Voidtech

**Voidtech** is technology utilized by the Voidrunners which allows them to move swiftly through the hazards of space as well as contain and utilize great amounts of energy, termed "void energy", which is achieved through entanglement of protons and anti-protons. The Voidtech was created by the Voidrunners based on an ancient artifact that they discovered embedded in magma beds deep beneath their planet's crust while exploring there.

## Nature

Voidtech harnesses and utilizes "void energy." The Voidrunners combine protons and anti-protons in a controlled way which produces massive amounts of energy. This is done through so-called quantum entanglement, a theoretical principle in physics in which you control particles that exist and don't exist at the same time, that is between particles and antiparticles. The resulting "void energy" can be used for scanning, shielding, attacking, or even as fuel for the grav-boosters equipped by the Voidrunners. Without the Voidtech, the Voidrunners would be crushed to death when entering black holes.

The invention of Voidtech was adapted from ancient technologt discovered by the Voidrunners deep in their planet's core while exploring deep beneath its crust. They do not know who or what made this ancient artifact. It also paved the way for the creation of the Starseed, a machine able to fold spacetime and therefore collapse black holes through the quantum entanglement technology. It is also possible to use it to time-travel, or rather to revert time.

The qauntum entanglement that Voidtech allows is still beyond the understanding of traditional science.

### Grav-booster

The suits of the Voidrunners have grav-boosters or gravity boosters installed in the footwear , allowing a Voidrunner to release a jet of some form of blue-white glowing energy or material from their boots, propelling them forward or into the air.

### Voidrunner shield

The shields utilised by the Voidrunners are built into their Voidtech suits and cover their whole body. They are powered by plasma power cells which can be synthesised with collected plasma by C.Y.D..

### Multi-tool

The multi-tool utilised by the Voidrunners is used for scanning environment for C.Y.D. nodes or markers in the environment uploaded by C.Y.D. to the tool, as well as for attacking through energy slashes or projecting a large hard-light blade. The multi-tool is a tiny handheld device in the shape of a chrome metal ball that is small enough to fit into the palm of a being similar to an adult human. When not in use, the multi-tool is able to come apart and transform into a wearable wristband of individual pieces of a rounded band and a metal ball worn around the wrist, the individual parts linked to one another but floating with gaps of air in between. When in use, the pieces will reorient themselves to the user's hand. The multi-tool is controlled by light bluish-white holographic buttons projected around the ball to be touched by the user's fingers, and a light bluish-white rectangular vertically-positioned holographic display projected some inches away from the front of the hand displaying information.

The multi-tool is used to activate doors and passages made with Voidtech, and for opening Voidrunner caches and accessing any Voidrunner logs they may be stored within, as well as at other object that may be stored within, which in the game's case are the individual parts of the suit belonging to the Voidrunner previously stationed in the area Rei finds them in.

### Suits

The suits of the Voidrunners protect them from being crushed by intense gravity such as that of black holes, making them idea for travelling into black holes, such as the Ultravoid, with.

### Starseed

*Main article: Starseed*
The Starseed is an ancient technological artifact consisting of ancient parts and blueprints, originally designed to create stars, and later found by the Voidrunners while exploring deep beneath their planets' crust and reverse-engineered and rebuilt. The Voidrunners theorised that the Starseed could be used to collapse black holes since theoretically if you have a machine that is able to form stars, it also possible to reverse them. The Starseed, however, possibly malfunctioning, instead created a time-loop when activated by Rei inside the Ultravoid, forcing her to relive the same day for thousands of years, until she finally managed to see the truth and deactivated it. Following its deactivation, the Starseed exploded and is no more. The discovery of the ancient broken Starseed artifact paved the way for the creation of the Starseed, and studying the artifact paved the way for the all other Voidtech .

### Universal translator

The advanced technology of the Voidrunners also included a method of translating all written and spoken languages foreign to their own, which Rei used within the Ultravoid to understand spoken and texts written in Cyclodorean, Veruki and Umbra, and possibly more languages in the Collector of the Missing's archive. This essentially makes the Voidrunners a form of "reader babelfish."

### Voidrunner caches

Also called Voidrunner stashes, these are a kind of container or canister. They are able to hover in mid-air and can only be opened by use of the multi-tool. They are used to store audio logs recorded by a Voidrunner as well as an automatic transcription lf said log and can even store a piece of a Voidrunner's suit.

### Voidrunner logs

Audio logs recorded by Voidrunners accompanied by an automatic text transcription of said recording.

### Voidtech doors

Doors that can be made to fade in and out to either allow or not allow passage through an opening. They are "opened" by using the multi-tool.

### C.Y.D. nodes or Starseed conduits

C.Y.D. nodes, or Starseed condutis, are circular holographic projectors that project a hard light hologram of the artificial intelligence construct C.Y.D. who can then be communicated with. The projector plate ca be placed on any flat-ish surface.

The Starseed conduit side of this technology is a form of energy transfer techology that can siphon Void energy from one location to the Starseed. Void energy transferred this way is referred to as "Starseed energy."

The Voidrunners set up a C.Y.D. node in each of the Ultravoid's regions so that they could communicate with C.Y.D. and through them control the individual Starseed conduit installed in each respective region.

## References

1. ↑ June 28, 2023. The Voidrunners has built-in universal translators.. Via the Heart Machine Discord.