Inputer

An Inputer is a dalmer computer terminal, named as such because the user "inputs" commands. Despite this, the term computer is also used by the Dalmer.
==Types of Inputers and Computers ==
===Supercomputers===
The empire possesses several supercomputers, which are capable of complex artificial intelligence. Some robots also possess complex artificial personalities and libraries worth of information, despite being built around compact chassis.
===Requisitions terminal===
Dispenses loadout tapes that are given to a quartermaster in exchange for weapons, ammunition or other equipment. The quartermasters office typically houses an ammunition dispenser, Pill dispenser or refueler. The requisition terminal can also request the deployment of allies via parachute at a designated area. 
== Supercomputers == 
=== ATA ===
“All the answers” is a supercomputer that randomly links information together in order to create new knowledge. So far its accomplishments are reversing the second law of thermodynamics, creating existence outside of time and gravity, finding the origins of humor, romantic matchmaking, determining solutions to economic, social and political problems, as well as more specific crises as they arise. It receives a precise set of data on every citizen of the empire, extrapolating the future actions of humanity based upon personality, history, and desires of every human being, leading to an almost complete cessation of poverty, war and political crisis. The only downside is that it has yet to link the appropriate technologies to explain its findings. The machine also claims to be able to predict crime, disease and react accordingly to prevent them. The machine is also childlike, unable to work for long before needing playtime, and is capable of humor and jokes.
=== Predictive Analytics Crystals ===
Using gargantuan predictive analytics crystals, the Dalmer used crystals to determine their fates, but it isn't always accurate. This allows them to give "perfect" answers. This leads to dangerous behavior in the name of these "perfect futures". Another imminent threat is the possibility of hacking these crystals so that people influence crystal seekers for their own objectives. 
=== PACIMA ===
A Predictive Analytics Calculations, Interpretations Machine is Dalmer technology that grants them the ability to foretell the future through the calculations of innumerable possibilities. 
Described as "divination by numbers" PACIMA is so precise that its users can anticipate exact responses to their recordings in the future. In this way, they can theoretically interact with future beings as though they were speaking to them in real-time, allowing them to influence the future.
The machine is composed of a prognosticator, a randomizing algorithm, a previous version of the Algorithm, and various modules and materials that compose it. 
The development of the PACIMA, was green-lit in Vargurihm, commissioned under the Calculations Initiative. This was a joint project between the Mathematics Council and STAMP to develop an advanced artificial intelligence program capable of accurately predicting the future, based on data fed into the machines systems by operators. In reality, the primary motive of the people working on PACIMA was to develop the foresight and stop the Shisherites from finding Dalmer secrets (in this case, a Loner), stopping planetary disasters such as solar flares and stopping a potential atomic war before it ever happened. The machine, after its twenty years of service was eventually wired to a modified robotic chassis, granting it mobility. This made it easier for the PACIMA to be dismantled and relocated in the event of discovery.
Although the project had suffered numerous setbacks from the Shisherites and other misfortunes during the duration of its initial service, PACIMA ultimately succeeded in its main goal, managing to correctly predict that the Shisherites had discovered and attempted to pillage a Loners nuclear warheads directed towards the Insect Empire would soon be deployed. With this information at hand, STAMP was able to mobilize its near orbit fleet of anti ballistic missile platforms.
Due to its robotic frame, PACIMA's advanced mathematical capabilities, processing power and large databases of information about the Empire ensure that operations are carried out efficiently with little to no chance of failure and that the Empire remains protected from deadly destruction and annihilation at the hands of the Shisherites. Because the Dalmer race is an extremely complex set of variables, PACIMA constantly requires revisions of its algorithms in order to ensure accurate prediction models, especially when wildcards like the Shisherites are at play.
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