Corruptor

A corruptor is a device that scrambles space-time curvature around a ship. While corruptors are occasionally found in commercial vessels that travel long distances, to protect against piracy, the devices are usually found in warships.

Classification

Corruptors are considered STCCM (space-time curvature countermeasure) devices.

Effects

• Scrambles wireless EM signals, disrupting communications and visuals.

Excerpts

From SHAKEDOWN: Corruptors created a sphere of warped STC that bent, scattered, and diffused wavelengths, which made electronics do unpredictable things. Even non-military-grade corruptors altered observable data. From ten thousand klicks away, a ship the size of Keeling would appear so distorted that its target profile would be as large as that of a small moon.

STCCM was the reason war had changed so much in the past fifty years. If you wanted to target something, you had to get relatively close. If you wanted to kill something, closer still.

Sigler, Scott. The Crypt: Shakedown: (A Military Sci-Fi Novel) (pp. 253-254). Aethon Books. Kindle Edition.