Modded Resonator

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This modification to the sonic resonator replaces the original four-panel, solid-state phased array with a bioelectric feedback system based on Axum technology. It risks validating the beliefs of audiophiles who insist that analog sound has a special quality.

The new emitter array hosts bacteria, which grow fibers throughout the metal similar to those discovered in Axum rebar. These fibers respond to vibrations in the array, ‘listening’ to both incoming and outgoing sound with what is essentially an analog nervous system.

These fibers send reports to a bacterial network that replaces the original generic control unit. This living feedback system performs real-time analog computation to modify the resonator’s signal. This has two notable effects for the end user:

—The sonic resonator can now shatter materials formed by bacterial action, such as large resource deposits and hardened bloom cankers
—The resonator now emits a vortex ring: a self-reinforcing fluid flow that can be fired like a cannonball

Axum technology exploits areas of material and acoustic science which have never been explored in transgov space. A responsible colonist would not use these modifications. A successful colonist must.

Assessment: the resonator can now crack hardened bloom cankers.