(quantum goo): term for femtotech
through to plancktechswarms. Such devices work at or near
the quantum level of reality and make use
of or depend on quantum effects to function. As their energy demands
are astronomical, they are employed mainly in extremely dense
environments like neutron stars,
picotech computronium cores and similar places. The only exception is strange matter viruses.
The electrostatic fusion reactor
and middle and basic high tech rocket
systems, first suggested by Robert Bussard of 20C Old Earth, uses
fusion fuel confined by a spherical voltage potential well of around
100,000 volts. It makes an excellent fairly low tech (late information
age / early interplanetary age equivalent) light power plant, that it
can be used as part of a basic high thrust to weight ration propulsion
system for space craft and aircraft. Basic propulsion versions have a
specific impulse of between 1500 and 6000 sec.
Terraformed in 4100 and
settled in 4344 by retrists and
low-tech peripatetics. It
developed quietly until 4654 when an outbreak of the Babel plague 4654 destroyed
the language centers of 78% of the population. As coordination broke
down, even the relatively simple society of Qjellto crashed. Within a
few months over 12 million people had died, either of starvation,
accidents or conflicts between bands of looters. When relief ships
arrived, many refused neural reconstruction treatments due to their
beliefs. Enough were restored to recreate some of the pre-disaster
society. Among the survivors an aphasic
movement developed, based on the idea that the virus actually is a
sacrament returning mankind to its pre-linguistic days. The aphasics
congregated on the Hrek peninsula, which in 4896 became an Utopia Sphere enclave run
by the archailect Nameless One. The Qjellto society elsewhere developed
into a fairly typical multiurban
inner sphere society, eventually joining the Zoeific Biopolity in
9405.
Q-goo
Qjellto
QED Fusion Reactor