Technology

Quantum Technology

Most hi-tech equipment of the future is based on the use of Quantum Technology, which is considered the key to the universe.

This scientific technology has revolutionized the existence of the Human species several times during the past century, providing the human civilization with advanced AI quantum computers, atomic compression, hyperlink communication, teleportation, Jump Rails and Space Gates for interstellar travel.

Atomic Compression

Interstellar travel is limited to small vessels that are transported through vast energy-consuming Space Gates.

It was therefore necessary to find a way to pack the cargo load more efficiently, allowing as much goods as possible to pass through the gates. By converting an object into electron fluidium it could be contained and stored inside a small electromagnetic field.

This process uses short-range particle teleportation were the atomic structure of the target object is dissolved and transferred, or "atomized and compressed" as it's more commonly called. By scanning and saving the original pattern of the objects atomic structure when it's transferred it could be re-atomized again and returned to normal shape and structure.

The technology was first used on industrial raw material with simple atomic structures but successful experiments soon allowed more complex multiple atomic structures to be dissolved and restored.

Personal Atomic Compression (PAC)

The atomic compression technology is now available on the public market and used for easy transportation and storage of personal items by using a portable device called a Personal Atomic Compression unit or PAC.

The desired item can be teleported at close range into the PAC were its atomic pattern is stored in a data buffer while a computer keeps track of the items inside the inventory. The atomic compressor will collapse the atomic structure of the item into freely floating particles, thus reducing its size while the weight itself remains unaltered. A PAC is considered today as basic standard equipment throughout the population.

Neuron Enhanced Computer Implant (NECI)

This is a cybernetic neuron-controlled nano-computer that is implanted into the skull bone and directly linked to the brain.

The NECI functions as a personal computer, communication unit and ID. The NECI allows an individual to log on to modern technological equipment that is equipped with a computer transmitter. The NECI will display status and information on any desired object, such as the personal ACP inventory, weapons or public teleportation systems. The NECI is absolutely vital for memory retrieval and human resurrection.

The NECI also includes the popular CHAT-chip, which stands for Cybernetic Hyperlink Augmentation Transmitter. The CHAT allows people to communicate with each other, even across long distances.

Resurrection

Science has harnessed the creation of life itself by obtaining every genetic code to all known forms of DNA. Combined with new advanced technology it gave Mankind the tools they needed to extend their own lifecycle.

Even so, death was still very much present and it compelled human science to invent artificial immortality. By using a micro biochip implant linked to the human brain it can read brainwaves and store memories, including visual images, thoughts, emotions and individual personalities.

The data can then be gradually downloaded during life and stored in a databank, allowing the entire mind pattern of a single human individual to be saved for the future and later transferred to a new human body.

The new body is an exact copy of the original body in the form of an artificially grown and mindless clone of the original body. By combining a biochip with a microchip computer implant and a hyperlink it allows the whole life of an individual to be constantly connected and downloaded into a databank.

Human resurrection or the prolonging of human life is held under strict laws and within specific jurisdictions. Neither one has been available to the general public elsewhere but the desperate situation on Calypso during the first war against the revolting robots gave the colony a special status. As a result the Federal Empire passed a legal motion to make human resurrection available to all settlers on Calypso.

The resurrection itself takes place up in orbit, inside the space vessel Exodus where the memory-patterns of all citizens are received and stored inside a large databank. The resurrected individual is then teleported down to a Hospital or a Resurrection Ship on the surface, were the individual can continue his or her broken lifecycle.

The reason for this arrangement is to assure a complete authorized control over the resurrection procedures but also because all Resurrection Ships in service are directly linked to the Exodus.

Teleportation Technology

Teleportation is the most common form of public transportation in the future. This is a vast area including all forms of teleportation, such as Teleporters and Televators.

Teleporters are public teleportation units and the main form of transportation inside an urban area. Televators are local teleportation units, equivalent to doorways and elevators inside various buildings and institutions.

