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Technology in Heaven's Wake is near future, most things that exist now would be on the lower end of the tech scale but considerably more developed, chemical slugthrowers, cybernetics, touchscreens, advanced nuclear reactors while the higher end is fusion plants, advanced railguns, power armour, more advanced cybernetics and gene alteration technology. | Technology in Heaven's Wake is near future, most things that exist now would be on the lower end of the tech scale but considerably more developed, chemical slugthrowers, cybernetics, touchscreens, advanced nuclear reactors while the higher end is fusion plants, advanced railguns, power armour, more advanced cybernetics and gene alteration technology. | ||
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Apex technology is the pinnacle of post-human advancement, highly prized devices of technological complexity, they generally include technology that violates traditional physics, including teleportation technology, reactionless drives and causality violating devices. | Apex technology is the pinnacle of post-human advancement, highly prized devices of technological complexity, they generally include technology that violates traditional physics, including teleportation technology, reactionless drives and causality violating devices. | ||
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A Transporter Gate consists of two hexagons of diamonoid joined by a single spur. There are two main types. | A Transporter Gate consists of two hexagons of diamonoid joined by a single spur. There are two main types. | ||
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An Assembler gate is a hexagonal structure with an outer enclosure of diamondoid and a unknown internal makeup. The largest ones are several hundred meters across, whilst the smallest is as little as half a meter. When taken into a gravity well they will generally float above the surface either vertically or horizontally. | An Assembler gate is a hexagonal structure with an outer enclosure of diamondoid and a unknown internal makeup. The largest ones are several hundred meters across, whilst the smallest is as little as half a meter. When taken into a gravity well they will generally float above the surface either vertically or horizontally. | ||
Assembler gates were responsible for the construction of materials, from individuals to weapons of war. They have self-contained energy systems of an unknown design and are capable of operating without material input. Most known Assembler gates are heavily corrupted, producing half functioning devices or lacking complete libraries. Efforts to reverse this form a major component of posthuman research. | Assembler gates were responsible for the construction of materials, from individuals to weapons of war. They have self-contained energy systems of an unknown design and are capable of operating without material input. Most known Assembler gates are heavily corrupted, producing half functioning devices or lacking complete libraries. Efforts to reverse this form a major component of posthuman research. | ||
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Fortunately for humanity, posthumans stored much of their data on system’s compatible with inferior systems in the interests of simplifying trade. While the A and T-Gates themselves are unfathomably advanced, they have secondary storage devices known as datacrystals, easily read by most polities then and today. Finding datacrystals is an important pursuit. | Fortunately for humanity, posthumans stored much of their data on system’s compatible with inferior systems in the interests of simplifying trade. While the A and T-Gates themselves are unfathomably advanced, they have secondary storage devices known as datacrystals, easily read by most polities then and today. Finding datacrystals is an important pursuit. | ||
Revision as of 04:56, 11 October 2013
Important Concepts
Moving from A to B
Intra-System Travel
Technology
Technology in Heaven's Wake is near future, most things that exist now would be on the lower end of the tech scale but considerably more developed, chemical slugthrowers, cybernetics, touchscreens, advanced nuclear reactors while the higher end is fusion plants, advanced railguns, power armour, more advanced cybernetics and gene alteration technology.
Apex Technology
Apex technology is the pinnacle of post-human advancement, highly prized devices of technological complexity, they generally include technology that violates traditional physics, including teleportation technology, reactionless drives and causality violating devices.
T-Gate:
A Transporter Gate consists of two hexagons of diamonoid joined by a single spur. There are two main types.
W-Gate: Linked in pairs, these generate wormholes which allow instantaneous travel regardless of distance. They are common enough that most major bodies in any inhabited star-system will have at least one.
I-Gate: They allow interstellar travel by deconstructing outbound matter, transmitting it as data through micro-wormholes and reconstructing inbound matter. Unlike W-Gates they are not linked in pairs and have have multiple destinations. Multiple users with different outbound destinations can use the gate simultaneously. It should be noted that I-Gates will counter any attempt to place static defences in their vicinity.
A-Gate:
An Assembler gate is a hexagonal structure with an outer enclosure of diamondoid and a unknown internal makeup. The largest ones are several hundred meters across, whilst the smallest is as little as half a meter. When taken into a gravity well they will generally float above the surface either vertically or horizontally. Assembler gates were responsible for the construction of materials, from individuals to weapons of war. They have self-contained energy systems of an unknown design and are capable of operating without material input. Most known Assembler gates are heavily corrupted, producing half functioning devices or lacking complete libraries. Efforts to reverse this form a major component of posthuman research.
Datacrystals: Fortunately for humanity, posthumans stored much of their data on system’s compatible with inferior systems in the interests of simplifying trade. While the A and T-Gates themselves are unfathomably advanced, they have secondary storage devices known as datacrystals, easily read by most polities then and today. Finding datacrystals is an important pursuit.