Nanotechnology
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Nanotechnology
Basic Nanotech
The following is an exerpt from Authors/Saarm_Cycle_Info by Thinking Horndog:
Nanites or nanobots are used extensively by the Darjee as single-purpose constructors -- to create a dome around a colony pod, you unleash a gallon jug of nanites and wait two months or so for them to do the job. More tiny robots equals more work but after a while they tend to get in each other's way, and they eventually fail from lack of power or from wear and tear -- but fortunately, they are simply replicated. Similarly, underground construction can be done by having nanites dig and convert the soil into denser material to support walls, roof, and flooring of rooms and hallways -- but you're going to get a 10' by 10' room a week from a force that size. Any single-purpose activity that might take massive machinery can probably be done more efficiently -- if slower -- by tailored nanites. And of course, they are used extensively in health care...
Medical Nanotech
Based on "Surprise, Surprise!" there are six basic species of nanotechnic support for health management. These are designed, primarily, for somatic protection.
Replication Nanotech
The following is an exerpt from Authors/Saarm_Cycle_Info by Thinking Horndog:
Replication at the molecular level is another gift of the Darjee. Simple units programmable by merely presenting a small object for analysis begin at about the size of a refrigerator, but the closer the input material is to the product, the better. Bigger machines that can assemble anything from any available material by recombining molecules are massive and require a factory building-sized base -- but if you have one, your primary limitation is design, not fabrication -- and output quantity if you want something really difficult to construct. The Darjee give us replicators capable of manufacturing foodstuffs by the truckload early on in order to allow us to move our focus from basic subsistence and rechannel that energy into the defense.
Scalable Nanotechnology
This uses nanites to combine to form larger machines in order to mimic, to some degree, "bulk" material processing in larger quantities.
In effect, nanites are autonomous, taking direction at an individual level from a controlling system, allowing them to manipulate objects at the atomic scale. The first human innovation implemented was to make modifications allowing the nanites to combine to form "colonies" where the devices are networked, allowing quicker processing of specific items (foodstuff, etc), though still from the atomic level up.
The second generation of scalable nanotechnology was to go from the "slime mold" model to the first organized system where nanites were more specialized in function and worked together in an assembly-line fashion. Intake would be atomic scale and pass along the appropriate atoms to the next layer where they would be further combined... and so on. This allowed large but uncomplicated items to be fabricated quickly and in large quanities.
The third generation allowed for macro-level manipulation to be done in the process and increased the levels of specialization by a factor of ten, allowing complex items to be fabricated in minutes, even if the feedstock is not close to the product desired. (This made food replicators faster and more flexible.)
The fourth generation used macro-technology to break down raw feedstock and pass it to sortation levels allowing massive levels of mining and manufacturing.
The impact of this technology made "post scarcity" and the productivity of GMUs possible.
Confederacy Limits
- #1 No weaponization
- #2 If in doubt, see #1
See Also
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