Contents 1 Project Dutch Gun 1.1 Compiled Report 1.2 Historical Overview 1.3 Introduction 1.4 Scope 1.5 Phase I Catalog Funding 1.6 Phase I Catalog Overview & Evaluation 1.6.1 Group I - Fullerites 1.6.2 Group II - Polymers 1.6.3 Group III - Ancient Salvage 1.6.4 Group IV - Ancient Relics 1.6.5 Group V - A8SE Salvage 1.6.6 Group VI - Components 1.7 Group Analysis 1.7.1 Fullerites 1.7.2 Polymers 1.7.2.1 Chemal Tech & Core Complexions 1.7.2.2 Top Down & Viziam 1.7.3 Ancient Salvage 1.7.4 Article 8, Section E Salvage 1.7.5 Tech III Components

Project Dutch Gun

This page contains the final report on Project Dutch Gun, as provided by Eifyr & Co. in conjunction with the members of Arek'Jaalan, and A'J Acquisition Division

Compiled Report

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Historical Overview

Excerpt from A'J Acquisition Division Networks.

On July 13th YC113, Hilen Tukoss requested the acquisition and compilation of various Sleeper artifacts from capsuleers as part of the Project Dutch Gun. Named after the pilot DutchGunner who made a considerable donation to jumpstart the acquisition, the purpose of the Project encompassed the funding and building of a comprehensive “library of Sleeper goods.”

Via the Arek’Jaalan mailing list, Hilen Tukoss requested single samples of each artifact categorized into groups with an approximate market value of 0.7B ISK. Through the munificence of the Arek’Jaalan community, the Phase I of the Project Dutch Gun was fulfilled merely several hours after the request was made. In addition, the Project was completed without the need of the initial funding provided by the pilot DutchGunner.

Introduction

Project Dutch Gun is aimed at creating an exhaustive library of Sleeper artifacts for the purpose of basic evaluations. These evaluations will serve as a foundation for further acquisitions, and ideally, focus donation efforts for a time on specific research areas identified by both Eifyr staff and capsuleer members of Arek’Jaalan.

Phase I of the project is focused on the acquisition of all known Sleeper material recoverable from the unknown regions. Although some minor artifacts remain, Phase I is considered 99% complete, and an evaluation of all recovered items has been completed.

Scope

These evaluations are based on specific research considerations, such as an interest in the C3-FTM compound, emergent systems, and items of suspected importance to Sleeper core technologies (Cryostasis, Virtual Systems, Neural Interfacing). These evaluations will not serve as a definitive judgment of any one artifact’s worth, only as an evaluation of the artifacts within the context of those research areas. Research Projects

The Acquisition Division, with assistance from A&D if needed, is invited to present a compiled list of items acquired in Phase I of Dutch Gun that relate to experiment proposals and ongoing research submitted by Arek’Jaalan members. Eifyr & Co. staff can then appraise the materials within the context of specific projects.  

Phase I Catalog Funding

Single samples of each artifact.

Group I - Fullerites: 180,000 ISK
Group II - Polymers: 7,410,000 ISK
Group III - Ancient Salvage: 6,340,000 ISK
Group IV - Ancient Relics: 576,520,000 ISK
Group V - A8SE Salvage: 6,750,000 ISK
Group VI - Components: 70,100,000 ISK

Phase I Catalog Overview & Evaluation

Artifacts are rated high value, moderate value, and low value, within the context of current Arek’Jaalan/Eifyr projects only.

Group I - Fullerites

• High

• Fullerite-C540
• Fullerite-C84

• Moderate

• Fullerite-C28
• Fullerite-C32
• Fullerite-C50
• Fullerite-C60

• Low

• Fullerite-C70
• Fullerite-C72
• Fullerite-C320

Group II - Polymers

• High

• C3-FTM Acid

• Moderate

• Fulleroferrocene
• Graphene Nanoribbons
• Methanofullerene

• Low

• Carbon-86 Epoxy Resin
• Fullerene Intercalated Graphite
• Scandium Metallofullerene
• Lanthanum Metallofullerene

Group III - Ancient Salvage

• High

• Cartesian Temporal Coordinator
• Modified Fluid Router
• Neurovisual Input Matrix
• Emergent Combat Analyzer
• Heuristic Self-assemblers
• Jump Drive Control Nexus

• Moderate

• Defensive Control Node
• Resonance Calibration Matrix

• Low

• Electromechanical Hull Sheeting
• Fused Nanomechanical Engines
• Melted Nanoribbons
• Powdered C-540 Graphite
• Thermoelectric Catalysts

Group IV - Ancient Relics

Intact (high)
Malfunctioning (moderate)
Wrecked (low)

• High

• Electromechanical Components

• Moderate

• Power Cores
• Thruster Sections

• Low

• Armor Nanobots
• Weapon Subroutines
• Hull Sections

Group V - A8SE Salvage

• High

• Neural Network Analyzer
• Sleeper Data Library
• Ancient Coordinates Database
• Sleeper Drone A.I Nexus

Group VI - Components

• High

• Electromechanical Interface Nexus
• Neurovisual Output Analyzer
• Emergent Neurovisual Interface

• Moderate

• Reconfigured Subspace Calibrator
• Nanowire Composites
• Optimized Nano-Engines
• Warfare Computation Core

• Low

• Fulleroferrocene Power Conduits
• Reinforced Metallofullerene Alloys
• Fullerene Intercalated Graphite
• Metallofullerene Plating

Group Analysis

Fullerites

Fullerite clouds are scanned down in wormhole space and the gas from them is harvested and reacted in starbase facilities to create polymers. Polymers are then used in conjunction with other items to make subsystems, which are finally combined together to make complete Tech III vessels. Fullerites, therefore, sit at the very bottom rung of the production chain and represent the raw material in its most basic form.

