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===Other Communication and Information Technology=== | ===Other Communication and Information Technology=== | ||
*[[Tablets |Data tablets]] | |||
*Data wands<ref name="dl">''[[Dark Lighthouse (Fiction) |Dark Lighthouse]]''</ref> | *Data wands<ref name="dl">''[[Dark Lighthouse (Fiction) |Dark Lighthouse]]''</ref> | ||
*Language implants were once a thing and were abandoned as 'too brute force' a solution. <ref name="fc-16">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 16</ref> | *Language implants were once a thing and were abandoned as 'too brute force' a solution. <ref name="fc-16">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 16</ref> | ||
*[[Telegems]] | *[[Telegems]] | ||
*[[U-Banks]] | *[[U-Banks]] | ||
Revision as of 15:40, 14 October 2020
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
- 3deo
- Viseo
- Solidigraphs
- Dominoes and Roquelaures
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
Live calls can be made audio-only, viseo, or 3deo. 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').
Messages have priority flags indicating their importance. They can also be color-coded to provide information about their origin. Messages in an inbox are numbered.[9][10] They can be summoned to display wherever a person is (presuming the existence of a gem-grid?), up to and including in the shower.[10] They can be summoned as holographs or solidigraph; if you reach for the display as if to interact with it, a holographic display will automatically convert to solidigraphic.[11] Well repeaters ferry messages across long distances[12], and communiqués can be "Well-spiked" to prioritize them.[9]
Technological Audible Feedback
- low single sustained notes- 'working'
- rising arpeggios - opening contact
- falling arpeggios - closing contact
- chime - 'alert/attention/work complete'
- double chime - program closed/operation complete[10]
- chirp - acknowledgement of a command[13]
Other Communication and Information Technology
- Data tablets
- Data wands[14]
- Language implants were once a thing and were abandoned as 'too brute force' a solution. [15]
- Telegems
- U-Banks
Security and Encryption
- 'Palm-swipe' authentication. [16][17]
- Fingerprint scanning[18]
- Iris scanning [18]
- 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"[19][18]
- 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[19]
- Lisinthir pays for a drink at one point with a 'palm-swipe'. [16]
- "Scrapers," data mining bots[20]
Need something here about encryption types and real-time ("well-pushed") streams.
Grooming and Fashion
See Pelted Fashion.
Minor Tech
- Solid state memory flats[21]
- Wristlights[21]
- 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[22]
- Snowplow generators, which create a field that either pushes debris away from the ship or vaporizes it. Not necessary while in Well.[22]
- 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). [16]
- quick-stick glue! Kits can use it to glue their dads' offices shut. Not naming any names here. [16]
- Antigrav dollies[23]
- Sticklights, light sources that can be adhered to surfaces.[10]
- Slimsuits, used for either short EVA or diving.[11] Paired with a dive knife and utility belt, the latter of which is waterproof enough to safely hold electronics.[24]
- Oxygen exchange nose guards that allow you to breathe underwater. Attempting to open your mouth and/or speak underwater will cause it to chirp in a way that vibrates through your sinuses as a warning not to do that.[11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alysha's Fall, "A Cold and Gentle Dark"
- ↑ Second, chapter 8
- ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Alysha's Fall, "Two Uniforms"
- ↑ Alysha's Fall, "The Piece that Makes the Difference"
- ↑ Dark Lighthouse
- ↑ Alysha's Fall, "Impetus"
- ↑ Faith in the Service, Chapter 6
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Even the Wingless, Part Two
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 4
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 6
- ↑ Girl on Fire, Chapter 16
- ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 2
- ↑ Dark Lighthouse
- ↑ Farmer's Crown, Chapter 16
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11
- ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 13
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 1
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Alysha's Fall, "Steel"
- ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 10
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 7
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Leadership Lessons"
- ↑ Even the Wingless, Part One
- ↑ Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 8