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Department for Progress.

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Narrator
GM, 12 posts
Wed 15 Jul 2015
at 21:47
  • msg #1

Department for Progress

All known technologies and research options available to you will appear below. Anything marked as 'speculative' may have a variable output (to the point of turning out to be a dead-end or simply not possible without pre-requisite research), otherwise these should be considered well-developed fields for study

Snapshot - 40 NS (Turn 12):
  • Educational Standards - Education is universally free up to eighteen but with variable quality driven by socio-local economic factors (poverty, population density, integration and so on), polity focus and regional needs. It is expensive after that. Attempts at a universal curriculum and examination standard exist but are unevenly implemented and the system is rife with inequalities based on background, gender and so on though some progress has been made in this arena from the network kiosks
  • Biosciences - Extension of Exodus biosciences to take into account divergences on Comorian have extended this field, together with the deep expertise on drugs, addiction and holisitic healthcare
  • Clean Tech - Centuries of hardship, salvage and a scarcity of resources have pushed Federation scientists into renewable energy and resource management
  • Tech Level - You may presume a consensus Tech Level of 7-8

Opportunities:
  • Datavaults - Bootstrapping from recovered datavaults from the RCV Mbal Msafiri, other wrecked starships or Exodus facilities is a popular route to technology recovery and reverse engineering
  • Research Treaties or Unions - ???
  • Crystals - Explored in the broad brush strokes, there is plenty of potential for further crystalline compounds and applications
  • Computing - Diverging from Exodus techniques the Federation networking technology is ripe for comparision with Exodus and Seihai forks
    • Exodus - Redundant Hardware, Everything-As-a-Service, Data Science, Decision Support Systems, Tuftian Visualisations
    • Seihai - Consensus Computing, Reactive Networks, Programmable Hardware, Agent Based Systems, Genetic Algorithms

You may at any time put forward new research topics to the Feasibility thread. If they are Approved you may spend 25 million on conducting a feasibility study to establish how expensive and what potential benefits they may provide

OOC: We're using Traveller tech levels, with a UTP of 87-98767-7678-87-7 see http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Technology_level
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:21, Mon 22 Aug 2016.
Narrator
GM, 13 posts
Wed 15 Jul 2015
at 21:47
  • msg #2

Blueprints or Deployable

People:
  • Dr Kate Johnson, a marine biologist, has retired
  • Team Helios - ???

Blueprints:
  • DisCuSSion Hub - Each costs 150m and provides a +2 to two scientific or space exploration R&D or C&E projects per turn, but no more than five may be combined for a single bonus
  • DisCuSSion Synthesiser - Each costs 375m and provides a further +2 to one of the projects at up to five DisCuSSion Hubs per turn, together with providing one free feasibility study if it manages three or more DisCuSSion Hubs. Any one DisCuSSion Hub may be managed by at most three DisCuSSion Synthesiser
  • LaPlante Hackschools - Available from 120m, provides a medium-term benefit

