' Wrote:My understanding of Gate/Lane tech is that the only reason Ageria can build it is that the DK left behind designs of the stuff.
That's to say, nobody ever researched 'how to do it'. Liberty was handed a technology beyond their understanding in pictures.
That implies that, perhaps, the parts can be looked at and replaced...tada, mass production.
Of course, the way I want to understand it is that liberty was given a way to make a factory for a thing.
And a different thing
and a different thing...
And, as such, looking at the objects wouldn't help reverse engineer them, because the objects themselves don't have to make any damn sense to anyone on the very edges of human science today.
This gives Ageria a better reason to keep them secret than worry about competition, a decent patent law agreement among the houses could do much better, if you could publish the information without, say, breaching the national security curtain around the fact that there's an alien arch teaching Ageria things..
And, to point out, it makes not much sense for there to be laws against subverting the technology and Ageria to go to a great amount of trouble trying to keep it a trade secret. Laws as such are designed to replace trade secrets...
Anyhow, nobody asked me how the lore was to be written. (which is why it's silly)
Sorry, doesn't work this way. You can't mass produce something while totally not understanding how it worksl, not speaking about reverse engineering. For example, ever heard about such thing as, for example, "manufacturing method" (hope I used right term in english). That's like one of the hardest things to reverse engineer, and you need to have at least SAME capabilities as the one you're trying to "steal" from, otherwise the resulting.. "device" won't be even near it's original.
To make it easier to understand, about manufacturing method - when chinese tried to copy AL-31F jet engines. They like got everything, examined each and every bit of that thing, as a result their engine had a life span of 20-40 hours, with required... hm, don't remember currently, something about 1000. Why? For example, they couldn't replicate it's fans. They knew exact sizes, they knew what it consists of, what chemical elements it have in it. But they still couldn't replicate it, because they didn't know how exactly it's being made.
Thats one of problems with "reverse engineering".
There IS a possibility that DK left em blueprints, but that would make revolution in Liberty science and sooner someone will get it hands on part of it.
