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'''Groupe Nouveau Paradigme ''' ('''GNP''') is a [[Human]] [[spacecraft]] [[ship components|component]] manufacturer that sells sensors, engines, and software. An unusually structured company, GNP was founded via an alliance between the governments of the [[Helios system|Helios]], [[Odin system|Odin]], [[Charon system|Charon]], and [[Baker system|Baker]] systems in order to utilize facilities abandoned by the defunct [[FarSeer corporation]]. As a public company, GNP redirects all of its profits into further development and builds out facilities in the four aligned systems. Today, GNP produces the Tonnerre line of freighter power plants and the V601-11 RADAR used by the military for [[F7A Hornet Mk II|current-generation Hornet]] spacecraft.<ref name="galactapedia">{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/VDoP3jlA69-gnp|text=Galactapedia: Groupe Nouveau Paradigme (GNP)|accessdate=2021-02-24}}</ref>

== History ==

The basis for GNP's corporate structure was the [[Tangaroa]] (Helios II) based FarSeer Corporation. FarSeer was incorporated in 2908 and developed high end sensor suites for almost thirty years. Despite the acknowledged quality of their goods, FarSeer could not navigate the aerospace recession of the late twenties, and the company's assets were turned over to the Helosian government for dispersal. Rather than sell off FarSeer to the lowest bidder, officials maintained the corporation using tax dollars as they developed their crosscolonial alliance plan. The former FarSeer's corporate infrastructure was soon joined by government repossessed engine labs in the [[Odin system|Odin System]], a series of refineries and factories in Charon and a massive influx of UEC from Baker's unique spoils system.

The most startling thing about the company is that it entirely avoids the single most profitable segment of starship R&D: direct application weapons. Where companies like [[Behring]] and [[MaxOx]] are making trillions selling consumer grade lasers and missiles, GNP's charter strictly forbids putting armament in the hands of civilians (and similarly shies away from developing such tools for governments). Instead, the company's output is focused entirely on essential high grade equipment that most users don't generally consider when outfitting spacecraft in their heads: sensors, engines, navigation markers, piping control surfaces, software and the like.

== Sensors ==

GNP's first triumph was the adoption of their [[V601-11 RADAR]] by the [[UEE Navy]]. The V601-11, a high resolution multisync radar system capable of independently tracking dozens of items and interfacing with hundreds of ship sub systems, now forms the basis of the Navy's signature 'top gun' [[F7A Hornet]] fighters. The Hornet contract, which most expected to go to [[AllTell]] or [[Skanix]], changed everything for GNP and shocked the aerospace industry's foundations.

The contract was just the first punch, though. The sheer superiority of the system was immediately made clear, and other manufacturers began licensing or cloning the V601.GNP made billions of credits, 100% of which was funneled back into development and manufacturing. While other companies have released similar grades of radar in recent years, the modularity and the customizability of the V601 has left it with the lion's share of sensor suite integration coverage.

True to their word, there is absolutely no difference between the civilian and the milspec version of the V601-11; the same rugged technology and software used to fly the F7A Hornet is available standard (or as an upgrade) on a variety of civilian ships (including most notably the MISC Freelancer line, which actually adopted the system before it had become a navy supported industry standard).