming and building schematics.]

Yeah, we should have started earlier, but we didn't. It's time to fix that.

[It's actually surprising how similar to home this is once she things about it. That's... both reassuring and scary.]

[That makes her smile briefly, nodding with a chuckle.]

Indeed.

Better late than never, and at least for the attacks that have come from the Lambda, no amount of ground-based alarm sensors will help. [She snorts and shakes her helm.]

And you might be right, with a smaller amount of sensors and the distance we need to cover... perhaps placing the sensors in an invisible lattice... a web [tilt of her helm] might suit better and cover better than simple straight lines?

Yeah, but they don't hurt. It's too hard to cover a fly zone unless we really extend the sensors. But, every fly boy on the planet would be triggering them left and right.

And I doubt we even have the equipment for something like that to begin with. I might make reach up a hundred feet or so. By the time it does warn us of an aerial attack, we'd see it anyway.

[Blackarachnia... may or may not be tapping away at a data pad figuring this out.]

Yeah, it would. You'd be surprised at what a well constructed web can cover. Especially if the sensors are placed in the right spots. The hard part will be determining the exact spots they need to go in.

It probably wouldn't be practical enough to warrant it, no, not with what you're bringing up, since while a hundred feet for a ground-based sensor at a perimeter line would give a good forwarning, but a hundred feet up in the air... [She shakes her helm.] We'd already be seeing it, as you say.

And as for spots... Sentinel will get me the patrol routes the police force use, and I'm going to check them and the surroundings as well, with that, we ought to be able to figure out what spots closer to the temples that are hidden from easy sight that might be worth setting sensors in, and start creating a web beyond regular patrol routes?

[She taps her chin as she speaks, optics narrowed in thought. Ideally, in the end even routes where patrols were made or mechs passed regularly should be covered, but it was probably better to start where no one was patrolling.]

And we might want to focus on the side of the Haven that borders towards the greater Badlands, even if they're far away, since that's where an attack would most possibly come from.

That sounds like a good starting point. Let me know when you get the patrol route and have spots scouted out and I'll make sure they work for the sensors. Don't be surprised if we have to try a few different spots for them, sometimes to first choice isn't the best.

[She continues designing as she considers a few of the calculations, discards them and write out new ones.]

Keeping an eye on the Badlands should be the first priority. It's the place where we're the most blind for attacks.

I should have the patrol routes later today [since Sentilen preferred to send them over instead of her coming over at some later point] though finding good locations will take more time.

[The smile is lopsided and a little dry.]

It's a big world out there. [Then she nods, humming briefly.] And I'll keep that in mind, try to have at least three additional spots for any given first choice of location, how does that sound?

It sounds perfect. I'll leave the locations in your capable hands and hopefully we can get this issue fixed within a month or two.

[She just grins. It's probably the quickest she can make the sensors and Blackarachnia doesn't doubt that there will be a little trial and error along the way.]

A month or two should definitely give me the time needed to get a basic database of locations down, especially towards the Badlands-facing border. Thank you for offering your help.

[Elita's smile turns warmer at that - with the people who've offered, they should hopefully end up with something useable soon enough, rectifying a rather neglected situation.]

Don't mention it. It benefits me just as much as anyone else that we solve this problem.

[That makes her laugh.]

True. Good luck. Tell me if there's something I might be able to do that I'm not already doing in relation to this.

[video] Edge of Solus' quadrant, crystal tree forest

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