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Research of the Lazarus Consortium

At all times, the Lazarus Consortium constantly has an overwhelming number of technological projects underway, each intermingling and affecting one another, cross-pollinating to produce new innovations during the development cycle.

Projects

Below is a list of all ongoing projects The Lazarus Consortium has at any given time. Many exist in physical prototypes and others only as simulations in the HQ server farm and as CAD documents. The majority below have not to date been constructed - but are always an ongoing focus, allowing Lazarus to shift gears based on what the market specifically demands.

Contractual Projects

Projects specifically requested by other entities are listed here. Contractual projects primarily consist of high end military equipment in order to produce a 'template' prototype for a project to then either mass produce a simplified version from or to enter a manufacturing contract.

Winter II Project

Developed from the original Winter, the shelved M2 Power-armour project and international developments, the Winter II isn't so much a unit as it is a format.

Systems Projects

A number of information projects, designed both for other platforms and Lazarus' own inhouse projects and systems.

Phoenix Plasma Engines

Plasma Drive Circulation Transmission System or PDCT, Phoenix Engines are an evolution of Lor's original PDCT-systems used to propel the Winter frame and Hawk Fighter Bomber. The Phoenix-Line specifically started life as a happy accident aboard the Phoenix II captained by Luca Pavone - hence the name. This production version works by parenting the drive system to an existing powerplant. The result is improved reliability, less weight and ultimately more thrust.

Sensors & Avionic Systems

Computers

Interfaces?

Software & Peripherals

Generic

Platform Software

Sensors & Avionics

Information Security

Computing Hardware

Structol Conscience Computer

A structol conscience computer is a computer which uses growing extra-dimensional nano-scale circuitry, faster than light processing, and quantum-potential memory on the planck scale to reach its conclusions.

Unusually, this circuit physically grows and changes, networking and organising itself to form dedicated circuitry for low-precision high-parallelization long-term tasks and generalized circuitry for high-accuracy low-parallelization short-term tasks.

M4 Suite

A complete multipurpose software and hardware suite, complete with interface peripherals. Interestingly, when used as a sentence together (โ€œmanus micas midas monosโ€), the result translates in ancient Nepleslian trade into โ€œTo control with the touch of thought aloneโ€.

Cybernetics Projects

A merger of being and machine, Lazarus' cybernetics projects seek to explore niches that don't exist yet.

Base Hardware

C3R Suite

Centrifuge, capacitor, condenser & rectifier, the C3R is a combination suite designed to extend the capabilities of the Aura device.

  • Centrifuge : offers stability correction, field generation, gravitic detection and ranging and acts as a primary electrical capacitor. The centrifuge is highly programmable and has a large number of other interesting secondary features.
    • Type 1 Inverse Centrifuge: 50mm in diameter, designed for personal scale use.
    • Type 2 Inverse Centrifuge: 18 inches in diameter, designed to be used on frames. Excels in operating in large numbers.
    • Type 3 Inverse Centrifuge: Designed to be fitted singularly on fighters or in large numbers on bigger vessels: It About the size of a tractor wheel, it is designed to operate alone rather than in large numbers as an after-market addition.

Structol Substrate

Structol is a material which can be used in cables, wiring and pipes and so forth. It is capable of reknitting itself and re-routing in the event of a system failure. This improves the general ruggedness of the platform, allows for bypasses that normally require modification on the ground and reduce maintenance enormously to just specific components rather than spending hours hunting down broken connections between said systems.

More dedicated substrates used in the construction of a platform can act as a musculature system and chemical energy storage system.

Theoretical Projects

Materials

The Lazarus Consortium is exploring new avenues in material-sciences, examining how energy moves through materials, how their kinetic behaviors can be blended and how existing material technologies can be further enhanced through a deeper core understanding of their mechanism.

Structol

Structol is a multipurpose non-organic living and self-modifying nano-structure created by the Sourcian. It can be found in almost all Sourcian technology and trace levels are almost always found within a given Sourcian.

Quasicrystals

Not so much a material as a means of arranging other materials, quasiperiodic crystalline materials or 'quasicrystals' are constructed atom by atom - giving rise to some remarkable properties which are not usually seen in nature.

Tensile strength, chemical and thermal unreactivity, flexibility are common across the board but a number of more complex properties arise from the interesting electron and photon interaction properties of the material.

Unfortunately, quasicrystalline materials can be quite expensive and difficult to repair without specialist equipment. Some example applications some materials may be able to perform include semi-conduction, thermal insulators, one-way conductors, broadcast, sensor and display systems.

Exodermis

Appearing as microscopic flakes of material in structol epidermal laminate, exodermic plates are tiny quasicrystalline components with tiny nuclear-force pegs and hooks which are designed to be linked to form usable equipment inside the laminate - for example absorbing or broadcasting specific electromagnetic waves.

Important is that they're designed to break apart in controlled ways along their edges not unlike a child's construction toy - meaning they can endure massive kinetic and thermal punishment and when a given flake is broken, it can simply be ejected, repaired or swapped out.

  • Coming soon?

Meta Materials

Metamaterials are materials which seemingly don't respect the conventional laws of what a material can and cannot do through complex nanoengineering. Almost always, they are constructed atom by atom and often behave more like organisms than solid masses.

Terraforming Materials

Resources to be used in the terraforming of worlds, the Lazarus Terraforming Suite greatly simplifies and reduces costs for those terraforming new worlds.

Products

High-end Civilian products

Aimed specifically at the civilian market, these products are built to seemingly rediculous specifications with extremely high component tolerances - and as a result, very high price-tags.

Lazarus Apparatus

Platforms Projects

Habitats

Modular chambers, designed to be bolted together alongside specific systems and laminated in hull to produce a large structure, such as a starship or starbase.

Structures

Structures are typically stationary buildings which can be constructed to serve specific purposes. They are often either automated or self-dependent.

Starships

Powered-Armour

Other platforms

Military Projects

Weapons Projects

The Lazarus Consortium is almost always experimenting with an array of unusual weapons-systems in order to explore what other companies either lack the initiative, imagination or budget to do so.

Medical Projects

Unusually, Lazarus not only works on conventional engineering projects but also medical projects - with a goal of eventually bridging the two seamlessly in future projects.

Possible names?

  • Gracie
  • Wanderlei
  • Machida (SAoY?)
  • Sakuraba (SAoY?)
  • Fedor
  • Hunt

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