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PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As an aside, the existence of such tech certainly increases the utility of shape shifters like Clawdites as spies / agents / assassins in areas where surveillance tech like this is prevalent.

There might even be room for a mystical society who provides such services, like the Faceless Men from GoT...
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 1:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kytross wrote:
garhkal wrote:
Good point. THe more secure the locale, the LESS likely it would be to have cameras all through out.


On the contrary, in the modern day, the more secure the locale the more likely to have cameras without so security can track visitors and invaders. Any important ground installation is likely to have recording, overlapping camera coverage.


True, but in OUR RL doing of things, well over half what the imperials did, JUST CAUSE, we would not have done, cause it made no damn sense to do so..

CRMcNeill wrote:
As an aside, the existence of such tech certainly increases the utility of shape shifters like Clawdites as spies / agents / assassins in areas where surveillance tech like this is prevalent.

There might even be room for a mystical society who provides such services, like the Faceless Men from GoT...


Plus to something like the empire, where they often don't even regard aliens as 'beings' they may just see all aliens as the same and not even Concentrate on faces of them..
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, if we're going to be talking security systems, has anyone else read Little Brother by Cory Doctrow? It novelizes a lot of the currently available tracking techniques they might use to figure out who is who.

One that they mention, that would help in IDing individual stormtroopers, is gait recognition. Once you get out of the Clone Era, stormtroopers are going to have individualized gaits that would let you at least narrow down who was involved in the hazing incident in Cell Block 1138 or what have you.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MrNexx wrote:
So, if we're going to be talking security systems, has anyone else read Little Brother by Cory Doctrow? It novelizes a lot of the currently available tracking techniques they might use to figure out who is who.

One that they mention, that would help in IDing individual stormtroopers, is gait recognition. Once you get out of the Clone Era, stormtroopers are going to have individualized gaits that would let you at least narrow down who was involved in the hazing incident in Cell Block 1138 or what have you.


That is a good point. Mission Impossible, Ghost recon also mentioned "Gait analysis" as a means to discern a false person from the real one...
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would say:

Wherever it is economically feasible and important, there might be (and probably are) cameras in the SW universe. This is mostly relatively affluent (or strategically significant) worlds or cities.

Expensive software might decrease a system's economic feasibility.

Out in the boonies (anywhere past Colony space, IMO) cameras occur far less frequently, but when they do it is also because of the above criteria.

I bet even Tatooine has or had cameras in certain places (Imperial or independent). Lady Valerian and others have compounds in or near even Mos Eisley, and it's "A wretched hive of scum and villainy."

Edit: Compare the cell block on board the Death Star from Episode 4. They shoot like twenty cameras or sensors.
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