It has been mentioned that there are techs in the data archive that the PC doesn't know about. So, what do you think is there? I will start.
- Advanced battle suits. Would look like wet suits with built in camo abilities. Ordinary people wear it and are ten times stronger and due to embedded computers, can shoot accurately. You could hide equally well in the city and the woods and the fields due to the camo. The admiral did mention that they need to be able to conduct ground wars.
- How about stealth tech?
- Since we are already playing with it, quantum computers.
- Eyeball displays. That is, while wearing that battle suit, you get computer display directly on the retina, and you can still see normally.
- Definitely materials. So wide open here that I can't do examples off hand.
- Portable power of all kinds. The US military has battery problems. Platoons have to carry a lot of weight in batteries so all the electronics work. This is often over 20 pounds per soldier. Actually, this is one reason they are investing in robodogs. To carry all that stuff.
- Advanced robodogs. For the last item reasons. Just to carry stuff would work wonderfully well but with a number of decades improvement, could do all the things real dogs do. It might be able to smell a Jung soldier and trail him or show soldier on his eyeball display.
- More security methods. No more enemies stealing tech because the tech can identify its user and abort. The next step in OUR security is for the tech to ID us in ways that are not all that unlike how I can tell people apart. Fooling it would be hard.
Its hard to say what is in the archives, but everything that you have mentioned is pretty easy to do, except for maybe the battle suits, and eyeball displays. Both of which, would require nano tech to build. PC already has medical nano tech, but it doesn't seem to use it in other stuff. PC also should have better tech in some areas, but you never know what secret tech may of been found and not published before people started fleeing the plague. Based off that, I would say that the majority of the tech that we will see, will be military, space travel, or high tech medical procedures in nature.
I feel that developing shields able to withstand slugs from those rail guns would definitely improve the Alliance chances, surely in the Ark some will be found, as the shields available in the PC/jung are successful against energy weapons.
If the future were a linear line from here to there, then the future would be incredibly automated. Robot ships launched from a planet to go find the enemy and destroy them. Very boring, but incredibly efficient. Those who have a bigger industrial base win, period.
But Ryk fought that off with his invention of the Bio-Digital plague. Very cool writer's trick, because it made everything more easily understood. In that, though, he indicated that history was linear until the plague hit. I believe that would imply much of what is in the cache of pre-plague info would pertain to automation and computers.
I do believe that the shielding already is a protectant against projectile weapons that's why the missiles wouldn't work
Hi for number 8 to work u would need AI so maybe that could be in the data ark schematics for artificial intelligence and it could be utilized in many areas such as security and helping medical and other areas like with the super solders put AI in their suits to help control their suits and other things like a mini medical pack in the suit. They could even put them into the ships to help with the navigation and jump drive problem with shields anyone else go an idea
What they are talking about now is to identify methods for electronics to identify people similar to the way we do. How do I know that person is my sister? The idea is to teach machines how to do that. This doesn't require AI. Research the Matt Honan hack. He works for Wired and nearly had his entire online existence compromised due to a hacker wanting his Twitter handle (@MAT). The hacker just wanted to use it to seriously annoy people. He did manage to get his accounts back and it caused Apple, Amazon, and others to change their internal rules. Now he pays a lot of attention to the forefront of identity, both on and off line. The future does not involve compromisable things like passwords.
The secret formula for Coca-Cola and the Colonel's secret recipe have to be in the Archive and must protected from the Jung at all costs.
It would be funny if Casimir took all the Movies and Documentaries on the Data Ark and sold them as part of a Netflix like service to the People of the PC so as to fund the war effort.
Is the fact that the Data Ark was sent to Takara common knowledge? or is that info being kept to just the Alliance personnel? because... It should really be kept to just Alliance personnel!!!
Is it weird that I think that the Data Ark itself is too small? I get the impression the Ark facility is Hugh... but the cores fit in one shuttle? I imagine the Core Units are quite big and the trollies that were used to move them in Ep 8 were semi self propelled.
In one sense, the data in the cores is 1000 years out of date. Part of the reason the PC is thriving is that they continued civilization forward after the rest of humanity collapsed. Thus the shields, ZPM, Nanites, and other technological marvels.
The movies is a good point, though. I keep on imagining an alternate universe that we can't go to, but that we can communicate with. Ray Milland gets the role of Marlowe in the Big Sleep, Dean Martin paired with Don Knotts instead of Jerry Lewis... Lots of potential for interesting other movies. And movies and music should be easily transmitted over a link to another universe... 🙂
The secret formula for Coca-Cola and the Colonel’s secret recipe have to be in the Archive and must protected from the Jung at all costs.
Hear, hear! The Alliance's monopoly mustn't be broken! They must also increase supply of such goods to the Jung. For when suffiant numbers are hooked on the stuff, the Alliance will be ready to cut the supply of Coke and Colonel, forcing the the Jung surrender or face internal collapse by a general uprising when supply is halted. I hear the Alliance Food-Warfare Section gives this plan a 70% chance of crippling the Jung's ability to make war, but only if the recipes stay secret. Do your part, and guard their secrets.
By the way, just how bad are the chef's in the Jung fleet if their crews eat out of vending machines??? That can't be good for their health!!!
Wonder if there's designs for anything beyond capital ships ?
Designs for larger ships might be useful if they have a high degree automation and include ways on how to build them quickly. Although, there really isn't any mention of such ships beyond perhaps those intended for colonization.
Maybe there could be a design for dreadnoughts and battlestations ? And why would they need to be automated to work?
