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I'm Sorry Dave
- Intent: Provide the Open Market with the Galaxy's Most Advanced Bed™.
- Image Source: Hypersleep by Rell Vision
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Stasis Chamber, Suspended Animation
- Manufacturer: Gildenleaf Incorporated | Trivohld Technologies
- Affiliation: Open-Market
- Model: GHS "Hypnos" HyperSleep Casket
- Modularity: Very High; various models have been produced for different markets and price classes, with deluxe and military-grade models often using sturdier materials, allowing the caskets to function as escape pods, of sorts.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Tridurium Frame, Synthcloth Mattress, & various technological components.
- A unique feature of the Hypnos, users with the necessary implants (see "Vivid Dreams") are able to enter advanced simulations in place of regular sleep, the exact intricacy of which will vary based on price class and whether or not the casket is connected to a central hub. The potential uses range from the purely educational, such as refreshing the training of soldiers as they sleep, to the purely recreational - multiple caskets can even be connected to each other, typically locally, but potentially also over the HoloNet, allowing for "shared dreams". Most models require a source for the content generated, generally a premade educational simulation or NeuroGame, though the very most expensive of the caskets, far beyond the means of the hoi polloi, are able to spontaneously generate entire simulated worlds based on the user's neural patterns, inbuilt AI, and vast stores of information.
- Sweet Dreams: Outfitted with carefully calibrated sleep-inducers, the Hypnos is able to make most lifeforms fall asleep within moments, monitor their sleep quality, wake them gently, etc. - the casket even makes the process more efficient, reducing the overall need for sleep by between 10 to 50 percent, depending on the mode selected and the quality of the model in question, with an average of ~20 percent.
- Vivid Dreams: Though regular customers are unlikely to experience any change except more stable sleeping patterns, those outfitted with a mind-machine interface, such as TriTech's "Aperture", are able to enter simulations in place of regular sleep.
- Safe Dreams: Even basic models should be fully capable of surviving a collapsing building - the survivability of more expensive models depends entirely on the materials used, with it being rumoured that certain plutocrats have even commissioned phrik caskets!
- Hibernation: Not limited to mere sleep, the Hypnos can function as a stasis chamber, as an optional addition - more basic models generally rely on an external source of power, while deluxe models come an inbuilt power generator.
- Overcomplicated: The Hypnos is, quite frankly, a bit too complicated for the average consumer, when a regular bed will do just fine.
- Under the Knife: Being able to experience snazzy simulations in place of sleep is nice... but not nice enough to justify brain surgery, for most.
- Claustrophobia: Though the intent is that one is to fall asleep almost immediately upon being fully enclosed in the Hypnos' "comforting embrace", the experience can feel more like being buried alive.
When most people see a bed, they see exactly that - but the eccentric engineers of Gildenleaf's Erakhis branch instead saw inefficiency. Falling asleep is comfortable enough, but sleep itself? Waste of time. Dreams are fun enough, but too vague, fleeting, and unpredictable. Fortunately, they had a bloated R&D budget and plenty of time on their hands, and so the first HyperSleep Casket was born.
Following numerous trials, long months of development, and the integration of a similar project worked on and then abandoned by TriTech decades prior, the modern Hypnos was born and quickly dubbed the Galaxy's Most Advanced Bed™ by Gildenleaf's marketing division.
Appearing more like a coffin or long crate than a conventional bed, the Hypnos is entered differently, depending on its model: The most common variant will slide out, allow its user to climb on or off, then slide back in, while a somewhat more unusual design features a top lid that slides open allowing the user to climb inside. To maximise available space, the former is often integrated into walls and the latter into floors.
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