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keaalu"And lo, verily, did she say 'let there be curry', and there was curry, and it was good."
See, that's one reason I wouldn't want to BE a certain creature I write about, because then I'd miss out on this lummy chicken (eh, well, mostly courgette, actually) rogan josh.
Plus! More thinkings.
His strength comes mostly from micro-hydraulics, but he does have an associated musculature system for finer movement control (and backups), operating on a principle of electro-reactive elastomers. Arranged in bundles, they contract upon application of current, and are strongly similar to biological muscles. Without the hydraulic backup his strength would be considerably diminished, but the two systems run in tandem so the loss of one without the other is unlikely.
His skin is tri-layered; it is satiny in quality and marginally softer to the touch than biological Kiravai skin, but tougher and heavier in nature, and brings to mind soft leather if removed (eg for maintenance). The top layer is coloured, composed of a toughened micro-crystalline elastomer, and backed by a dual-layer Teflon-like substance dubbed “biofilm” by the creators (although it is no more biological than any other component.) Biofilm consists of two thin membranous sheets, connected together by electrostatic forces and sandwiching a layer of highly lubricant oil, which allows them to slide over each other to a certain extent and so allowing movement between skin and internal structure. The outer layer of Biofilm is attached to the underside of the elastomer layer; the inner layer forms a “fascia” over the underlying components, be they muscles, plating, trunking, etc.
As does Ivy, Iios has the capability to form a “neuronal uplink” with his ship; this is a semi-physical connection, operating by way of a “neural cradle” – so named because it is a meshwork structure cradling the cortical housing. The device is strongly based off an old diagnostic tool, used to assay the operating status and capability of a synthetic brain without opening the cortex and without the potential to cause physical damage to the interior. To use it Iios currently must remove a portion of skull plating to enable an good, uninterrupted connection, but he is working on advancing the sensitivity of the pickups such that it will operate through his exterior skull plating.
Unlike Dauntless, Iios’ ship is totally nonsentient; Dauntless’ sentience stemmed primarily from Ivy’s method of core maintenance, which often involved “propping up” faulty code with her own. As Iios’ ship was not experimental, the requirement to donate code was not there, and thus it has not “learnt” from him. He treats it as more of an extension to his own body, which Ivy is currently unable to do with Dauntless.
WHEE. TECHNOBABBLE FTW
Edit: upon Aegis' suggestion (which I had, granted, been toying with before) I'm going to try draw some of this up - but less static than the one I did for Ivy. So... yay.
See, that's one reason I wouldn't want to BE a certain creature I write about, because then I'd miss out on this lummy chicken (eh, well, mostly courgette, actually) rogan josh.
Plus! More thinkings.
His strength comes mostly from micro-hydraulics, but he does have an associated musculature system for finer movement control (and backups), operating on a principle of electro-reactive elastomers. Arranged in bundles, they contract upon application of current, and are strongly similar to biological muscles. Without the hydraulic backup his strength would be considerably diminished, but the two systems run in tandem so the loss of one without the other is unlikely.
His skin is tri-layered; it is satiny in quality and marginally softer to the touch than biological Kiravai skin, but tougher and heavier in nature, and brings to mind soft leather if removed (eg for maintenance). The top layer is coloured, composed of a toughened micro-crystalline elastomer, and backed by a dual-layer Teflon-like substance dubbed “biofilm” by the creators (although it is no more biological than any other component.) Biofilm consists of two thin membranous sheets, connected together by electrostatic forces and sandwiching a layer of highly lubricant oil, which allows them to slide over each other to a certain extent and so allowing movement between skin and internal structure. The outer layer of Biofilm is attached to the underside of the elastomer layer; the inner layer forms a “fascia” over the underlying components, be they muscles, plating, trunking, etc.
As does Ivy, Iios has the capability to form a “neuronal uplink” with his ship; this is a semi-physical connection, operating by way of a “neural cradle” – so named because it is a meshwork structure cradling the cortical housing. The device is strongly based off an old diagnostic tool, used to assay the operating status and capability of a synthetic brain without opening the cortex and without the potential to cause physical damage to the interior. To use it Iios currently must remove a portion of skull plating to enable an good, uninterrupted connection, but he is working on advancing the sensitivity of the pickups such that it will operate through his exterior skull plating.
Unlike Dauntless, Iios’ ship is totally nonsentient; Dauntless’ sentience stemmed primarily from Ivy’s method of core maintenance, which often involved “propping up” faulty code with her own. As Iios’ ship was not experimental, the requirement to donate code was not there, and thus it has not “learnt” from him. He treats it as more of an extension to his own body, which Ivy is currently unable to do with Dauntless.
WHEE. TECHNOBABBLE FTW
Edit: upon Aegis' suggestion (which I had, granted, been toying with before) I'm going to try draw some of this up - but less static than the one I did for Ivy. So... yay.
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Date: 5 Jul 2006 08:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 6 Jul 2006 07:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 6 Jul 2006 06:19 am (UTC)So Iios can control his ship directly with his brain... wait. I already knew this (one of your "jotters" with him and Eri). Still noteworthy though, I suppose.
So - if his "skin" is sheets of joined metalic polymeres, how exactly is he able to affect it with his "immune system", either to repair damage to it, or, as you've had in some of the writings (and previous notes), add artificial damage to it? From what I can tell, any centralized system would only be able to affect the innermost layer of skin, if any....
And considering he doesn't "bleed" without the skin on (hm - does he?), a liquid transport method for any repair systems seems unlikely....
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Date: 6 Jul 2006 07:43 am (UTC)They're primarily carried in the nutrient system, granted, but I imagine there'd be small efflux ports (like lymph nodes, I suppose) to enable them to exit, whereby they revert to a different form of locomotion which isn't water based. I think. :P