Andromeda: People: Bots and Droids
There is a myriad of high tech gadgetry and special stuff on-board the Andromeda. They are all fun!
Read moreThere is a myriad of high tech gadgetry and special stuff on-board the Andromeda. They are all fun!
Read moreStandard meprobamate, developed by F.M. Berger and B.J. Ludwig under the name Miltown, is an anti-anxiety drug which balances the chemistry in the limbic system and thalamus.
Read moreMytol is the trade name of one of over 1500 drugs synthesized from the benzodiazepine group after the discovery of substance Ro-5-0690
Read moreThis procedure is used only in the most extreme cases of Cult of the Individual.
Read moreSpeedlearn is a revolutionary educational technique involving a combination of courses designed by a mass education computer known as the General.
Read moreThe underground control and administrative areas of the Village house many large computers which our staff rely on to interpret events and analyze Village behavior.
Read moreAn electropass is a device which allows high-ranking Village personnel freedom of movement while Rovers are present.
Read moreClones appear throughout the Village in different areas, from general laborers to special-case Prisoners and even as a Number 2. It is unclear what the procedure is for clone design.
Read moreHypnosis provides a clean and simple way of managing the behavior of individual prisoners when an Infiltrator or Clone may not be practical because of time restraints.
Read moreThe Village is equipped throughout with different methods of stunning and temporary paralysis.
Read moreJacob Saltzman (sometimes spelled “Seltzman”) developed a machine which allows the transference of consciousness from one body to another.
Read moreThe ultrasonic Social Conversion procedure was developed by formerly disharmonious Number 86 to quickly and efficiently modify the antisocial behavior of Unmutuals to conform to our normal standards of social operation, allowing them to become peaceful, cooperative members of the Village.
Read moreA reaction transmitter is small device used in conjunction with hypnosis to create a human tracking system.
Read moreNeuropharmacologist Number 14 invented and developed a machine which translates electrical impulses from REM sleep in sedated individuals into visual and audio signals, thus allowing observation of their dreams on a screen.
Read moreAt times it is necessary to provide security to certain areas of the Village while maintaining the illusion of freedom of movement. For this reason, the forcefields were installed at the Town Hall and Administration.
Read morePlanes, Trains and Automobiles are for wimps! Proper prisoners steal Ships, Boats and Rafts.
Read moreRovers, the Village Guardians, roam the Village and its outskirts as a constant reminder that there is no escape.
Read moreThe Babel Fish is small, yellow, leechlike and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brainwave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and the excreting telepathically a matrix from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals…
Read moreDeep Thought (no relation to Deep Throat although the very reverend Douglas Adams no doubt intended us to contemplate such an idea) was constructed by a race of pan dimensional mega beings as a supercomputer.
Read moreThe Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is responsible for the development of the most popular range of domestic and industrial robots. The marketing division defines a robot as “Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with.”
Read moreThis is the latest way of travelling through space without out the need for all that tedious jumping in and out of hyperspace. The principal of generating finite amounts of improbability are so bloody obvious that I wont go into them here.
Read moreA stone burner is hands-down the most destructive weapon in the Dune universe, and maybe in all of sci-fi.
Read moreThese asteroid sized space ships are the how most people and cargo are transported between the various planets, moons and systems of the Empire.
Read moreOrnithopters, or thopters as they are commonly referred to, are the most common small transport vessels in the Imperium. These ships are capable of carrying 6 passengers, 9 if the back seats are removed.
Read moreNo respectable house leader or space craft would be caught without a shield. Shields are the most common protection measures in the Dune universe. They prevent any fast moving object from passing through their field. Shields function because of a Holtman field.
Read moreSuspenders is also another common technology employed by humans that utilizes a Holtzman field.
Read moreWhile not shown much in the Sci Fi mini-series, lasguns are worth mentioning here. Lasguns are the futuristic weapons you knew were missing from the Dune series.
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