Situation Calculator

Situation Calculator

Part of a very complicated system aboard Xandrao ships.

Xandrao scanners and sensors quite crude and very complex systems that easily fail and not very accurate. Therefore Xandrao capital ships carry 3 double sets of their three scanner types:

Mass (Laser based Radar) Energy, Optical. Each Scanner operator sends the results of his measurements to the Co Relator, A Typist who compares the results of the scanner results and enters them by typing them into a computer (the Situation Calculator) The machine averages the sensor results and compares the results with past contacts. It then gives a Space situation report to the Commanding Officer.

It's all very impressive and requires a lot of military precision, shouting and repeating of numbers...but it is about the most inefficient way to scan space ever conceived.