User:The Collective Mind/Motive/Tools

Every job needs the proper tools, and in pursuit of our mission, we’ve developed quite a few. Of them, however, the Matter-Conversion Forge, the Junction, and the Inter-Orbital Channel gate have proven to be the most helpful.

Matter-Conversion Forge
 * The Matter-Conversion Forge, or MCF, is the cornerstone of our operations. This astonishingly useful piece of technology is capable of converting nearly any type of matter into nearly any other type of matter. Using the MCF, we can transform waste materials and other useless stuff into more useful forms: slag into steel, clinker into concrete, tailings into titanium, and much, much more. This means nothing gets wasted! Gone is the necessity of extracting resources from hard-packed earth -- now the very earth itself is a resource, and all its valuable mass can be repurposed.

Junction
 * The Junction is the future of space colonization. When an interstellar civilization decides to settle a new world, often it is first necessary to terraform it to suit their biology. This is time-consuming and cost-intensive work! And without a significant investment of energy, often such planets remain only marginally habitable, subject to turbulent weather and extreme one-biome climates. Not so with a Junction! Why go to the trouble of making an uninhabitable world habitable when you can simply break it down to its component atoms and rebuild it exactly as you want it?
 * Every Junction is a conglomerate of habitats, factories, hydroponics facilities, and everything else required to sustain a long-term colony. In fact, they practically sustain themselves! It’s entirely possible to live your entire life within one without ever needing to leave. Whether encircling a star or hovering within a distant dust cloud, the Junction is the ideal choice of habitation for any spacegoing species.
 * All our Junctions are constantly growing in response to growing population and productivity. Our very largest Junctions -- the product of centuries of growth -- are called Terminals, and serve as our political and economic centers!

Channel gate
 * The Inter-Orbital Channel gate is a vital part of our organization. These colossal constructions are wormhole generators, capable of linking to any other Channel gate and forming a tunnel through space between them. Hyperspace travel is all well and good, but wormhole travel allows us to travel interstellar distances at intergalactic speeds, several orders of magnitude faster! This allows for significantly reduced travel times, and so for significantly increased speed of logistics.
 * Every one of our Junctions maintains at least one Channel gate. The larger the Junction, the more gates it has, each one a link in our galactic Channel network. Terminals can have upwards of a hundred!