Fiction:Troodontid Empire/Technology

Overview
Troodontid society circles almost completly around technology. They ahve different ways of gaining technology. At first they try inventing thing son their own. that`s where most technology comes from, exspecially the more alien technologies. During wars they often "scavange" destroyed spaceships and colonies for the technology of the looser. They then look into the matter, take it apart and - if seen as useful or interesting - then replicate and optimize it. They also always search for other empires who are willing to share technology. They are exspecially interested in completly unconventional technologies and/or very advanced ones.

Why do they advance that fast ?
This has many causes. At first it is their natural intelligence. They are among the most intelligent species of the universe though they haven`t altered their brain in any way after becoming sapient. Then they lack any currency, so the scientific institutions have an unlimited amount resources. They are also very curious and interested in science due their nature. Fourthly many Troodontids are in fact scientists. On the other hand, they had some very influencal helpers which helped them gaining technologies very fast.

Overview
One of the main branches of Troodontid Technology are weapons. During recent times it is also the branch fourishing most resulting several new types of weapons. Basicly Troodontids possess Interatomic, Nuclear, Plasma and Electromagnetic Weapons. Some older branches of weapon science have been working on antimatter, but Troodontids decided that antimatter would be too dangerous and uncontrolable.

Interatomic Weapons
The most common weapon falling under this contribution are Missiles, Bombs and Rockets which are widely used among the Military. There are various types of them with different ranges of explosion and flight width. They nevertheless lack Inter-planetary or Inter-Stelar missilies, giving them a major disadvantage in long ranged battle. Then the second type of Interatomic weapons of the troodontids are Drones, a special, explosive and dangerous defence technology whch was found after doing research on mushrooms from Milky Way Galaxy during an expedition. Some melee androids have Vibro-Weapons, which cause some damage due their vibration, but due the raareness of close comba among Troodontid Warriors there is hardly any research on this. During earlier times Trooodntids used other Interatomic Weapons like swords, guns and other solid weapons, but due ineffectivity they aren`t used anymore.

Nuclear Weapons
There is just one major weapon based upon nuclear reactions, the Star Bomb. It is a very effective type of bomb based upon fusion reactions. Nevertheless this branch is like Antimatter weapons as too potentially dangerous to be used often.

Plasma Weapons
Plasma Weapons are the weapons most commonly found among Troodontid Weaponry. Most well known are Blasters, short ranged laser weapons that can be used by ground units like Androids. By bigger units Laser Cannons get used due their greater fire powe. For bigger damage they sometmes get combined to Double or Quadro Laser Cannons. There are also Heavy Laser cannons which due more damage as well as Long Range Laser Cannons which though mostly not doing more damage than a Heavy one have a far wider range. But Lasers aren`t the only Plasma weapons. There are also Plasma Cannons which send out a bea of superheated plasma that creates massive damage, but is usually slower-moving. Some new weapons, the Death Rays are also plasma weapons, but much stronger than usual plasma cannons.

Electromagnetic Weapons
Electromagnetic are also a commony used technology of the Troodontids. Most common are Ion Cannons or Super Ion Cannons. Both have the same basic principe, namely causing a entire shut-down of all technology that is hitten by the beam. Although highly energy needing, the weapons are found on most bigger Troodontid Ships as wella s on Turrets and Satellites. The other electromagnetic weapons are the Energy Field Creators which generates an energy field which can easily destroy or at least push back any unshielded spaceship near the one that creates the field and can do at least some damage to a shielded ship. This technology is among the newest of the Troodontids and is only used among Athena Class Ships so far. As ion Cannons this weapon needs a long time to charge and a higha mount of energy.

Energytech
Originally Troodontids` power sources were water and solar energy, but due recent events the energy production entierely lays within Star Reactors. They are very adavnced nuclear fusion reactors which apart from creating energy of the reactions also produce solar energy due the small stars in their centre. Due the constant need of fuel to give power to the reactors, the Troodontids are doing research on Geothermal Powerplants as well. Those are still at the beginning, but are hoped to fully replace the planetary star reactors within the next five years resulting a less vulnerable energy production. The star reactors within the spacesips currentyl don`t seem to be possible to replace.

Foodtech
Troodontids need a constant supply of food, but they are fully autarc nevertheless. The food production is done by huge synethsizing productions which can create food due recombination of aready produced food. Since Troodontids are aminly carnivorous and only eat few plants like special fruits, that is very important for their survival since otherwise they would have to kill off many sspecies of their planet. At the moment "real" meat is rare, the common food closely resembles it and is definitly more healthy. Nevertheless real meat and fruits are seen as delicacy by most Troodontids and si often eaten during important meetings and celebrations.

Construction
Infratech and Colonytech is a very small technological branch of the Troodontids. Usually cities and colonies are build through androids mostly with help from spaceships which bring structures that were factured on other planets as raw materila tto the new colony. Nevertheless TASK has currently provided the government with plans of huge spaceships that would be like moving cities and so could be moveable cities. The first one i splanned to be build within this year, further might come if the technology seems useable. Engeneering is one of the major branches in return. Many Troodontids exspecailly those which aren`t employed by TASK work in this branch. This branch is still not very adavnced since most technologies of this branch haven`t adavned in the last few years, because there was no need to.

Envirotech
Tough Troodontids lack the capabilities of building terraformers at the moment - partly because of the lack of base technology, partly because of the lack of use and so interest -, they are averagly advnced on other fields of Envirotech. There is almost no polution though the high industrialisation on the planets of the Troodontid Empire. They mainly use renewable resources and energies. They usually recycle rare materials, but due the great durability of Troodontid tech, it takess a long time for tehm to have to recycle. Fast renewable and plenty things are usually only used once and then shot into space creating a huge scrap heap in the orbts of neighbouring planets. Those are currently seen as problem due their intereference with the satellites sensors.