Research Topics:
  • Based on material from the RCV Mbal Msafiri Datavaults:
    • Exodus Fleet (multiple cultural and historic topics)
    • Genetics - 400 million, known to the Jacinto Combine
    • Rim Confederation (multiple cultural and historic topics)
    • Spike Drives -
    • Unification Theory - 500 million
  • Based on other Feasibility Studies conducted:
    • Aerogels, 400m. Known to the Jacinto
    • Ansible Swarms for 400m
    • Ansible-Mediated Fleet Sensor Package 600 m
    • Artillery, 600 million covering Cannon, Howitzers and Mortar unit types and equipment together with Forward Observer training with a +20 bonus. Further research into specific tactics may be included for a further 200 million. Beyond that there are clear parallels between Planetary and Stellar Warfare that may benefit from a combined approach for an extra 25% on top
    • Assault Gun, 600m with a +20 bonus
    • Atmospheric Mining and Supporting Facilities - between 400m and 800m
    • Basic Cybernetics - ??? m
    • Biohybrid Robotics
    • Comorite Munitions, 200m and 2 Comorite
    • Decentralised Financed
    • Doctrine - Network-Centric Warfare, 750m
    • Doctrine - Siege Warfare, 300m
    • Em Drive - 1400 m
    • Empathic Ryllians for 1200m
    • Enhanced (Sensor) Infiltration, 600m
    • Entanglement Density Sensors for 600m
    • Entanglement Electronics for 1800m
    • Entanglement Isolation for 800m
    • Evasion Algorithms (for SW or PW), 600m
    • Ferrofluids, 400m. Known to the Jacinto
    • Gravionic-Assisted Rail Guns, +15 bonus
    • Gravionic Commercial/Passenger Services for Transport Hubs, 300m
    • Gravionic Defences, 1200m with a +6 bonus but cannot use reverse engineering bonuses
    • Gravionic High Speed Trains, 800m and estimated at 2 billion for a functional rail network post-research
    • Gravionic Road Trains, 400m
    • Gravity Well Strategies - ??? m
    • Green Building Design, 400m
    • Immutable Distributed Transactions - 600m
    • Logistics Battalions, 300 million. Clear parallels between Planetary and Stellar Warfare that may benefit from a combined approach for an extra 25% on top
    • Microtransactions - 300m
    • Mobile Fletchette Printers and Feedstock - 600 million for mobile munitions printers and 300 million per feedstock type you wish to explore
    • Neural Networks/Interfaces - ??? m
    • Proof of Everything - 1200m
    • Robotics, between 300m and 1500m depending on the extent of humanoid or animalistic forms, perceptors and actuators required. Dependencies on techniques such as Computer Vision, Neural Networks and other fields of study may be required for more advanced models.
    • Self-Propelled Artillery, 600m with a +20 bonus
    • Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle, 900m
    • Solar Hull Plating - 600m, pre-requisite of Space-Based Solar, +3 to first
    • Solar Sails - 380 m
    • Space-Based Solar - 420m
    • Space Based Economics - 800m
    • Space Station Design and Operations - 600 million, that will provide a baseline for basic component criteria, station operations and hull type classifications. Actual specific hulls, components and technologies will need to be explored
    • Stranger Communications
    • Stranger Memory for 2bn
    • Stranger Synapses for 2bn
    • Stranger Xenobiology
    • Strategy - Combined Arms Operations , 200m
    • Strategy - Counter-Intelligence and Deception, 500m
    • Strategy - Deep Operations, 450m
    • Strategy - Defence in Depth, 450m
    • Strategy - Orbital Occupation, 500m
    • Strategy - Recon Unit Integration, 300m
    • Stealthed Hulls, 1800m
    • Stellar Navigation - Insystem - 280 m, known to the Stoics
    • Stellar Navigation - Interstellar - 580 m, requires Spike Drives
    • Tactic - Network Monitoring - 600 to 900 million. If funding at under 900 let me know which end of the scale you're researching
    • Tactic - Rapid Response/Counter-Terrorism - 200m
    • Tank Destroyers, 600m with a +20 bonus
    • Transparent Solar Polymers - 900m
    • Unmanned Probes - 350 m
    • Virology - 700m, pre-requisite of Genetics
  • Based on other Feasibility Studies proposed:
    • Anagathics - Pre-requisites of Genetics, Improved Pharmacology and Virology
    • Computer Vision
    • Doctrine : Cultural Poisoning
    • Doctrine : Cyberwar,
    • Doctrine : Economic Dominance
    • Doctrine : Proselytising
    • Expandable Habitats
    • Geotechnical Engineering
    • Kelpy Communes
    • Lab Grown Meat
    • LEEDS Building Design
    • Mental Imprinting
    • Mind-Machine Interface - Potential pre-requisites
    • Pamphlet Missiles
    • Psychological Warfare
    • Recycled Modular Homes - known to the Stoics
    • Three-D Printing
    • Self-Driving Cars
    • Self-Healing Flexible Electronics
    • Solar Fabrics
    • Space Elevator - Able to be constructed
    • Strategy: Harassment
    • Tactics: Shock and Awe
    • Tactical Withdrawl
    • Uplift - Potential pre-requisites
    • Virtual Reality
    • Whole Body Science
    • Zero Footprint Lifestyles

This message was last edited by the GM at 16:54, Tue 11 July 2017.
Narrator
GM, 42 posts
Sun 26 Jul 2015
at 10:03
  • msg #3

Progressing or Prototypes

Research Topics:
  • Consumer Grade Electronics, 30%
  • Dissimilar Combat Tactics, 0%
  • Proof of Everything, 0%
  • Seihai Genetic Alterations, 25%
  • Transparent Solar Polymers, 20%
  • Unification Theory, 25%
  • Virology, 10% - being progressed by the Saganite Cooperative

