XiC: Technology

 

CHIMplants

(Customized Hawkish Identification Measures Implant) are hi-tech implants, also known as "chronorational chips," are a microchip the size of a small 1mm bead that are inserted directly into the brains of Xitizens through a non-invasive surgical procedure via syringe. The chips are be composed of a self-replicating nanobot swarm that can be integrate with the neural network of the brain, allowing for a seamless connection between the chip and the individual's consciousness. Once implanted, the temporal chip allows individuals to access pocketed amounts of information instantly, such as cultural data, navigation, scientific research, and personal memories. One of its primary purposes is to allow the Xi’an government to keep track of its populace, similar to a fingerprint but for any species. All CHIMplants have registered IDs and are recorded into the Citizen Ministry’s database. The chips keep track of their location when intersecting with any private businesses, owned property, residential districts or usage of Port Station transport. There are limited ‘safety’ and ‘privacy’ zoning ranges where tracking is forbidden, primarily being medical and diplomatic zones in which their tracking feature is automatically turned out.

The CHIMplant  also provides individuals with augmented reality capabilities, allowing them to see digital overlays on the physical world, such as putting color or aesthetical filters over one’s own vision and perceptions to alter their physical view. Popular filters include ‘Cat-o-vision’, ‘Nightlyfe’, ‘Emojitron Faces’, ‘Rainbow world’ and ‘Cinema Noir.’ Restrictions on filters disable them during piloting jobs and for law enforcement due to previous incidents. The implant comes in two varieties: One has a limited lifespan and the other cannot be tampered with (including removal). The implants are inserted into a subject’s head via a needle inserted through the subject’s eyelid to access the brain. It is a simple procedure performed by doctors of the Xi'an National Health Service and it is required to be inserted at birth or by law. If an individual would like to have their chip removed, they must go to a Xi'an government facility to have it removed by a specially-trained doctor. Removal requires special approval, and will renounce their Xi’an citizenship, all government-connected credit holds and waive of protected rights. During the period of XU, CHIMplants were temporarily replaced with requested IDentity Implants with various ‘personality mode’ settings that one’s designated Identity would be adapted to via control of their neural perceptions.

CHIMplants allow one to neurally process linguistic algorithms in a way that translates all distinct dialects, tones and languages automatically to one's specific dialect. The CHIMplant also provides the ability to distinguish the tone of a language and to understand its meaning. The implant is also equipped with a neural interface to enable it to recognize patterns and determine if a given verbal input has met the threshold of acceptance or rejection in a given context, and regularly sends reports to mental health agencies to monitor at-risk subjects and take appropriate measures – Many Xi’ans often are unsurprised to find pill subscriptions and Facility recommends in their mail depending on the severity of how their mental stimulus has affected their threshold. CHIMplants have been used by Xi'an's police force to prevent criminals from committing crimes. This is done by listening to the sound of an arrest report and triggering a quiet mental-stun initiation, or by sending in authorities if a known criminal is detected by a neural detector. CHIMplants can be used in conjunction with facial recognition cameras and recording software to identify criminals in various businesses and transportation centers.

CHIMplant users can also see their "digital self", a virtual replica of their true appearance, and manipulate their virtual self in ways that one could not physically. While this avatar has limited use, if public monitors or satellites are nearby this digital apparition can extend past the initial 10m and allow the user to travel remotely via this avatar, even interact with others in cyberspace transposed over reality.

In addition to these abilities, the chip can also allow individuals to control various technologies through thought alone. For example, one could control a specific vehicle, a drone, or even a robotic exosuit with ease, simply by thinking the commands. This functionality varies greatly and is generally limited enough to be a premium setup and not a feature. However, with great power comes great responsibility, and there are concerns about the potential for abuse and misuse of this technology. Some fear that the chip could be used for mind control or to manipulate individuals, while others worry about the implications of having the ability to hack and download vast amounts of information at one's fingertips. These concerns reach a certain threshold, alert messages can simply be sent to the subject’s place of employment for mental health recommends or penalties to their performance review for ‘negative anxiety apertures.’

