Technology index

## The 4,000

Description: Colonial era expansion into the star system

Examples: colony base, automated factory, capsule construction, space port

Description: off world rare elements or environmental industry

Examples: fuel, armour

Description: unlocking the secrets of the brain using bioelectricity

Examples: neural scanner, scout lab, security (Master of Orion 2), field modulation (Sid Meier’s Alpha centauri), bioenhancement, neural amp (Mass Effect), PsychoPass, AIRE (Mother of Storms), Nekro-chip/Hall of Ghosts (Waste world), Neoterics (Microcosmic god), Biosoft (count zero), cephalochromoscope (a scanner darkly), cogitator (the consolidator), hypnobioscope (ralph 124c 41+), Korsakov’s (Mona lisa overdrive)

Description: sustained electromagnetic fields that affect temperature or physical force

Examples: shields, cannon, ecm, cold ray (the atomic conquerors)

Description: concentric belief of importance or geo-centralism in the cosmos

Examples: Isaac Arthur

Description: cold nuclear fission with no neutrons or gammas emitted

Examples: city ship (star of wonder)

Description: electronic finance

Examples:

Description: morality balanced by its application in society, removing the ape social system of permission to allow advancement of any mind that brings a result

Examples: Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

Description: projected pulse weapons using lasers and nuclear fusion

Examples: beam, rifle

Description: fibre optic computer using light lattice for its processor

Examples: Master of Orion, chlorophane (the planet strappers)

Description: applied foresight in industry to provide for the future population

Examples: aqua-farming, energy grid, thermocline transducer (Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri)

Description: sub-sapient artificial intelligence used in monitoring and electronic protection

Examples: counter/espionage, encryption

Description: social isolation and deterioration of life functions or putting extreme consequence on events in the cyber world

Examples: Fractale, Accel world, Sword Art Online, Serial project Lain

Description: meta-material engineering to create buildings or semi-stable chemicals that revert to a natural state slowly

Examples: industry, ecm (Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri), Quark bombs (lord from the planet earth)

Robotic infrastructure
Prerequisite: advanced spaceflight
Precedes: mega-structure construction
Description: post-scarcity civilisation as robots take over the manual labour forces
Examples: mining, battle station (Master of Orion 2), powered exoskeletons (Call of Duty advanced warfare), Rotating station (Babylon 5)

Servo-mechanics
Prerequisite: advanced spaceflight
Precedes: mega-structure construction
Description: autonomous mechanical parts
Examples: missile ranks, damage control, assault shuttles (Master of Orion 2)

Astro military-industrial complex
Prerequisite: advanced chemistry
Precedes: mega-structure construction
Description: heavy investment in super-starships and armour for galactic conquest
Examples: dreadnoughts (Mass Effect), SDI, mechs or giant combat robots (Titanfall)

Advanced manufacturing in industry and astr construction
Prerequisite: subatomic theory
Precedes: multi dimensional physics
Description: industrial revolution in space construction
Examples: recycling, automated repair, artificial planet (Master of Orion 2), Dyson sphere, battle sphere (the space rover), bio fabric (say goodby to the wind), buster machine III PK (gunbuster), unicron (transformers the movie)

Industrial automation
Prerequisite: advanced spaceflight
Precedes: archailect
Description: expansion of production regions into the declining population space
Examples: factory, bombers

Tectonic engineering
Prerequisite: advanced metallurgy
Precedes: ecumenpolis
Description: planet interior construction and industry use
Examples: core mine, core waste dumping (Master of Orion 2), parasite machine PK (urban assault), Temblor bomb PK (wing commander III), project destini (the core), stone burners PK (Dune)

Mega-settlements
Prerequisite: advanced magneticism
Precedes: planetary environmental conversation
Description: development of standing superstructures with non-solid inhabited interiors
Examples: space fortess (Mass Effect), mega-cities, heavy fighters

Ion fission
Prerequisite: cold fission
Precedes: monopole detection
Description: ionisation forced fission to release energy
Examples: drive, cannon, shield capacitor (Master of Orion 2), arkon-bombs PK (perry rhodan books), polyvalent fusion bomb (lamb amongst the stars)

Anti-matter fission
Prerequisite: subatomic theory
Examples: drive, torpedo, bomb, CAM (the Culture), Negasphere PK (Lensman saga)

Matter-energy conversion
Description: energy movement into receiver stations or sustained energy projection, deconstructing and reconstructing matter while transferring or replicating matter patterns using the energy alignment
Examples: teleporters, food replicators (Star Trek), tank displacer (protoss blink, Starcraft 2), psionic long range teleport, titan (titan AE)

High energy distribution
Examples: anabolic protoplaser (spock, messiah!), batacitor (the fabulous rivreboat)

Advanced chemistry
Examples: missile, pollution processor

Molecular compression
Examples: missile, atmos renewer, fuel (Master of Orion 2), anti-agathic drugs (cities in flight), Relativistical kill vehicle Azrael PK (GURPS), Dakara superweapon PK (Stargate), Obliterators PK (Dune), ice-9 PK (cat’s cradle)

