#nanites

[galahadwilder]

New Zombie Setting Idea:

The zombie virus outbreak happened a few years ago. Scientists across the world set out to research a cure, desperate to prevent the fall of humanity.

In contrast to 60 years of zombie fiction, they find it.

The cure is both preventative and palliative. Nanobots inside the body creating an artificial immune system, fully programmable, one that can be tuned to attack anything. Zombie virus. The common cold. Cancer. It’s not just a cure for Zombiism—it’s a cure for everything.

And then the programming glitches.

The nanites want to spread.

And the world falls to pieces under the strain of two competing forms of Zombie virus, one biological and one technological, each with different infection vectors, different behaviors in the victims, different everything.

Except the original zombies would’ve rotted away, eventually. They would’ve starved to death, or frozen, or boiled, unable to take care of themselves or protect themselves from the elements.

The nanites, on the other hand, won’t let their infected die. They can repair any damage their host suffers if given enough biomass—even gunshot wounds. Even partial incineration. Even AGING.

In order to cure Zombiism, the scientists released something far, far worse.

[whenwolvescryout]

Punk Taur

A new design... Macro Punk Demon Taur. definitely not going to end up a common sona form, right? 

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[nobylu]

Long Ass Logical Lore Conclusion Of The Balor (art at the end)

Let me put you on two trains of thought that will crash together like trucks on Mythbusters in a way that will make sense when they're together.

Train 1: Healing via putting numbers back on your health bar during battle is pretty rare in Lancer. There's really only two robots in the current edition of the game that can do it - the Lancaster can heal everyone and the Balor can fix itself. In fact, I'd argue that the Balor is defined more by healing than the Lancaster - you heal on your turn, you heal more on your turn if you activate your core power, you heal immediately after battle without expending repairs IF YOU ARE A BALOR AND YOU HAVE DAMAGE YOU HEAL and your DM vows to focus all fire on you so at least you take some kind of damage that's permanent (but then you activate your core power and say fuck you DM i rolled a d6 and got a 6 so actually there's no structure damage i am fine because I am a Balor)

Train 2: We all know and love that the Balor is just nanites on some sort of structure and that it goes yum yum yum on anything standing near it via the power of Scouring Swarm and Swarm Body (2-11dmg if you're standing next to one, if you dont know), but now we gotta ask - how do the nanites know where the robot ends and where the pilot begins? WHAT IS STOPPING THE NANITES FROM GOING AUTO YUM YUM YUM ON MY PILOT BECAUSE MY PILOT IS VERY ADJACENT TO THEM. I argue that what is keeping the nanites from snacking on their pilots is that the swarm knows what a human body is supposed to look like on several different levels. If they just know to not eat the skin, then the moment the pilot gets hurt because something got them when an enemy was shooting at the quote "angry water" that is the Balor then they get eaten from the inside out and turned into a fashionable human-sized human-shaped artisan raw leather bag because all the swarm knows not to touch is the pilot's skin. They also gotta know more than "a person is a head, torso, and four limbs" because then the bees will be the Diogenes to our Plato the moment, say, a space murder tiger comes into contact with the nanites and the bees will also cease to recognize the pilot when the space murder tiger rips off a leg because you know what's gonna happen the moment the pilot becomes a head, torso, and THREE limbs you guessed it it's yum yum yum time and now the swarm is the space murder tiger's, congratulations to the lucky tiger. So they gotta know skin, muscle, bones, blood, pilot's DNA, nerves - THE WHOLE NINE YARDS and probably how they sort of go together. (also probably clothes because i'd hate to pilot my bees and come out with my whole entire dick and balls and titties in the breeze because my bees atomized my fit and won't give it back). The subsequent collision of Train 1 and Train 2:

If Balors are greedy heal bots and know how people are put together, what is keeping them from healing their pilots. NOTHING, IS WHAT I SAY. I posit that Balor nanites can, in fact, fix their pilots because bodies are just the frames for the computational core that is the brain. How well you want them to fix their pilots is up to you - for me, the answer is poorly and with balor-ification. Mechanically, it can't be instantly because that would be busted and poor sport, but you can theme your Balor Pilot's revival upon their unfortunate death likely of reactor stress (RIP my shit heat cap) as "they got fixed up by their nanites". And if you really really want, you can add nanites to your Pilot like I did with my guy, Diederik.

Nanite Infestation and the Small Balor Stability Problem

You're familiar with that part of Balor lore that says that they don't work on anything smaller than size 2 because they just need SO MUCH ENERGY, so how do I justify through lore that my pilot has these nanites while also not acting as a size 1/4 Balor. The way I've perceived it is that Diederik, my boy my man my guy, is host to a swarm that 1) does not operate in its fullest capacity and 2) subsequently cannot do mech-level combat.

