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For an upcoming roleplay. Need as many science-fiction advanced technologies as I can get and thus explain to better allow people to realise what they're doing/working with.
ADVANCED MATERIALS & STRUCTURES
DISTRIBUTED TECH
MATTER, ENERGY AND FORCEMANIPULATION
LIGHT PROJECTION
SPACETIME MANIPULATION
HYBRID APPLICATIONS
Cloaking [Metamaterials + Piezoelectricity] Continually-adjusting PZE nano-structures enable a flexible object that can mimic the shape and musculature of a human body, in addition to redirecting the flow of all photons in a given spectrum of light.
Shapeshifting weapon/multitool [Stasis + Piezoelectricity] The projector device is given a particular shape before being frozen in stasis.
Light face/body morphing[Nanites + Piezoelectricity] A subject changes their appearance, musculature and stature (within reason) by manipulating a thin layer of structures and nanites on their body into different shapes and colours.
Organic shapeshifting [Nanites + Piezoelectricity] Nanites allow a subject to densely pack every bit of their body with additional matter. PZE implants in bones and muscles allow them to expand and warp without breaking, while nanites in soft tissues prevents them from being torn apart under similar shifting. Allows a subject to change their size and proportions with ease, though growing additional limbs, sprouting blade-bones and other additions require at least hours of concerted growing.
Heads-up display [Metamaterials + Holography + Nanites] Either directly in the eye of via a contact lens, an augmented reality view of the world is provided by overlaid readouts of information.
Railgun [Magnetic acceleration] A slug susceptible to magnetic fields is accelerated to a significant fraction of lightspeed (at least 10%) by sending it down a series of electrified coils. As one coil repels the round away from it, the next one draws it forward, and so on until it is ejected at high velocity. Railgun rounds are recommended only recommended when a definite targeting solution can be obtained - rounds impacting at fractions of lightspeed can vaporise a target, and leave an expanding wake of nuclear fusion behind them.
ADVANCED MATERIALS & STRUCTURES
Spoiler ShowNanoscale materials that change shape (usually through simple extension and contraction) when introduced to a current. Can be woven into larger or more complex shapes to amplify the magnitude of shifting, or the shape it leads to.
Appearance: Because PZE materials' capabilities only rely on nano- and molecular-scale features, they can take on any shape, colour or feature at the macro scale.
Applications: Expanding sheets and cables; Artificial muscles, but computers are required to control such fine and varied movements.
Spoiler ShowObjects peppered with nano-scale holes that enable light to pass through and around it like water through a sieve or a river around a stone, leaving no trace on the other side and thus rendering the object invisible. Only works for rigid objects unless combined with other advanced technologies, such as holography or piezoelectricity.
Appearance: Smartass.
Applications: Cloaked solid objects; invisible blades or obstacles; advanced optics.
Spoiler ShowA macroscopic material with the tensile strength of atomic bonds, thus piercing, bending or breaking scrith requires as much physical force as tearing two atoms apart.
The manipulation of fundamental particles involved in making scrith means it can only realistically be applied in vacuums and space. Contact between scrith and normal molecules is mutually destabilising.
Appearance: Perfectly smooth, dark silver.
Applications: Space-based megastructures
DISTRIBUTED TECH
Spoiler ShowMachines composed of atoms, molecular in size. Due to their size, they can effortlessly take host within virtually any host being or structure and reshape or repair it from within. In open air they have little ability to move on their own, and thus congregate into larger shapes to allow movement across greater distances.
Appearance: Invisible to the naked eye, but they appear black in large numbers, unless they are organising themselves to reflect/absorb particular colours.
Applications: Slowly rearrange atoms; break down molecular bonds to compromise a structure's integrity; interface with an organic host and for help or harm, alter their bodily processes.
Spoiler ShowQuantum computing technology that vastly outpaces binary systems and integrates effortlessly with neural-organic ones. Qnet users have a lattice grown into their brain, enabling them to take in and broadcast raw information.
Appearance: Does not manifest visually outside the subject. When extracted, its structure is reminiscent of a spider's web, composed of ultra-tin platinum-silver wires.
