Nanite factory

Nanite Factories

The reconstruction / manufacture of components and materials using raw materials that are broken down at a molecular level and reassembled utilizing so called Nanites is a field of Union technology called Nano Scale Manipulation Engineering. While the concept and the idea using machines small enough to manipulate matter at a Nanometer scale is known to Terran engineers since before the Ascent, the actual use of such machines is a technological achievement that only relative few techno based civilizations have achieved. The widespread use of Nano Scale Engineering is a hall mark and prerequisite for a civilization to reachTech Level 8. Current Union Nanites operate on that Nanometer scale and utilized in a myriad of applications; ranging from medical procedures, to trace mining, repair and maintenance, damage control and even surveillance, security and military tasks. The current civilian and general application Nanites do not manipulate matter on a Molecular scale. Even at Nano scale, the actual re-arranging of molecules by mechanical means. Mechanical molecule manipulation via Nanites not only has size and scale limitations but also time and quantity limitations, as even a grain of dust is composed of a very large number of molecules and to effect matter on large scale within reasonable time seemed an impossible obstacle. However the X101 civilization, already further advanced in the Nanite field in association with the Onyx Research Institute developed Nanite farms that could reproduce Nanites in incredible numbers, guided by so called master nans these Nanite armies could manipulate matter on a molecular level. This technology was first utilized in the Union Military Engineering Modular L.E.G.O factories, allowing even small survey teams to have a versatile engineering and construction tool at hand that worked in nearly any environment. Civilian Nanite Recyclers and Waste re conditioners followed. Nanite factories are wide spread and produce everything from tools, to food, pharmaceuticals and pretty much everything else.

''Nanite factory and molecule manipulation technology competes with another high tech manufacturing that recently became technically feasible, and that is Energy to Matter – Nuclear level replication, allowing even complex material compounds to be produced. (Tech Level 9 Hallmark)''