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     1= Technology =
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     3Check out [https://forum.orxonox.net/viewforum.php?f=8 this thread] to discuss about this content.
     4
     5== Human Technology ==
     6The described technology is based on imagination.
     7We try to keep the technology as realistic as possible, though.
     8
     9=== Implants ===
     10Implants should help the human body to solve problems.
     11They are used a lot in the military.
     12Often an implant is a small chip or machine manipulating the brain or other organs of the human body to improve their functions.
     13Implants are not like computer chips.
     14They are a combination of artificial biomass, treated neurons and electronic units.
     15They work with the oxygen from the blood, but also need a power source.
     16There are rumors, though, that there is a new series of implants, consisting completely of biomass and does not use any power source at all.
     17There is also no possibility to tell, if a person has one of these special implants.
     18No one has seen one of these implants, though.[[br]]
     19The use of implants are dangerous because they override natural mechanisms of the body and they were cases in the past when the implants malfunctioned and destroyed organs and or even killed the persons.[[br]]
     20Implants became popular in 2057 when the biomedical engineering made a huge step forward, because of Dr. Wendous who found out a pattern of to human brain so computer chips were able to simulate and understand impulses of the brain and neurons.[[br]]
     21Here you can find a list of possible implants and a description:
     22
     23==== Brain Processing Unit (BPU) ====
     24The most famous implant is the BPU helping the brain to process the incoming data.
     25Nearly every person with an implant also needs a BPU so the brain won't be over strained.
     26The BPU is a small chip right between the spinal nerves and the brain.
     27Most of the incoming signals won't be touched, so the BPU is only used for difficult assignments and management of other implants.
     28Another very important function of the BPU is its ability to stop pain immediately.
     29So even with fatal wounds, a soldier is able to move.
     30The BPU is a form of the well known CPU from computers.
     31
     32==== Power source ====
     33As explained earlier implants need some kind of electric power source, because the electric impulses of the human body have not enough energy.
     34The energy for the implants comes from batteries.
     35The batteries are situated outside of the body at a place where the replacement of the batteries is simple.
     36
     37==== Eye implants ====
     38Implants in the eye manipulate either the optic nerve, the lens or both.
     39Those implants improve the zoom of human eye, so the person with the implant is able to see far things a lot sharper and bigger.
     40He also is able to see better in the dark and some implants even allow the person to see infrared which is very useful in combat.
     41There are also experiments with cornea displays.
     42
     43==== Hormoncontrolling implant ====
     44These implants are situated in the hypothalamus and control the releasing and production of hormones.
     45The person with this implant can control the adrenalin in the blood so even without fear and stress it is possible that there is a high level of adrenaline in the blood to activate the muscles.
     46
     47==== Nanotechantibodies ====
     48The only very technical implant.
     49It's not even an implant but rather some kind of an inoculation.
     50Nanotechantibodies are able to fight AIDS, cancer and help to close wounds.
     51They even clean the arteries so the human wearing the Nanotechantibodies live longer.
     52
     53=== Computers ===
     54Computers are of course faster and better than we know them, but the Moore's Law has been broken a long time ago and improvements are a lot smaller in 2100.
     55All the computers are quantum computers and there are a lot of light channels in the computers and fiber optic is the fastest solution for data transfer next to antennas.
     56
     57=== Engines ===
     58The main problem with the engines were when it was technically possible to build drives with an acceleration of more than 20 thousand g (Earth gravity).
     59Humans would never survive a force like this (a man with 80kg would feel like he gained 1500 tons of weight) and even some materials would just break.
     60The solution was a high frequency vibrating drive with increasing amplitude.
     61The direction of the accelerating force changes very fast as if the spaceship is in a whirl.
     62The forces on the human body are still very high but the human body never gets killed in space travel at least not by the accelerating force.
     63A starting spaceships vibrates faster and faster and slowly moves forward.
     64When the amplitude is high enough the spaceship accelerates very fast but in the inside the forces aren't that big.
     65The engine is a hydro drive, a decelerated explosion of an H-bomb.
     66The hydrogen, deuterium and tritium needed for the drive are harvested from Jupiter.
     67
     68=== Weapons ===
     69On Earth - and after the colonization - on Mars humans use the explosives and armories we use today.
