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* Antigrav dollies<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>
* Antigrav dollies<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>
* Sticklights, light sources that can be adhered to surfaces.<ref name="esots-04">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
* Sticklights, light sources that can be adhered to surfaces.<ref name="esots-04">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
* Fancy showers with multidirectional streams.<ref name="esots-04" />


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 04:55, 9 October 2020

Slimsuit

An overview of common technologies in the Alliance.

Metals and Material Sciences

  • Breathnache, an extremely hard, tough clathrate substance that can be sharpened to a very fine edge; it can cut stone, metal, and transmetal alloys, and can scratch diamond. Constructed atom by atom[1]. Used for applications like starship structural pieces[2], as well as for Alysha Forrest's replacement claws[1]
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  • Flexglass: Commonly used in construction, except where aesthetics require real glass or crystal. Extremely difficult to break; even the commercial variants are far stronger than metal, and the industrial variants are usedfor starship windows.[3][4]
  • Meredium, an extremely expensive white metal, comparable in price to breathnache. Meredium is combined with gold in an alloy called "ice gold," of which Alysha Forrest's earrings are made.[5]
  • Grav-countering for moving heavy objects[6]

Power

  • Gem grids
  • Generators
  • Forms of power (anti-matter, solar collector, etc)

Genies

See Genies.

Transportation

Ship Technology and Well Drives

See Ship Technology.

Medical Technology

See Alliance Medical Technology

Military Technology

See Alliance Military Technology.

Visual and Holographic Technology

Maintenance

  • Every system in the Alliance appears to have a system dedicated to monitoring whether it's working, so never forget: it might be broken, or the thing that is reporting whether it's broken or not might be broken, check both

Communication and Information

  • U-Banks
  • Users can customize their preferences for call settings, including how they like incoming calls to be broadcast (viseo, audio-only, etc). The computer will default to these settings unless the user specifies otherwise. [8] These preferences can involve rules (so, for instance 'I prefer to receive my calls as two-way viseos unless I am in the shower, then I prefer audio only').
  • Telegems
  • Language implants were once a thing and were abandoned as 'too brute force' a solution. [9]
  • Well repeaters[10]
  • Communiqués can be "Well-spiked" to prioritize them.[11]
  • Messages have priority flags indicating their importance.[11]

Technological Audible Feedback

  • low single sustained notes- 'working'
  • rising arpeggios - opening contact
  • falling arpeggios - closing contact
  • chime - 'alert/attention/work complete'
  • chirp - acknowledgement of a command[12]

Security and Encryption

  • 'Palm-swipe' authentication. [13][14]
  • Fingerprint scanning[15]
  • Iris scanning [15]
  • Brain-wave security technology: provide an input (an image or sound) and match the user's brain waves to the recorded brain waves, creating a unique response "fingerprint"[16][15]
    • Projectors: allow someone to record and replay another set of brainwave responses. Small enough to sit on a lap, becomes warm and vibrates when in use.
    • Dampeners: allows someone to dampen their own brainwave response
  • Decryption box: Automatically decrypts encryptions, given enough time[16]
  • Lisinthir pays for a drink at one point with a 'palm-swipe'. [13]
  • "Scrapers," data mining bots[17]

Need something here about encryption types and real-time ("well-pushed") streams.

Minor Tech

  • Solid state memory flats[18]
  • Wristlights[18]
  • Data tablets
  • Data wands[19]
  • Eye films
  • Repeaters
  • Sendaine storage lockers (locked in some specific way? Mentioned in Earthrise)
  • Stasis discs
  • Stasis pins
  • Antigrav parachutes, consisting of a small but right T-shaped frame on the back and chest[20]
  • Snowplow generators, which create a field that either pushes debris away from the ship or vaporizes it. Not necessary while in Well.[20]
  • Info-stops: appear to be something like a combination tourist bureau and public Internet kiosk. Come with privacy shields.[4]
  • Gyms have an anti-injury system that prevents people from connecting with one another (or disperses some of the force of their blows). [13]
  • quick-stick glue! Kits can use it to glue their dads' offices shut. Not naming any names here. [13]
  • Antigrav dollies[21]
  • Sticklights, light sources that can be adhered to surfaces.[22]
  • Fancy showers with multidirectional streams.[22]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alysha's Fall, "A Cold and Gentle Dark"
  2. ↑ Second, chapter 8
  3. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 5
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Alysha's Fall, "Two Uniforms"
  5. ↑ Alysha's Fall, "The Piece that Makes the Difference"
  6. ↑ Dark Lighthouse
  7. ↑ Alysha's Fall, "Impetus"
  8. ↑ Faith in the Service, Chapter 6
  9. ↑ Farmer's Crown, Chapter 16
  10. ↑ Who is Willing, Chapter 3
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Even the Wingless, Part Two
  12. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 2
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11
  14. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 13
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 1
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Alysha's Fall, "Steel"
  17. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 10
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 7
  19. ↑ Dark Lighthouse
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Leadership Lessons"
  21. ↑ Even the Wingless, Part One
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 4
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