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== Ship Technology==
== Ship Technology and Well Drives==


See [[Ship Technology]].
See [[Ship Technology]].
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*duster
*duster
*entropy packets
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==Well Drive==
Has five "speeds":
*1
*2
*3 (The Lip of the Well); most civilian ships stop here.
*4 Courier ships occasionally go this speed.
*5 (The Well's Deep) This speed is only typical of Fleet vessels pushing things.


==Visual and Holographic Technology==
==Visual and Holographic Technology==

Revision as of 01:32, 6 June 2020

An overview of common technologies in the Alliance.

Building Materials

  • crete

Power

  • Gem grids

Genies

See Genie.

Transportation

  • Pads
  • Monorail[1]

Ship Technology and Well Drives

See Ship Technology.

Medical Technology

See Alliance Medical Technology

Military Technology

  • duster
  • entropy packets

Visual and Holographic Technology

  • 3deo
  • Viseo
  • Solidographs
  • Dominoes
  • Roquelares

Communication and Security

  • 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"[2]
    • 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[2]

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

Minor Tech

  • Data tablets
  • Data wands
  • Eye films
  • Repeaters
  • Sendaine storage lockers (locked in some specific way? Mentioned in Earthrise)
  • Stasis discs
  • Stasis pins
  • Telegems: can be activated by flicking an ear (for species with flickable ears)[3]
  • other stuff I've probably mentioned and forgotten
  • 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[4]. Used for applications like starship structural pieces[5], as well as for Alysha Forrest's replacement claws[4]
  • Antigrav parachutes, consisting of a small but right T-shaped frame on the back and chest[6]
  • Snowplow generators, which create a field that either pushes debris away from the ship or vaporizes it. Not necessary while in Well.[6]
  • 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.[7]
  • Info-stops: appear to be something like a combination tourist bureau and public Internet kiosk. Come with privacy shields.[8]
  • Flexglass: used in buildings in the cheap part of town[8]

References

  1. Alysha's Fall, "Impetus"
  2. 2.0 2.1 Alysha's Fall, "Steel"
  3. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named line
  4. 4.0 4.1 Alysha's Fall, "A Cold and Gentle Dark"
  5. Second, chapter 8
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Leadership Lessons"
  7. Alysha's Fall, "The Piece that Makes the Difference"
  8. 8.0 8.1 Alysha's Fall, "Two Uniforms"