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Intent: To flesh out a canon technology (Organoform circuits) for later use by Lucerne Labs
Development Thread: The Alcibaedes Strategem
Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
Model: Biolux series Organoform Circuitry
Affiliation: Closed Market
Modularity: None
Production: Mass-Produced?
Material: Sturdiplast, silica, genetically modified diatoms, biolumniscent bacteria, nutrient bath, various small optical components
Strengths:
Compensation: Living components of organoform circuitry, like other living things, will try to physiologically compensate to any changes that it perceives, such as electromagnetic pulses. Additionally, the systems silicon-sturdiplast encapsulation acts as an high-grade insulator for the entire system. Within the system, its method of photonic information transmission combined with its organic nature makes Biolux almost immune to EMP and ion weapons.
Bridge between worlds: Biolux organoform circuitry is designed to facilitate two-way communication between biological and electronical systems.
Self-Healing: Organoform circuitry can slowly heal itself if damaged as their organic colonies rebuild their numbers, given enough time, nutrients, and energy. This is a process that usually takes hours to days depending on the amount of damage sustained.
Weaknesses:
Environmentally Fickle: Organoform circuitry cannot withstand the same environmental changes that many modern circuits can, such as vacuum, and have a lower range of temperature variances in which they can work. As a living thing, it is also susceptible to viruses and diseases. This often requires extra shielding (and consequently more bulky) in some devices made with organoform circuitry.
Difficult to Repair: Whereas a typical blown circuit can be pulled out and replaced with an identical model fairly quickly, the same is not true for Biolux. Not only is it harder to locate the exact point of failure, but damaged sections have to be sliced out and new sections must be grafted to the older section. This grafting process takes time during which the circuitry is either inoperable or works at a much reduced capacity in terms of both speed and information capacity as its host organisms grow and adapt to their surroundings.
Description: At a base conceptual level, Biolux organoform circuitry consists of silicon-sturdiplast tubes filled with genetically engineered diatoms and bioluminiscent bacteria living in nutrient bath to act as a photonic integrated circuit. On a more basic level, Biolux organoform circuitry uses microscopic creatures to generate and reflect light, whose pulses are used to transmit information like a fiber-optic cable. These light pulses of light are responsible for the vivid, flashing colors traditionally found in ships built by Zonoma Sekot. Because some users find these lights distracting or aesthetically unpleasing, Lucerne Labs produces Biolux organoform circuity with different grades of transparency in their sturdiplast that can either increase or decrease the light that comes out these circuits. Customers may also opt for various insulation sleeves which change the color of the light given off by the circuitry. But this is not the only difference between Lucerne Lab's Biolux circuitry and those generated by Zonoma Sekot.
The very first step in transmitting information through Biolux is creating an optical signal. In many cases, this is actually little more than passing on or converting an inputted light source (such as a comm laser or diode). In some cases, however, Biolux converts electrical pulses to start chemical reactions that cause the bioluminescent bacteria to release Aequorin. Aequorin reacts with other proteins in that bacteria to create pulses of green or blue light. These flashes of light are then carried on and bounced down the tube by diatom colonies which grow on the inner surface of the tubes. Diatoms are somewhat unique in that their walls are made out of silica, which combined with the sturdiplast act as the material basis for this photonic-integrated circuit. It's important to note that this portion of the circuit isn't fully organic, but incorporates such components as optical amplifiers, wave-length filters, modulators, and supplemental electrochemical lasers. This resulting organic circuit is probably most analogous to hybrid photonic integration circuit in operation. This circuit continues to bounce the light signal down to the destination device, where it is interpreted by com-boxes (for most conventional electrical components), bio-comp interfaces (for other organic and semi-organic components), and other like converter devices.
In terms of practical efficiency, Biolux circuitry is unremarkable compared to other modern-day circuits. It's main strength, like fiber optics lays in its lack of use of electrical components, which make it highly resistant to conventional ion and EMP weapons as well as naturally occurring EMP phenomena, such as ion storms or regions of space like the Kathol Rift. The unorthodox nature of this technology makes it rather difficult to repair at most starship repair facilities, but fortunately the system is mostly self-correcting (or healing) given enough time as the organisms reproduce in numbers. Those who wish to expedite the process are probably better off looking for microbiology labs to aid in this expediting what can be a long recovery process.
