Alien Computers

5000

Summary

We attempt to decipher the purpose and operation of the machines seemingly used to control the alien spacecraft.

Description

To even identify the larger machines obtained from the aliens has tested our finest scientific minds to the limit - they are so very far apart from our essential concept of a computing device. But though we are now confident that they are indeed computers of a sort, understanding their exact purpose and function is another matter entirely. Their interface is designed neither for human hands nor voices, while even their visual feedback is bewilderingly sparse. Our best hypothesis is that an array of unusual, spongy pads found within the most intact of these machines suggests some other form of sensory I/O - perhaps olfactory operation? Given human limitations on the deciphering and emanation of smell, this is not something that we can easily replicate, though we may be able to create synthetic alternatives in time.

The actual processing elements of the computer have been somewhat easier to categorize. As far as we can tell, they employ a highly advanced form of the quantum computing and photonics we ourselves have recently researched, which likely enables them to monitor, navigate and communicate across this solar system with an effectiveness we can as yet only dream of.

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Full List of Prerequisites.
Name	Type	Cost
Deep Space Propulsion Concepts		1000
Advanced Carbon Manipulation		1000
(100%) Alien Technology		10000
Advanced Atomic Manipulation		10000
Advanced Heat Management Concepts		2500
Advanced Neural Networks		5000
(100%) Alien Signatures		25
Mission To Space		250
Quantum Computing		15000
Photonic Computing		1500