Facilities:
  • Harsh Environment Research Station - Proposed

Franchises:
  • Communities - sprung up around rocketry, satellites and software

Units:
  • Deep Trench Comorite Submarine - Feasibility conducted
  • Multi-Body Sensor Drone Collective

This message was last edited by the GM at 09:15, Tue 11 July 2017.
Narrator
GM, 43 posts
Sun 26 Jul 2015
at 10:07
  • msg #4

Completed or Deployed

Programmes:
  • Federal Service - Technical Branch - Brought into law in 41 NS (Turn 13) this programme has the responsibility of introducing the Federation Common Core Standards Initiative and a broad-ranging internship programme that provides temporary homes to diverse research teams. You receive a +8 to two non-theoretical E&T or R&D projects each turn, with a further +4 to one prototyping project. From time to time the Technical Branch may produce novel inventions or improvement
  • Federal Service - Federal Network Services - Brought into law in 48 NS (Turn 19) this programme operates the consumer facing support of the ATLAS Network, freeing up critical Council budget
  • Minerva Programme - Educational reformation within the ATC. Access to newly published material bearing the crested helm and mountain symbol adopted by the programme - denoting both the Minvera of pre-Exodus myth and the challenge inspired by the Skaði project - means an upswing in average network usage, though more a sustained pressure than the peaks of recent events, and the calibre of engineering graduates climbs steadily. Applications to teacher training schools similarly surge, the pride of bearing the disparate paired spears of a Minerva educator becoming a mark of honour  Establishes the ATC as one of the jewels of progress within the Federation, engendering a sense of corporate pride, especial from those migrating into the territories themselves or suddenly finding themselves citizens with the eastward expansion along to Rhee. You will see a maintenance fee of roughly 2 million per million of population, though I will only re-baseline it each census. Starting maintenance is therefore 232 million per budget cycle

Facilities:
  • Acero Cathedral in the Acero Valley - Provides a catalytic effect to satellite, sensor and Ansible work. Hardened
  • Arachne Datacentre in the Acero Valley - Data centre for the Atlas based Arachne network, operated by the ATC. Hardened
  • April Lab in Acero Valley - ???
  • Fisabee Incubator in Usiku - Provides a bonus to Fisabee and Data Science projects together with a catalytic effect to military research projects. Hardened
  • The Feigembaum Centre - ???, operated by the Gorski Amalgam
  • Goldberg Observatory - ???, operated by the Gorski Amalgam
  • LaPlante Hackschool in Boca Ridge and Port Chrysalis, operated by the New Stoics, and in Usiku
  • Seventh Gate Vault in Tōsandō, operation by the Hishu and with expansive cryonic facilities for the storage of genetic material and conversation of Comorian fauna and flora.
  • Xolotl EM Lab on the shores of Lake Mundafen - ???, operated by the Huitzilopochtli.

