Union R&D 5: Scourge
Name: Scourge NanitesDesigners: Union Special Weapons Division
With its realization that it cannot match most galactic entities blow for blow on the battlefield, the Union has invested heavily in special items and weaponry that they could use for specific purposes, including planetary extortion. To this end, the Union aquired the Eden treatment system via Belgardi Ltd. Though Eden was designed for the welfare of people, a team of well paid scientistshas taken the nanotechnology used for the Eden bots and corrupted it towards their own twisted purposes; in a scheme to gain a major advantage on the battle field.
Since the dawn of galactic warfare every force in existence has tried to find the perfect weapon to use to gurantee their victory over their opponents. The Union's leaders realized that no technology can become the end-all weapon in warfare; however the Union does recognize the need for some form of military superiority, especially when facing massive galactic governments. A very basic principle has been taken note of in the corruption of the bots for their terrorism purposes. Metal of all forms has always been the staple of almost all advanced civilizations and the Union has grasped this concept very well in their weapons development laboratories hidden safely away aboard their mobile headquarters.
Taking the shapes and designs of bacterial organisms that can thrive even in the depths of space, the Union has created an entirely new and unrecognizable nanite model. This model is designed to be able to move swiftly acorss any metal surface upon making contact. Part of each of these nanites is a miniturized enzyme synthesizer that generates a special acid which the nanite is capable of spraying. This special acid is designed to break down the basic components of any metal on an atomic level, literaly disintegrating it.
Programming
Scourge nanites are designed to seek out and destroy all metallic material in their reach. Thus, when they come into contact with a piece of metal, all nanites focus on a single point and move outward from their, taking on the look of a green haze as they use their acid to rip the metal apart at its very atomic structure. It does however raise the problem of the nanites attacking each other and becoming useless which is why they were programed to not attack the single metal used in their own structure.
Platinite Structue
The nanites disintigrate all metallic compounds besides a single rare metal, which Union scientists settled upon due to its limited availability. Called platinite, the metal was previosuly limited to use in expensive jewelry which is obviously not used in any standing military designs and is sparsely used in even the wealthiest of civilian designs. The Union uses its many financial connections with several mining companies and subsidiaries to quietly aquire this metal and then hands it over to its scientists who use their lab machinery to carefully craft the devious little machines out of the valubale metal.
Metallurgic Acid
The acid generated by the synthesizers that are part of the nanites is completely harmless to organic beings. What is even more instriguing is that if the acid is not introduced at the atomic level (i.e. not from a scourge nanite), breaking the bonds in the metals atomic structure , the acid is very slow to eat through the metal. However, after being introduced via the Scourge, there is little that can be done to prevent the Scourge from disentgrating all metallic compounds in its path.
Enzyme Synthesizer
While this device is quite useful on almost all planets, it requires some assitance from the environment to function properly. The enzyme synthesizer uses plentiful particles gathered from any atmosphere to fuel its acid generation. In the vacuum of space, the nanties are forced to rely on acid reserves built up before being deployed. This limits the useful life span of any spaceborne Scourge nanite unless they break through a vessel's hull where gases wait to fuel their synthesizers.
Delivery Systems
Scourge nanites can be deployed in a number of ways, from merely dropping a vial of them on a metal surface to being flung in a large blast radius by some explosive device. A more commonly sought idea is even now in development to deploy warships armed with warheads packed full of dormant nanites which will activate once they come in contact with metal outside of the warhead's containment unit.
Due to their destructive nature and the abundance of metal in all of galactic civilization, the Union Committee refers to the insidious little machines as Scourge since if enough are deployed, they could decimate anything metallic like a plague destroys organic beings.
Production Specifications:
-Nanties produces solely at Construction yards
-Produced in amounts of 12 cm canisters
-Construcion Yards can only produce 15 canisters per day
R&D Time: 60 Days
Comments
#14 3:22pm 11/08/04
Am I required to explain the exact structure and heirarchy of the Union to counter that? Well, without waiting for answer, her it is anyways just to get a point across.
[b]Union Structure[/b]
The Chairman(me)
The Committee(the heads of every member organizaiton of the Union ie: Brutus Nogoth, Rico Belgardi, Edipus Tagge, etc.)
Fronts and Criminal Groups(GLF, TaggeCo, Belgardi Ltd., Black Sun, etc.)
The Chairman - Head of the whole thing, calls the shots no matter what. Every Union member must obey him.
