Nanofabs/Nanofacs
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The Negentropic House Fab
This nanofab is a standard fab in negentropic space. The nanofab is the
size of a large fridge, and is built into an outer wall of the home.
Creating the requested items may take a while (from minutes to hours
depending on complexity and size), however for specifically large items
the fab may create further nano to speed up the process exponentially,
so unless the fab is really strained it should take no more than three
hours to create the requested object. The nanofab contains two ports,
one inside and one outside of the house, for creating such items as
furniture and vehicles, which are too large to fit in the "closet"
interior of the fab. Feedstock is supplied via pipeline from a central
processing station in the center of each community, with enough
feedstock present in the fab to get it started. The fab can in theory
create anything, however every House Fab contains an internal AI which
decides the necessity of the item. If the item is deemed unnecessary
the
item is not produced. The determination of necessity is very much a
two-way process as the user of the fab can present arguments to change
the AI's mind.
The Negentropic House Fab goes by different names from world to world.
On Epistle it is commonly refered to as a Provider, on Santos
as a Genius Loci, while Herabout (in the Bistar system) call it a Grey
Closet.
ANPO (Atlantis
NanoPatent Organization) Nanofac
A larger version of the smaller ANPO Nanofab, the ANPO Nanofac
is the
size of a small building. Inside its interior it can assemble materials
in almost any way that baseline mind can imagine. Feedstock are usually
located outside of the fac in connected tanks, bought seperately. The
nanofac comes supplied with a large library of templates, and can have
further templates added. Unfortunately the nanofac can only read the
"RTCAC", "Genetic Build", and "Universal L" template languages, but
translators are purchasable separately.
The ANPO Nanofac is purchased as a small capsule, some 20 centimeters
in diameter and 30 centimeters long, that, given sufficient nearby
feedstock material, creates the nanofac itself. If the nanofac has
extensive selfdiagnostic and repair systems and is very reliant if
treated properly, and is reputed to be able to run for millenia (though
the current design is only 800 years old). Proper treatment includes
supplying it with trace matter capsules once a year, and a semi-manual
purge and rebuild of nano from scratch once every decade.
Since production is limited to the interior of the nanofac, the fac
cannot create truly large, one-piece items. The fac also contains a
failsafe on module that prohibits it from creating any nanofab more
capable than itself.
The nanofac can be bought on "lease" from ANPO in which case the
Nanofac disassembles itself once the lease runs out. A lease can run
from a few days to several centuries.
Pocketboy Pocketfab
This fab, rumored to be of cyberian
design, can be found as a freeware template various places on the known
net. Though a modern, high-end nanofab is necessary to create the
pocketfab with all features, it is possible to create it on lesser
nanofabs, at the cost of some of the more desirable features.
With all features intact, the pocketfab is surprisingly capable for a
device the size of a baseline palm. It's sleek and small design is
complimented by a simple surface interface with surprising depths,
which is equally usable by the untrained, casual user or the technowiz
in love with customisation.
This pocketfab is also able to mine its own materials, use many kinds
of industrial and commercial feedstocks and disassemble nearby objects
for materials. The pocketboy's mode of creation is to send out a small
nano swarm which replicates using the designated feedstock, until the
swarm has reached the same mass as the requested item. The nano then
reassembles into the item.
The pocketboy can understand more than a thousand different template
languages, and net zars continuously add more translators. Besides
being able to hold an impressive amount of templates, the pocketboy is
also capable of making its own templates via disassembly.
Unlike safer models the pocketboy has no known built-in limitations
apart from those imposed by the laws of information processing, physics
and chemistry.
