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Shepard Quest Mk VI, Technological Revolution

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UberJJK said:
Heh. It's amusing you quote that particular section since as I was writing it I started thinking about this very concept.

I ended up not including it because that is some seriously major surgery and would probably be too dangerous to classify as safe. Just imagine Revy trying to justify it to her mother*.


*Yes I realize Revy is an adult woman but mothers are mothers.
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Interestingly, it just occurred to me that having a "secondary" nervous system like this would actually protect your "real" nervous system from dangerous eezo discharges, since the nanowires we'd use would of course have a lower electrical resistance than your actual human meat, so the whole system would overall be safer, even with the overcharger! Revy's already rebuilding her whole body from scratch with the Peak Human treatment; why not make a few improvements while she's tinkering around in there?
 
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Mm. What happens if, having such a system, you take an injury which breaks it such that the path of least resistance for the electricity to complete a circuit is, in fact, through the various organic squishy bits? I can't help but see that ending... poorly.
 
Chargone said:
Mm. What happens if, having such a system, you take an injury which breaks it such that the path of least resistance for the electricity to complete a circuit is, in fact, through the various organic squishy bits? I can't help but see that ending... poorly.
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Then that means that you have your arm lopped off or something and by that point you have other more important things to worry about.
 
Chargone said:
Mm. What happens if, having such a system, you take an injury which breaks it such that the path of least resistance for the electricity to complete a circuit is, in fact, through the various organic squishy bits? I can't help but see that ending... poorly.
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Well, unless you're really dumb about how you've set up the system then it couldn't really ever "fail deadly": any break in the wires would noticeably raise the resistance, at which point the system would just cut out entirely. Even without that failsafe, the only way to really cause a short would be to remove a lot of the nanowire all at once, which would mean you have a large, messy hole blown in you anyway and cauterizing your nerves in the affected area would be at worse a secondary consideration.

Heh, @Ramble put it much more succinctly than I did. :D
 
TheEyes said:
Well, unless you're really dumb about how you've set up the system then it couldn't really ever "fail deadly": any break in the wires would noticeably raise the resistance, at which point the system would just cut out entirely. Even without that failsafe, the only way to really cause a short would be to remove a lot of the nanowire all at once, which would mean you have a large, messy hole blown in you anyway and cauterizing your nerves in the affected area would be at worse a secondary consideration.

Heh, @Ramble put it much more succinctly than I did. :D
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why even implant it? why not externalise it and build a secondary nerve system with eezo nodules of its own into a power armour that interfaces with the control implant? much safer and quicker to fix if something goes wrong personally. probably much more likely to be marketable too.
 
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Thellton said:
why even implant it? why not externalise it and build a secondary nerve system with eezo nodules of its own into a power armour that interfaces with the control implant? much safer and quicker to fix if something goes wrong personally. probably much more likely to be marketable too.
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Well, that's getting into artificial biotics. Presumably there's something more complex going on there beyond "just" replicating a biological nervous system (plus eezo nodules) into an artificial body, otherwise someone would have figured it out over the last 2,000 years.
 
TheEyes said:
Well, that's getting into artificial biotics. Presumably there's something more complex going on there beyond "just" replicating a biological nervous system (plus eezo nodules) into an artificial body, otherwise someone would have figured it out over the last 2,000 years.
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We can fill the plotholes with super science. If you think about it thing like TIR or high powered lasers should have invented it were not for Bioware's failure to not hire actual scientists/engineers in order to flesh out ME tech.
 
@UberJJK

Can we spread our shipyards around a bit when we build them? Concentrating them in one spot is just begging some enemies to wreck them first.



I've also put some more thought into how to boost colony growth:

We simply pay more. PI is becoming one of the biggest employers in the colonies if I understand it right. If we pay everyone on the colonies 25% more than on Earth, people would move by themselves as long as we keep building factories.

And all those well paid employees are gonna pay people around them, which attracts even more people to open business on the colonies.



Btw, is it just me, or would the Geth be all over QEC tech once we develope it? Their dyson sphere project exists so they can be all connected without lag. QEC allows that over practically infinite range for less cost than a sphere.
 
DakkaMania said:
I've also put some more thought into how to boost colony growth:

We simply pay more. PI is becoming one of the biggest employers in the colonies if I understand it right. If we pay everyone on the colonies 25% more than on Earth, people would move by themselves as long as we keep building factories.

And all those well paid employees are gonna pay people around them, which attracts even more people to open business on the colonies.
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Terra Firma is going to lobby our asses all the way down to an black hole if we do something like this...
 
DakkaMania said:
Can we spread our shipyards around a bit when we build them? Concentrating them in one spot is just begging some enemies to wreck them first.
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They already are being spread out for the most part. Right now, shipyard wise, we have:

Mindoir - 3x Small Shipyard + 1x Medium Shipyard
Benning - 1x Medium Shipyard
Demeter - 1x Medium Shipyard

We'll probably put our first Large Shipyard over Elysium and our second over Earth.
 
TheEyes said:
Interestingly, it just occurred to me that having a "secondary" nervous system like this would actually protect your "real" nervous system from dangerous eezo discharges, since the nanowires we'd use would of course have a lower electrical resistance than your actual human meat, so the whole system would overall be safer, even with the overcharger! Revy's already rebuilding her whole body from scratch with the Peak Human treatment; why not make a few improvements while she's tinkering around in there?
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That is probably why Krogan can match Asari in Biotics if they pursue it...
 