The Committee - A council formed of the heads of each organizaiton that is part of the Union. This group ensures coordination between the seperate groups when needed. It also is the only true rank structure of the Union. Only direct Union members know of its existence
Fronts and Crime - Each group may be autonomous, but they must all bow to the decisions of the Union Committee and the Chairman. Of course, all of these groups are completely oblivious to the fact that they are controlled by the Union due to their own leader being a member of the Union Committee is the only one who knows and they are the ones giving the orders.
There you have it, a layout that isn't allowed to be simply found out magically by anyone. There is the meat and bones of the Union's organization. I think I should also emphasize that obedience within the Union is maintained with a zero tolerance policy. Those who serve us either obey or die; that goes for everyone, including Committee members.
So, you are telling me something that organized would not be able to set up the needed necessities to establish its operations and schemes which would include investing in new technologies? I mean the Union even controls a few galaxy spanning corporations.
#13 3:20pm 11/08/04
BDE is built on the things, you dont understand. BDE is Allowed to use such high technology becuase we have made consessions across the board on what we can and cannot do anymore. The Phage isnt an apt example becuase we can have them.
#12 2:56pm 11/08/04
Oh no doubt at the highest level it is strictly organized, but it is still just a coalition of groups with seperate interests and little cooperation. Logistically, there is no way you could support an SSD either, but that's a different debate.
#11 2:54pm 11/08/04
[QUOTE=Master Ahnk]I don't see any feasible way for a second grade terrorist organization that is largely ragtag would have the resources to either research or manufacture something of this technological standard.[/QUOTE]
Well, my apologies for the Union not meeting up to your standards, but we are not some little half wit, rag tag organization. We are an assemblage of multiple criminal organizations and legal fronts all of which easily provide an invarible number of resources and funding to their still secret controller. I'd say that requires a good bit of coordiation, wouldn't you? We aren't a government, but we have plenty of material wealth to invest into any number of projects that might catch our fancy. I mean we use an SSD for a HQ for crying out loud. Does that not speak of our funding?
Raktus: But the Union already has control of similar tech in the Eden Medical Treatment. This merely a very severe modifcation of current technology. Also, is the Phage not a use of nanotechnology? How is Scourge any different from that? I believe you have a fair number of said missiles being used in a de'tente tactic to keep others from attacking BDE. Is that not mass scale?
#10 2:33pm 11/08/04
I don't see any feasible way for a second grade terrorist organization that is largely ragtag to have the resources to either research or manufacture something of this technological standard.
#9 2:31pm 11/08/04
If mass largescale usage of nano-sized machines were heavily plausable by most galactic powers then why havent we seen it in more of Star Wars? Becuase its so high tech that not even a galactic spanning empire was able to delve that far into its uses or production. Ill admit there are minor mentions here and there of nano Type machines, but not on any scale or even usage that we use them here.
#8 4:14am 11/08/04
Well, why exactly should something be sacrificed for a mere weapon? We aren't making something grand scale like a Death Star or *cough* Omega Cloud. These nanites are made for interference in conventional warfare and terror attacks. If our forces use them, we have to be careful because the nanites could start attacking Union stuff.
#7 3:59am 11/08/04
Indeed, BDE cant build galactic standard ships, lol
#6 3:50am 11/08/04
Convential Ships for starters.
#5 3:32am 11/08/04
[QUOTE=General Grevious]Are deflector shields affected by this?[/QUOTE]
These nanites are made to attack metal, nothing else. Shields won't be affected by them unless they eat away at the shield generator itself or its power supply.
Kas: Exactly what kind of build info would be given for something like nanites? Especially since BDE has the Phage and I saw no such requirements and that is just as dangerous as this stuff if not more so since Phage kills directly.
Raktus: Let me ask you this, what exactly have you given up for the some of the stuff BDE has?
#4 3:17am 11/08/04
Copyright infrindgement! lol
Love the idea and all, but one thing... With great power comes great responsability... no wait....
To attain high techs and specialized things like this, certain groups had to make rather large consessions in the way of their ability to do things, what is it your giving up in the way of this?
#3 3:09am 11/08/04
It sounds to me like something they might smuggle aboard a ship and then activate... though a future R&D might include the described missile delivery system.
#2 1:58am 11/08/04
This would be something that would be added to future R&D's, thus the lack of general build information?
#1 11:09pm 10/08/04
Are deflector shields affected by this?
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