Fiction:True Yaman Empire/Technology

Defensive Tech

 * Steampot – Steampots are located at random places across a planet. They boil down to, essentially, a thick metal cap covering a deep tunnel made of superstrong materials filled partway with water and containing a powerful explosive (non-antimatter) at the base. When detonated, the explosive turn the water into steam and creates a pressure wave up the tunnel. This wave his the thick metal cap and launches it into space, where it will eventually collide with orbiting space ships or stations, if not hit them directly when launched.
 * Shields – Force field shielding is still in it’s early stages for the Yaman Empire, but they do have the ability to project such fields. They can create a ship field for about 24 hours, a fleet field for 12, a city field for 6 and a planet field for 1 hour. When activated, no weapons can pass through the shields.
 * Buckyball Fibers – Buckyball Fibers are made from pure carbon atoms, and turned into long thread like pieces of fiber. They are then woven into lightweight, strong, durable, and flexible structures.

Offensive Tech

 * Gravitation Wave – The Gravitation Wave creates a pulse of gravitational energy over a planet, destroying all cities on it. Often used on the Empire’s own planets to keep them out of enemy hands.
 * Static Cling – Deactivates all turrets and ships on a planet. This is used for capturing enemy planets of high priority (like homeworlds).
 * Various Ship Weapons - From Lasers to Antimatter Bombs, the True Yaman Empire has a great deal of ship-based weapons, but nothing all that special compared to other empires.
 * Planet Buster - The True Yaman Empire has access to the Planet Buster for extreme situations.

Travel Tech

 * Return Ticket – Allows any fleet any where to return home in a single jump, without fear of running out of fuel. Used only when defeat is obvious or when high-priority carco/people are involved. Also used for kidnappings.
 * Wormhole Key – Allows use of existing wormholes and black holes for travel. Used only for long distance travel or high-traffic trading planets. Development is being made on constructing wormholes for use.
 * Skytowers – Made of Buckyball Fibers, they are towers into space. They are usually about a mile in diameter and have one per planet for easy bulk shipments. They are very energy-efficient, and since they are buckyballs there is no risk of naturally caused structural failure. They are also located in such places as to cause no damage to cities if they should collapse. The basic structure is a massive foundation going about 1 mile into the crust of a planet and spreading out over about 12 miles of the planet like the roots of a giant tree. Then there is the stem or trunk, about 1 mile thick and reaching into space to a point where they can place a counterweight. The space end is usually one of two designs; a single large station and counterweight that can handle bigger shipments and is a city unto itself, or a branching set up that allows far greater ship numbers to dock at once, but cannot handle as large a shipment at any one dock.

Colony Tech

 * Undercities – Cities in the Yaman Empire are underground, massive multi-level complexes that are like if you flipped New York over and had all the buildings built down with utilities and trains being built around them. Using holotech each and every level, no matter how deep, can feel like it’s on the surface of the planet. However, those are expensive, so living underground means for most people having a painted on sky that never changes. It’s not bad, but not as good as holovision ceilings. In the larger, wealthier communities the ceilings are all holovisioned to look like the sky, and some even have weather conditions if they are wealthy enough.
 * Tower Farming – Tower Farming is what makes up the “cities” on all Yaman planets. They are, essentially, beehive shaped towers with many different levels of farming. Each level lower uses slightly less light then the one above it, but through use of mirrors and lighting, all levels can be lit enough for even the highest light plants. They are the food source of the Yaman Empire.