Teleportation is also used to purchase and distribute merchandise as well as to collect and store items.

During the robot wars the settlers constructed armored teleport stations all over the planet to allow human troopers to arrive quickly and safely to any active combat zone and fight back robot hostiles. These teleportation bunkers allowed the humans to strike down hard and swift where it was most needed and use their forces more efficiently against the robots, which outnumbered the humans at that time, both in numbers and resources.

Many of these old postwar teleport systems are still functional and can be used freely by any settler who locates them.

Space Communication Technology

The Interstellar Transportation Network

All Space Gates form a network for interstellar travel. Connection points for transits and rerouting vessels contain several Space Gates and are called Gate Stations or Central Gate Stations depending on the number of gates that make up the installation.

A single Space Gate located at the end of the network is called an Omega Space Gate and these gates are the final points of destination on the expanding Space Frontier.

For economical reasons many Space Gates are maintained by local authorities and are only opened at specific times or in emergency situations. Still, the Space Gate is the most vital element to all forms of interstellar travel within the Federal Empire. The most crucial routes and connection points are therefore well guarded and controlled by the Federal Imperial Forces.

Jump Rails

These are very long and complex space constructions, powered by several matter/antimatter reactors and conductors. The diameter and length of the construction varies depending on the size of the vessel that is to be launched.

Jump Rails function as subspace accelerators, launching a specially equipped vessel into a state of warp that will send it across an enormous distance in space. The vessels travel through several curled layers of time and space until it loses "jump velocity" and reenters normal space again. These curled layers are called warp waves.

In order for a vessel to survive the force of a launch and the reentering into normal space it has to generate a warp shield. The force of the launch itself will usually destroy the Jump Rail, which makes it an expensive form of space travel.

Jump Rails are not an exact science, which makes them an unreliable form of travel. Time is shifted when the vessel is passing through one warp wave and into another during its journey. The journey appears very short for the travelers as time is being compromised when it may take years to accomplish for an outside observer.

Jump Rails remain the only way to transfer large vessels cross the enormous distances of space but their cost make it far more economically attractive to build larger sector-based space vessels on site once a Space Gate has been successfully established.

Space Gate Technology

Space Gates are artificially made rifts in the fabric of space and time. When two linked gates are activated they will twist and turn the space between them and open a vortex into a warp tunnel, an otherwise rare space phenomena more commonly known as a "worm hole".

Travel between the two gates is instant and can take humans light-years across space from one point to another in the blink of an eye.

Even though the Space Gates are large and complex constructions the openings they generate are very tight passages. In order for a vessel to slip through safely it has to be fairly small and slim. Interstellar flights are therefore made by smaller spacecraft, roughly the size of shuttles or long rows of connected transportation vessels.

A Space Gate also consumes vast amounts of energy when activated and require several large matter/antimatter reactors to function, which can be expensive energy sources.

Space Travel

A HaRP ZPE extruder is the most common energy source for large spaceships and functions as the main space propulsion system for these same stellar vessels. It works on the principle of extruding energy from a polarized quantum vacuum known as the electromagnetic zero-point field.

Antigravity systems are based on the same principle and are used to cancel out zero G in space and generate a suitable environment for any humans' onboard vessels or in bases on low gravity planets.

Matter/antimatter reactors are still used to power older installations and old-fashioned fusion technology is still used for smaller vessels.

Hyperlink Communication

The hyperlink network is based on Quantum Technology and offers secure and instant communication between two separated units. The only things that can slow it down are central connection systems and relay stations where signals from one hyperlink are rerouted and transferred to another.

Local Hyperlink Networks connect all the communication systems in a colony while Global Hyperlink Networks connect an entire world and Planetary Hyperlink Networks connect entire solar systems.

The Interstellar Hyperlink Network is the largest and most important network since it connects all the colonized areas of space. Space Gates function as main com-stations between colonies but the network also consists of deep space relay stations and bases left behind by Odysseus Probes, most of which are yet to be claimed by the first human that may finally arrive to the location.