Beam Arrays

Beam Arrays are gigantic platforms ships rest on and launch off of. They that utilize Gravitons to unseat field-protected vessels from space-time to remove all surface friction, resistance and mass effectively making them more weightless than a Equinarium-Particle, and accelerating them around 120*10^6c. The massive energy required to keep the Graviton density along a hydraulic platform-track is typically provided by planetary power stations and in cases of asteroid-bases, procured dyson charges. The Leibniz radiation the railbelts give off requires constant manufacturing of new ‘tracks’ constantly, and has been known to run into problems with Cascade-accumulated activity overtime for controversial reasons still being studied. Although they were incredibly popular and common usage in the early days of Xi’s formation, their costly measures have led them to be largely replaced with Port Stations.

Port Stations

Port Stations, synonymous with Warp Stations are structures that create pocket localities via complicated cascade-enabled physics. The locality of every Port Station isolated within its own parameters in space/time, and connects to any other port entrance not unlike a phonecall or train station. The interiors of Port Stations typically are filled with furniture, cabinets, and varying models of equipment- some more commercial ones have counters for business, public ones portapotties and small bookshelves, and luxury class Warp stations possess entire food pantries, water coolers, bedding compartments and private rooms. The expenses of trivial extravagances such as pool tables, swimming pools, sushi chef’s bars, winecoolers and arcade machines are often offered at moderately-high expenses.  

Volt-weaponry
Weaponry that utilizes micro-materialization on a temporal level to convert electricity and raw power into particle-mass that has a limited range as a solidified hardlight projectile when shot out, but disperses in the short order of microseconds. Higher shots can go upwards to 13,899 mph and leave absolutely no traces, appearing almost vorpal in the presentation of injuries without any bullet or projectile staying in the target. Despite their high penetration on organic targets, they’re noticeably weak against construct metals and materials used in Xi and can be disabled by sufficiently powerful EMPs. In such a case, the back handle of most standard Volt pistols come with solid 15.56×85mm tungsten rounds for maximum penetration, with limited ammunition. Physical rounds can over-penetrate 405 mm of ATLAS Electro-Ultrasteel and has been known to turn said material to molten slag on impact, but lack the high-velocity and computerized auto-aiming features of hardlight Volt shots.

Comp

Handheld lightweight computational devices, typically used by government agents and Denipol for communication, basic file access and security usages. Typically 12 PHz, handheld and pocket sized for easy carrying.

Giga-Comp

A type of handheld communications device, typically used by the government, or in large corporations. They are more sophisticated than a typical Comp and used for all kinds of communication, but especially for security protocols and classified information. Additionally, Giga-Comp’s have capabilities to direct both civilian and public infrastructure- change traffic lights, check security footage, access CHIMplant records and the records of other basic Comps used in the vicinity.

Holojector

Holojectors are revolutionary technology that enable a person to physically manifest their presence from lightyears away in both appearance and physical presentation, i.e. picking up objects, interacting with other solid masses and being as solid as a real person. They operate under heavy constraints, from quantum-biocore computer processing printers that utilize light projectors, and cannot operate in outdoors spaces with atmospheric interference, needing a confined localized area be it a single room or a starship. The processors utilize host_modules, typically contracted employees and hired subjects who are wrapped in sensitive yet breathable plastiwrap rubber film to hide their unsightly presence, placed in corners and attached to the projector over their head, sedated and kept perfectly still for the duration of the Holojector’s activity. The neural link overplays and replaces the wearer’s psyche temporarily with the generated content, which is shared by the solid projection that’s able to exist within the same space and move around within the confines of the room. For heavier duty Holojectors oft used to project AI programs and synthetic digital beings, multiple hosts working on sync, wrapped together and huddled at a familiar access point are necessary to run the simulation of the electronically embedded organism in local space.

While payment rates for hired host_modules are adequate to compensate for food, board, healthcare and living expenses, the exact timing a hired subject may need to remain indoctrinated in neural synchronization with their program for anywhere from a few hours, to days and weeks, to some cases even months. In such cases applied nutridrink serum and sedative salve-patches are applied to the subjects to keep them fully powered, and engineers may be brought onsite frequently to check the health and stability of the Holographic program being maintained during their tenure as projector-fixtures. Frequent mental disarray is often reported for those with long exposure periods as modules, with cases of ‘Subjectivity modification’ and perspective switch that come up with such long periods as the processor for another’s neural algorithms.

