Fabricator

A Fabricator is a machine capable of recreating items and devices for which it has the appropriate schematics and resources needed for construction. Fabricators are used to create items and materials by feeding the machine the required raw materials
== Overview ==
The Fabricator is perhaps the Dalmers' greatest machine. The Fabricator is capable through near molecular reassembly to recreate items and devices for which it has the appropriate schematics and resources needed for construction.
The Fabricator essentially uses lasers, which are microscopic warp portals capable of intelligently assembling objects to create the desired result. The Fabricator uses materials either on the user, or is linked to a storage depot (i.e the inventory) elsewhere where the necessary resources are stocked.
== Variants ==
=== Wall Mounted Fabricator ===
The Fabricator is an appliance which can be used to craft food, equipment, tools and machines from raw and crafted materials. Some items, based off the size or complexity of the item that was selected, can take varying amounts of time to craft.
The Fabricator has an auto-close feature that activates after it has crafted an item. 
=== Catalogue ===
A lesser known variant is the Catalogue, which is an endless digital magazine where the reader can simply pick and flick the desired products from the magazine and the object will warp in place.
=== Crafting Table ===
A crafting table is a ground based fabricator, that can process raw materials into items. This version is the cheapest fabricator available commercially.
=== Portable Fabricators ===
Portable Fabricators exist, they are essentially warp machines for inorganic entities. Fabricators are used for warping in everything from habitat compartments, to machines, to robots to tools and cooked food.
=== Habitat Builder ===
Fabricates habitat compartments and appliances from raw materials. The Habitat Builder allows the user to build a variety of stationery items. This is the item most used by construction companies and pioneers. Habitat modules are hermetically sealed from the outside environment, and may be built on land, underwater, or in a vacuum. 
Power generators are not fitted as standard and must be built separately. Most capital ships carry a full complement of advanced habitat builder modules and reactors for quick deployment in the field. Habitats can be enhanced to become long-term homes, remote research stations, defensive outposts and more.
=== Medical Fabricator ===
A Fabricator dedicated to building medical supplies and parts to repair autodoctors
=== Household replicator ===
Provides the household with food, water, medicine, spare parts and even alcohol.
== Complementary ==
=== Schematics ===
These are the blueprints, that are used by fabricators to build what the blueprints represent.
Most of these schematics are available on the Aether Web, but since this is hazardous at best, the Fabricator can have schematics fed to it directly
=== Scheming Scanner ===
An indispensable tool, the Schematic Analytical Scanning Operator is a machine that takes measurements, analyses the composition, decomposes the inner workings of and guesses the function of what it is analyzing in order for the Fabricator to build later.
=== Recycler ===
Material Recycler is a device that recycles any objects into components for crafting.
Wall mounted recyclers are large machines used to convert unwanted loot into materials for use in Fabricators.
Junk items are solely useful for recycling, and have no other purpose; but nearly any item can be fed into a Recycler and converted to raw Material, including even valuable items like advanced weapons.
===Fabricator addons===
Cooking: Cooks small organisms while disposing of skeletal structure, bodily fluids and internal organs, thus rendering them safe for consumption.
Weapons: Weapons were removed following massacres, with an exception made for knives.
== Effects of fabricator technology in the Empire ==
=== Economy ===
The rise of the 3D printer, and later the fabricator caused the death of traditional industries but was a boon for patents. The idea was that the patent was sold online, and the customer could create the item in its own home. This made niche designs accessible
=== Prosthetics ===
Destroyed the market for prosthetists. This was useful for creating pediatric limbs that would grow with the patient and artificial limbs. The Dalmer could also print functional artificial organs.
=== Environment ===
The reduction of industry and creation of pseudo 
=== Architecture ===
Printing entire houses that are seismic resistant in less time than the actual house. This improved housing conditions in the Empire.
=== Forensics ===
Footprints, faces and crime scenes could be reconstructed 
=== Weapons ===
Printed guns were a possibility by printed. Users of these weapons must be registered.
=== Food ===
Downloading recipes and printing dinners is possible, it is also possible to construct meals from the base ingredients with the nutrition being tailored to the consumers needs.
=== Travel ===
Spare parts for vehicles that break down became a necessity for colonists and explorers. 
Category:Dalmer Technology