• Found naturally occurring in the unknown regions.
• Fullerites are synonymous with a Sleeper presence. There are no recorded systems that have only one of the two.
• Have the potential to serve as a general purpose technology (GPT).
• Before the discovery of unknown regions, supply was limited to synthetic creation, greatly limiting the progress of certain technologies and research areas.
• Despite this, little advancement has been seen since the influx of fullerite supplies has hit the capsuleer markets. Compounding factors include:

• ISK-based economies are often prohibitively expensive for small-scale research institutions to draw material from.
• Empire support for non-T3 Warship technology has been limited to non-existent.
• Overall capsuleer supply and demand promotes the most popular application of a technology. Non-applied science typically loses out.

Polymers

Hybrid Polymers are created from reacting fullerite materials inside starbase facilities. To make each type of polymer, capsuleers combine two types of fullerite cloud with a mineral (i.e. megacyte or tritanium). Polymers are then combined together with other materials to make Tech III components; the basic building blocks of all subsystems. The schematics for fullerite reaction were provided by the four empires as part of the Vitrauze Agreement (known as the “Starting Four”), wherein technology and information relation to the unknown regions was equitably shared.

Due to the earlier reliance on synthesized materials, construction of fullerite-based polymers was a relatively small field of research amongst the four empires, and pursued only by corporations more able to take on such bleeding-edge research. Only one corporation within each empire was able to provide the knowledge necessary to create the reaction schematics necessary for capsuleers to make full use of fullerite materials.

Chemal Tech & Core Complexions

The scientists of Chemal Tech are known for leading the field in neutrally-interfaced Sensor Warfare modules, which rely in part on endohedral fullerene technologies. This previous research into large-scale fullerene cage construction allowed for quick production of the Scandium and Lanthanum metallofullerene reaction schematics. Previous joint research project with CreoDron into baseline nanotechnologies also yielded useful knowledge post-Seyllin, which combined with other information shared during the Vitrauze Agreement, helped birth the reaction schematics for Graphene Nanoribbons.

In the era when C3-FTM Acid production relied entirely upon expensive synthetic procedures, Core Complexion was one of the few companies to maintain research interest in the material; hoping to create more cost-efficient methods of cloning. Given the critical role the compound plays in capsule life support systems, a partnership agreement was reached with CreoDron and Chemal Tech, and shortly afterwards, the schematic for C3-FTM reaction from fullerites was designed.

Top Down & Viziam

Top Down’s past experience with miniaturization techniques (one of the strategies behind their exceptionally high quality manufacturing standards) helped them leap from seemingly nowhere to be a key player in the Tech III arena. With the assistance of Lai Dai, as well as funding from CFU, they were able to provide schematics for Fullerene Intercalated Graphite and Carbon-86 Epoxy Resin, both of which had been used for years to great effect in Lai Dai and Top Down’s manufacturing planets. FIG & C86 coated assembly-line tools could last decades, and be submitted to endless heat and friction. This allowed for use of most advanced and expensive manufacturing methods, and without the expected maintenance costs.

In addition to this provision of knowledge, Lai Dai aided Top Down in the release of theoretical information on PPD Fullerene Fibers. The data was thoroughly analyzed by Viziam engineers, who recognized the obvious value of the material in armor plating applications. As a relatively new company, Viziam’s own library of knowledge was limited post-Seyllin, but with help from Lai Dai (via Carthum Conglomerate, who has a working relationships with both companies) the schematics for Methano- and Fulleroferrocene reactions was devised. In both cases, extant knowledge Viziam had acquired from research into organic and organometallic compounds was reworked into a viable schematic by supplementing the data with knowledge acquired by the other three empires.

Ancient Salvage

Ancient Relics are recovered from ruined Sleeper structures and reverse-engineered to create blueprints, datacores and data interfaces. Blueprints are combined with Tech III components to make ship subsystems and hulls, data cores and interfaces are used for further reverse-engineering tasks.

Using the same research knowledge that underpinned the initial schematic releases, the four leading Tech III corporations followed up with blueprints for the construction of advanced components from this salvage. Research into the nature and role of these materials within Sleeper technology is ongoing.

Due to a comprehensive lack of deeper knowledge into these artifacts, a great deal of them are valued for further acquisition, so that further evaluation and study on them can continue.  

Article 8, Section E Salvage

These four specific types of salvage can be found consistently and predictably in Sleeper drone wrecks. Often referred to as “tags”, they act in many ways as a bounty of sorts on Sleepers, given the inexhaustible and consistent buy orders on these items across the cluster. These buy orders are grounded in the agreements outlined by A8SE of the Vitrauze Agreement, which served as the foundation for information and technology sharing between the major factions.

Although it is not the intention of the Arek’Jaalan project to directly compete with the buyers of these items, it is nonetheless the recommendation of Eifyr evaluators (whose corporation is one of the “Vitrauze 11”) that some focus is given to their acquisition and further understanding.

Tech III Components

Built from blueprints provided by the “starting four” companies, these components are just one step away from Tech III warship implementation, and thus are of limited research value at this late stage of production. Nevertheless, because they also represent a hybrid of new and extant knowledge with mostly new or newly-plentiful materials, study into their production and the reverse-engineering methodologies could yield deeper insights into Sleeper technologies.

Notable amongst the various current components are those that make unprecedented modifications to age-old technologies such as jump drives and neural interfaces. It is these components that serve as the focal point of Eifyr & Co. joint research with the Arek’Jaalan project.