Automated Manufacture Protocol
These things are older than any known race. No-one knows who made these. The technology encoded on it is far in advance of anything any of us have been able to devise. It is terrifying.Automated Manufacture Protocols (AMPs) are schematics and blueprints encoded into large "Dataslates" of Xenos origin. These dataslates are inserted into a compatible manufactory unit, also of Xenos origin, which then produces whatever is encoded onto the AMP, assuming adequate materials are supplied. The schematics encoded within are unimaginably complex, and reverse-engineering has so far proved impossible. Examples of commonly used AMPs are those used to produce Self-charging batteries and Crypto-Hibernation caskets.
Manufacturing
AMP dataslates are apparently irreproducible, making each dataslate extremely valuable.
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Access & Availability
While many AMPs are widely known of and utilised, it is rumored that many more AMPs of unspecified function are in use by secretive governmental organisations.
Complexity
Impossibly complex
Discovery
First discovered in a ruined Xenos facility hidden on a moon in the α Centauri system, it took decades for human researchers to work out what they actually were, and what they were for. The Kentauril governor attempted to keep the breakthrough a secret, however given that they were the first conclusive proof of Xenos races, the secret leaked quickly. The Senatus Pubulusque Solarii, still in charge of α Centauri at the time, tried to get the AMPs moved to Sol, until they were informed that they were useless without the Manufactory in α Centauri.
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