     70Of course there are a lot of technical improvements, but the projectiles are still the same, the most important parts of a weapon are unchanged.
     71But when the life in space became more popular and also more dangerous the spaceships had to be equipped with something else.
     72The problem was, that the old weapons needed oxygen, so the explosion in the gun worked.
     73In space there is no oxygen and oxygen is a valuable gas, so the military scientists had to think for a better solution.[[br]]
     74They came up with several prototypes.
     75One was high frequency energy laser, which shot 100 impulses per second of pure energy.
     76The problem was, that the spaceships didn’t have enough energy to be able to use this weapon properly.[[br]]
     77The other prototype was a gun with projectiles like small pieces of metal, smaller than bullets which got shot out with a magnetic field.
     78This weapon has a frequency of 70 bullets per second.
     79These glowing bullets can seriously penetrate really thick walls of metal and they are used a lot around 2100.[[br]]
     80The new weapons only work in space, though, but there they are a lot stronger than normal weapons.
     81On the planets the air friction is too high, so the humans still use their old weapons in the air and on the ground.[[br]]
     82The humans have built the E-Bomb.
     83The good thing about this is, that the energy shields of Noxon and Asheroc ships can be destroyed temporarily or even permanently.
     84The bomb also distracts radio communication which is used by Noxons and Humans (Asheroc have their telepathy). Humans will have to invent the EMP-rocket to successfully stand a chance against the alien's energy shields.[[br]]
     85The humans also use rockets and torpedoes of different sizes and kinds.
     86Some of them react on heat source of the enemies drives or they communicate with the board computer of the spaceship to find their way to the target.[[br]]
     87Small fighters can also be equipped with tag rockets.
     88These rockets send out a high frequency signal which allows the huge cruiser and mother ships to attack the target with their big lasers.[[br]]
     89
     90==== Silicon explosive ====
     91Porous silicon is very explosive at low temperatures when coming together with oxygen. The power of exploding silicon is a lot larger than the one of TNT and other explosives. In space, where the temperatures are very low, humans began to use silicon as fuel for engines and also for bombs.
     92
     93=== Traveling on planets ===
     94A new technology allows to travel in underground trains deep down in the ground.
     95The gravity down there is not that high, so these trains consume less fuel.
     96There are limits, though, because the tunnels cannot be built through lava because of its movement.
     97This technology is not used on mars due to the high costs to drill the tunnels.
     98They had the money on Earth but the economy kept worsening and so no one could afford to build tunnels on Mars. On Earth in the tunnels and on Mars at the surface high speed magnetic trains are the main means of transport for middle distances.
     99In the cities the Humans use their hydrogen cars on the highroads.[[br]]
     100Airplanes travel nowadays at a height of 20000 kilometers where the air is thin.
     101For large distances the plane nearly reaches the orbit.
     102
     103== Noxon Technology ==
     104The Noxons use nearly the same technology than the Asheroc.
     105The weapons seem to work like these of humans and Asheroc.
     106The engines are very strong Xenon drives so Noxons travel with near light speed.
     107It’s not known how they manage to survive the high acceleration.[[br]]
     108The Noxons don’t seem to know of the wormhole technology and their spaceships are partly build out of Orx which makes battles with Noxon spaceships very unpredictable.
     109The Noxons also use energy shields to protect their spaceships.
     110
     111=== Orx-Rocket ===
     112The Noxons use the Orx-material also for bombs.
     113Enemy spaceships which are hit by the Orx-rocket can get serious damages.
     114The Orx-rocket has got a war head out of controlled Orx.
     115When the rocket hits its target the Orx is freed and because of its instability it destroys the hull severely.
     116The bad side of this weapon is that it only flies straight forward and does not change its direction until it hits.
     117
     118== Asheroc Technology ==
     119The Asheroc knowledge of weapons is completely unknown, but there are rumors that Asheroc are using lasers of pure energy.
     120Their knowledge in the physics of the universe allows them to use weapons which humans are unable to produce.[[br]]
     121The engines of the Asheroc race is slower than the one human spaceships have.
     122They don’t need high speed because of their wormhole technology.
     123The wormhole engine increases the probability of an space time bending and is able to control the end which is nearly traveling with light speed.
