10-14-2024, 10:03 PM
==Apologies for the delay. It's been a bit rough in real life the past few days, but I'll try and do better.==
The standard propulsion package can be removed, though this will require Artemis to position the probe manually rather than the standard "shoot it out the torpedo tube" approach. The new station-keeping package would do what it needed to from the point of activation. There are also long-range comm packages that can be removed, since the probe is meant to talk to its compatriots that are relatively close rather than the computers of a ship that could be quite a long way away. However, a slimmer broadcast system would need to be placed as well so that the probe could still "raise the alarm", so to speak.
Those should provide sufficient space, combined with the sensor package change. Any other attempts to free up space would require replacing parts with equivalents that were smaller and less effective, or attempting to strip the casing back until it was practically just tape.
The standard propulsion package can be removed, though this will require Artemis to position the probe manually rather than the standard "shoot it out the torpedo tube" approach. The new station-keeping package would do what it needed to from the point of activation. There are also long-range comm packages that can be removed, since the probe is meant to talk to its compatriots that are relatively close rather than the computers of a ship that could be quite a long way away. However, a slimmer broadcast system would need to be placed as well so that the probe could still "raise the alarm", so to speak.
Those should provide sufficient space, combined with the sensor package change. Any other attempts to free up space would require replacing parts with equivalents that were smaller and less effective, or attempting to strip the casing back until it was practically just tape.