Neural Materializer and Datalyte Fabric

The same solid-state projector technology that the Holojector utilizes is also programmed into smaller, handheld devices known as Neural Materializers. These over-commercialized products are able to change costumes, shirts, shoes, ensemble wardrobes and any manner of clothes with a simple download of an app and a connection to one’s CHIMplant. Revolutionary Datalyte Fabric innovated in the Harvest galaxy allows for the creation of a real-time projection of virtual reality outfits by utilizing holographic techniques, with a simple netloadable purchase. The clothes are as realistic and solid as any ordinary ones, but have a tendency to generate an unnaturally slick and smooth, stretchy texture equivalent to rubber or latex. The wearer can modify the settings to alter this texture, although the default setting will always be this skintight fabric.

Due to the usage of one’s own neural processing via their implant, advisory boards have made notice that over-use of these projected wears can implant various psychic suggestions on the behavior and personality of the wearer connected to the algorithms that also aggressively market them. In certain instances, Wardrobe Materializers can also become ‘Holojectors’ and connect to the projection software to function as if a Hologram is actually present, one with a bodytype, facial features and appearance more in line with the algorithm-decided type of wearer to typically purchase that outfit. This occurs by an overuse of the projection function, which has been reported to cause the body to generate dangerous levels of cognitive stress. This stress is generated by the ‘overcharge’ of the body, which is the amount of neural processing used to maintain the projection at a solid presence, and the subsequent mental stress of dealing with the projected persona for extended periods of time. If not carefully treated, cognitive stress will inevitably distort the subjective perceptions between the initial wearer and the algorithmic patterns marketed and projected onto them. The tendency to purchase further item goes up exponentially the longer cognitive stress occurs and the more perceptions have been blended, leading to a self-perpetuating effect where one speeds up and intensifies the blending with more accumulated purchases. Wardrobe Distributors of materializers and corporations such as Byte Industries and Atlas give warning to use Neural Materializers cautiously and are not responsible for any drastic lifestyle changes or necessary therapy for identity quandaries. As a show of support and public good will, Byte Industries offers additional free credits for their materialization products to purchase new accessories and outfits (labcoats, cloaks, purple cardigans, employee uniforms and green sweaters are on sale), and even offer unlimited therapy for those betwixt such quandaries to help settle into a more stable subjecthood.

Continuum recorder

Among the need for prestige and maximum security, Cascade-powered devices known Continuum recorders are operated with the purpose of preserving moments of space-time in concentrated localities. The device takes info from over several thousand different sensors and scanners and translates them into a Datalyte computation that recreates the exact moment within, much like a camera recorder that can recreate what it’s recording. In the case of a continuum recorder the datalye is processed in a different fashion to reconstruct the moment in greater detail, and is a full 3D reconstruction of the space and timeline initially present within the recorded data. The sensors can be set to record only specific types of information and ignore anything else, or a combination of specific sensors and scanners can be set up to monitor only a certain sector. While it is still possible to see the original information from a continuum recorder, in reality these are used for time-stamped security evidence and only a few places have had their Continuum recorders installed. Such places include museums, government archives and offices, political ‘hotspots’ and the offices of high-risk representatives, banks, labs and corporate VIP offices. Some businesses are known to have made Continuum recorders for the protection of their employees and records, but these are a rarity and are highly secured. The primary usage of a space-time continuum recorder is as an evidence and verification device for a crime scene after an incident or conflict, or for verifying when and where a representative was with a client or in meetings. The recorder is powered by a massive power source called the Cascade Unit, and is connected to all other devices in the system via a dedicated datalink. It is highly desirable to protect the security of the space-time continuum recorders from being tampered with or circumvented by the user. For maximum security of the device, it is also desirable to hide the recorders from the public. The usage of DataLyte technology is still barely understood in Xi, as a new distinct invention separate from even previous Holojector and holographic utilities.