LUMOS

**L**uminous **U**ltraviolet **M**anmade **O**ptical **S**olution or **LUMOS** for short is a technology employed by the Federation that creates a burst of solid white and ultraviolet light in a small area.

## Operational History

As much as the miraculous system that is Cybersyn has been a surprise to the world over, having appeared on the public eye almost overnight and being (mostly) effectively implanted on a whole country in record time, the truth is that the system unsurprisingly is a culmination of over a decade of careful planning and theorizing.

The main problem for its implementation was the huge requirements of computings that were needed for the coordination of a whole country, something that was simply unheard of and thought impossible for most in those years, yet the idea was too good to be left abandoned, and the researchers in the Hanga Roa Institute of Technology certainly wouldn't let it go away.
Many ideas were mulled over and, though the final method found that finally succeeded is a state secret, one branch of the investigation and technology that lead to the discovery of the Cybernetic dream is very much known thanks to it's wide implementation through the entirety of the Cybernetic Federation.

**LUMOS** technology was the result of a large series of investigations during the FRAP government, the laboratories kindly granted by Allende's administration to be operated by a joint research team of Soviet and Chilean scientists on the Easter Island, with Cherdenko himself overseeing the operations. After considering many options, It was theorized that, if they could somehow use supercooled particles through a vacuum, they'd theorically be able to construct what was laballed a *"quantum computer"*. One such computer, it was said, was enough to process the entirety of the data required to run the cybersyn network through the entirety of Chile, and perhaps even the entirety of the Soviet Union!

With such a grandiose prospect, their research was generously funded by the government of Salvador Allende as well as favored by Cherdenko, which meant that breakthroughs were made fast and frequently until they got their results, the supercooled particles were indeed possible to create in a vacuum, but they started to display odd properties, such as the fact that people were starting to get hit by the light that was cast through these vacuums.

Though a surprising finding with many potential new applications, further research was cut short suddendly with the Invasion of Chile and later the Battle of Easter Island, after which most of the Soviet Scientists had left, and with them most people with any degree of expertise on vacuums, not to mention most of the laboratories were left in ruins.
Most of the research was left as unfinished papers, unfullfilled dreams of yet another thing that would never come to be.

The restituted government under the new Unidad Popular's flag eventually got it's way into this research and, while the possibility of further collaboration with Soviet Scientists was deemed impossible, the Vicar trusted that the know how of local scientists was enough to put this research to good use, as many others facets of pre-Coup Chile, it was deemed that the dream would be born again.

The main challenge now was managing to keep these "near-zero" environments needed for the Optical Solution for long enough as to get any use out of it, as rapid dispersing images and blasts of light were of little use in most circumstances. Cross-investigation led to the application of Electromechanics into the Solution which, while still unstable, still helped to keep the beams of light solid for long enough as to punch imperialists in the face! Or cast silhouettes, which were found to be a huge tactical advantage as it created the possibility of disorienting enemies of the state as well as completly negating the enemy's capacity to account for the real number of enemies they might by fighting against, superior numbers, or at least the appearance of superior numbers, is usually enough to deterr most enemies. But mostly it's about being able to punch imperialists in the face...

## Cybernetic Applications

After tons of redevelopment of this technology onto LUMOS Control Stations the creation of this light bursts it's on longer tied to grenades or rifled weapons, the Federation has armed Toki Battlesuits to stun/burn enemies.

This technology, despite creating solid light, such solidness not sustainable in the long run so the creation of spots of permanent light it's far from a real possibility.
Through the clever use of optical illusions and tracking the sillhoute of a person however, this technology has been put to great use to create "mirrors" of real objects, effective for acting as distractions for the enemy.

With a few adjustments, searchlights can be modified and adjusted to not only illuminate an area, but also hurt anyone standing in that place, being able to incapacitate people on the ground through sheer pain and on rare ocassions even down airplanes.
On the same vein, there's been some development of a handheld variant of this technology to replace combat knives in a far future, so far the experimental prototype has only been put to test with the help of psychics to keep the photonic interaction stable.

**Units that use LUMOS Beams**:

* Toki Battlesuit
* LUMOS Control Station
* Pincoya Patrol Boat
* Caleuche Windjammer
* Martina

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