Research Topics:
  • Aerogels, Known to the Jacinto
  • Anti-Virals - ???
  • Aquifer Economics
  • Armour Augmentation including Power Armour
  • Armour Crystal-Based Variants
  • Armour Kelp-Based Variants
  • Atomic Desalination
  • Basic Genetics, known to the Jacinto Combine and Wraithguard only
  • Basic of Exodus Engineering Techniques - ???
  • Biosciences - Completion of a Unified theory and research framework for Comorian and Terran biosciences
  • Blitzkrieg - ???. Unlocked the related Doctrine
  • Bunker Busting Bombs, 45%
  • Combat Simulators Known only to the Wraithguard
  • Combat Stimulants - ???. Researched by the Gorski Amalgam
  • Computer Networking - ???
  • Consumer Affordable High Capacity Media Storage - ???
  • Coordinating Missile Systems
  • Cryonics, known to the Kavacha Hegmony only
  • Cryobiology
  • Cryptofloriconology - Encoding and encryption based on Comorian botany, containing a cultural and spatial element that makes it hard to decode if a message is detected
  • Cryptography - Revised and corrected mathematical techniques for encryption and decryption using modern computers, together with ciphering techniques
  • Doctrine: Destabilisation - ???
  • Elastic Defence Tactics
  • Electro-mechanical Integration/Prosthetic, the first technology to utilise Comorudes - enabling the Federation to suffer fewer penalties from units taking damage as soldiers require more to become combat ineffective
  • Exodus Computing - ???
  • Exodus Improved RADAR - ???
  • Exodus Sensors - LIDAR
  • Exodus Sensors - Phased Antennas
  • Exodus Sensors - Sensor Fusion Algorithms
  • Exodus Sensors - Temporal-Corrective Sensors
  • Ferrofluids, Known to the Jacinto
  • Fusion Power - ???
  • Fusion Powersystems - ???
  • Genetic Manipulation Known only to the Jacinto
  • Geostationary Satellites - Replication and re-calibration of the principles around geosynchronous and geostationary orbits pertinent to Comorian, suitable to enable construction of networks of communications and surveillance satellites
  • Global Economics - ???. Known to the Progress Made Manfest Coalition only
  • Gravionics - ???
  • Gray Water Systems - ???. Known to the ATC only
  • Horticultural Bio-Diversity (Marine)
  • Horticultural Bio-Diversity (Subterranean)
  • Improved Educational Systems - ???
  • Improved Pharmacology - ???
  • Insystem Drives
  • Integrated Hydroponics
  • Kelp Harvesting - Novel research into husbandry and harvesting of several strains of native and hybrid crops in shallow and continental shelf regions, with several stable varieties now under commercial exploitation
  • MagLev - Known to the ATC only
  • Manned Spaceflight - Basic capability to exit a gravity well piggybacked onto disposable rockets
  • Manufactories - Process re-engineering and organisational regulation for efficient production lines and under-pining technologies
  • Marine Surveying - ???. Known to the Grande Armada only
  • Mechanised Infantry - Blueprints for off-road bikes and buggies, together with versatile armoured patrol vehicles used by the Djerboa
  • Meditative Trances - ???. Known to the New Stoics only
  • Mental Healthcare - ???
  • Medically Aided Interrogation (Truth Serums) using Comoryll - You may stockpile Serum-46 for future interrogations, at the cost of 80 million and 1 Comoryll for 2 doses, or you may use it without prior stockpiling for a cost of 60 million and 1 Comoryll. It provides a +12 to interrogation, with some risk of side effects on the subject
  • Microexplosive Munitions - ???
  • Missiles, researched by the Jacinto Combine and gifted to the Federation
  • Natural Detoxicants - ???. Known to the Hishu Gardeners only
  • Network Security - ???
  • Non-Invasive Surgery - Life expectancy for Federation citizens increased
  • Point Defence Systems
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Treatment using Comoryll - You may equip SIR teams for 1 Comoryll and 120 million
  • Recycling - ???. Researched by the Green Party
  • Recycled Modular Homes - Researched by the Stoics
  • Remote Augmented Missions - ???
  • Satellite-Coordinated Anti-Aircraft Platform - ???
  • Seihai Encryption - You have broken the Seihai encryption, however this only exposes a part of the command and control network because of the hardware reliance and their natural cell structure and paranoia. Battlefield capture of commanders, bunkers and vehicles broadens that exposure
  • Self-Sustaining Closed Ecosystems - ???
  • Sensor Spoke Networks - Ability to link remote sensors into an Atlas network server as well as traditional terminals, collecting telemetry and issuing commands
  • Smart Ballistics
  • Solar Efficiency - ???
  • Solar Power - Applications to power generation, reduction of the oil burden, off-grid facilities and starship components. Recovered from the RCV Mbal Msafiri
  • Sovereign Wealth Fund
  • Spoke Sensor Clouds - ???. Researched by the ATC
  • Steganography - ???
  • Stellar Cartography - Reference framework for efficient solar surveying and cartography
  • (Stellar) Worker Cooperatives & Communities - Known to the Stoics
  • Strategy: Counter-Intelligence and Deception
  • Strategy: Guerilla Combat
  • Tactics: Ambush
  • Tactics: Dogfighting
  • Tactics: Skirmishing
  • Technical Fabrics - ???. Known to the Hishu Gardeners only
  • Thermobaric Munitions
  • Treatment for Focht Addiction - Comprehensive research into physiological, psychological and pharmaceutical treatments for addiction to Focht and derivatives
  • Universal Addiction Treatments - ???
  • Unmanned Space Flight - Launch and recovery of unmanned vehicles, including some basic satellites with commercial payloads, via a partially reusable (multi-stage) chemical rocket
  • Wireless Networks - ???. Researched by the ATC
  • Wireless Power Transfer - ???. Researched by the ATC
  • Zero-Gravity Cargo Handling