Somebodynobody10 said:
Terra Firma is going to lobby our asses all the way down to an black hole if we do something like this...
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What, are they going to force us to lower the wages on the colonies?

We can just as well declare that due to TF, we decided against building any factories in Sol. We aren't beholden to TF. While we do have government contracts, those are because the utter, crushing supremacy of our product.

Basically, they can't attack us without looking like the bad guy.
 
DakkaMania said:
Btw, is it just me, or would the Geth be all over QEC tech once we develope it? Their dyson sphere project exists so they can be all connected without lag. QEC allows that over practically infinite range for less cost than a sphere.
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You underestimate the impact it would have. Geth where designed to become more intelligent the more that were focused on a task, and that this would allow ALL of the Geth to focus on a single problem, even from a single frame. They'd be approaching near Revy levels of intelligence.
 
Dark as Silver said:
You underestimate the impact it would have. Geth where designed to become more intelligent the more that were focused on a task, and that this would allow ALL of the Geth to focus on a single problem, even from a single frame. They'd be approaching near Revy levels of intelligence.
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Ramble said:
Then we'll just get smarter.
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Of course we are. We are going to first only provide comunication services and never ever sell any QE coms, this way we will control communications and prevent leaks and then we will research software AI and extremis so we can plug AI in our brain. Then we take over all the Geth as Revys personal distributed mindlinked calculator.

Revy, Queen of Geth, Empress of Space.

Also somewhere between 1000xd1oo and 10000xd100 RP points...
We would eat the current techtree in a less than half a decade.

DakkaMania said:
What, are they going to force us to lower the wages on the colonies?

We can just as well declare that due to TF, we decided against building any factories in Sol. We aren't beholden to TF. While we do have government contracts, those are because the utter, crushing supremacy of our product.

Basically, they can't attack us without looking like the bad guy.
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Attack us? They will be lobbying us. Trying to kiss our ass and seduce us into investing on earth, not antagonize us. Hell, even with almost opposing political views, TF has been as cordial and respectful towards Revy and Paragon as they can be without harming their own political capital. The only reason for them to attack us is if they have no other alternative to interact with us or our effects in the political scene.
 
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What is peoples opinion on selling the Volus some improved environmental suits?

As we have extensive experience with suits that can take an ungodly beating, we can probably make the Volus a suit that is more comfortable to life in on alien worlds while still being safer than the alternative.
 
DakkaMania said:
What is peoples opinion on selling the Volus some improved environmental suits?

As we have extensive experience with suits that can take an ungodly beating, we can probably make the Volus a suit that is more comfortable to life in on alien worlds while still being safer than the alternative.
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Hadn't given it any thought, as long as it doesn't take research options I have no complaints. But if it doesn't what does this actually entail?
 
UberJJK said:
They already are being spread out for the most part. Right now, shipyard wise, we have:

Mindoir - 3x Small Shipyard + 1x Medium Shipyard
Benning - 1x Medium Shipyard
Demeter - 1x Medium Shipyard

We'll probably put our first Large Shipyard over Elysium and our second over Earth.
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Benning first; it's already super well-defended because Arcturus Station is there. Then Project Landfall (3,000 Factory IIIs, populating every major city on Earth, cost ~3.03 trillion creds), then Demeter (we'll have multi-core eezo drives by then so supplying it won't be an issue), then Elysium since we'll have the chops to start defending entire star systems. By this point we'll need to start investing in larger ship technology just so we have something to throw all our spare Production at. :D

DakkaMania said:
What is peoples opinion on selling the Volus some improved environmental suits?

As we have extensive experience with suits that can take an ungodly beating, we can probably make the Volus a suit that is more comfortable to life in on alien worlds while still being safer than the alternative.
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More of a priority once we've researched the Mark II and Advanced Xeno; right now the physical part of our suits are actually fairly mundane, and not really adapted to alien biology.

On the subject of aliens, anyone remember our current strategy regarding obtaining an AI license? We need to persuade the Salarians, IIRC, since the Asari aren't going to be happy until we get a few hundred years under our belt first.
 
TheEyes said:
On the subject of aliens, anyone remember our current strategy regarding obtaining an AI license? We need to persuade the Salarians, IIRC, since the Asari aren't going to be happy until we get a few hundred years under our belt first.
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Eternal youth might do it. They'd love a way to not die after 30 years.
 
TheEyes said:
On the subject of aliens, anyone remember our current strategy regarding obtaining an AI license? We need to persuade the Salarians, IIRC, since the Asari aren't going to be happy until we get a few hundred years under our belt first.
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Bioforming and using it to defuse drell and qurians situation might be able to sway asari, I think. Hanar should have at least some political pull, if very minor, and they already like us - if we help drell they might like us more (or less, since we'll be depriving them of a race of assassins). Solving quarian situation, especially if we stipudate "no, you don't get to provoke the geth take back Rannoch in the next generation" as part of the price for the planet, might be useful there too - we show ourselves as a stabilizing force.

QEC and mind shields might get us salarian vote, but mind shields are likely to make asari dislike us at least a bit. Unless we can adapt that tech to make melding with ardat yakshi survivable. @Hoyr would this work?
 
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