Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To develop a nanite that consumes different metals
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Aurora Industries
- Affiliation: Aurora Industries, Closed-Market
- Model: Interitus Nanite
- Modularity: Programmable to consume different metals
Production: Limited
- Material: Nanite Components
- Programmable - The nanites are able to be programmed to consume different metals
- Programmable - The nanites are designed to consume different metals, depending on what molecular structure has been programmed into them
- Consuming - The nanites are able to consume metals, at differing rates of time, by eating away the molecule of the metals in their lattice. A single swarm of nanites takes a decent amount of time to eat through durasteel, while stronger metals like phrik or beskar take much longer when exposed to a single nanite swarm depending on the thickness of the plate
- Multiplying Strength - If exposed to more swarms, the time to consume the metal will decrease accordingly
- One time Programming - Each nanite swarm can only be programmed one time, with one metal. To weaken another metal, a new swarm will be required programmed to attack it.
- Noticeable - Nanite swarms can be avoided as they appear as a silvery cloud when in the air, or silver flecks on the ground
- Heat - Extreme heats will destroy the nanites
- Cold - Extreme colds will destroy the nanites
- Ion and EMPs - Being subjected to an ion attack or EMP will destroy the nanites
- Short Life - The nanites can only survive for a day at most once dispatched, after that, they will die off on their own
- Failsafe - While the urge to send swarm after swarm is powerful, especially against materials such as phrik and beskar, the nanites have a built-in failsafe that will, if three swarms are deployed against any given target, they will actually turn on each other and temporarily strengthen the target in question
As Aurora Industries continued its research into the uncertain field of technology that was nanotechnology, some of the Anomid researchers began seeking a way to weaponize nanites. They were hoping to develop some sort of nanite that could consume different metals, and the Interitus Nanite is the current culmination of their work. For these Anomid engineers, based in the Aurora facility on Nar Shaddaa, the Interitus was a proof of concept to them, regardless of the severe drawbacks and shortcuts they had to take to reach this step in their research.
Before they are deployed, the nanite swarm can be programmed to consume the molecular bonds holding together the metal's individual molecules by uploading the specific molecular structure of that metal. Each swarm can only be programmed to consume one metal, and the time on how they take to consume it depends on both the material in question and the thickness of the material. Standard durasteel can be eaten away in a decent amount of time by a single swarm, but compounds like phrik or beskar can take much longer depending on the thickness of the plate to even begin weakening. Continued exposure to multiple swarms would be required to eat through it as fast as durasteel.
Extreme hot and cold temperatures will outright destroy the nanites as they have no environmental protections, and ion and EMPs will also outright destroy them. Even if not destroyed, the silver-gray cloud they form when deployed is very noticeable, and each nanite only has enough power to survive a standard day. After that, they are rendered inert and crumble away.
