Fabrication

* Opensource plans make DIY manufacturing simple if raw materials are available.
* Computers do a lot of the designing, and plans can be downloaded from the fog or the Darknet
* 3D printing of everything from foods to human organs, from tools and electronics to drugs and medicines
* AI Co-Designers can analyze a human’s design and suggest improvements.
* Synthetically created diamonds, platinum and other minerals and compounds
* Custom molecular-engineered materials allow new combinations of weight, color, smell, density, hardness, tensility, viscosity, magnetism, conductivity, temperature, sensitivity, responsiveness, etc
* Most factory floors are automated;labor jobs in Ubi Zones are performed by bots
* In Squatter Towns and rural areas, a few people retain crafting and fabrication skills
* Cybernetic vegetation

It is important to remember that Food Printers and Stuff Printers are not the same devices, and neither of them is a Recycler. Most people have personal Food Printers, and wealthy or enterprising people may own their own Stuff Printers, but almost no one has their own Recycler, because that's a large and super-expensive piece of industrial machinery.

### 3D Stuff Printers

3D printers for non-food items are ubiquitous and come in all sizes. They’re used for the creation of everything from toys and small machine parts to huge prefabricated elements used in modular building construction. The 3D printing revolution reversed the traditional dynamic of product development and manufacturing: the design phase now takes longer than the actual construction. In addition, the plans for just about any common device can be easily found and downloaded anywhere in the world. Many people posses their own Stuff Printers, and use them to produce everyday objects like toys, jewelry, atworks, dishes, cutlery and other household items.

Still, it is not enough to simply own a printer; you also need to buy the raw materials for it, and while printers are common household items, molecular conversion units are not. In order to 3D print something, you'll need raw materials, like metal ingots, plastic beads, etc. And just like old-school printer toner, you will always need to buy more.

### Raw Materials

Most custom-printed parts and objects are composed of common recycled materials like plastics, clays, soft metals and ceramics, which can be found cheaply in any highly populated area. More specialized objects may require advanced metal alloys, chemicals, colors/dyes, nanomachines or molecular-engineered compounds. These materials can be prohibitively expensive and difficult to find.

#### Common/Inexpensive Materials

**Cerament** – industrially-manufactured cement-like compound that sets with a super-hard glossy exterior; may be manufactured with many different colors and thermal properties.

**Claybase** – clay-based compounds engineered to be both kiln-fireable and recyclable.

**Clearcrete** – Transparent concrete-like material that is 50x stronger than traditional concrete.

**Diamond** – Diamonds began to be artificially produced in the mid-21st century, and subsequently dropped in price from one of the most expensive materials on Earth to one of the cheapest. Today's CV Diamond material is immensely strong, light and thermally conductive, but has a super-high melting point, making it ideal for heavy machinery, weapons and vehicle parts.

**Flexlex** – This semi-superconductor can be applied to fabric or plastic surfaces, yielding flexible circuits which can even be made transparent. Used in the creation of flexible or foldable screens, electronic textiles and microcircuitry.

**Plascrete** – weather-resistant compound easily formed into any desired shape via 3D printers.

**Plasteel** – A clear, castable enhanced plastic which can be injection-molded or 3D-printed in any color (including transparent). Not as strong as NanoPlast, but cheaper.

**Plastica** – Customized plastics can be created with a wide range of qualities, from softness and pliability to rigidity and temperature resistance. Modern plastics are far superior to those of the 21st century; they are lighter, more resilient and more adaptable, thanks to new compounds and features developed via AI-assisted chemical design.

**Polywood** – A cheap wood-like compound produced from raw cellulose and biomass.

#### Uncommon/Expensive Materials

**CMF** – Composite Metal Foam is formed from hollow beads of one metal within a solid matrix of another, such as steel within aluminium, resulting in a tenfold strength-to-density ratio and a similar increase in energy absorption. This makes CMFs extremely useful as armor. A less than one inch thick plate of CMF has enough resistance to turn a 63mm M2 armor-piercing bullet to dust.

**Glasteel** – A clear, castable amorphous metal with the transparency of glass and the hardness of steel, glassteel can be made highly conductive, leading to its frequent use in energy conveyance systems and solar power collectors. Often used for the creation of *SmartGlass* (glass surfaces with embedded microprocessor displays).

**NanoPlast** - A dense but flexible supermesh of kinetically-responsive plastics which are interwoven at the molecular level. Suitable for armor and ablative coverings, it may also be interwoven with solar energy accumulators.

**Scatterene** – A nanostructure that is capable of breaking up patterns of light, microwaves and radio waves, Scatterene is used in the creation of holographic projectors and lenses, and woven into sheets to create defensive cloaking materials like *QuietSuits.*

**TexSteel** – A thick woven textile incorporating nanofibers of steel for a combination of flexibility and kinetic defense.

**Viber5** – A recombinant-DNA textile that heals like living tissue: as the outer layers are eroded by atmosphere and moisture, the inner layers break down organic byproducts and waste materials and the middle layers recombine these elements in order to “grow” more layers. These new layers then move toward the outer layers, much like human skin. Used for “self-cleaning” walls, as well as space habitats and tents.

### Recyclers

Recycling is big business, and happens everywhere. Many homes have small “cyc” systems for breaking down organic waste into printable food substrates, for instance. But with the assistance of nanomachines and custom bio-organic compounds, industrial-scale recycling centers throughout the city guarantee that any material can be broken down into its constituent elements and reconstituted in pure or compound form.

These materials are then resold to construction firms, product manufacturers, 3D print shops and independent consumers throughout the city, for fabrication of new items.

You can get *Citizen Points* for recycling.

### ShareShops

Descendants of 21st century “maker spaces”, ShareShops are fabrication workshops which are shared as a common resource by a particular community, and/or accessed via paid membership on a short-term or continual basis. ShareShops can be found in most districts, although the machines and software available – as well as the makers encountered there and the types of projects they tend to work on – differ greatly from one to the next.

In the sprawls and corporate projects, the ShareShop provides a vital service, allowing citizens to invent, design and fabricate items they couldn’t possibly afford any other way. In the enclaves they tend to be used more as hangouts for technical wiz-kids and experimental artists.