Cargo:Old:Research

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Old Medical Items

Immunological Data

With the variable stresses placed on sentient health because of space travel, research continues into the various health effects, both positive and negative, that changing environments have. The intention is to find mitigative options to the dangers of space travel, and reduction of dangers from the exploration of new worlds. Such research will also have a flow through effect on existing health data.

Surgical Techniques

As the medical professions strive to deliver pain free services for maximum cost and minimum effort, the development of surgical techniques is critical. This research examines the usefulness of different invasive techniques, as well as the application of technologies to focus on the problem at hand, without causing further damage and harming a surgeon's GOD complex.

Engineered Bacteria

The uses of bacteria in various processes has been known for millenia. The intention here is to tailor bacteria to deal with specific problems - whether medical, industrial, pollution or military.

Neural Integration

This research incorporates the bionic Full Body Augmentation. The theorized intention is the ability to upload the sentient mind into a neural computer, effectively replacing the organic body with an artificial body. While the end cannot be seen, developments in carbon based computing show promise.

Altered Strains

While the Rlaan are masters of genetic manipulation, the Aera are decided amateurs, and are behind most of humanity in this area of research. In particular, they have only recently taken measures to artificially expand the gene pool of their own species.

Implant Tolerance

Although tending to be more physically gifted than the other dominant species, the Aera suffer from high rejection rates of mechanical implants due to their overzealous immune systems.

Bio Adapters

The Rlaan are more skilled than any other known species at the production of altered organisms, but are still working on perfecting organo-mechanical interface units so sentient beings can serve as bio-power sources. One tends to believe success at the first has hindered funding towards the second.

Bio Splicers

Hand-held retro-viral incubation and insertion device. Testing still in the beta stage - namely, not on Rlaan.

Experimental Drugs

With the advent of space travel, access to other planetary plantlife has greatly expanded. Research into the effects of various plant derived compounds continues to produce experimental drugs which have varying efficiency on solving problems that have plagued sentient life for millennia.

Old Research Items

Planetary Stripmining

As always the case, corporate greed drives this type of research. Research into the extraction of raw materials and natural products has combined into investigations on how to strip a whole planet of all useful material. Examples include blowing the planet into asteroidal debris and the removal of atmospheric gases and water via huge transport motherships.

Thermal Boreholes

These boreholes are wide - fifty kilometer - holes bored into the planetary crust. The deeper they get, easier it becomes to extract heat and liquified materials. Problems still arise, however, as at a certain depth pressure and temperature combine and treat these boreholes as open volcanoes.

Deep Core Mining

For those rarer elements that require great pressure or heat to produce. These are commonly found within the cores of asteroids, or planetary mantles. Deep core mining involves multistage operations removing the requisite ores in high pressure and temperature, and maintaining the ores until conversion into a more readily usable material.

Cold Transmutation

Since the days of the ancient alchemists, humans have been searching for a process to transmute common elements into rarer ones. Although theoretically possible, the massive amounts of energy required to reconfigure the atomic cores of common elements makes it impractical on any scale. Research on cheap processes to transform elements is advanced through a highly competitive race between corporations. The first one to discover the process will make a massive profit.

Self Repairing Metal

The goal of this type of research is the ability to make a metallic 'skin'. Such a skin is intended to repair itself, resealing and reforming over a period of time. This research has military, industrial and damage control applications.

Automated Farms

Throughout history, the productivity of food sources has always been labor intensive. The intention of this research is twofold. Firstly, the ability to automate all farm activity, rendering sentient interaction unnecessary. Secondly, the ability to deposit a farming module in a suitable location, which will convert to an operating farm with no further interaction.

Soil Fortification

Improvements to any soil used for food growth will return a greater benefit in production of food. As such, research continues into maximizing the productive value of growing soil in different regions via different soil combinations, fertilizers and environmental reactions.

Quantum Deductor

The ever so polite name for the class of devices being developed to attack quantum cryptosystems.Should such a device by designed and implemented, no encrypted data security system will be safe and communications will become unreliable. Society will be reduced to isolated data storage and implant couriers for communication.

Biparticle Transistor

Nanotechnology continues to be refined. The reduction of functioning electronics has reached its current pinacle in the biparticle transistor. While it doesn't work very well, it's top notch on the smallness scale and bodes well for the future of communications.

Virtual Communications

The next step in communications is expected to be virtual. It is expected that both sender and receiver, while in separate planetary systems or even sectors, will be able to meet, sit down and dicuss their concerns in a full virtual reality matrix.

Quantum Foam Processor

Harnessing one of the most basic structures of the universe, the tiny quantum bubbles that exist in the very fabric of space, promises an unlimited frontier of processing power and speed. A computer that conducts its processes in the intricate networks within the quantum foam will be able to outperform all previous computers ever made. The positive and negative consequences of such an advance are staggering.