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The engineers at the spaceship research labs, a military division of the Barony of Vulnezia based in the capital city Arbelia, have unveiled their newest design for a space viewing system that challenges the traditional camera drones navies and pod pilots have used for years. The Ship Camera Network, consists of designs for all types and sizes of ships and can range from several hundred camera’s to millions of small camera’s place all around the ships hull. Each camera views a portion of the outside, some are telescopic some infrared, others are simply backups. All of the imaging captured by these digital camera’s is then fed to a central computer aboard the host ship where it is then displayed to a user. The information is not just imaging however, the ships computer can then take the camera’s images and use other data such as gate names, stars and planets of a given system and overlay them on top of the image on a monitor so a user can gather information easily. During combat is when the new Ship Camera Network shines compared to the old clunky and expensive Camera Drone system.

During space combat there are so many forces at play that wreak havoc on tiny drones flying all around the host ship that often led to system lag and crashes , loss of data all together, all of this complicated operations for a captain or pod pilot.

Companies and Nations spend great amounts of ISK on replacing billions of camera drones that are lost in situations such as emergency warps, ordinance explosions during combat, and cosmic forces especially in nebula and near stars. It takes a little time for Camera drones to dock and during that time there can be temporary black outs. During warps a ship has no camera drones active so ships are flying based on assumed data from ships computers.

Now, with the Ship Camera Network for the first time people were amazed to see what a warp tunnel really looks like.

The ship camera network also promises to help with corporate and government budgets considering the staggering cost of replacing lost or damaged camera drones in the past.

While the camera drone system will not go away completely, there will still be a need for some of them to look around objects that ship camera’s cannot do. The ship camera network will still offer a big alternative to ship owners to cut costs and get more accurate real time images and data displayed for critical operations.

Manufacturers of the Camera Drone have repeatedly tried to sue the engineers of the Ship Camera Network, there have even been rumors of sabotage, but now the system is out to the public and factories will be using the new camera system a lot more. Technology is truly evolving in the EVE world.

Vulnezia State News