Balors have specialist nanites used in specific weapons like the Hellswarm, CONSUME/HIVE, and SWARM/HIVE. Something that can damage a mech probably is super energy-hungry, so we can have those be turned off. The only activated nanites would be structural nanites, sensor nanites, greywash (the part that eats), and reconstruction nanites that take what the greywash atomizes and glues it together like a 10 year old making a clay model of a person that makes you go "oohhh, thats... nice. Great job??? It looks just like me?". Just enough nanite activity that it can be powered by the human body at the low low price of "eat more food". (For Diederik, I've gone another step and will say that the reactor of the Balor is made of reactor nanites but that running them inside a human body uuuhhhh cooks it so those are off too.)

The cool thing about having Balor nanites permanently on you is that you can flavor all sorts of things as nanite shit. My pilot melee weapon is nanite knuckle dusters. I flavor my successful pilot-level rolls as the nanites doing something or alerting of something. I'm running the Bond Magus so all my Magus powers are just nanites doing their thing - skincrawl (get a bad feeling and react fast) is just the nanites telling Diederik about the bad thing in time for him to react, Geist (touch someone and experience what they do while unobserved even when far away) is just planting a nanite bug on them, Possession (ask the dark presence inside you a question) is just asking The Maw their/its opinion, etc.

(Another tidbit to chew on is that the swarm is still going to run a little toasty, so pilots hosting Balor nanites post healing are in turn going to be a little toasty just kind of always. Hello 100 freedom degree perma-fever.)

[sunyfan]

Nanites - Stock Images

I recently found my stock arts of nanites that I drew for GR's fansites. You can also use these for decoration ^_^

Blue nanites:

Yellows:

Reds:

[kaiger-the-kaiju-loser]

Been watching Generator Rex with pookie and

[siryl]

A nanite diagram by Michael Okuda, scanned from Star Trek: The Continuing Mission by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.

[steamberrystudio]

so, do chronic illnesses still exist in Gilded Shadows? I'm a little foggy on how the nanites work and not sure if they have the ability to counteract things like IBS or migraines, I know there are some types of degenerative disorders and the lung diseases and nanite rejection, but do things like chronic headaches or IBS still exist?

The short answer is yes. The long answer is not as cut and dry as you might think.

The nanites obviously cannot heal everything. Certain more mild chronic health issues probably no longer exist due to the nanites while others may exist in a reduced way.

And still others probably still exist in some people.

But that's only a small part of the potential lore. In the end there's about 500 years of human development (this varies a bit. There are *still* first generation earth sleepers in stasis on New Terra. Which means that while there's a lot of separation from earth culturally on Arcalis, the degree of genetic separation can vary quite a lot.)

Even without the nanites, chronic disorders would shift out of familiar territory and into new territory because of other medical advancements as well as environmental differences. They may have cured IBS before they even reached Arcalis. They had quite a long time to do it while roaming space in the caravans. LoL

Some ailments feel timeless because we know even ancient humans dealt with them. But other diseases get eradicated while new ones emerge.

Even if familiar chronic illnesses of today have completely gone away, new ones will arise. So there are still chronic illnesses in Gilded Shadows even if they are setting-specific rather than IBS.

[pierogispies]

My toaster in crime Mobius

[raphaelcrossofoliver]

[iggika]

Make way to start the Revolution!

[whenwolvescryout]

Stream Commissions

Some examples of the updated stream commissions from this week that I was really happy with, so I'm sharing. Had four colored lineart pieces in one day, which made for a nice looking sheet. 

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[nobylu]

The really cool thing about Balors in Lancer is that all they are is Nanites on a frame of some sort. There's no real specifiers about WHAT the frame HAS to be made of, so you can make a Balor out of ANYTHING YOU WANT.

Relevant to this line of thinking is this bit of lore crafting that I made for my pilot's turbulent history with Balors and planetary civil wars.

So uh, make Balors out of weird things. Let your nanites do arts and crafts. You too can have your pilot ride around in a lovingly built homemade flayed skeleton powered by bees.

[hisuian-history-makers]

I’ve been thinking about N, J, and Doll being able to repair themselves. N’s head has restored itself two times. Eldritch J was still able to repair her when a majority of it's body was blown up. Doll seemed to come from oil???

Just curious what you think.

[foolstojoinmyevilarmy]

This is my first in the series of Starfinder characters I will probably never get to play in Society.

In the Starfinder setting, androids have numerous nanites traveling through their bodies the same way cells do in ours. They can be enhanced through various feats and even used as healing items, but the most notable nanite related piece of lore is the Nanocyte class. This class is infused, perhaps infested, with a sentient cloud of nanites that can form into weapons, encase it in a concealing sheathe, or transform into weapons temporarily.

This android was a simple laborer, not really notable until their nanites began malfunctioning, generating more than their system needs. They became a subject of study by the Starfinders, and have been asked to go on missions so their nanites behavior can be studied. They are terrified, unable to completely control the nanites at certain that one day, their consciousness may be subsumed by the multitude.

[oui1024]

ashlii draw to celebrate being done with finals

[mothduchess]

Well not everything I do is huge. This is a doodle for my Starfinder character "Choir", an Anassanoi Nanocyte.