Project Cicero
Project Cicero is, at the basic level, an attempt to turn the primary gas giant of the Nepleslia system into a massive hypercomputer.
The proposed plan is to use swarms of programmed nanomachines to deconsitiute the atmosphere, core and moons of the giant into raw materials. These raw materials would then be used to construct a similar sized but much less dense structure in the planet’s orbit.
The structure of the computer would be a series of concentric lattice works with hundreds of imbedded high efficiency aether taps for power. Each lattice would be made of nanoscale computronium ‘painted’ on top of a stabilizing matrix. The entire system is optimized for minimum signal propagation delay.
To deal with heat dissipation, the proposed structure would also have thousands of heat towers, extending from the depths of the structure to well beyond it’s nominal diameter While the average equatorial radius works out to around 70,000 km, the towers would extend almost two thirds again more, the largest capping off at 180,000 kms from base to top. The tops of these towers would feature wide dissipation arms to allow the heat from the coolant to disperse into the vacuum.
Programming the structure would be difficult unto impossibility by conventional means. Current proposals are to implant a small artificial intelligence into a cordoned off portion of the structure’s computational matrix and raise it into the role of ‘system administrator’, gradually increasing the amount of processing power allowed to it. Another proposal is to follow similar guidelines to the above, but instead use dozens, hundreds or even thousands of constructs to achieve the same goal.
(This is just a preliminary proposal of Project Cicero. I’m putting it up now in a slightly unformed state so I don’t become attached to a final product incompatible with the SARPverse. I think I’ve adequately explained what I’m trying to accomplish with it, now I just need some help with the technical details.)