Technology

### Ascension Project

Technology developed by a group of transhumanist scientists assisted by the AI. Allows digitizing a human brain and transferring consciousness to a specialized computer system. Essentially allows humans to achieve immortality and freedom of form.

Transhumanists saw it as the next step in human evolution and heavily pushed for its implementation, volunteering almost immediately to be the first to be Ascended. While a few initial batches were processed and are now stored with the AI’s hardware, the project was cut short by the Collapse.

### Bionics

Various advanced prosthetics and internal implants developed by pre-collapse society. Nominally employed as part of the healthcare system to treat lost or malformed limbs, augment brain power in cases of brain damage or mental retardation, etc. the Transhumanists formed a subculture around acquiring and using these augmentations for their own sake.

### Firearms

Firearms available on the colony differ wildly in terms of technology level. Civilian firearms typically include hunting rifles, shotguns and self-defense pistols, used primarily to defend oneself against animal attack on the frontier. Almost every household on the frontier would have at least one of these.

Firearms employed by the police are typically pistol-caliber semi-automatic or select-fire weapons in addition to service sidearms. As crime rates were generally low, these firearms were generally selected for controllability and limiting potential of collateral damage, rather than sheer firepower. While many former peacekeepers kept their service weapons through the collapse, many others were looted by scavengers or remain locked in police armories.

The most advanced firearms are employed by the military forces, using advanced assault rifles and machine guns featuring internal batteries providing a universal power system for various attachments and electrically primed ammunition. While the large casualties suffered by the military during the collapse left many of these out in the field, without a compatible power supply they remain of limited use to scavengers.

### Vehicles

Vehicles much like the overall tech level vary wildly from city centers to frontier.

Civilian vehicles in city centers are electrically powered and usually self-driving, which has made them rather useless since the Collapse cut both the electrical supply and the satellite-based navigation system they relied on.

Civilian vehicles on the frontier are generally more advanced than modern day counterparts but built for rugged terrain and feature fuel-consuming combustion engines to be less reliant on a centralized power grid.

Military vehicles likewise use fuel and sport heavy armor and weapons, being impervious to most types of small arms.

### Orbital Defenses

A network of satellite-based orbital and trans-orbital weapons systems, originally designed to defend the colony against alien invasion. Highly effective and capable of engaging spacecraft out to significant distances.

Normally interlinked with the AI for control, if connection is lost its own onboard AI will take over and take action based on predetermined parameters and last orders received. Currently maintaining a system-wide blockade on the AI’s orders.

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