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Nanotech Army Factbook

Nanotech Army
03-03-2005, 01:40
History:
Long ago, before the Protectorate, the homeworld had many nations. There were minor wars between them, and occasionally there were major wars but nothing that lasted more than a few years. Over the course of time, two nations arose which became superpowers. These two nations developed a rivalry which escalated into a Cold War. Both sides developed their military might and eventually an incident occured (that has been since lost to time) which ignited a war between the two superpowers which dragged all the other nations into the war with them. There was mass destruction, complete chaos, the war raged on for decades destroying much knowledge other than knowledge of destruction. A scientist, who had been the foremost expert on nanotechnology before the War, could no longer stand what his world was going through. He, along with a group of other scientists and military specialists, used nanotechnology to create a weapon which would destroy all other weapons on the planet and thus end the war. Thus was born the Nanotech Army, at first made up only of an earlier model of the ground based drones. It soon became clear to the scientist that his collegues were going to turn on each other and continue the War using the nanobots*. He therefore resolved to ensure that nobody but he would be able to control the army and used his knowledge to merge his consciousness with the program which controlled the Army, and thus the scientist became the Omnipresence. He then used this process to Integrate the knowledge of the others into himself, thus giving himself greater knowledge and tactical skill. He then used the army to wipe out all other weapons of war on the planet and restored order to his war torn planet. He then helped establish new governments, but kept the Nanotech Army seperate from these nations and allowed them to controll their own internal affairs but controlled all international actions. It would be a force to keep order. Thus the Protectorate was born. About a century ago, an advanced hostile race came to the planet and began an invasion of the planet. Their plan backfired, however, as the Omnipresence managed to capture some of their landing craft and used them to transport nanobots* up to the alien motherships, which they then Integrated. This gave the Protectorate the Negative Energy Drive technology, which allowed their unique form of ship to be constructed and be effective, because any other form of movement would not be possible with the ship design. This encounter also showed that there were larger versions of the same War going on in the universe as had happened on the Homeworld years ago. Thus the Omnipresence decided to expand the Protectorate into the galaxy, Integrating races that attacked others, all the while growing more powerful through the raw resources of the enemy and also advanced their technology further.
(note that this is history as told by the Omnipresence and probably contains much Propoganda, nobody alive today that is known of knows for sure what really happened; In reality most governments which willingly join the Protectorate are slowly subverted and turned into puppet governements while their people and resources are slowly consumed by the Nanotech Army)

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Kindura
03-03-2005, 02:48
I'm torn between "Excellent" because of your style, and because I like robots, and "Godmodding" because you're near-invincible.

You might want to slow down the speed of Integration a bit. It takes something as sophisticated a human cell 1 day to produce an exact copy of itself. Your nanobots are more refined, so I'd say 2 days. Since you'd just be sending out that little liquid sphere thing, and not using your whole ship, it could take a while. You couldn't have all of your cells engaged in the copying process. IE, a human doesn't double in size every day.

The repair process should also be slower. For example, it should have taken several hours in the pirate battle, longer than the pirates would be willing to give you. Which is not to say that you couldn't still have won with the parts of your ships that were still active.

As for your smaller machines being more efficient... I can't help but think that was directed at me.

I suppose to resolve the matter, we'd have to look at some real-world examples. Until one of us "gets around" to doing that, we'll have to agree to disagree.
Nanotech Army
03-03-2005, 03:00
thanks for the comments. Heres some clarification:
1. The nanofighters/nanobots also help with the Integration process of large bodies of metal (ie ships, buildings, etc) just not with trace amounts like you find in the ground.

2. The smaller machines that are more efficient are the power generators, and that is actually based in RL (saw it on discovery or history channel, cant remember, they had micro-generators and I just took it to the next level: nano-generators). Wasnt directed toward anybody. (out of curiousity, why did you think it was directed toward you?)

I tried my best to actually create a force that is actually theoretically possible. I pretty much just stuck together a bunch of things that I have heard of or am interested in and used the Replicators from Stargate as a basis for some configurations and some behaviors. The negative energy drive has been theorized, nanotechnology is definitely possible on this level, and tiny power generators already exist today. The fuzy/semi-made-up things are the repair time and creating negative energy (i dont actually know how long it would take for one nanobot to make/fix another and there are no theories as to how to go about getting negative energy)

I guess I could/should slow down repair processes some. For EMP strike, since nothing was actually destroyed, im thinking 10 to 30 mins. For actual structural damage im thinking up to a few hourse depending on the degree of destruction.
Kindura
04-03-2005, 00:38
Oh, and about your NED. I think that's the way normal warp drives work. Not that it matters, I'm more of a hyperspace man myself.
Nanotech Army
04-03-2005, 02:21
Really? I thought that warp actually made the ship move through space while negative energy drive moved space around the ship... I really dont know the specifics about warp drive though so I could be wrong.