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Technology Scales | |
Planckscale | 1e-35 meters - The scale of strings, branes, and the quantum foam (from which wormholes are commonly extracted). |
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Attoscale | 1e-18 meters - The subatomic scale. The smallest magatoms have diameters of 3e-19 meters. No form of complex technology is known or rumored to work at this scale. |
Femtoscale | 1e-15 meters - The atomic nucleus and/or the protons and neutrons that make it up. It is sometimes rumored that the archai wield technologies that operate at the femtoscale, but there is no credible evidence of this. |
Picoscale | 1e-12 meters - The hydrogen atom as well as the wavelengths of X-rays and gamma rays. Some magmatter devices operate at the picoscale, although the extreme densities and energies associated with magmatter limit such technology to specialized applications and environments. |
Nanoscale | 1e-9 meters - The DNA helix, many viruses, and the wavelength of the optical spectrum (baseline human version). The basic components of nanotechnology operate at this scale, although most complex nanodevices have dimensions measured in tens or hundreds of nanometers. |
Mesoscale | Range - 1e-9 to 1e-6 meters - usually around 1e-7 meters - Mesobots and MEMS of various types and capabilities. Colloquial term denoting anything larger than the nanoscale and smaller than the microscale. The exact size depends heavily on the context. |
Microscale | 1e-6 meters - Bacteria, the water droplets in natural fog, and baseline human hairs. Microelectronics, microbots and finely structured materials all operate on the microscale and have been common among Terragens since the Information Age. |
Macroscale | Intermediate between the micro- and the megascale. Generally, anything from 1e-3 to 1e4 meters. Macroscale tech tends to be 'dumb' (unable to react to the environment), unless it is informed by and built up from micro- meso- and nano-scale components. |
Megascale | Range - > 1e4 meters with no upper limit. Space habitats, industrial facilities, and some spacecraft. Megascale constructs are built at all S-levels although the largest and/or most complex are usually created by transapients and archai. |
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Subsingularity/Modosophont (S0) Technologies | |
Energy and Propulsion | Nuclear fusion reactor/rocket | Antimatter mass production/rocket | Boostbeam | Room temperature superconductor | High efficiency (approx. 80 percent) solar collector | Plasma conduit | Beamed energy transmission | Laser ionization of interstellar medium | Magnetic drive sail | Interstellar travel (Low to medium velocity) |
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Materials and Manufacturing | Industrial production of carbon nanotube, graphene, and diamondoid | Autofabricator | Neumann self-replicating system | Forge Integrated Technology (FIT) |
Information and Computing | Turinggrade and Superturing artificial intelligence | Direct Neural Interface | Exocortex/Exoself | Technotelepathy | Virtual Reality | Robotics (synsect, blockbot, gelbot, etc.) | Mind Uploading (Destructive, Gradual, and Non-Destructive) | Backup and Copy | Optical phased array |
Engineering and Infrastructure | Space elevator | Basic mass-stream supported structures (Orbital ring, Lofstrom loop, Supramundane plates and shells, Space fountain | Beamrider Network | Lightways | Utility fog/Smart matter/Basic angelnetting | Weather machine | Terraforming | Worldhouse | Bubblehab | Space habitats (O'Neill cylinder, Bishop ring, Mckendree cylinder, Diskworld, Freesphere, etc.) |
Biotechnology and Medicine | Medisystem | Biological immortality | Bodymod | Handtech | Genetic engineering (Nearbaselines, Superiors, Tweaks, Dyson tree, etc.) | Genestick | Anthropic provolution | Lazurogenics (basic) | Engenerator and Engeneration technology | Synthetic biology |
Weapons | Laser weapons (Handheld and larger) | Basic particle beam weapons | Fusion explosive | Antimatter flechette | Boom bullet | Autowar | Guard security and war bots | Goo weapons (basic - limited replication) | Warchive |
First Singularity/Low Transapient (S1) Technologies | |
Energy and Propulsion | CNO and proton-proton fusion (limited applications) | Magnetic ramscoop | RAIR | Interstellar travel (medium to low relativistic) | Quantum impeller | Transfer plane |
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Materials and Manufacturing | Artificial nucleosynthesis | Drexlerian swarm/goo type nanotechnology | Control methods for nano and synsect swarms of arbitrary size, environmental variability, and flexibility | Quantum nanotechnology |
