Lexica:Cosmoria/Technology

---

Dance, O Freest Aeon

This content is a part of Cosmoria.

---

---

Index / Lexica / Timeline

---

A simple definition of technology, "the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals," is very broad. It includes the first fires to the fusion reactors powering most cities. It includes the first notions of trade to ideologies united trillions. It includes folk medicine and advanced thaumaturgy.

Below are a list of technologies common in Cosmoria. Some of these technologies seem dated by 21st century standards, but the vast majority are more advanced. This page serves to paint a clear picture of everyday life, warfare, medicine, and other fields.

Agriculture

Depending on the region, agriculture takes various forms. For cultivating plants, that is, organisms in the plantae kingdom of domain eukaryota, large open-air farms produce the best results. To maintain healthy soil and plant microbiomes, fields must fallow often and go years without production. This naturally gives places like Eos a huge advantage as land comes cheap on that world. Most worlds are thus not self-sufficient and rely on imports from agriworlds. Such planets are mostly devoted to agriculture and need not be habitable. Through careful importing of soils, domed fields on airless worlds can supply a great deal of crops.

Hydroponics is the practice of using nutrient-rich water to sustain plants rather than soil. While some crops, such as those in the Brassica family, are far easier to cultivate via hydroponics as, unlike most plants, do not rely on the Mycorrhizal Network to grow. This network, found on all worlds where fungi are present—that is to say, all worlds with air and water—is non-negotiable for any kind of grain, by far the most efficient way to feed a hungry populace.

Algae Cultivation is an alternative to conventional agriculture altogether. It focuses on growing algae in highly optimized marine-like environments. While other microbes are needed to keep the algae healthy, this is the simplest way to grow food. For space-based societies operating in zero gravity, using algae as the main source of carbohydrates in a diet is popular. Other microbes, ranging from fungi to microscopic plazmoans and protists. Different species usually cultivate their own plant equivalents, but the previous options are most widely edible.

Genetic engineering is a common way to boost agricultural output but suffers from poorly understood symbiotic pressure. In other words, given the great difficulty in maintaining control over the plant microbiome on a large scale, genetically modified crops often fare worse than their merely selectively-breed counterparts. Wild Genetic Engineering, that is, the ability to create a modified organism that could survive with minimum intervention, is a holy grail in biotechnology.

Electronics

Personal Devices

Animavitrifier

A device that allows its wearer to survive temperatures well below which what would normally kill them. Also sees applications in chemistry and manufacturing to change the temperature at which chemical reactions can take place.

Console Scrolls

A compact, two-dimensional computer that allows the user to interact with it via a stylus. Much like writing on a piece of paper.

Pneumoraq

A device that allows its wearer to survive temperatures well beyond what would normally kill them. Also sees applications in chemistry and manufacturing to change the temperature at which chemical reactions can take place. Lexica:Cosmoria/Technology#Fusion Energy benefits greatly from pneumoraq technology, even if its original purpose was to allow wearer to survive on hot worlds.

Transportation

Lithonautics

om nuc

Warfare

Weaponry

Atomic Weapons

Atomic weapons, sometimes called atomic bombs, nuclear bombs, nuclear weapons, nukes, or a-bombs, are a broad class of explosives drawing power from nuclear fission, fusion, or annihilation. Most modern atomic weapons use a combination of fission, fusion, and annihilation to bolster a fusion reaction within the bomb. These bombs fuse material far faster than the cores of even the hottest stars and, for brief periods of history, were a form of fusion energy.

A Nuclear Pumped Laser was once a common means for ground-based militaries to control the space around their planet, at the time creating a near impassable barrier by the technologies of the time. Modern spacecraft, however, are too numerous for this technology to be of much use. These beams convert the blast of a nuclear explosion into a x-ray laser beam that could cut through any material.

Marceum Bombs

Marceum Bombs are a class of atomic weapon that rely on degenerate matter, called Marceum, to create a miniature star far as long as several minutes. This class of weapon is by far the most energy dense, but great costs have limited their deployment.

Other Weapons

Lasers (Cosmoria)

A Laser is a beam of electromagnetic radiation used to great effect in not just warfare but manufacturing, chemistry, and art.