SCAPS

The Stellar Cartography Asset Positioning System (SCAPS) is a semi-autonomous data collation program created by starfleet Intelligence specifically for intelligence use that combines standard Stellar Cartography systems with an overlay of known enemy and friendly assets including persons of interest, high value targets, active and inactive agents, ships, shuttles and facilities. Like stellar Cartography in general the system is ship-based but will securely link with other ships and bases to correlate and update their data. Where used over long distance (of for example 1AU or more) SCAPS is specifically designed to integrate with a ship or facility’s alert status and uses an appropriate level of transmission(s) to stay up-to-date.

SCAPS will automatically correlate any and all data from all accessible bands and sources to provide the latest information to the crew. In normal use SCAPS falls under the responsibility of an intel ship or facility’s Stellar Cartographer, and Cartographers working within intel are given special in-depth training on the capabilities and uses of the system.

All intel staff would be given a basic SCAPS overview during their intel basic training.

SCAPS data is considered highly classified and in the event of any intel ship or facility being compromised the entire local SCAPS database is immediately and irretrievably destroyed.