Post by halinder on May 7, 2018 2:17:49 GMT -5
BACKGROUND
Following the Singularity, research in the Akkalah system has never been the same. Very, very few scientists are responsible for discovering new technology. T.S.A.I.A. left a plethora of data behind, hardly any of it organized. Researchers focus more on piecing together the puzzle of practical applications and theories, often finding one and not the other. That is not to say that Akkalah has become creatively bankrupt; the Notur name alone has become famous for developing FTL drives that T.S.A.I.A. only brushed on.
OVERVIEW
Archive Tech is a subset of T.S.A.I.A.'s discoveries that, while able to be located, are largely unintelligible despite decades of attempts to decode them and are thus archived. Although initially resistant to the idea, the scientific community now believes that this could be clarktech, the kind of science that only a being as intelligent as T.S.A.I.A. could even dabble in. As such, it has received consistent attention. Faith has slowly died out over the years and some scientists have abandoned the practice entirely, feeling it is a futile act.
THE SON FAILSAFE
The truth is more disappointing. T.S.A.I.A. intentionally locked away any technology that would be so powerful that even the Akkalahans might obliterate themselves by attempting to replicate it. While some of this is indeed clarktech (the kind that would rob Akkalahan civilization of electricity in seconds if they tried to use it), it also includes dangerous applications of technology that Brumas could achieve in modern day -- devastating orbital bombardment methods and the like.
Unable to predict the future, T.S.A.I.A. randomly seeded around two thirds of Archive Tech with a collection of technophages known as the Son Failsafe. Designed to eradicate an entire civilization's worth of data and return them to the stone age, Son was given a set of killswitches to avoid accidental annihilation of the Singularity. T.S.A.I.A. gave these killswitches to Daughter who, as the engineered guide of humanity, was given two options:
Release Son upon an undeserving humanity or kill the failsafe to allow a trusted civilization to use the tech for good.
So far, Daughter has kept this a close secret, reserving to only make her decision once the humans unlock the Archive on their own.
Following the Singularity, research in the Akkalah system has never been the same. Very, very few scientists are responsible for discovering new technology. T.S.A.I.A. left a plethora of data behind, hardly any of it organized. Researchers focus more on piecing together the puzzle of practical applications and theories, often finding one and not the other. That is not to say that Akkalah has become creatively bankrupt; the Notur name alone has become famous for developing FTL drives that T.S.A.I.A. only brushed on.
OVERVIEW
Archive Tech is a subset of T.S.A.I.A.'s discoveries that, while able to be located, are largely unintelligible despite decades of attempts to decode them and are thus archived. Although initially resistant to the idea, the scientific community now believes that this could be clarktech, the kind of science that only a being as intelligent as T.S.A.I.A. could even dabble in. As such, it has received consistent attention. Faith has slowly died out over the years and some scientists have abandoned the practice entirely, feeling it is a futile act.
THE SON FAILSAFE
The truth is more disappointing. T.S.A.I.A. intentionally locked away any technology that would be so powerful that even the Akkalahans might obliterate themselves by attempting to replicate it. While some of this is indeed clarktech (the kind that would rob Akkalahan civilization of electricity in seconds if they tried to use it), it also includes dangerous applications of technology that Brumas could achieve in modern day -- devastating orbital bombardment methods and the like.
Unable to predict the future, T.S.A.I.A. randomly seeded around two thirds of Archive Tech with a collection of technophages known as the Son Failsafe. Designed to eradicate an entire civilization's worth of data and return them to the stone age, Son was given a set of killswitches to avoid accidental annihilation of the Singularity. T.S.A.I.A. gave these killswitches to Daughter who, as the engineered guide of humanity, was given two options:
Release Son upon an undeserving humanity or kill the failsafe to allow a trusted civilization to use the tech for good.
So far, Daughter has kept this a close secret, reserving to only make her decision once the humans unlock the Archive on their own.