Studies:
  • Beam Lance Coherency - Known only to the ATC
  • Efficient Allocation and Application of Compulsory Federal Service - ???
  • Military Application of 'Ryllians - ???
  • Reverse Engineered Weaponry from the Menzies Cache - Provided baseline improvements to ballistics, for both handguns and body armour, together with insights into technologies required for the Fisabee Datavault
  • Reverse Engineered Djinn Fighters - ???
  • Reverse Engineered Seihai Knights - ???
  • Retrofit Jacinto Submarine Blueprints with Cruise Missile Capability
  • Prototyped Deep Trench Comorite Submarine - ???
  • Docking Procedures - ???

Units:

This message was last edited by the GM at 16:43, Tue 11 July 2017.
Narrator
GM, 86 posts
Sun 16 Aug 2015
at 22:55
  • msg #5

Perk

Comorian Crystals can be found uniquely in this system, specifically on Comorian, and possess numerous interesting properties that could be further explored

Resources:
  • Crystalline Shards -> Comorian Ansible - You may now construct vehicles, satellites, probes and starships (though not to infantry in its current bulky form) equipped with instaneous Ansible communications, though this requires Comorian Ansibles which can be harvested at a rate of D4 per Turn for 75 million of testing and winnowing. You may increase this price cap by building further specialist manufactories
  • Dust in Ceramics -> Comorite - You may now construct facilities, vehicles or starships with hardening to increase their toughness against kinetic and electromagnetic based damage, though this requires Comorite which can be processed at a maximum rate of 6 units per turn for 45 million each, with up to a further 6 units beyond that at 75 million each. You may increase this price or production cap by building further specialist manufactories
    • Electromagnetic and Resonance of Comorite - Your science is not sufficient to pursue this right now
  • Dust in Metals -> Comorudes - You may now construct equipment, vehicles and spacecraft to provide a limited form of self-repair, though this requires Comorudes which can be processed at a maximum rate of 3 units per turn for 100 million each. You may increase this price cap by building further specialist manufactories
  • Dust in People -> Comoryll - You may now research psychoactive and mutagenic medicines based on this. You may try and recruit individuals or small teams and perform direct experimentation, though results will vary widely. Both requires harvesting Comoryll up to a maximum rate of 4 units per turn for 50 million each. You may increase this price cap by building further specialist manufactories
    • Medically Aided Interrogation (Truth Serums) - You may stockpile Serum-46 for future interrogations, at the cost of 80 million and 1 Comoryll for 2 doses, or you may use it without prior stockpiling for a cost of 60 million and 1 Comoryll. It provides a +12 to interrogation, with some risk of side effects on the subject
    • Post-Traumatic Stress Treatment - All Barq Fleet, Sa'ka Legion, Xur and Nezem Jeshi Kigeni forces receive Trauma Kits with Comoryll serum, thanks to the efforts of the Stoic Clinics and branded with Aurel and Leia characters. You may equip polity militaries with trauma kits that include Comoryll serum for the cost of 1 Comoryll and < 200 million, or include it with SIR teams for 1 Comoryll and 120 million
  • Unusual Formation - Close to Usiku, in one of the more isolated and inaccessible xeric shrublands characterised by sinkholes and deep gulches and arroyos, an unusual concentration of crystalline deposits are found - with significantly larger and more regular formations. Early study of the Usiku Shard confirms the observations of the Desert Foxes: it appears to be a single fractured crystal, though even the fractured pieces are larger than any seen; within these pieces there are strong traces of a regular but asymmetric structure and some pieces contain complex faceted sections or channels.

People (and other Ryllians):
  • Miss Garrick - a metabolically-enhanced mutant
  • Mister Grey - a chameleonic mutant
  • Mister Mäkinen - a physical adept in the employ of the Wraithguard
  • Miss Mbala - a eidetic in the employ of the New Stoics
  • Captain Nareem Németh of the 4th Desert Foxes, a chameleonic with control over the colouration and surface texture of his skin
  • Fireteam Leader J. Titus Alvey of No. 1 Blackwatch Shock Trooper Battalion, a physical adept with near superhuman levels of dexterity, finesse and strength
  • Sergeant Franklin of the Xur Heavy Battalion show a strong degree of metabolic control, flushing toxins and speeding up healing to an extraordinary degree
  • Dr 'Betty' Varley of the 318th Combat Engineers develops a strong sensitivity to electromagnetic currents, able to read systems and vaults with mere contact
  • Lieutenant Hewitt of the Imperial Stormtroopers, who recalls memories from serving aboard the NEV Coati, early days of settlement on the distant world of Tarius, and the siege of Beta Centauri.
  • Lieutenant Amity Järvi, who possesses both physical adept and spatial awareness traits
  • Ayo and Temi Kayode, hydrosensitives
  • Dromedary Camels, 'owned' by the Stoics, one of which is clearly cameleonic and the other with unspecified traits. You suspect they are mental, given the evil eye received and poor conversational standards

