Corporate Shogun
- Intent: Manufacturing Synthicator
- Image Source: Artist Credit
- Canon Link: Not Applicable
- Permissions: Not Applicable
- Primary Source: Not Applicable
- Manufacturer:
- Nakaioma Heavy Industries
- Nakaioma Industrial Technologies
- Nakaioma Innovative Solutions
- Nakaioma Heavy Industries
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Models:
- Saitou-Synthicator Lite
- Smallest model, designed for household products, personal tech, small arms weapons etc.
- Saitou-Synthicator Baseline
- Standard model, designed for large tech, small vehicles, starship components, construction materials etc.
- Saitou-Synthicator Goliath
- Largest model, designed for massive products, vehicles, small to medium sized starships, infrastructure etc.
- Saitou-Synthicator Lite
- Modularity: Not Applicable
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material:
- External Components
- Reinforced Durasteel Outer Layer
- Plexisteel-Ceramasteel Composite Supports
- Foreign Material Supply Port
- Internal Components
- Matter Program Sequencer
- Automated Robotic Arms
- Molecular Base Molecule Drip
- Smart Material Mold Chamber
- Base Molecule Storage Device
- Temperature Control Unit
- Duraplate-Carbonfiber Composite Casing
- Foreign Material Connector
- External Components
- Network Intrusion Countermeasures
- HoloNet Connectivity
- Gene-Lock Option
- Wireless Digital Connectivity - Can be interfaced with any form of datapad/console
- In-Built ElectroMag Defense Unit
- Sky's the Limit: A common advertising catchphrase for the Saitou Manufacturing Synthicator, the machine is indeed capable of producing more or less anything the user desires, so long as they have blueprints with enough detail for it to work off of. Able to manufacture any kind of product, out of any variety of materials, thanks to the programmable matter/smart materials it utilizes within, the NK-Synthicator's only limit is often the imagination of its owner.
- Matter Consumption: Heavily dependent on each individual customer's needs, the Saitou Synthicator can either go through its storage of smart material relatively fast or relatively slow. Each product comes with a certain amount of smart material already in its storage, however once it runs out, which it is likely to do so, as it consumes great amounts of it based on the design it is manufacturing, customers will have to purchase more smart material, much like the annoyance of 2D printers.
- Power Source: Not designed with its own internal battery, or means of producing its own power, the Saitou Synthicator is entirely reliant on an external power supply, connected to the machine through a port located on its backwards end, meaning that users will have to be responsible for the massive amounts of energy consumed by it. Not a recommended purchase if you're watching your energy bills.
The Saitou Manufacturing Synthicator, frequently abbreviated to the Saitou-Synthicator is a sophisticated device capable of 3D printing developed by Nakaioma Innovative Solutions and Nakaioma Industrial Technologies, two subdivision research and development groups of Nakaioma Heavy Industries. Designed to manufacture anything the user desires, the Saitou-Synthicator works by taking a base molecular component material from an internal storage device located in the back of the machine, taking it to the Mold Chamber, where the Matter Program Sequencer will command the Synthicator's automated robotic arms, each with a variety of tool sizes available, depending on the complexity of the product or material being produced, to begin building whatever it is that has been inputted into the Synthicator by the user, effectively transferring the user input to computer code, and then translating that code into actionable commands for the automated arms to carry out. The primary draw of the Saitou-Synthicator however is its advanced "Smart Materials", designer-brand molecules capable of transforming into anything based on a specific set of external stimuli, provided by the ambience of the Mold Chamber, which can apply temperature, magnetic, electric, light, stress, moisture, pH or chemical effects to them.
Coming in three distinct models, each the same in design and process, but differing in scale, allowing each model the capability to produce a wide variety of products of numerous sizes, the three main commercially available options are the Saitou-Synthicator Lite, which is the product sold to most civilians and individual customers, able to fit into the average kitchen, or living area, it is responsible for the manufacturing of household products, small-arms weapons, handheld or personal technology, or small components for vehicles, starships, and other technologies. The Saitou-Synthicator Baseline, the first model to be designed and what is generally considered the most true to form of the three, thus the name, the Baseline can produce larger products, larger components for starships and vehicles, and materials/components for the construction of buildings, among other things. It is large enough to only just fit into most average-sized rooms, but would best be suited for a more open-area environment or workspace. The largest of the three, the Saitou-Synthicator Goliath is typically only sold to corporations and governments, it is a truly massive piece of machinery capable of manufacturing even small to medium sized starships entirely by itself. Either purchased on its own, or as part of a large bulk order, these Synthicators can maintain responsibility for vast outputs of products, raw and composite materials.
Ordered into development by Nakaioma Heavy Industries as part of an ambitious restructuring and modernization program company-wide, the Nakaioma Manufacturing Synthicator was thought up of as a universal-purpose production machine. Able to quickly and efficiently produce any design that was inputted to it, and to produce these designs of any material or any combination of materials needed. The goal being to significantly streamline the process of not just prototyping products, but producing them on a massive scale, over the several year long course of the project's development lifespan, it went through a number of incarnations, as the technology itself was relatively quickly perfected, but the cost effectiveness of the machine was lacking. Much of the project's latter half of development went into further smoothening the machine itself, more efficiently utilizing materials, and taking advantage of the economy of scale to lower the cost of the Saitou-Synthicator to a point where it would be widely available to both private citizens, corporate entities and governments, in small numbers and in large numbers. The teams behind this would eventually succeed, and the Saitou-Synthicator Baseline was released to the market, followed shortly by the Saitou-Synthicator Lite, and lastly by the Saitou-Synthicator Goliath.
