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[x] Communication missile. Repurpose some old wire-guided anti-tank missile if you need to. Five kilometers of fiberoptic cable, retransmitter with fifteen minutes of battery power or power wire to go with fiberoptic, cheap enough to spam and not worry if stuff breaks, powerful enough to overwhelm jamming locally. Because, frankly, lasers are useless if G&K start spamming smoke.
[X] But for lasers... You know, first communication satellite was literally reflective balloon? So fill the sky with mirrors! Mylar film, hexamine fuel tablet, completely passive reflective hot air balloons, could be spammed by thousands, communications firmware will need some updates to deal with reflections, but it's a dumber than a brick solution. Frankly, implement anyway and program drones to deploy floating reflectors and direct communication lasers at them in case of jamming. Let hostile T-Dolls deal with, heh, smoke and mirrors, even if actual communication method would be completely different. Weather-dependent, but that's why both Intruder and drones will get some balloon deployment modules.
Because sometimes, simple is smarter and distraction is also smarter. And look at the faces of hostile T-Dolls when they try to shot down "communication balloons" that mitigate their jamming, only to find that said balloons aren't actually doing much, would be funny.
[X] Quantum entanglement ansible. Unjammable, but may have limited bandwidth!
[X] Array of seismic hammers to give commands using ground-propagated seismic waves, in phased array configuration.
[X] Human armies deal with such command issues by having autonomous command element at lowest level of combat force. Design either Sergeant-class Doll or Non-Com bolt-on package, that will provide limited command and control response if Ringleader is indisposed. No need to make them very smart, just a bunch of situation-dependent packaged battle plans would do to deal with completely predictable flanking maneuvers and loss of communication.
[X] But for lasers... You know, first communication satellite was literally reflective balloon? So fill the sky with mirrors! Mylar film, hexamine fuel tablet, completely passive reflective hot air balloons, could be spammed by thousands, communications firmware will need some updates to deal with reflections, but it's a dumber than a brick solution. Frankly, implement anyway and program drones to deploy floating reflectors and direct communication lasers at them in case of jamming. Let hostile T-Dolls deal with, heh, smoke and mirrors, even if actual communication method would be completely different. Weather-dependent, but that's why both Intruder and drones will get some balloon deployment modules.
Because sometimes, simple is smarter and distraction is also smarter. And look at the faces of hostile T-Dolls when they try to shot down "communication balloons" that mitigate their jamming, only to find that said balloons aren't actually doing much, would be funny.
[X] Quantum entanglement ansible. Unjammable, but may have limited bandwidth!
[X] Array of seismic hammers to give commands using ground-propagated seismic waves, in phased array configuration.
[X] Human armies deal with such command issues by having autonomous command element at lowest level of combat force. Design either Sergeant-class Doll or Non-Com bolt-on package, that will provide limited command and control response if Ringleader is indisposed. No need to make them very smart, just a bunch of situation-dependent packaged battle plans would do to deal with completely predictable flanking maneuvers and loss of communication.
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