Franchises:
  • Crystal Regulatory Authority and Intervention Committee, "CRAIC" - ???, operated by the New Stoics

Facilities:
  • Comorian Crystal Exchange in Buna City - Catering to both wholesale and retail commodities trading. Hardened
  • Exotic Materials Market in Mkobe - Establishing a market in wholesale and speculative trading in Comorian Crystals. Hardened
  • Resonancy Futures Exchange in Port Cartagena - Price speculation and 'insurance'. Hardened
  • Twin Shards in the Nezem Badlands - Provides bonus to psychoactive research, but capacity capped to 500m projects, operated by the New Stoics. Hardened
  • Twin Shards by the Usiki Sinkhole - Studying the Usiki Shard

Studies:
  • Applicant Testing for 'Ryllians - Volunteer screening, security clearances and navigating the legal mire takes up a surprising effort, however clinicians and researchs at Twin Shards: Better Horizons believe they have come up with a process that permits successful recruitment and a high probability of a successful set of changes - with a very small potential for loss of the candidate

This message was last edited by the GM at 16:41, Tue 11 July 2017.
Narrator
GM, 212 posts
Tue 23 Feb 2016
at 20:38
  • msg #6

Plot

Research Topics:
  • Aorenda Devices - Analysis of these technological artefacts recovered following President Esmail Nezem's assassination, combined with insights from the lengthy investigations by the FIA into the Satyata, have identified the devices as fitness regulators and lucidity inducers. Put in layman's terms, they are the monitoring and control components of a more active device (or devices) used to precisely control chemicals or implants within the bloodstream and brain-stem. Within the program code of the devices this control is referred to as Aorenda. After several months of painstaking research into Aorenda, the resulting report is presented to Council:
    • Firstly it becomes evident that Aorenda is a term meaning 'potential' or 'mana' in Neo-Iroquois, a rare dialect from the border region of the Naxos-Elx Republic. It is unclear whether the technology was stolen from the Republic, whether the Satyata is an infiltration by them or some other deeper game is being played
    • Therefore it is unsurprising that these implants provide a mechanism to enhance or alter the capabilities of the implantee. Although many functions remain unclear - and some are beyond Federation science - they rely on a combination of pharmaceuticals, targeted retro-viruses and nano-scale elements to achieve their effect though some of these may simply be triggers for unlocking areas of cognitive processing
    • Enhancements include increased cognition and perceptual processing, together with bio-mechanical efficiency improvements - most with a later cost to the implantee. In layman's terms, they make the user able to think faster, respond to threats quicker and with increased speed, strength and reflexes
    • Programmes or cocktails exist within the device to provide a rapid benefit spike or slow cumulative effect
    • We cannot reproduce these devices with existing technology
    • None of these effects mimic the mechanisms involved in Comoryll, nor is it clear the Satyata are aware of that research insofar as is apparent from these implants
  • Seihai Computing - Whilst both Federation and Exodus computing technologies are based on small computational units, algebras and logic systems the Seihai have diverged to both hardware and software paradigms based on consensus and mutability - making their systems far less fragile and adaptable then our own, if lacking in brute power in some problem spaces. Cracking this a firm understanding of their operating systems and software agents and it is entirely possible for Federation programmers to write interfacing programmes or, indeed, native software for this with sufficient training
  • Seihai Small Arms Specialists at Eastmount very rapidly reach a point where they can explain the concepts of Seihai weaponry - fletchette munitions which are shredded or carved within the weapon and spat our at extreme velocity either by the reaction or with inert gases. With significant investment in both time and energy Blackwatch scientists manage to reverse engineer the processes required to manufacture fletchette weapons and munitions. In particular this provides significant opportunities to simplify resupply if you can construct mobile printers and acquire sufficient feedstock.
  • Reverse Engineer Seihai Fightercraft - We can recreate their fightercraft, fitted with gravionic engines and fletchette cannons
  • Retrovirii Dispensors - With the recently released material from the Gorski Amalgam on Combat Stims scientists in the Combine verify that these are similarly effective though the techniques they use to enhance individuals are unknown to the Federation. They know what these bio-stimulants and drugs do, and can reproduce some of them, but not how.
  • Biotech Detection - Physicians at the Awegala Memorial Hospital establish a clear set of techniques to uncover the presence of Seihai biotech in postmortem and the test is carefully rolled out as a standardised process across the Federal Clinic Network. After several thousand further clinical tests they believe they have a method to detection in a living person, though it requires analysis of a bone marrow biopsy and folic sample.

