One day in January of 1939, a mysterious figure makes an offering to Joseph Stalin: 125 units of Molecular Assembler Machine.
Each Molecular Assembler Machine is 6 meters wide, 6 meters long, 4 meters high, each contains a forward facing hatch which opens to a 3m × 3m × 3m internal space.
The MAM works like this, raw materials were placed within the internal space, command instructions were input through a holographic command interface, then, materials in the machine was reassembled at the molecular scale.
Examples of the machine's capability include:
But, take note:
The Mysterious Figure promise to help train the first batch of operator/technicians in 16 weeks, then it's up to themselves.
How would this have affected WWII and post-WWII technological, political, and military events?
Each Molecular Assembler Machine is 6 meters wide, 6 meters long, 4 meters high, each contains a forward facing hatch which opens to a 3m × 3m × 3m internal space.
The MAM works like this, raw materials were placed within the internal space, command instructions were input through a holographic command interface, then, materials in the machine was reassembled at the molecular scale.
Examples of the machine's capability include:
- Put in a pile of coal, it could either produce Diamond or Graphite, plus a pile of impurities in dust form.
- Put in a pile of scrap metal, it could produce any machine part in any alloy (provided it has enough elements), plus unwanted impurities in dust form.
- Put in enough raw material, it could produce entire Shvetsov ASh-62 (provided the operators have the detailed drawing as input).
- If there's enough space, it could produce multiple parts at the same time.
- The product of the machine have dimensions accurate to the input figure up to micron-scale.
But, take note:
- The MAM does not operate on it's own, it requires external electric power input.
- The MAM does not produce the product immediately, it requires work time and cool-down time.
- Example: to produce an fully assembled ASh-62 engine requires 10 minutes of working time, plus another 50 minutes to vent waste heat.
- The waste heat venting process can be compressed to 10 minutes if hooked up to a robust water-cooling system.
- Forcibly skipping the vent heat process could result in catastrophic failure.
- The MAM will not function indefinitely, each machine had a guaranteed working lifespan of 50000 working cycles.
- Adequate cooling of the machine might double the provided figure.
- After the guaranteed lifespan, each subsequent working cycle have a +1% chance (start from 10%) of the machine suddenly dying (without catastrophic failure).
- The MAM is not a alchemical transmutation machine, it will not turn lead into gold. It will only reassemble materials at the molecular scale.
- 1 kilogram of material when in, 1 kilogram of "material + unwanted dust" came out.
- The MAM can only produce materials that are chemically stable solid at room temperatures, not gaseous nor liquid.
- The MAM is operating black-box technology that are uncomprehensible by 20th century mankind. Attempts at dissecting a working MAM might result in catastrophic failure of terrain within 800 meter radius.
The Mysterious Figure promise to help train the first batch of operator/technicians in 16 weeks, then it's up to themselves.
How would this have affected WWII and post-WWII technological, political, and military events?