Difference between revisions of "Cytonics"

An ability possessed by all advanced alien races, and developed but kept secret by the Phone Company operatives. It involves Sensing inwards on oneself and removing oneself from normal space, moving through [[nowhere]] to reappear at a different point in normal space, possibly light-years away, in seconds. When reappearing, the performer pushes aside mattersmatter at their destination to create the space for themselves.{{book ref|elysium}} There seems to be no upper limit on the distance travelled; however, the cytonic requires keen awareness of the place they are returning to. This can be achieved with cytonic coordinates, which can be pushed directly into a person's mind and allow even an untrained cytonic to travel. Such coordinates, however, fade within a few minutes.{{book ref|sky2|8}}

FTL travel is an ability that can be augmented by technology to allow the cytonic to transport more than just themselves. As such, it forms the basis for all interstellar travel. Modern design, used to avoid attracting the delvers, utilizes [[taynix]] as hyperdrives, as delvers find them uninterestingdistracting.{{book ref|sky2|34}}

Some advanced processors use cytonic technology to work much faster than normally possible.{{book ref|sky1|31}} This is most important to artificial intelligence'sintelligences such as [[M-Bot]].{{book ref|sky1|55}} Using minature cytonic communicators, parts of AIs can pass signals between each other at speeds faster than light, which facilitates near-human intelligence and superhuman analytics ability. As a side effect, it makes those machines detectable by organic cytonics.{{book ref|sky2|18}} However, for some reason AIs anger [[delver]]s much more than other forms of cytonics and radio signals, leading to a ban on them in the present times.{{book ref|sky2|10}}