Conduit technology
The Deucadons played a large part in shaping the events leading up to the climax of Part 2 of Rome's Revolution. Besides being the descendents of the semi-successful Ark III colonists, they have mastered the art of living underground without ready access to food, water or even air.
As a result, just to survive, they became masters of conduit technology. Now a conduit is a channel or tube for conveying water or other fluids. We can consider air a fluid for the purposes of this discussion. We can also consider fiber optics a light pipe or light conduit.
The underground people had to figure out how to get fresh air down there, remove the excess carbon dioxide and other gasses, bring down water and get rid of waste. For lighting, originally, they used the power rods that were part of each sarcophagus to make an artificial sun. Later, as is recounted in the novel The Ark Lords, they punched through to a cavern and drilled down to tap into the heat beneath Deucado. This gave them virtually unlimited power and they created three new artificial suns to light up their valley.
The one last use of conduit technology was to create their invisibility cloaks. Now they weren't truly invisible. They used conduits (light pipes) to channel light from the front to the back and side to side so that you actually looked through them.
The effect was somewhat like this picture from Laura Williams (P.S. please buy this picture from her. It is awesome!) only instead of a reflection, you actually saw what was behind them:
Tomorrow, I'll show you how MINIMCOM adapted their engineering techniques for his own use.
As a result, just to survive, they became masters of conduit technology. Now a conduit is a channel or tube for conveying water or other fluids. We can consider air a fluid for the purposes of this discussion. We can also consider fiber optics a light pipe or light conduit.
The underground people had to figure out how to get fresh air down there, remove the excess carbon dioxide and other gasses, bring down water and get rid of waste. For lighting, originally, they used the power rods that were part of each sarcophagus to make an artificial sun. Later, as is recounted in the novel The Ark Lords, they punched through to a cavern and drilled down to tap into the heat beneath Deucado. This gave them virtually unlimited power and they created three new artificial suns to light up their valley.
The one last use of conduit technology was to create their invisibility cloaks. Now they weren't truly invisible. They used conduits (light pipes) to channel light from the front to the back and side to side so that you actually looked through them.
The effect was somewhat like this picture from Laura Williams (P.S. please buy this picture from her. It is awesome!) only instead of a reflection, you actually saw what was behind them:
Tomorrow, I'll show you how MINIMCOM adapted their engineering techniques for his own use.
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