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Organoform Circuitry
Photonic Integrated Circuit
Intent: To flesh out a canon technology (Organoform circuits) for later use by Lucerne Labs
Development Thread: The Alcibaedes Strategem
Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
Model: Biolux series Organoform Circuitry
Affiliation: Closed Market
Modularity: None
Production: Mass-Produced?
Material: Sturdiplast, silica, genetically modified diatoms, biolumniscent bacteria, nutrient bath, various small optical components
Strengths:
Compensation: Living components of organoform circuitry, like other living things, will try to physiologically compensate to any changes that it perceives, such as electromagnetic pulses. Additionally, the systems silicon-sturdiplast encapsulation acts as an high-grade insulator for the entire system. Within the system, its method of photonic information transmission combined with its organic nature makes Biolux almost immune to EMP and ion weapons.
Bridge between worlds: Biolux organoform circuitry is designed to facilitate two-way communication between biological and electronical systems.
Self-Healing: Organoform circuitry can slowly heal itself if damaged as their organic colonies rebuild their numbers, given enough time, nutrients, and energy. This is a process that usually takes hours to days depending on the amount of damage sustained.
Weaknesses:
Environmentally Fickle: Organoform circuitry cannot withstand the same environmental changes that many modern circuits can, such as vacuum, and have a lower range of temperature variances in which they can work. As a living thing, it is also susceptible to viruses and diseases. This often requires extra shielding (and consequently more bulky) in some devices made with organoform circuitry.
Difficult to Repair: Whereas a typical blown circuit can be pulled out and replaced with an identical model fairly quickly, the same is not true for Biolux. Not only is it harder to locate the exact point of failure, but damaged sections have to be sliced out and new sections must be grafted to the older section. This grafting process takes time during which the circuitry is either inoperable or works at a much reduced capacity in terms of both speed and information capacity as its host organisms grow and adapt to their surroundings.
Description: At a base conceptual level, Biolux organoform circuitry consists of silicon-sturdiplast tubes filled with genetically engineered diatoms and bioluminiscent bacteria living in nutrient bath to act as a photonic integrated circuit. On a more basic level, Biolux organoform circuitry uses microscopic creatures to generate and reflect light, whose pulses are used to transmit information like a fiber-optic cable. These light pulses of light are responsible for the vivid, flashing colors traditionally found in ships built by Zonoma Sekot. Because some users find these lights distracting or aesthetically unpleasing, Lucerne Labs produces Biolux organoform circuity with different grades of transparency in their sturdiplast that can either increase or decrease the light that comes out these circuits. Customers may also opt for various insulation sleeves which change the color of the light given off by the circuitry. But this is not the only difference between Lucerne Lab's Biolux circuitry and those generated by Zonoma Sekot.
The very first step in transmitting information through Biolux is creating an optical signal. In many cases, this is actually little more than passing on or converting an inputted light source (such as a comm laser or diode). In some cases, however, Biolux converts electrical pulses to start chemical reactions that cause the bioluminescent bacteria to release Aequorin. Aequorin reacts with other proteins in that bacteria to create pulses of green or blue light. These flashes of light are then carried on and bounced down the tube by diatom colonies which grow on the inner surface of the tubes. Diatoms are somewhat unique in that their walls are made out of silica, which combined with the sturdiplast act as the material basis for this photonic-integrated circuit. It's important to note that this portion of the circuit isn't fully organic, but incorporates such components as optical amplifiers, wave-length filters, modulators, and supplemental electrochemical lasers. This resulting organic circuit is probably most analogous to hybrid photonic integration circuit in operation. This circuit continues to bounce the light signal down to the destination device, where it is interpreted by com-boxes (for most conventional electrical components), bio-comp interfaces (for other organic and semi-organic components), and other like converter devices.
In terms of practical efficiency, Biolux circuitry is unremarkable compared to other modern-day circuits. It's main strength, like fiber optics lays in its lack of use of electrical components, which make it highly resistant to conventional ion and EMP weapons as well as naturally occurring EMP phenomena, such as ion storms or regions of space like the Kathol Rift. The unorthodox nature of this technology makes it rather difficult to repair at most starship repair facilities, but fortunately the system is mostly self-correcting (or healing) given enough time as the organisms reproduce in numbers. Those who wish to expedite the process are probably better off looking for microbiology labs to aid in this expediting what can be a long recovery process.
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Organoform Circuitry
Photonic Integrated Circuit