SkyNet

SkyNet is a fully integrated Satellite Defense Network (SDN), the only such system with complete and continuous global coverage. It is maintained by the FTSR at great expense, and requires thousands of people working around the clock to operate. However, the cost efficiency of SkyNet has improved recently by delegating a number of maintenance and targeting functions to the distributed supercomputer AI, Iteration X (IX). SkyNet is capable of silencing all transmitted communications across a broad area, and potentially silencing all upper-atmospheric and spacebound transmissions on or to Light III. It can track and disable the flight of missiles and sometimes aircraft, as well as defend itself through the use of laser arrays. SkyNet is also used for global, interplanetary, and extrasolar surveillance, as well as domestic communications (which, in a shockingly capitalistic turn, are sometimes leased by other nations in Light). Many rumors abound as to what other capabilities SkyNet has, but a select number of Grand Army (GA) commanders are aware that SkyNet was at one point used during the OmniSent conflict to generate what has been termed by GA tacticians as an Alpha Strike; a subnet of satellites (dubbed PsiNet) produced a focused field of alpha wave interference across a narrow area that effectively rendered a large group of OmniSent forces (mainly enslaved Arythian Tanes) unconscious. This enabled the GA, somewhat confused by what was happening, to unleash the infamous Ultima detonation on the plains of Albrook, utterly wiping out most of the peacefully sleeping and now defenseless Tanes. The truth of this incident has been covered up. Due to the relatively nonlethal nature of an Alpha Strike, it is yet unknown whether it would be classified as a Weapon of Mass Destruction by the Hosluftgrad Conventions.