Applications: Reading from and broadcasting to neural, binary and quantum computing systems; mind-reading once familiar with a subject; total bodily takeover; emergency brain snapshot.
MATTER, ENERGY AND FORCEMANIPULATION
Spoiler ShowThe electromagnetic force is weakened or nullified in an area. Can be projected spherically outward from a source point, or in specific shapes between projection points. More powerful applications include the effects of the weaker ones.
Tier 2 - NEMP field disrupts photons, creating a space of little or no light.
Tier 1 - NEMP field disrupts electricity and magnetism.
Tier 0 - NEMP field disrupts proton-electron bonds. Affected objects break down into dust of subatomic particles.
Appearance: A dim or dark volume of space. If Tier-0 NEMP fields are used a fine, grey mist of subatomic particles can be seen dissipating after the field goes off.
Applications: Creating dead-zones for light, electricity and/or magnetism; reducing something or someone to subatomic ash.
Spoiler ShowSuperconducting magnets are triggered to anchor themselves in relation to a nearby magnetic field - usually the Earth - locking them in place.
Appearance: Superconducting magnets appear dark-silver in colour and are organised in regular patterns over an objects (hexagons, rings, etc).
Applications: Levitation; high-speed travel from coordinated, alternating application of multiple magnets.
Spoiler ShowA field or shell in which objects with mass are unable to move, while similar things trying to enter will be repelled with the same force but opposite direction. This stopping action extends down to the atomic scale, such that the affected area is practically equivalent to being stopped in time, though light and the fundamental forces pass through the field effortlessly.
Extending a vector repulsion shell around an object essentially cuts it off from the outside world in regards to physical, solid contact. This results in something like a force-field with a frictionless surface, as anything trying to enter the field is pushed away. A caveat of this is that if such a shell is erected around a person, they have only the air within the shell to breathe.
Appearance: The area of vector repulsion space looks to be shimmering.
Applications: Force-fields; zero-friction systems.
Spoiler Showerature shifting]Vibrations are manipulated on a small scale (mostly light and/or smal objects) to push them around at a range of a few feet. A less well-targetted applications sees the atomic vibrations in an area increased or reduced. This manifests in temperatures changing, though heat cannot simply be created or destroyed, instead it must be moved elsewhere. Cooling an area requires the heat to be pushed out or focussed into a tiny point, likewise raising the temperature of an area requires heat to be drawn from matter at the periphery of the field of effect, thus cooling the area around the hot spot.
Appearance: The remote movement aspect of the technology does not manifest visually, and can be used through unshielded objects that aren't of extremely high density;
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Spoiler Show[/SIZE] Intense temperatures can result in heat haze, moisture misting up, and any other environmental effects related to temperature.
Applications: Close-range telekinesis; composing, deconstructing and/or manipulating mechanical systems; Rapid and intense local temperature shifts - may result in objects igniting, becoming brittle, etc.
LIGHT PROJECTION
Spoiler ShowDespite their name - a holdover from more fanciful sci-fi ideas - hardlight is not solid, but does exert some physical influence, alongside the standard laser-like effects. The literal 'push' of such intense light means anything touching hardlight feels a push against them, though the same is not felt by the hardlight wielder, since they are actually wielding the field that directs the light. Touching hardlight is like touching a laser, where prolonged contact can result in piercing and/or severing.
Appearance: Hardlight shapes have smooth surfaces, and exhibit a dim glow in a single frequency/colour of light. When they make contact with liquids or solids, they flare up brilliantly. Hardlight need not be emitted in the visible spectrum - 'invisible' hardlight (such as in the infra-red or x-ray spectrum) shapes are totally possible, and in some situations preferred.
Applications: Stabbing and striking weapons; vaporisation shielding when paired with immense power source.
Spoiler ShowA ultra-precise scanner/projector takes continuous scans of an environment, and fires off tiny beams of light to strike individual structures and even molecules to create a three-dimensional image. Conditions in the area like windspeed, humidity and temperature can affect the quality of the image, but nanites can be used to compensate by acting as the thing being projected onto.
