Alliance Technology

An overview of common technologies in the Alliance.

Building Materials

• crete

Power

• Gem grids

Genies

See Genies.

Transportation

• Pads
• Monorail

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
• Solidigraphs
• Dominoes - cheap models have few interface options; high end versions have the option to be activated via subvocalization.
• 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"
  • 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
• Telegems:
  • Can be activated by flicking an ear (for species with flickable ears)
  • May be useful in situations where general communication systems are compromised or blocked, as they can be "kept local."

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. Used for applications like starship structural pieces, as well as for Alysha Forrest's replacement claws
• Antigrav parachutes, consisting of a small but right T-shaped frame on the back and chest
• Snowplow generators, which create a field that either pushes debris away from the ship or vaporizes it. Not necessary while in Well.
• 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.
• Info-stops: appear to be something like a combination tourist bureau and public Internet kiosk. Come with privacy shields.
• Flexglass: used in buildings in the cheap part of town