Nanites

**Nanites** are nanorobots or microbots which are microscopic devices that can carry out tasks.

## Description

Nanites are found in the blood of people and animals in the post-mortal world, and are genetically coded. Nanites carry out a number of different functions in the human body and are programmed, activated, or deactivated using an instrument called a "tweaker" which looks like a cross between a gun and a flashlight. The tweaking process is painless. Usually the tweaking of nanites is done in a wellness center. If a person's wounds are too much for healing and painkilling nanites to handle, the person must go to a wellness center to be treated by wellness technicians and nurses.

## History

In the Age of Mortality, people used to experience slow healing and pain before nanites were introduced. The Thunderhead reluctantly allowed Tonists to extract their painkilling and healing nanites, as they see them as unnatural, and people had the right to suffer if it was their choice. Since the introduction of nanites into the human bloodstream, the Thunderhead has been able to upload and store the memories and experiences of just about every person on the planet. This way, it has been able to better comprehend the human condition, and keep a throughout memorial database in construct sanctums.

## Types

### Painkilling nanites

Painkilling nanites, also known as pain nanites, can detect when a person is experiencing more pain than they are supposed to. They deliver a dose of opiates into the bloodstream which causes a numbing effect that effectively takes away the pain, and causes drowsiness. Painkilling nanites can be dialed up or down in order to feel less or more pain.

### Shock nanites

Shock nanites are reserved for the most troublesome unsavories. They deliver a powerful electric shock, not enough to permanently hurt them, but to deter them from breaking the law.

### Healing nanites

Healing nanites release opiates such as morphine when a person has been hurt and are also able to heal some injuries. They are not instantaneous as the healing usually takes about half a day. Some examples of injuries healed by healing nanites include: dog bites, broken jaw, frostbite of a finger, a shot in the knee, a sprained ankle, a broken arm, regrow of whole missing teeth, grade-three concussions, rib fractures, grown a whole ear from scratch, absinthe drinking, and regrowth of tongues. In order to heal broken bones or teeth, nanites have to take the calcium from the person's existing bones, so it is advised they increase their intake of foods rich in calcium, such as milk.

Healing nanites can be set to manual, so they are activated using the mind.

There are supercharged healing nanites that work extremely fast. They are used by workers of AWFul Clubs.

### Emo-nanites

Emo-nanites, also known as emotional nanites or mood nanites, are programmed to control a person's mood and emotions. They are able to limit despair, calm rage, among others. Emo-nanites can detect when a person's endorphin levers have decreased enough to indicate the early stage of depression, and make the necessary adjustments so the person can feel happy again. They can also lower adrenaline when the person feels overly excited.

### Health nanites

Health nanites are programmed to care for a person's overall wellbeing, for example, adjusting body temperature according to the weather, and stabilizing their heart rate. They can also be programmed to speed up metabolism, so a person can remain at a healthy weight despite what they eat.

### Advanced healing nanites

Advanced healing nanites are only found at wellness centers and administered for speedhealing when wounds are too deep for regular healing nanites to repair. They are able to heal severe burns and reconstruct eyes from scratch.

### Memory nanites

A person has an individual set of nanites programmed to upload their memories to the backbrain daily, so when a person suffers brain damage or goes deadish, their memories can be restored into fresh brain tissue after revival or speedhealing. Usually it is every five minutes, but on Mars they were once a day when people slept.

### Rejuvenating nanites

Rejuvenating nanites are used to keep tissue young. They were also used to keep the famous enduring heart alive.

### The ten plagues

The ten plagues are malicious nanites developed and engineered by the founding scythes to mimic the symptoms of ten mortal diseases (Pneumonia, heart disease, stroke, cancer, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, bubonic plague, and malaria), and kill 5% of human population, five times a century. They were in the dark centers of scythe rings, and broken free when the fail-safe was activated in the Year of the Cobra. Currently, the entire human population on Earth is infected with malicious nanites, however, they remain dormant in most people, only 20% develop symptoms with no hope of recovery. Most people seek sympathy gleanings.

### Animal control nanites

Some nanites are used to control animal populations. The Thunderhead uses them to prevent animals on the Atolls from landing on sensitive equipment, for example, and the Scythedom used them to provide views of sea life in Endura. The Thunderhead's control is indistinguishable to the animals from natural instincts.

## Trivia

* Road-splatters always have their pain nanites dialed high in order to experience maximum body damage with minimum discomfort.
* Workers of AWFul Clubs also set their painkilling nanites to a maximum in order to withstand the physical abuse by unsavories, however, they set their healing nanites to manual so they can look beat up as long as they need to.
* Humans used nanites to control the sea life in the artificial reef of Endura.
* All species on the planet have nanites so the Thunderhead can monitor their populations, heal them from disease, and track them. The Thunderhead can control an animal using their nanites and prevent it from engaging in a behavior that would end its life, this way it allows wild animals to live the full length of their natural lives.
* In the Unwind series written by the same author, nanites similar to the infused healing nanites (not to be confused with healing nanites always in the body) seen in revival centers are mentioned in Undivided. The series are not set in the same world, however.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 *Scythe*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 *Thunderhead*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 *The Toll*
4. ↑ Unsavory Row
5. ↑ A Martian Minute