Dr Forbidden held a media briefing with members of the technical press yesterday in which he detailed some of the technologies expected to be key to the DDS fleet envisaged for 2110.
FIDO or Fully Immersive Distributed Operation is a synergy of virtual reality, holographic projection and superlight communications to allow crewmembers to work on ships lightyears away, and fully interact with the crew as if they were really there. Its due to be introduced with the Quasar ILU and Velocity VS next year. Dr Forbidden said it would also be a part of the Panther programme and Terran Sea Block 3. Funding was also being secured to include it in the Pulsar MULE3 update planned fore 2109 and the Isometric ILU and Terran Sea Block 1-2 Catchup (basically bringing older Terran Sea up to the final specification). If these programmes are all successful then by 2110 all of the combat fleet will have FIDO installed.
Another key technology planned is Open Architecture which made it's debut with Terran Sea Block 2 and Pentekonter. This is a plug & play system components architecture with automatic integration and hot swapping that also includes off-ship processing of data, automated optimisation and updating of systems and data warehousing. Dr Forbidden is also hoping to have the majority of fleet including at least some of the OA components by 2110.
