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The MIDAS system networks a multitude of sensors, communications and fire-control systems (as other armour integrated electronic systems) but also maneuver-control, sub-computation, target assessment, field-inducers, sub-computers slaved to the main computer, dynamic networked battle awareness modelling, information modification and electronic warfare systems. Unlike other systems, MIDAS features a structol computer and is designed to grow as it is used: Learning more about the battle and its user - information which is shared and networked to produce a system that will evolve as the platforms it is mounted on change through time.

Specifically, it allows a wide variety of operations to be completely automated (going as far as to operate manned weapons as unmanned weapons) and is designed to operate as part of a dynamic higherarchy of similar systems that grow and adapt based on where they are used - rather than an archaic network of specialized systems which must convert and alter data before and after transmission - wasting huge amounts of processing power and losing many subtle elements of what is ultimately occuring on the battlefield. In this sense, not only motherships recieve optimal comprehension but units in the field also do - allowing them to work intelligently as a single cohesive networked force - prioritizing information they distribute for intelligent bandwidth use and issuing requests when clarification is required on an ad-hoc basis.

The heart of MIDAS is the structol computer, a dynamic growing self-altering system which forms both dynamic and dedicated circuit pathways based on the situation it must encounter. Unlike electronic systems, which rely on the electron, the structol computer is largely optical which means no additional step is involved in reprocessing waveform (quantum string) information into digital information – unless a 'simpler' computer is emulated. Waveform computing is, however, only used in situations in which it excels due to its functional limitations outside of parallel processing applications and due to it's distinctly analogue nature. - making the structol computer more energy efficient in terms of invested energy verses processing power than a dedicated quantum computer - which is incredibly wasteful. The structol computer can run periodic, dynamic, referential or sequential←(Who, what? step by step verses refferential/neural) software with ease - often allowing it to emulate systems used by other nations. This combined with its ability for physical emulation makes the structol computer compatible with essentially any equipment it is linked with.

• Sequential: Performed in logical order (step 1, step 2, etc) (Like your calculator)
• Refferential: Performed in non-specific order, hugely parallel with operations competing based on accuracy and associations. (Like your brain)
• Periodic: Calculated seperatly and then put together once per tick (Like a graphics processor)
• Dynamic: Calculated seperatly and then put together as soon as convient. (Like SETI at home)

Importantly, MIDAS piggybacks the known Lazarus Nodal Networking System. The advantages are twofold: It can route through any system within reach of the lazarus Node System, though it cannot influence the route nodes only the destination nodes. And the routing and encryption process make tracing and digital warfare very difficult. It uses onion encryption techniques to make tracking near impossible without physical access to the outputting node.

Unlike many integrated electronic systems, the interfacing component of MIDAS is a seperate system - and MIDAS is intended to integrate with whatever it is linked with. As a result one can pull a core from one MIDAS unit, and plug it into another MIDAS adapted device and it should be able to quickly adapt and learn how to access the new object. MIDAS is plug and play.

More specificially: The interfacing component is like a USB port with an attached memory chip. The MIDAS it's self is an undifferentiated computing device. The Interfacing component helps tell the MIDAS how it needs to reconfigure to run the new device it's been plugged into. New runtime information is uploaded from the MIDAS to the interfacing component as notes for later MIDAS components that might be plugged into it, in case the MIDAS is damaged, destroyed, or otherwise replaced.

Additionally, since MIDAS makes use of an adaptive structol computing and structol routing systems, any jacks, plugs or sockets can be physically configured - and the computer will map the remote device and attempt to form its own drivers - though obviously, dedicated drivers are always preferred.

• MONOS is the recommended input and control method for MIDAS.