Nano technology
Examples: dis-assemblers, construction, armour, metallurgy, industrial robotics, matter compression (fuel, armour), prism weapon (Demon seed), Drakonium (Waste world), Nano missile (GI Joe), anti-heptant (to live forever), inhibitor machines PK (Revelation space), greenfly machines (revelation space), microscopic object PK (moonseed), Freedom machine (the Diamond age)

Positronics
Virtual intelligence
Examples: guidance, targetting, cyber security, VI (Mass Effect), augmented conscience (aeon flux), chemotactic artificial jellyfish (big jelly)

Noosphere
Nano brains or Blue boxes
Examples: computer, research lab, structural analyst (Master of Orion 2), Geth (Mass Effect)

Androids
Examples: farmers, workers, scientists, Brood assembly (cities in flight), Surrogates (), Avatar (), Gynoid, Bioloid

Adaptive doctrine
Examples: proxy armies (Metal gear SOP), military algorithms, flexibility & software (Sid Meier’s Alpha centauri)

Extra-net
Examples: Mass Effect

Advanced biology
Examples: cloning, soil enrichment, xeno biowarfare, Arcologies

Genetic engineering
Examples: psionic academy (Mass Effect), macro-biotics, longevity, Axolotl tank (Dune Messiah), Atlotl/Gibiril Regimen (The Godmakers), Alpha Plus (Brave New World), Betrization (return from the stars), howard families (Methuselah’s children)

Genetic mutation
Examples: terraforming, evo science, Bedog (the dosadi experiment), Life eater virus PK (Wh 40k), Iazurogenics (Orion’s arm), evolution machine (the Man who evolved), homo superior (alpha centauri)

Pantropy
Description: GE of people to adapt to environment
Examples: Pandorum

Macro-genetics
Description: Biltong life form (pay for the printer), bio factory (wasteworld), life blanket (Ogre), creep (Starcraft)
Examples: subterranean farm, weather controller, Living spaceship (Proxima centauri)

Evolutionary genetics
Examples: psionics, empathy (fauna assimilation), higher intelligence, Effectors (the Culture), hyperbright (Orion’s arm)

Tachyon physics in communication & military computers
Ansible
Gravity fields
Examples: AG (Inversion), inertial, battle gravitics, ship gyro field (Master of Orion 2), grav gun (Half life 2), water tentacle (the Abyss), Battle engine Aquila, Zone of the Enders, Fish tail slingshot drone (Hotwire), lineguns (the Culture), pancakers (the Culture/Gantz), graviton weapon PK (wing commander the secret missions), final protocol PK (chronicles of riddick), levitating path (a Sound of thunder)

Neutrino physics in weapons & detection
Artificial gravity
Examples: tractor beam, beams, planetary generator (Master of Orion 2), pressure adaptation (the Abyss), Centerpoint station (star wars EU)

Subspace physics in communication & jump gates (2d)
Description: matter migration allowing physical teleportation to a non-reciever location,
Examples: Cold pack (dr. futurity), geodynes (the Cometeers)

Military multi-phased physics
Examples: phasor (Master of Orion 2), rifles (Star Trek), shields, Atom-Shifter (the Worlds of Tomorrow), Black pack (Lexx)

Magnetogravity
Examples: shields, planetary, drive dissipator, planet-eaters PK (division)

Light curvature fields
Examples: ship/troop stealth, personal fields (Ghost recon Future soldier), holography, antiholo generators (the ophiuchi hotline), solaronite PK (plan 9 from outer space), darkness bomb (the Mightiest machine)

5d propulsion fields in offensive & interdiction
Examples: pulsar, interdiction, lightning field (Master of Orion 2), power of the void (final fantasy V), Eye of ra PK (stargate)

Military subspace fields
Examples: shields, ecm, cannon, shivan juggernaut sathanas PK (feespace 2)

High energy chemistry
Examples: armour, nerve gas

Civil integrity
Examples: Sid Meier’s Alpha centauri

Applied relativity
Examples: Nicoll-Dyson beam, Stellar converter (master of orion/battle beyond the stars), wave motion gun (space battleship yamato), Terror star (galactic civilisations)/Death star (star wars), drej mother ship (titan AE)

Bioelectric resonance
Description: psionics
Examples: weapons, animal use, Tenno (Warframe), primeval collective consciousness (Quatermass and the Pit), Aether cannon (Storm Thief), insulated suit, faraday skull graft (Hotwire), bio-energy (gulliver’s travels), Biologics (blood music), Biot (rendezvous with rama), group ego (Methuselah’s children), life detector (Ceasefire)

Eudiamonia
Examples: Aristotle

Dark matter theory
Examples: Tox Uthat (Star trek), trilithium PK (star trek)

Quantum weaponry
Examples: anti-shoggoth (Lovecraft), genesis device PK (star trek)

Social incrementalism
Examples: Master of Orion 3

Immortal isolationism
Examples: Lexx, Brunnen g

Post-Scarcity civilisation
Examples: Isaac Arthur

Sapience evolution
Description: retroviral, AI support
Examples: Rise of the planet of the Apes

Eschatology
Description: study of end times
Examples: Orion’s arm (M. Alan Kazlev)

Cyber ethics
Prerequisite: pre sentient algorithms
Precedes: archailectology
Description:
Examples: alpha centauri