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| '''Texture buffers''' are a kind of [[active camouflage]] system employed by the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] on their [[Prowler]] stealth ships.{{Ref/Novel|Id=GOO32|GoO|Chapter=32}} | | '''Texture buffers''' are [[active camouflage]] systems used on [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[UNSC Prowler|Prowlers]].<ref name="goo">'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 291''</ref> They are designed to hide the craft from plain sight through the use of [[Photoreactive panel|photoreactive coating]] or "active camouflage skin",<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 477''</ref> integrated to the ship's [[stealth ablative coating]] that also masks the ship's [[radar]] signatures.{{Ref/Reuse|goo}} |
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| ==Overview==
| | The UNSC also possesses more advanced visual stealth technology, as demonstrated by the ONI stealth ship [[ONI PRO-49776]], using a form of camouflage "bubble" similar to [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] active camouflage. However, this technology has not been seen in widespread use.<ref>'''[[Halo Legends]]''', ''[[The Package (animated short)|The Package]]''</ref> |
| They are designed to hide the craft from plain sight through the use of [[Photoreactive panel|photoreactive coating]] or "active camouflage skin",{{Ref/Anthology|Id=Cole|Evo|The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole}} integrated to the ship's [[stealth ablative coating]] that also masks the ship's [[radar]] signatures.{{Ref/Reuse|GOO32}}
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| When in use, texture buffers allow a ship to imitate the colours of objects behind it via the use of a programmable optical camouflage coating.{{Ref/Book|HWF|Page=46-47}} However, they are limited in these capabilities; if the surface behind the ship is rapidly changing (such as the upper atmosphere of a gas giant), the texture buffers are not able to update with enough frequency to match the surface. As such, they can appear visually distorted.{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}} When activating this form of camouflage, a texture buffer is stated to be at "full", with a further indicator of only a few minutes of usage.{{Ref/Reuse|GOO32}} It is unclear if this implies that the texture buffer is a limited-use resource.
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| By [[2558]], all prowlers in [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] service had integrated some form of hull camouflage coating into their construction.{{Ref/Book|H4EVG|Page=190}}
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==List of appearances== |
