Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/GPS Lock

GPS Lock is one of the Alliance's support powers.

Overview
"I don't know about how they got my position. We didn't see any aircraft, and we were sure that we had eliminated all the spies."

-Shogun Shinya Murakumo on being outflanked at (Brunei)

If one were to start a survey of your average Alliance soldier of the Great Voshkod-Aquilan War based around the question, “What spaceborne technology has most revolutionized warfare?”, you are likely to get a long list of wonder weapons such as the Andoran' Athena Satellite Network, the dreaded Voshkod Orbital Drop and the occasional insane rambling of weather control devices. Ask an Alliance commander, and among the plethora of wonder weapons mentioned, you will hear a good many of them mention the GPS satellite (GPS standing for "Global Photoreconnaissance System").

In 1959, the Alliance decided that they needed a method to spy on the Voshkod in such a way that no retribution could be made. Spies could be killed or fed false information, aircraft were vulnerable to being shot down, and scouts could be hunted down and eliminated. To answer this the Alliance turned skyward, launching their first spy satellite into space.

These satellites have evolved with time, and while still expensive to send up and rather delicate, no longer need the colossal buildings dubbed “GPS Uplinks” for the commander to make use of them, as the equipment and hardware needed to relay orders to a GPS satellite can now safely fit inside one large room in the basement of a Defence Bureau.

The military isn’t the only area where people have expressed interest in these spy satellites; certain civilian companies have expressed desire to use a triangulation method to greatly improve navigation. As of now, this is still a ways off due to the sheer size of the equipment used to communicate with the satellites.