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construction.
Advances in technology rapidly change the way that we live our lives, and the last half
millennium has seen the most rapid progress in human history. Therefore, to understand the
societies of the Archipelago we must understand the power and limitations of its technology.
Nanotechnology
- Nanotechnology Overview
- Manufacturing Industry
- Synthetic Life
- Medical Nanotech
Information Technology
Computational Substrate
- Processing Systems
- Quantum Computers
- User Interfaces
- Oneiric Spaces
- Artificial Intelligence
- Genetic Algorithms
- Agoric Computing
Cryptography
- Public Key Cryptography
- Virtual Currency
Communication
- Communications
- Quantum Channels
Information Services
- Jinn and Data Agents
- Databases
Cybernetics
- Cybernetics Overview
- Neural Interfaces
- Daimones
- Enhanced Perception
- Intelligence Amplification
- Symbiotic Processors
Biotechnology
- Biotech Overview
Power Generation
- Power Generation Overview
Transport
The vast majority of people do not own private vehicles. It is possible to travel anyway easily
and quickly by public transport. Regional transport systems are typically maglev trains, with
suborbital scramjets, hovercraft or hydrofoils for longer journeys. Large cargoes are usually
transported by ship or ground-effect plane.
Ground Vehicles
Ships and Submarines
Aircraft
Spacecraft
Cyberware
Sensory
- Retinal Enhancement
- Replacement photoreceptors able to see IR and UV, with greater
sensitivity and optional image processing.
Neuro-informational
- Neural Interface
- Peripheral nerve links to sensory and motor nerves to allow
interfacing with other systems.
- Psychoactives
- Tacnet
- Wired Reflexes
Physiological
- Artiphages
- Enhanced immune system designed to counter incursions
of hostile nanos.
- CVTs
- Distributed heart made up of network of cardiovascular
turbopumps.
- Improved Metabolic Pathways
- Polychromatics
- Skin, hair and eyes able to rapidly change colour, or
display patterns.
Weaponry
- TCD-3000E
- State of the art autonomous weapons platform.
- PraeSec Smart Ammo
- Target-seeking, cooperative-burst ammunition used by Praesidial
Security.
- Remote Platforms
- Small, crewless craft launched from larger space vehicles for more
flexible operations.
Transportation
- Aeroshells
- Reusable lifting-body glider used for orbit-to-surface cargo drops.
- Overview
- Power Generation
- Drives
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Many types of drive system are in common use, including
chemical rockets,
thermal fission rockets,
pulsed fusion drives and
continuous-burn fusion drives.
The various types have wildly varying
performance.
- Radiators
- Tanks
- Energy Storage
- Passive Sensors
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The most common types of passive sensors are
optical and infrared telescopes and
x-ray calorimeters.
- Active Sensors
- Beam Weapons
- Kinetic Energy Weapons
- Habitats
- Small Craft Hangers
- Cargo
The future of Ad Astra
