Alliance Technology

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. Used for applications like starship structural pieces, as well as for Alysha Forrest's replacement claws
• crete
• Flexglass: used in buildings in the cheap part of town
• 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.

Power

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

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. It is illegal for civilian dominoes to be programmed to look like a specific person.
• Roquelares

Communication and Security

• 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. 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').
• 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
• Lisinthir pays for a drink at one point with a 'palm-swipe'.

Noises

• low single notes - 'working'
• rising arpeggios - opening contact
• falling arpeggios - closing contact
• chime - 'alert/attention/work complete'

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
• 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.
• Info-stops: appear to be something like a combination tourist bureau and public Internet kiosk. Come with privacy shields.
• Gyms have an anti-injury system that prevents people from connecting with one another (or disperses some of the force of their blows).
• quick-stick glue! Kits can use it to glue their dads' offices shut. Not naming any names here.