Fiction:Tadpole Empire/History/Technological Achievement

This is a page regarding some of the technology and inventions made by the Tadpole Empire.

Invention No. 1: Static Cling
The E.M.P. Stationary Bomb, nicknamed the Static Cling, is a bomb that when shot on a planet, causes all other spaceships, vehicles, turrets and any other eletric-powered machinery on the planet. This is useful both when trying to negotiate with a hostile Empire, and when fighting, as it prevents the enemy from attacking.

Invention No. 2: Intrastellar Drive
The Intrastellar Drive is able to make spaceships fly in solar systems, but not leave them. It's the most basic drive made by the Empire.

Invention No. 3: Interstellar Drive
The Interstellar Drive is able to make spaceships fly in space outside of solar systems. This Drive is able to be tweaked to increase the speed of the spaceship, therefore the time it'll take to reach the destination, but it takes high knowledge to do so.

Invention No. 10: Manual Terraform Tools
Those terraforming tools are able to terraform planets to the point of it being habitable. It is built in spaceships. They consume energy.

Invention No. 15: Holograms
Holograms have various functions. Inbetween those are to be used in Communication Devices and Transmissions; to scout the surface of planets before personally beaming down; and for miscellanous uses, such as impressing others.

Invention No. 25: Bio Stabilizer
A Bio Stabilizer is used to maintain a planet's ecosystem unharmed by preventing ecodisasters, such as infection and pollution.

Invention No. 40: Happy Ray
The Happy Ray is a laser, but completely harmless. It fires a rainbow laser that plays a happy music. Generally used by Ambassadors.

Happy Ray can be used as either a spaceship tool, or in Happy Ray Guns, used for kids and by Ambassadors.

Invention No. 55: Planet Buster
The Planet Buster is a Weapon of Mass Destruction. While it seems like a simple Mini Bomb, it is something much more powerful. When the powerful bomb is fired on the planet's surface, it breaks through the crust and makes it to the planet's core, where it causes an explosion powerful enough to rip the outer layers apart. Afterwards, it disperses the core and the mantle, preventing it from cooling down and forming a new planet.

Due to the Planet Buster's destructive nature, the Grand Council banned use of this weapon, under the threat of being arrested and stripped of spaceship use, unless the Grand Council instructed the pilot to use the bomb.

Invention No. 80: Anti-Matter
Anti-Matter is a powerful and dangerous material discovered during a mishap. During tests, Anti-Matter seemed to cause devasting explosions when it touched matter. This opened path for two weapons - The Anti-Matter Missile, used in Ship-to-Ship combat, and the Anti-Matter Bomb, used when trying to hassle an enemy Empire's planetary colonies, but not destroying the planet.

Invention No. 95: Shields
Shields are a barrier encasing spaceships that completely nullify damage as long as the shield can sustain. Shields normally have their own energy meter instead of drawing from the spaceship's main energy, but shields made for individual Tadpoles use main energy instead.

Invention No. 97: Cloaking Device
Cloaking Devices make spaceships completely invisible by making a stealth field around it, and as long as it is standing still, makes them leak extremely few energy output, making them extremely hard - if not impossible - to detect them by radar. But the Cloaking Device flickers and malfunctions if something else comes too close to the stealth field.

There is also a Cloaking Device for individual Tadpoles which generates a stealth field around them. Similar to Shields, cloaking devices for spaceships use their own energy meter, while ones for individual Tadpoles draw from their main energy.

Invention No. 99: Spice Storage
Spice Storages are used as a secondary spice storaging place, for when a colony's main spice storaging is full.

Invention No. 100: Orbital Poo Cannon
The Orbital Poo Cannon was made as a joke by the Tadpole Scientists, to celebrate their 100th invention.

The weapon, that is only able to be used on a planet's surface, first points at the sky, fires a laser up to outer space, and proceeds to build a sphere made of an useless substance denominated as 'poo'. Afterwards, when the poo ball is big enough, the size of a planet, the weapon gives the option to select a planet. After the planet is selected, the poo ball is hurled at a Faster-than-Light speed(essentially 500 times faster than light) towards the planet. An interstellar drive is able to find a path for the poo ball to get to it's destination, in case there is an object in the way of the planet, such as another star system.

Due to the fact that the poo ball is flung at FTL speed, when it collides with the target planet, it completely destroys the terrain it collides on. Not to mention that the planet is flung out of orbit at a rather fast pace. Therefore, inhabitants in the other side of the planet are not safe aswell.

And the cannon doesn't needs to be used offensively as well. It can be used as an utility tool. For example, if the planet the cannon is in is filled with litter, the cannon can be progammed to summon all of the litter in the planet and make a sphere with the litter. Afterwards, it can be thrown anywhere, even at your enemy's homeplanet. Though, it's usually better to send it to a Star, so it doesn't damages anything.

Invention No. 125: Anti-Matter Laser
Along with the Anti-Matter bombs and missiles, an Anti-Matter laser has been made. Unlike standard lasers, the Anti-Matter Laser is to be used in planets, and not in creatures and spaceships.

When fired at a planet for 5 seconds, it completely detonates, leaving nothing remaining. Not even a molten core. Nothing. The planet is erased from history. Essentially a ranged Planet Buster. It can also be used at Spaceships, where they instantly explode due to colliding with anti-matter. However, it's impratical to use it at spaceships, as the laser cannon aims very slowly.

The laser is to be used in a planet, not in a spaceship. Currently, only two Anti-Matter Lasers exist: One is at the Tadpole homeworld, and another has been bought by the Troodontid Empire.

Invention No. 150: Stellar Power Source
The Stellar Power Source is a station that orbits rather close to stars. They possess devices that absorb the energy the star leaks, and transfers it to probes that periodically visit the station. Afterwards, the probe sends the energy to the colonies in the planet orbiting the star.

This is a method of obtaining energy without damaging planets.

Invention No. 175: Biogenetic Tweaker
Biogenetic Tweakers are stations inside either spaceships or laborotories, where they take a creature, and modify it's genes to form a completely new creature. This opens path to artificially-made soldiers and drones.

The Minissaurus, originating from an One-Horn Rat creature, was the first creature to be made with the Biogenetic Tweaker. It now runs loose across planets.

Another creation made with the Biogenetic Tweaker are the Mechanical Tadpoles, being Tadpoles with cybernetic implants.

Invention No. 200: Wormhole Key
To celebrate their 200th creation milestone, the Tadpole Scientists made the Wormhole Key, made to seal the myth that one could use wormholes as portals to be true.

As stated above, whenever a spaceship enters a wormhole, instead of being destructed, it arrives in another wormhole in a totally different location, sometimes even in a completely different galaxy.