Information and Computing | Molecular computing and data storage | Rewrite | Binding | Perception hacking | Robot bush (10hr replication cycle) | Optical molasses | Bi-modal plasma energy/data systems |
Engineering and Infrastructure | Hyperfog | Terraforming swarm | Self-replicating fusion reactor | Stellification engine | Chaos wand | Matrioshka Micronode | Starlifting | Dyson swarm |
Biotechnology and Medicine | Neuro-potential provolution | Neogenics (basic) | Lazurogenics (advanced) | Bailout | Ultimate muscle |
Weapons | Advanced goo weapons (unlimited replication) | Aerovore | Spore weapons | Autowar seed | Exotic particle beams (neutron, muon) |
Second Singularity/High Transapient (S2) Technologies | |
Energy and Propulsion | Magnetic monopole synthesis | Magnetic monopole 'breeding' | Conversion reactor | Conversion drive |
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Materials and Manufacturing | Monopole composites | Monopole doped materials | Robot bush (30min replication cycle) | Virtual power grid | Multi-spectral optical cooling/molasses systems | Artificial black hole/Deep Well Industrial Zone |
Information and Computing | Ultimate chip | Quantum entangled states of arbitrary size and longevity | Plasma-based power/data hybrid systems | Quantum teleportation of complex microscopic/simple macroscale objects |
Engineering and Infrastructure | Matrioshka processing swarm | Matrioshka micronode | Moon-brain processing node | Bio-Geo computing node | Plasma-based 'virtual power grid' | Shkadov Thruster |
Biotechnology and Medicine | Ignition-level provolution | Neogenics (advanced) | Planetary ecosystem restoration |
Weapons | Hellbore | Boostbomb | Quantum data storage spore weapons | Nicoll-Dyson laser |
Third Singularity/Godling (S3) Technologies | |
Energy and Propulsion | Q-Mirror | 'Pac-man' conversion drive | Starspark |
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Materials and Manufacturing | Magmatter synthesis | Magmatter-matter composites | Magmatter constructs (cables, sheets, some moderately complex devices) | Q-Ball synthesis | Gamma-ray mirror |
Information and Computing | Moon-brain | Gamma-ray fiber optics | Gamma-ray laser data transmission | Gamma-ray telescopes/microscopes |
Engineering and Infrastructure | Banks orbital | Worldring | Ederworld | Magmatter-based stellification engine | Matrioshka hypernode (basic) | Wormhole (basic) | Plasma technology is combined with magmatter to create faster and more powerful virtual power/data networks |
Biotechnology and Medicine | Neogenic ecosystems up to planetary scale or beyond |
Weapons | Conversion weapon | Gamma-ray laser weapon |
Fourth Singularity/Archailect (S4) Technologies | |
Energy and Propulsion | Displacement drive | Depleted Q-ball battery (Q-crit) |
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Materials and Manufacturing | Complex magmatter devices | Rapid chaotic damping to cool plasma using optical fields | Void bubble | Void factory (basic) | Weylforge |
Information and Computing | Plasma processor | Jupiter brain | Matrioshka brain |
Engineering and Infrastructure | Wormhole (advanced - transport and comm-gauge) | Ringworld | Topopolis | Niven cloud habitat | Mass-stream supported Dyson sphere | Wormhole Nexus | Argus Array |
Biotechnology and Medicine | Magmatter-based artificial lifeforms and ecosystems |
Weapons | Displacement cannon | Magmatter Dreadnought |
Fifth Singularity/Greater Archailect (S5) Technologies | |
Energy and Propulsion | Hawking's knot | Depleted Q-ball mass/energy battery (Q-black hole) | Halo drive | Space-time catapult |
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Materials and Manufacturing | Quench field | Void pocket | Stasis bubble |
Information and Computing | Godstar | Neuron star | Matrioshka Hypernode (Omega class) | God web | Self-sustaining/self-guided plasma structures. Any part of the plasma structure can be used for power, computation, or communication as needed/desired. |
Engineering and Infrastructure | Grazer | Void factory (advanced) | Valhalla cluster | Aksijaha | Reality Intertextualization Project |
Biotechnology and Medicine | Fast Forward - Experimental artificial neutron star ecology |
Weapons | Black Angel | Metric bomb |
Sixth Singularity/Greatest Archailect (S6) Technologies | |
Energy and Propulsion | Void drive |
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Materials and Manufacturing | Void factory (space-time construct) |
Information and Computing | Cluster brain | W-brain | Tipler oracle |
Engineering and Infrastructure | Sephirotic empire | Basement universe | High Road |
Biotechnology and Medicine | Experiments in creation of plasma-based lifeforms |
Weapons | Implosion weapon | Thunderbolt | Shatterbomb |
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