9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
This is quite interesting; it is the one piece that Gage’s team is missing. It will be interesting to see them get together. I assume that Damuzi will be somehow involved 😉
How many of her designs are in the Wells’ infrastructure?
How many are in House Caladharas’ infrastructure?
I am assuming that she has a shell company selling her designs, would that not be the case? If not, the story has a suddenly steep curve to climb, operationally.
If Ian or Julia know about Ms. Crane’s tech, either or both organizations could be in the painful process of transitioning off Tower-based tech. Ms. Crane might keep her tech a secret as it is a clue to her previous identity.
I don’t think there’s a market for non-Tower processors unless Crane’s stuff fills a niche the way the ARM chip filled a niche before it became the chip we wrapped the mobile device space around.
An additional problem for a hotel chain or government structure would be assembling the software ecosystem that has to exist around the hardware to make the hardware practical to adopt. One individual, no matter how gifted, can’t build or maintain that.
Most of the rest of the world is using Tower tech, and always will be. It’s ubiquitous now. The cost of transferring over to something else would be astronomical.
Some of her work has shown up publicly as this worlds ARM-type chips (with her identity carefully concealed).
Other bits have shown up as cutting edge designs in the academic/scientific community.(under other names as well)
There’s always space for niche processors. If you don’t need a full Tower processor, or don’t have the space or energy budget for one, then a designed for purpose IC may be a better option. ASICs (Application Specific ICs) or FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) mostly fill that niche for us, but I’ve even seen circuitry do logic as part of the general wiring.
For folks in our world that are totally irked by the “you can’t know what’s in it” quality of modern microprocessors, check out the RISC-V effort, which is a research project aiming to have everything exposed end-to-end. As well, there’s some interest in using PowerPC in the here and now, but I can’t disclose more right now 🙂
I just realized: After the upload, which ended the second wave, before the First Mariner arrived, there was a rather prolonged Dark Age and then a recovery. She might actually know Aralu Industries, who built the Tower tech, and have good reason not to trust their work. She might also be the only person decently qualified to hack a Tower’s systems. 😉
To summarize my re-calibrated understanding:
First wave:
– Arrived from Homoucar
– Ascended Damuzi
– Birthed Ishara, Ekur, Dweller, Enke, et al
– Created the Threllichok as a slave race
– Built the Towers under Aralu Industries
– Built the ship under Erech
– Created Cobalt
– Threllichok gained singularity
– Ended by massive uploads.
Second Wave (current mess):
– Began after a few centuries with arrival of First Mariner and his crowd
– Crane, Aileana Knowles, et al were made immortal by Damuzi
Summary:
– None of the first wave became immortal until they had contracted the Cobalt nanites.
– Damuzi didn’t create immortals until the second wave
– First Mariner is still the only known natural immortal
– except for those modified by Damuzi, the Cobalt nanites is the only source of immortality.
Pretty dang near…move Threllichock singularity into the time after the First Mariner.
And add Abigail Aisling Caladharas, Amena, and Ian as possible natural immortals as well. Although in the case of Abigail, it’s a moot point since she was exposed to Cobalt.
Yes. She is using a set of desktop manufacturing equipment…picture a 300 year advancement on today’s 3d printers to give you an idea of what they are capable of.
That would make nano-assembly at almost the molecular level possible and not doing wafer fab anymore. You would also be doing 3D circuit architectures on crystalline substrates. No more epoxy-glass circuit boards or ceramic chips 😉
The whole idea of them, and how they are used came from the old Talsorian Cyberpunk supplement ‘Cybergen’.
One of the things they mentioned in the supplement was how displays and on stock goods of many items had been replaced by high-speed micro-factory, desktop manufacturing units where you bought patterns for clothing and other items and the machine ran you off one right there and you took it home.
The machine would run off the parts, and an assembler machine would put them all together.
Of course, there were patterns for other things available (weapons, illegal cybernetics) and you could make your own as well.
How many of her designs are in the Wells’ infrastructure?
How many are in House Caladharas’ infrastructure?
I am assuming that she has a shell company selling her designs, would that not be the case? If not, the story has a suddenly steep curve to climb, operationally.
I don’t think there’s a market for non-Tower processors unless Crane’s stuff fills a niche the way the ARM chip filled a niche before it became the chip we wrapped the mobile device space around.
An additional problem for a hotel chain or government structure would be assembling the software ecosystem that has to exist around the hardware to make the hardware practical to adopt. One individual, no matter how gifted, can’t build or maintain that.
Some of her work has shown up publicly as this worlds ARM-type chips (with her identity carefully concealed).
Other bits have shown up as cutting edge designs in the academic/scientific community.(under other names as well)
And she knows a few things about Aralu Industiries 🙂
First wave:
– Arrived from Homoucar
– Ascended Damuzi
– Birthed Ishara, Ekur, Dweller, Enke, et al
– Created the Threllichok as a slave race
– Built the Towers under Aralu Industries
– Built the ship under Erech
– Created Cobalt
– Threllichok gained singularity
– Ended by massive uploads.
Second Wave (current mess):
– Began after a few centuries with arrival of First Mariner and his crowd
– Crane, Aileana Knowles, et al were made immortal by Damuzi
Summary:
– None of the first wave became immortal until they had contracted the Cobalt nanites.
– Damuzi didn’t create immortals until the second wave
– First Mariner is still the only known natural immortal
– except for those modified by Damuzi, the Cobalt nanites is the only source of immortality.
Is that closer?
And add Abigail Aisling Caladharas, Amena, and Ian as possible natural immortals as well. Although in the case of Abigail, it’s a moot point since she was exposed to Cobalt.
I suspect that Amena would be similarly mooted.
One of the things they mentioned in the supplement was how displays and on stock goods of many items had been replaced by high-speed micro-factory, desktop manufacturing units where you bought patterns for clothing and other items and the machine ran you off one right there and you took it home.
The machine would run off the parts, and an assembler machine would put them all together.
Of course, there were patterns for other things available (weapons, illegal cybernetics) and you could make your own as well.