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Description
For NationStates; Modeled in DoGa with Custom Parts and Textures.

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First discovered as a static image in a Krȃng archive buried in the deep super-structure of Circlet I, Artifact 'StarFighter' was at first assumed to be just that - the Krȃng version of the often-utilized 'space' or 'star fighter'. Further research of the archive and design found that initial assumption to be entirely wrong. If it was a star fighter, it was among the largest of its kind ever designed and manufactured with a displacement that would give most super-dreadnoughts a run for their money.

Instead the archive's data fields revealed that the Artifact was in face a 'seed', so to speak, which - when planted properly - would grow into the Artifact dubbed 'Synthesizer'. These units in turn are capable of extracting, refining, and then fabricating any number of programmed Artifacts from their host soil. They were also a potent terror weapon as the most common cultivation was deep under the surface of a rocky planet - regardless of whether or not that planet was already inhabited.

'StarFighter' accomplished this planting by means of the four curved 'vanes' that lend to its fighter-like appearance. These are each tipped with a single high-output 'blaster'-type laser cannon that is used to excavate a deep hole in the crust. They are then detached and the central pod sunk into the hole nose-first. This then begins to sprout hundreds and thousands of miles of extractor tendrils, which seek and then recover the various minerals needed, passing them back to the central seed for refinement.

Since the primary building material utilized by the Krȃng - PTU-557 - requires significantly more material to transmute than it returns, this would quickly or slowly result in the desecation of the host planet.

While the Synthesizers were the creation of the long-gone Krȃng Empire, many inactive or active-but-modified Synthesizers are known or suspected to exist. Most are strewn among the many stars of the Monoceros Ring, an extension of the galactic disk that mostly consists of stars gathered from the collision of the Milky Way and various 'Dwarf' galaxies during its multi-billion year existence. Most of the active examples are held by Ver'Un'Guun Warlords, who have managed to divine a method to reprogram them to create war machines of their own design. An original unit - located in the Galaxy-proper - was the driving force behind the Kion Empire of approximately seventy five thousand years ago.

Both the RDF, the BUSF, and all Peer-level civilizations actively hunt these devices, as well as any 'StarFighter'-type Artifacts that might pop up. Accidental activation tends to have messy results as they are laced with the usual assortment of subtle and immediately lethal booby traps employed by their creators. Activated Synthesizers will also draw the near-immediate attention of the i'Halalaentariel and their WarSpheres will typically not wait for any victims to evacuate before destroying the Synthesizer - and the planet it might be buried inside.

For those who might be wondering how anyone might be able to reprogram one of these Artifacts if they did manage to find one, speculation abounds. The most likely theory is that the Krȃng used a 'bio-genetic' interface to control their creations, with the individual Krȃng loading an operating system into the item that was in turn coded directed into their manipulated and expanded genome. It is possible that both the Kion and the Ver'Un'Guun were somehow either related to or created/manipulated by the Krȃng and were thus at least partial matches for the Synthesizers. While they would not have been able to load an operating system onto them, they may have been able to access a low-level 'boot strap' and by trial and error managed to restore them to a semi-functional state. This theory is reinforced somewhat by the technologies used by both later empires; While partially based on Krȃng technology, both were markedly (The Ver'Un'Guun) or completely (The Kion) inferior to their precursors.

Description
For NationStates; Modeled in DoGa with Custom Parts and Textures.

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First discovered as a static image in a Krȃng archive buried in the deep super-structure of Circlet I, Artifact 'StarFighter' was at first assumed to be just that - the Krȃng version of the often-utilized 'space' or 'star fighter'. Further research of the archive and design found that initial assumption to be entirely wrong. If it was a star fighter, it was among the largest of its kind ever designed and manufactured with a displacement that would give most super-dreadnoughts a run for their money.

Instead the archive's data fields revealed that the Artifact was in face a 'seed', so to speak, which - when planted properly - would grow into the Artifact dubbed 'Synthesizer'. These units in turn are capable of extracting, refining, and then fabricating any number of programmed Artifacts from their host soil. They were also a potent terror weapon as the most common cultivation was deep under the surface of a rocky planet - regardless of whether or not that planet was already inhabited.

'StarFighter' accomplished this planting by means of the four curved 'vanes' that lend to its fighter-like appearance. These are each tipped with a single high-output 'blaster'-type laser cannon that is used to excavate a deep hole in the crust. They are then detached and the central pod sunk into the hole nose-first. This then begins to sprout hundreds and thousands of miles of extractor tendrils, which seek and then recover the various minerals needed, passing them back to the central seed for refinement.

Since the primary building material utilized by the Krȃng - PTU-557 - requires significantly more material to transmute than it returns, this would quickly or slowly result in the desecation of the host planet.

While the Synthesizers were the creation of the long-gone Krȃng Empire, many inactive or active-but-modified Synthesizers are known or suspected to exist. Most are strewn among the many stars of the Monoceros Ring, an extension of the galactic disk that mostly consists of stars gathered from the collision of the Milky Way and various 'Dwarf' galaxies during its multi-billion year existence. Most of the active examples are held by Ver'Un'Guun Warlords, who have managed to divine a method to reprogram them to create war machines of their own design. An original unit - located in the Galaxy-proper - was the driving force behind the Kion Empire of approximately seventy five thousand years ago.

Both the RDF, the BUSF, and all Peer-level civilizations actively hunt these devices, as well as any 'StarFighter'-type Artifacts that might pop up. Accidental activation tends to have messy results as they are laced with the usual assortment of subtle and immediately lethal booby traps employed by their creators. Activated Synthesizers will also draw the near-immediate attention of the i'Halalaentariel and their WarSpheres will typically not wait for any victims to evacuate before destroying the Synthesizer - and the planet it might be buried inside.

For those who might be wondering how anyone might be able to reprogram one of these Artifacts if they did manage to find one, speculation abounds. The most likely theory is that the Krȃng used a 'bio-genetic' interface to control their creations, with the individual Krȃng loading an operating system into the item that was in turn coded directed into their manipulated and expanded genome. It is possible that both the Kion and the Ver'Un'Guun were somehow either related to or created/manipulated by the Krȃng and were thus at least partial matches for the Synthesizers. While they would not have been able to load an operating system onto them, they may have been able to access a low-level 'boot strap' and by trial and error managed to restore them to a semi-functional state. This theory is reinforced somewhat by the technologies used by both later empires; While partially based on Krȃng technology, both were markedly (The Ver'Un'Guun) or completely (The Kion) inferior to their precursors.