Appearance: Theoretically anything you want it to be. In calm conditions, gives off no glow, but in less ideal conditions the image becomes more blurred and the glow more pronounced.
Application: Decoys; hiding structures and objects.
SPACETIME MANIPULATION
Spoiler ShowAn area of time so slowed that it might as well be stopped - billions of external years to internal seconds. Stasis fields - and objects within them - are totally invulerable, though their power sources are usually fragile when/if exposed. Two types of stasis fields are used: engulfing and spanning varieties.
Engulfing stasis devices project the stasis field around a subject, cutting them off from the outside world. Because of the timeflow disparity, all engulfing stasis devices have batteries designed to last no longer than an external century, and hyper-fast computers and sensors monitor external conditions to determine an opportune time to disengage the field. Without these safeties, one could accidentally find themselves unwittingly outlasting their entire home solar system, while only experiencing a few seconds passing internally. With safeties active, an emergency stasis field is a great way to survive disaster, but in no way guarantees your safety once the field deactivates.
Spanning stasis field devices have their power source and other workings outside the field. One sub-variety sees a field erected around a simple shape such as a line or a sheet, while another erects a field between multiple projection points, enabling more advanced shapes to be created, like curved sheets and polygons.
Appearance: Areas of stasis appear totally mirrored, reflecting all light and betraying no sign of anything inside.
Applications: Emergency protection systems; invulnerable plating; unbreakable weapons.
Spoiler ShowThe curvature of space around and in front of an object is warped so that the area under effect is rendered significantly shorter along the direction of travel, essentially 'shrinking' space. One can theoretically exceed the speed of light while zipping, because the distance the user actually travels is so tiny. When zipping, the subjects moves under their own power, such that one will have to still walk, drive and generally move to get to their destination. One needs to be careful when zipping to not overstep their destination - a single footstep can correspond to kilometres outside.
An inverse of zipping technology is the expansion of space within a given area, though it is less immediately useful. One application is to erect a field so that when a projectile enters it, it will take much, much longer to come out the other side, allowing one to dodge bullets or delay a foe. Keep in mind that a person who has entered a field of expanded space can simply step back out of it easily enough and seek another route to their target.
Appearance: The affect area experiences only a little distortion similar to when looking through the lens of a magnifying glass, but no actual 'shrinking' or 'growing' of subjects inside or out of the area is observed.
Applications: Near-instantaneous travel; roadblocks
HYBRID APPLICATIONS
Cloaking [Metamaterials + Piezoelectricity] Continually-adjusting PZE nano-structures enable a flexible object that can mimic the shape and musculature of a human body, in addition to redirecting the flow of all photons in a given spectrum of light.
Shapeshifting weapon/multitool [Stasis + Piezoelectricity] The projector device is given a particular shape before being frozen in stasis.
Light face/body morphing[Nanites + Piezoelectricity] A subject changes their appearance, musculature and stature (within reason) by manipulating a thin layer of structures and nanites on their body into different shapes and colours.
Organic shapeshifting [Nanites + Piezoelectricity] Nanites allow a subject to densely pack every bit of their body with additional matter. PZE implants in bones and muscles allow them to expand and warp without breaking, while nanites in soft tissues prevents them from being torn apart under similar shifting. Allows a subject to change their size and proportions with ease, though growing additional limbs, sprouting blade-bones and other additions require at least hours of concerted growing.
Heads-up display [Metamaterials + Holography + Nanites] Either directly in the eye of via a contact lens, an augmented reality view of the world is provided by overlaid readouts of information.
Railgun [Magnetic acceleration] A slug susceptible to magnetic fields is accelerated to a significant fraction of lightspeed (at least 10%) by sending it down a series of electrified coils. As one coil repels the round away from it, the next one draws it forward, and so on until it is ejected at high velocity. Railgun rounds are recommended only recommended when a definite targeting solution can be obtained - rounds impacting at fractions of lightspeed can vaporise a target, and leave an expanding wake of nuclear fusion behind them.
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