Optical Electronics
Actually I don’t mean Optical Electronics I mean Optronics. This is a branch of ‘electronics’ using basically light. It also tends to be made from glass and lasers!
This is so perfect for my needs for the story I can not believe it.
I have mentioned this before but it gets better – becuase not only is this somehting you could have computers and the like in but it makes the components undetectable if your looking for our traditional type of electronics.
The components could also potentially survive intact for the sort of time lengths I need and is made of glass which the sea empires had in plenty being volcanic in origin. The laser pen that the Punk carries her only relic from her child hood in Babel is a key that will allow her to access the hidden components in things like the onyx ocelot.
I have quiet a bit to learn about this field still – part of my issue is that we have come upon this technology once we already have conventional electronics and so we mix it with that and need ‘normal’ electronics to make it work but if a civalisation never had electornics then the componenets may well be different.
This both restricts me and gives me more freedom!
Oh and off course they are not affected by EMP’s electromagnetic pulses from things like nuclear explosions or pulse weapons! I put this in the story intuatively and then had to panickally check it was the case!
I am enjoying the alternative tech aspect of these books muchly I have to say 🙂
Posted: Thursday, January 7th, 2010 @ 11:30 pm
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