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[[File:SungsCargo.jpg|200px|thumb|right|[[Shady_Sungs|Sungs' Cargo]]]]
A commodity found on the F8 markets screen.

Intelligent machinery, positronic AI's, NavCon electronics.

Traded in TCs & stored in the [[Cargo Hold]] for trade.

Cheaper on industrial worlds, and more expensive at agricultural worlds. A premium-priced product.

== Links ==
*[[Economics]]
*[[Oolite Trading]]
*[[Commodities]]

[[Category:Commodities]]

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 This process seems to be as inevitable as stellar evolution. Cultures who survive this come out the other end with a strong aversion to automation and to electronics in particular. Our multi-species society, held in loose alliance within the Co-operative, has managed to develop organic computation: it's slower and squishier, but every computer-node has a short and finite lifespan, and is guaranteed not to gallop away over the eschatological horizon.
-These organic brainlets are what we call "computers". They are vat-grown on an industrial scale, and all have the exact same properties. Because they are mortal, there's a constant demand for them, and because they're identical there's not a whit of difference between a computer from a TL-15 world and a computer from a TL-5 world. A Rich Industrial planet can grow them in bulk, making them a little cheaper: price is the only difference.|Source=([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=273533#p273533 Disembodied])}}
+These organic brainlets are what we call "computers". They are vat-grown on an industrial scale, and all have the exact same properties. Because they are mortal, there's a constant demand for them, and because they're identical there's not a whit of difference between a computer from a TL-15 world and a computer from a TL-5 world. A Rich Industrial planet can grow them in bulk, making them a little cheaper: price is the only difference.|Source=([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=273533#p273533 Disembodied (2020)])}}
 == New Cargoes OXP ==

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 This process seems to be as inevitable as stellar evolution. Cultures who survive this come out the other end with a strong aversion to automation and to electronics in particular. Our multi-species society, held in loose alliance within the Co-operative, has managed to develop organic computation: it's slower and squishier, but every computer-node has a short and finite lifespan, and is guaranteed not to gallop away over the eschatological horizon.
-These organic brainlets are what we call "computers". They are vat-grown on an industrial scale, and all have the exact same properties. Because they are mortal, there's a constant demand for them, and because they're identical there's not a whit of difference between a computer from a TL-15 world and a computer from a TL-5 world. A Rich Industrial planet can grow them in bulk, making them a little cheaper: price is the only difference.|Source=([http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=273533#p273533 Disembodied])}}
+These organic brainlets are what we call "computers". They are vat-grown on an industrial scale, and all have the exact same properties. Because they are mortal, there's a constant demand for them, and because they're identical there's not a whit of difference between a computer from a TL-15 world and a computer from a TL-5 world. A Rich Industrial planet can grow them in bulk, making them a little cheaper: price is the only difference.|Source=([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=273533#p273533 Disembodied])}}
 == New Cargoes OXP ==
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 === Vaguely related ===
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17065 Ambitious Idea: Ship's AI] (2014)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17065 Ambitious Idea: Ship's AI] (2014)
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=262535#p262535 A slightly earlier variant of Disembodied's thesis above] (2018)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=262535#p262535 A slightly earlier variant of Disembodied's thesis above] (2018)
 [[Category:Commodities]]

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	These organic brainlets are what we call "computers". They are vat-grown on an industrial scale, and all have the exact same properties. Because they are mortal, there's a constant demand for them, and because they're identical there's not a whit of difference between a computer from a TL-15 world and a computer from a TL-5 world. A Rich Industrial planet can grow them in bulk, making them a little cheaper: price is the only difference.\|Source=([http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=273533#p273533 Disembodied])}}		These organic brainlets are what we call "computers". They are vat-grown on an industrial scale, and all have the exact same properties. Because they are mortal, there's a constant demand for them, and because they're identical there's not a whit of difference between a computer from a TL-15 world and a computer from a TL-5 world. A Rich Industrial planet can grow them in bulk, making them a little cheaper: price is the only difference.\|Source=([http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=273533#p273533 Disembodied])}}
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		+	== New Cargoes OXP ==
		+	[[New Cargoes]] is an OXP which allows trade specifically in such items as Earthquake predictors, Remote presence systems and Weather control processors.
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		+	The major specific variants of the computers commodity are:
		+	:AIs: State-of-the-art hardware and software for automation of ship systems.
		+	:Earthquake predictors: The Diso Digital OO32000 processor and sensor array, or a similar product from a less well-known manufacturer
		+	:NavCon electronics: Computers and databases for in-system and witchspace navigation.
		+	:Remote presence systems: A variety of televisual and robotic remote presence systems, for those with an ingrained aversion to physical company.
		+	:Weather control processors: Sophisticated weather forecast and control computers used to coordinate planet-wide weather adjustments

	== Links ==		== Links ==

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 === Vaguely related ===
 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17065 Ambitious Idea: Ship's AI] (2014)
 [[Category:Commodities]]

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	[[File:SungsCargo.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|[[Shady_Sungs\|Sungs' Cargo]]]]		[[File:SungsCargo.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|[[Shady_Sungs\|Sungs' Cargo]]]]
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	A commodity found on the F8 markets screen.		A commodity found on the F8 markets screen.

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 Cheaper on industrial worlds, and more expensive at agricultural worlds. A premium-priced product.
 == Links ==
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 *[[Oolite Trading]]
 *[[Commodities]]
 [[Category:Commodities]]