How about this for nanotech:
Wave some Mindstorms by dunking them in a vat of 'wavium.
Let them dry - they shrink.
They don't work unless they're wet again, and only when they're wet with liquid handwavium. This means:
So he can have some nanotech - quirky, unreliable nanotech - without breaking the setting. Reliable hardtech nanotech is still something that the Whole Fenspace Catalog experts say is a decade away (unless one of The Girls did some tinkering - those who have the outline for LoGG, see chapter 4 - in which case it's only a half-decade away for anyone who has the results of that tinkering).
That's an excellent idea. It also has precedent: the Catgirling Machine.
I'm a bit worried about this bit in the original writeup:
Load too many weapons (and ammo clips) on, and you've got a battle-mecha, not a power-suit...
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Wave some Mindstorms by dunking them in a vat of 'wavium.
Let them dry - they shrink.
They don't work unless they're wet again, and only when they're wet with liquid handwavium. This means:
- They only work in a vat or a tank.
- Different strains of 'wavium produce different results. Undifferentiated 'wavium (the stuff Noah usually uses) lets the 'bots make action figures.
So he can have some nanotech - quirky, unreliable nanotech - without breaking the setting. Reliable hardtech nanotech is still something that the Whole Fenspace Catalog experts say is a decade away (unless one of The Girls did some tinkering - those who have the outline for LoGG, see chapter 4 - in which case it's only a half-decade away for anyone who has the results of that tinkering).
Rakhasa Wrote:I also would try to avoid creating hardtech items with you nanos: They are the end, 'waved product (so your flexible carbon nanotube sheets, for instance, are already pre-waved, and strong enough for extra armor)
That's an excellent idea. It also has precedent: the Catgirling Machine.
I'm a bit worried about this bit in the original writeup:
nick012000 Wrote:Because Death Rays are AWESOME!: His suit of power armor is equipped with a wide variety of weapons, both 'waved and hardtech. Unfortunately, his still at actually using them in combat is amateurish at best. Fortunately, he's never actually been called upon to use them in a life-or-death situation.Weapons need ammunition (or power, but death rays aren't something handwavium makes and they aren't in the Whole Fenspace Catalog either), and there's only so much room on a suit of power armor.
Load too many weapons (and ammo clips) on, and you've got a battle-mecha, not a power-suit...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012