Feasibility Studies:
  • Reverse Engineer Aorenda and Underlying Technologies - Replicating this simply isn't feasible with your present technology. Further studies of Genetics and Virology are required to even understand where to begin
  • Chemical Formulae, 800m - Relates to the formulae the Seihai were researching within out datavaults. Early investigations into the formulae suggest it has parallels with those compounds used to unlock and treat Comorian Crystals

Spoils of War: Breakdown summary of Seihai and Satyata technologies (incomplete, with those considered potentially threatening underlined):
  1. Sociotemporal Structures
    1. Global Economics, Hierarchical Governance, Political Theory
    2. Cultural and Historic briefings on pre-Exodus stellar nations:
      1. Rim Confederature
        1. Seven Nations - Nejem, Mercia, Pataliputra, Ruthenia, Songhai, Omayyad Caliphate, Deni
        2. Kujaku-Mayura (and the Cathay-Indus that preceded them)
        3. Ilmarinen
        4. Union of Taipo
      2. Naxos Elk Republic
      3. Terran Holdfast (and Songline)
      4. Lys
      5. Independents (i.e. Chaeblis, Tarn's Shadow, Vailheu Protectorate, Shimael-Pirreus Amalgam)
    3. Cultural and Historic briefings on the Satyata and Seihai
    4. Threat and Historic briefings on the Watchers (i.e Abate Gulf, Nat'ak, Vher, Strangers)
    5. Life Extension and Skip Living
  2. Infowar
    1. Conditioning, Reprogramming, Network Infiltration, Network Exfiltration, Virii
    2. Exodite and Seihai Computing (pre-aware of these)
      1. Exodus - Redundant Hardware, Everything-As-a-Service, Data Science, Decision Support Systems, Tuftian Visualisations
      2. Seihai - Consensus Computing, Reactive Networks, Programmable Hardware, Agent Based Systems, Genetic Algorithms
    3. Several Doctrines and Strategies
      1. Doctrines: Economic Dominance, Destabilisation, Cultural Poisoning and Deterrence
      2. Strategies: Coercion, Deception
  3. Disruption and Intervention
    1. Gravionic Warcraft and related research, including Fletchette Weaponry, several Tank hulls and unit blueprints for:
      1. Infantry - Anchin, Kukri, Shakaaree, Torōru
      2. Armour - Arjun, Hayabusa, Onin, Raijin
      3. Air - (Known) plus new Grand Tuja superiority fightercraft
    2. Pharmaceuticals, Toxicology, Retro-Viral Stims
    3. Several Doctrines, Strategies and Tactics:
      Doctrines: Asymmetric Warfare, Deterrence and War By Terror
      Strategies: Guerilla Tactics, Entrenchments
      Tactics: Ambush, Penetration, Air Interdiction
  4. Generational Projection
    1. Genetics, including Genetic Manipulation, Drift Stabilisation, Bloodline Management, Applied Geneology and </i>specific programmes for desired physical and mental traits</i>
    2. Latency, including Aorenda, Wetware and Meta Conditioning
    3. Psyops and Indoctrination
  5. Fabric
    1. Subterranean Construction, Tunnelling and related research, including hardened subterranean examples of most facilities and specifically
      1. Bunkers, Command Posts, Aircraft Hangers, Proving Grounds and Barracks
      2. Trackways, Exfiltration Points and Sally Points
    2. Cryonics and related research, including Dead Man Infiltration techniques

Unreleased Technologies:
  • Astraeus Expeditionary Tank (stolen from Imperium)
  • Ahter Assault Tank (stolen from Imperium)

This message was last edited by the GM at 09:09, Tue 11 July 2017.
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