     124Then the spaceships jumps enormous distances in a nanosecond.
     125This technology is extremely save when the technology allows to build these kind of engines.[[br]]
     126Asheroc spaceships are protected by an energy field.
     127
     128=== Wormhole Laser ===
     129Big ships from the Asheroc can use their technology of wormhole traveling as a weapon.
     130Laser guns situated next to the ship's engine increase the probability of wormhole occurrence near the target.
     131Since it doesn't matter where the exit of the wormhole is, this weapon does not at all need this much of control than the wormhole travel needs, only this fact makes this weapon possible.
     132The target of the wormhole laser literally tears apart and is sent to different places in the universe.
     133Spaceships destroyed by this laser do not explode, they disappear.
     134
     135=== Wormhole Gate ===
     136The Wormhole Gate is a ring of Wormhole laser cannons.
     137The cannons are not connected with each other and so they are floating into the ring geometry.
     138The ring geometry allows the Asheroc to control the Wormhole exit and the laser cannons are connected with a big main computer which fine tunes the lasers.
     139The laser beam gets bundled in the middle and thus allows ships without Wormhole engine to travel like the Asheroc fleet.
     140
     141== other technology ==
     142=== Energy shield ===
     143Asheroc and Noxon fighters are equipped with energy fields.
     144This field absorbs the energy impulses of the lasers and collapses so it has to be recharged all the time when something fires on it.
     145This recharge process is not that fast so a weapon with enough power and enough frequency can make the shield collapses for a longer time and the vulnerable hull unprotected.[[br]]
     146Energy shields are useless against the old weapons of the humans the bullets just go through.
     147But the projectiles can hardly harm the hard hull of the alien spaceships.[[br]]
     148Energy shields can only be used for small ships, because of the constant amount of energy they need.
     149Huge base and mother ships cannot be covered with a large layer of a protecting energy shield.[[br]]
     150
     151==== Appereance ====
     152The energy shield looks like a big bubble which glows slightly.
     153When shot on it, the shield shines brighter where the shot hits so you can see where the projectiles impacted.[[br]]
     154When the shield is under heavy attack the shield gets weaker and in the end collapses.
     155During this process the glowing gets lower and in the end disappears.[[br]]
     156The impact of a projectile on a energy shield is a deep buzzing.
     157
     158=== The Orx ===
     159Orx is a material used by Noxons and just recently discovered by the humans.
     160Orx can be very easy manipulated with electric impulses and can be easily formed but can also be hard as titanium.
     161It is highly unstable when uncontrolled by electric impulses, you will find other kind of this material called "grey goo" described in other stories.
     162Orx destroys metal of all kind and it develops intelligence when used for the same purpose for a longer period of time and is adaptable.
     163Orx can be destroyed with high pressure and temperature.
     164Melted Orx turns back into the metals which were consumed by the Orx beforehand.[[br]]
     165On the black market Orx is very expensive.
     166If the player finds Orx he can buy some cool powerups for his ship with the Orx.
     167Careful though: Orx is illegal in the hands of civilians.
     168[wiki:archive/OrxWeapons Humans need Orx for hand weapons.][[br]]
     169Noxons on the other hand use it a lot for spaceships and buildings, but also for bombs (check out the Orx-rocket).
     170They tried to erase the human race by bringing Orx on Earth.
     171The spaceship which should have brought the Orx to our home planet crashed on Earth and the Orx didn’t destroy every metal on Earth, but got captured by the military of the government of USA.
     172Now that the humans use Orx by themselves and know the consequences when Orx is not controlled, the Noxons decided to destroy the human race by brute force.[[br]]
     173Asheroc don’t use Orx, because they hate everything related to the Noxons.
     174When they discover that the humans also use this cursed material, they will be very disappointed.
     175
     176==== Appereance ====
     177Orx in uncontrolled or morphing state is half fluid, half hard.
     178It's twinkling and reflecting it's surrounding while morphing into a hard state.[[br]]
     179Hard Orx looks like stone or metal which depends on its use.
     180Orx can nearly look like anything.
     181Metal, stone, brick or concrete is very easy.
     182Glass, cloth or plants are impossible to create with Orx, at least for the human race.