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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To infuse sentient Shards with high entropy alloy nanoparticle (HEA-NP) platinum coating to serve as cutting-edge Information Storage Devices (ISD) for use in the Artificial Intelligence, Database Structure, and Information Storage sectors.
- Image Source:
Tefka
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Canon Link: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Shard_(species)
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: VOID Inc.
- Affiliation: VOID | Zori Kapshan
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: SCD-ISD-32
- Modularity: No.
- Production: Minor.
- Material: Shard | Platinum | Silica Carbide
SPECIAL FEATURES
STRENGTHS
- Provides a massively expansive and alternative solution to data storage.
- Could host the entirety of the Holonet on a single Shard if read/write speeds were not considered.
- Vastly alters the Shard's body and "wipes" its memory.
- Pressurized encasing, if ruptured or if oxygen is introduced to the internal environment, "death" of the Shard will occur.
- Requires an external power source.
DESCRIPTION
PROBLEMS
1. Artificially Intelligent Matrices (AIMs) are rapidly approaching the limits of standard Galactic Information Storage Devices (ISD).
2. The average digitial information exchange on the Holonet amounts to 3.52 x 10^44 bits globally, and at its consistent exponential rate of growth is expected to reach 3x10^77 by 900 ABY.
3. The VOID LUMINAR Project aims to outscale HOLONET information capture 10:1 and requires sustainable, concurrent and redundant storage capacity.
4. Shards are an intelligent species protected by many of the governments in Galactic space.
SOLUTIONS
1. A combination of thermal, light, and Shard Neural Network (SNN) read/write speeds are introduced as an Array Reaction Capture (ARC) speed that vastly surpasses HOLONET up/down speed.
2. SNN time delay is negligible and can be amplified to reach Near Real-Time Delay (NTRD).
3. Atomic Cryptographic Pairing (ACP) is infused on the HEA-NP coating of each Shard and will be read/exchanged with other Shards and compared against a ACP Ledger to ensure data redundancy and defragging.
CREATION PROCESS
Shards are subjected to the Sole-gel process, subsequently being soaked in Nitric Acid (HO3) and Ammonia (NH3) until internal gelation to form a sphere of silica oxycarbide, as metal oxide is precipitated out and disposed of. The gelation is then dried in a near-perfect sphere that then coagulates over a period of three days, until neural bonds are formed and silica-based DNA is resurgent and activated. The sphere is then placed in a fluidized bed chemical vapor deprivation process, to suspend all internal Shard substrates present within the particle pool amalgamation. Flowing gases, such as argon and hydrogen, have been deemed not necessary to the stability and functionality of the Shard lifeform and are extracted over the period of several hours from the gelation sphere with a HEA-NP Platinum coating.
The interior is designed, at a micron level, with varying levels of porous low-density hydrocarbon nanotubes forming unique architecture patented by VOID Industries. Three molecular incisions are made to precipitate denser acetylene and propylene gases, solidifying the micro-structure to ensure the correct low-temperature isotropic structure is formed. This process, to form the correct structure and precipitate the silica-carbide gases for accurate deposition, is processed at approximately 3000 C.
HOST MATRIX
Silicon oxycarbide lattices layered within the outershell of the gelation construct serve both as pressurized casing and diminished power storage. Not enough to sustain the module indefinitely, the lattice can sustain power enough for the Shard to operate for up to seven to fourteen Galactic Standard Days, though the exact threshold varies per Shard.
DATA STORAGE
A single SCD-ISD-32 can store exactly one xenottabyte, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes by the Galactic Standard Information Model. To provide perspective, planets can be classified by the amount of data both stored on individual Information Storage Devices (ISDs) and what is transferred. For a world of 7 billion inhabitants actively exchanging digitized information, this can roughly amount to 15-50 Zettabytes. A high infrastructure planet, such as Coruscant, could be seen exchanging up to a factor of ten or a hundred times more than this. In perspective, a single SCD-ISD-32 could theoretically host the entirety of the information exchange on the Holonet - if it's data throughput were fast enough.
READ/WRITE SPEEDS
Concurrent data speed throughput, thanks to the combination of methods that the SCD-ISD-32 utilizes, equates to about 300EB/sec.
References: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.0c04807
References: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5935598/
References: Silicon-Carbon Bonded DNA: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bringing-silicon-life-53049
References: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352940720300159
References: https://materialismpodcast.com/
