If he
did state that Athena's tactics are a significant factor, then I may have not read then. Regardless, You have got your metaphor wrong in my opinion. Our AI will be not as useful unless we provide all the hardware and pieces it can use, and investing resources into making a super strong AI before we make the hardware that it will use is wasteful.
DESIGN:APOGEE CLASS CARRIER
The Apogee class Carrier physically looks like a dumbbell shaped object, with lattice and framework filling in the gap between the rear engines and the forward computer core, similar in size to a Cuttlefish. It is unarmored save for it’s hulking super structure, designed to take the stress of drones lifting off and landing in its “runways” of magnetic catch/catapult systems. It is equipped with NQ Capacitor Cells, Caduceus Reactors, and Fabricators modified from the ones deployed by Fabrites.
Stored on it’s various cargo caches and automated distribution nodes are drone parts, designed to be assembled on site by the Fabricators along with raw materials either acquired on-site by local elements or carried with it by ITC’s or it’s own stores. These fabricators are more advanced than previous designs, and are expected to be able to assemble any drone pattern device given blueprints, materials, and parts.
It’s engines are designed to be faster then the Odin so that no matter what, it can continually harass the enemy without harm, provided the enemy fighter screens are destroyed.
One particularly notable fact of the Apogee is the fact that it is entirely automated; There is not a single function that is completely automated by Artificial constructions, and the ship even has basic repair/maintenance functions to keep it functioning, possibly long after it’s masters have died out.
Drone designs has been designed and noted below. An Apogee storage mass consists of around 70% in Janissar and 30% of Smart Missiles.
SUBDESIGNS
JANISSARY CLASS RECON DRONEThese Athena-controlled drone is equipped with a point-to-point laser communications system, designed so that the drone can communicate to the Athena Network from large distances as well as other drone entities, typically other drones and smart missiles, but Alien contact has been considered and the protocol has been installed in the Athena Networks guidelines. These drones are also equipped with a set of active sensors, NQ Batteries, and hot-gas thrusters. They are expected to be scouting the entire orbit, and scan out for anomalies, hostiles and other entities to be categorized and dealt with by other drones. To make these drones as cheap as possible, they are unarmored and their Athena nodes shrunk, and they operate at a deficit-- They are disposable, and are quickly expected to be lost without assistance from other drones, but they should be able to avoid destruction due to their very small profile and agility. These drones are expected to return to the Carrier and recharge their thrusters and NQ batterries once one or the other becomes low.
BROADSWORD CLASS SMART MISSILEA high explosive charge powered by NQ cells plugged into a maneuvering system, an upsized Athena Node/sensor systems, and a one use Solid-mass Rocket Booster. Essentially, they will be deployed at long range, and they will jet to a chosen target by the Athena Network, and then launch themselves at extreme speed with the rocket booster at the enemy, hopefully targeting vulnerable points such as weapon mounts, engines, or sensor nodes. The missile can return to the carrier if its warhead fails or other reasons, but it is traditionally not expected to turn to the carrier.
