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Always curious what sort of monitoring is used here, pressure valves, temperature, could we assume there's ultra-high-FPS cameras at every useful vantage point? Would there be any vantage point you could put a camera(or other sensor) that wouldn't get destroyed in a catastrophic unplanned disassembly?

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The simplest sensor is the eyeball - "oh shit it exploded, it wasn't supposed to do that" tells you that something somewhere was calculated incorrectly or wasn't planned for.

And knowing you have an issue is half the battle.

Probably not many high FPS cameras, but a large number of the tiles, especially in the most interesting areas probably have lots of temperature and pressure sensors.

Similarly probably one regular camera in each tank and similar pressure and temperature sensing. With the engines, IIRC these are refined Raptors which don't have the "christmas tree" of instrumentation, so probably just pressure and temperature in all the key areas.

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