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**Dampeners: allows someone to dampen their own brainwave response | **Dampeners: allows someone to dampen their own brainwave response | ||
*Decryption box: Automatically decrypts encryptions, given enough time<ref name="steel" /> | *Decryption box: Automatically decrypts encryptions, given enough time<ref name="steel" /> | ||
*Telegems: | |||
** Can be activated by flicking an ear (for species with flickable ears)<ref name="line" /> | |||
** May be useful in situations where general communication systems are compromised or blocked, as they can be "kept local."<ref name="wiw-07">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', chapter 7</ref> | |||
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*Stasis discs | *Stasis discs | ||
*Stasis pins | *Stasis pins | ||
*other stuff I've probably mentioned and forgotten | *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<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>. Used for applications like starship structural pieces<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 8</ref>, as well as for [[Alysha Forrest]]'s replacement claws<ref name="coldandgentle" /> | *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<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>. Used for applications like starship structural pieces<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 8</ref>, as well as for [[Alysha Forrest]]'s replacement claws<ref name="coldandgentle" /> | ||
Revision as of 01:37, 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]
- Telegems:
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
- 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[5]. Used for applications like starship structural pieces[6], as well as for Alysha Forrest's replacement claws[5]
- Antigrav parachutes, consisting of a small but right T-shaped frame on the back and chest[7]
- Snowplow generators, which create a field that either pushes debris away from the ship or vaporizes it. Not necessary while in Well.[7]
- 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.[8]
- Info-stops: appear to be something like a combination tourist bureau and public Internet kiosk. Come with privacy shields.[9]
- Flexglass: used in buildings in the cheap part of town[9]
References
- ↑ Alysha's Fall, "Impetus"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Alysha's Fall, "Steel"
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedline - ↑ Who is Willing, chapter 7
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Alysha's Fall, "A Cold and Gentle Dark"
- ↑ Second, chapter 8
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Leadership Lessons"
- ↑ Alysha's Fall, "The Piece that Makes the Difference"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Alysha's Fall, "Two Uniforms"