Technology
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Confederacy Technology
The Darjee aren't happy with the concept of gifting technology to Earth, so generally, they are revealing limited technology to humans and allowing them to adopt it as designed, or to innovate by adapting it to existing human technologies.
Given the pacifistic nature of Confederacy culture, innovation in military technology hasn't occurred there in many millennia. Technological innovation for non-military purposes is similarly stagnant as the Confederacy simply hasn't encountered many challenges that could be addressed by new technology in a similar timeframe. The stagnant nature of both Confederacy culture and technological development (to the extent we are aware) makes humans a uniquely new dynamic within the Confederacy that could bode both ill and good for the remainder of the Confederacy. The restrictions on technology transfers are an attempt to limit the threat that humans could potentially pose to the Confederacy not only in the relative short-term of the Sa'arm conflict, but beyond that.
This understanding is entirely subject to the accuracy of what humans have learned from the Darjee and to a lesser extent, the Tu'ull with whom humans so far have had extremely limited contact. If what the Darjee have related about the Confederacy is true, the Confederacy hasn't seen any need to pursue technological or military innovation, up until the point of the Sa'arm threat. Their recruitment of other races to engage in the conflict on their behalf speaks of a desperation borne from the recognition of their complete inability to innovate solutions, nor to be able to employ those innovations if they could be created.
Initial Confederacy Transfers
The Darjee and AIs limited technology that was transferred to the Human Race. Much of the technology actually made it possible to implement anticipated development, like a laser rifle was actually practical.
Some of the technologies that humans acquired the use of, if not necessarily the background to build their own without AI-controlled manufacturing:
- Spaceship Drive systems - both in-system and FTL
- Transporters - which weren't far from Niven's "displacement booth"
- Med-Tubes - which weren't far from Niven's "autodoc"
- Sleep-Trainers and lie-detectors/testing systems, which were functions of the med-tubes
- Force Fields - The "Nav Shield", the "wall" shield and the interdiction field
- Antigrav - and other fun Gravitational field manipulation uses
- Compact power sources
- Replicators and patterns for foodstuffs and other materials
- Nanotechnology tools for biological manipulation
Human Innovations of "Allowed Technologies"
- Scaling up replicators
- Nanotech-based mining and manufacturing
- Hardening of shield/field technologies to protect ships
- Ship designs optimized for military use with upgraded hyperdrives and better energy economies
- "Fastest Terraforming"
- Enhanced Inertial compensators/nullifiers
- Efficiency and speed in smaller -and larger- ships
- Basically weaponizing everything in sight
See Also
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