Recorder
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Recorders were used aboard fighter craft to, as the name implies, record the events of missions. Recorder data had myriad uses, such as determining how many kills would be awarded to pilots after a mission. Recorders would also carry details of sensor information from a mission - the strike at the Kilrathi High Command for Vega Sector in the Venice system was possible due to a recorder tracing a comm link between a Fralthi cruiser and the High Command.