Looking for opinion here. (Or official word if this has come up before.)
CMs can't build nano swarms directly, but presumably if they have the right blueprints they can build the hives which can in turn build the swarms.
Is this correct?
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Cornucopia Machines and nano swarms
Thu, 2012-04-19 00:18
#1
Deadite
Cornucopia Machines and nano swarms
Thu, 2012-04-19 04:39
#2
Arenamontanus
Re: Cornucopia Machines and nano swarms
Yes, I would run it like that. Maybe one can make a microswarm with a CM.
As I run things, a normal CM make heavy use of already finished nano lego pices rather than putting atoms together directly - it is far more efficient. This means that it cannot build general nanomachines well, but it can certainly put together a lot of devices that have standard nanocomponents.
However, in any sane habitat the CM would also be programmed to alert the local authorities to take a look, since hives are dangerous things. In the inner system there would be clear restrictions on what kinds of hives may be made (no general hives without plenty of licenses and similar restrictions, obviously!) and even in the outer system the local nanomilitia enforcers will want to have a chat to see that you are not endangering the community.
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Sat, 2012-04-21 02:16
#3
Decivre
Re: Cornucopia Machines and nano swarms
Possibly. It's also likely that you may be able to find models of CMs that are a combination general hive and cornucopia machine.
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Fri, 2012-05-04 06:49
#4
Xagroth
Re: Cornucopia Machines and nano swarms
Personally, I see the difference between hive and CM in the following points:
- A CM doesn't have a long range control system for the swarm
- A CM has an big internal assembly "bay", the Hive only needs some really small ones ot produce the swarm machines.
- A CM has a much bigger and general "printing" capabilities, while a Hive can only craft swarm robots (much quicker than a CM would be able to).
- A CM is static and needs to be fed, and the items it produces taken out of its insides. A hive can deploy its swarms really farther away, and they can take raw materials from their surrounding (this being the reason they are limited to "not be able to craft more swarm bots", "limited lifespan", and "dumb drones controlled by the central hive"), and then use those materials to build the selected blueprint.
If you want a mental image, I suggest thinking of the Cornucopia Machine as a "black box" that takes raws materials and turns them inside of itself into finished products, while the hive is a black box that projects and area where things are turned into the desired items.
So "inner" for CMs, and "outer" for Hives.