Alliance Technology

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An overview of common technologies in the Alliance.

Communication and Information

Calls and Messages

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. [1] 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.[2][3] They can be summoned to display wherever a person is (presuming the existence of a gem-grid?), up to and including in the shower.[3] 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.[4] Well repeaters ferry messages across long distances[5], and communiqués can be "Well-spiked" to prioritize them.[2]

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[3]
  • chirp - acknowledgement of a command[6]

Other Communication and Information Technology

  • Data tablets
  • Data wands[7]
  • Info-stops: appear to be something like a combination tourist bureau and public Internet kiosk. Come with privacy shields.[8]
  • Language implants were once a thing and were abandoned as 'too brute force' a solution. [9]
  • Solid state memory flats[10]
  • Telegems
  • U-Banks

EVA and Diving Equipment

  • Slimsuits, used for either short EVA or diving.[4] Paired with a dive knife and utility belt, the latter of which is waterproof enough to safely hold electronics.[11]
  • 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.[4]
  • Short-lapse EVA softsuits: attached to a ship by an umbilical. Long hair must be braided and wound around the head to fit, and species with long ears like Aera may need to tuck back their ears.[12]

Genies

See Genies.

Grooming and Fashion

See Pelted Fashion.

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

Medical Technology

See Alliance Medical Technology

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[13]. Used for applications like starship structural pieces[14], as well as for Alysha Forrest's replacement claws[13]
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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.[15][8]
  • 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.[16]

Military Technology

See Alliance Military Technology.

Power

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

Security and Encryption

Authentication

There are multiple ways for an individual to authenticate their identity: palm-swipe,[17][18], fingerprint scanning,[19] iris scanning,[19] and biometrics or DNA[2][20] among them. The Alliance also has brain-wave security technology. With brain wave security, an individual's brain wave reaction to various stimuli (such as images or sounds) is recorded. To authenticate, the individual is prompted with one or more of those stimuli at random. If their brain wave pattern matches the recorded brain wave pattern, they will be able to successfully sign in. (Even this is not immune to hacking, however. Hackers can use a damper to muffle their own brain wave response, and then use a projector to project someone else's recorded brain waves. Projectors are small enough to sit in someone's lap, and become warm and vibrate when in use.)[21][19]

Other Security and Encryption Technology

  • Decryption box: Automatically decrypts encryptions, given enough time[21]
  • "Scrapers," data mining bots[22]

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

Ship Technology and Well Drives

See Ship Technology.

Transportation

Visual and Holographic Technology

Other Technology

  • Wristlights[10]
  • Sendaine storage lockers (locked in some specific way? Mentioned in Earthrise)
  • Stasis discs
  • Antigrav parachutes, consisting of a small but right T-shaped frame on the back and chest[24]
  • Gyms have an anti-injury system that prevents people from connecting with one another (or disperses some of the force of their blows). [17]
  • quick-stick glue! Kits can use it to glue their dads' offices shut. Not naming any names here. [17]
  • Sticklights, light sources that can be adhered to surfaces.[3]
  • Grav-countering for moving heavy objects[25]
  • Antigrav dollies[26]

References

  1. ↑ Faith in the Service, Chapter 6
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Even the Wingless, Part Two
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 4
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 6
  5. ↑ Girl on Fire, Chapter 16
  6. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 2
  7. ↑ Dark Lighthouse
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Alysha's Fall, "Two Uniforms"
  9. ↑ Farmer's Crown, Chapter 16
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 7
  11. ↑ Either Side of the Strand, Chapter 8
  12. ↑ "In the Line of Duty"
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Alysha's Fall, "A Cold and Gentle Dark"
  14. ↑ Second, chapter 8
  15. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 5
  16. ↑ Alysha's Fall, "The Piece that Makes the Difference"
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11
  18. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 13
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 1
  20. ↑ Earthrise, Part Three
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Alysha's Fall, "Steel"
  22. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 10
  23. ↑ Alysha's Fall, "Impetus"
  24. ↑ "Leadership Lessons"
  25. ↑ Dark Lighthouse
  26. ↑ Even the Wingless, Part One
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