Engineers solve practical problems
Jan. 20th, 2013 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_print_captainPutting up a turret looks easy. A few control taps, a handful of seconds and you have an extra source of weapons fire to help deal with your problems.
The ice devil, as always, is in the details.
The standard tool kit has power sources, but nothing that's good for more than a few stun shots. There isn't enough 'oomf' there, so you bootstrap it up.
The kit projects a single, generations out of date, holographic micro-singularity reactor reverse engineered from captured Romulan designs and a single purpose, and again, holographic industrial replicator. Using power from the reactor, which is burning completely real atmosphere to produce energy, the one shot replicator produces a second, more elaborate, holographic projector and the processors to hold the holographic matrix for the turret.
Then a copy of a turret holographic matrix is transferred over, along with the matrix for the reactor. Turret, sensors, reactor, all are holographic, infinitely configurable within the limits of physics and the knowledge of the designs.
Progress marches on.
Some days Jhrot wishes that it had been worked out for building shelters first instead of weapons.
The ice devil, as always, is in the details.
The standard tool kit has power sources, but nothing that's good for more than a few stun shots. There isn't enough 'oomf' there, so you bootstrap it up.
The kit projects a single, generations out of date, holographic micro-singularity reactor reverse engineered from captured Romulan designs and a single purpose, and again, holographic industrial replicator. Using power from the reactor, which is burning completely real atmosphere to produce energy, the one shot replicator produces a second, more elaborate, holographic projector and the processors to hold the holographic matrix for the turret.
Then a copy of a turret holographic matrix is transferred over, along with the matrix for the reactor. Turret, sensors, reactor, all are holographic, infinitely configurable within the limits of physics and the knowledge of the designs.
Progress marches on.
Some days Jhrot wishes that it had been worked out for building shelters first instead of weapons.
