I got the book Augmentation and came up with a few question.

I understand that you can use nanotech to build small items.
If you can send nanotech to build several items does it matter as to the
amount of programs that it has or guidence.

I was thinking of using nanotech droped in a certain area in the ocean
asto build work habatits nothing below 500 feet.
Is this possible? For mining and secret research into R&D?

Is this also possible to use this tech to mine in space and build habatits.
Send out a probe to an astroid, the nanobots mine it for resources then
send ore back to earth.

Can nanobots also be sent to the moon, or other places in the solar system for
research or setting up space stations and instalizations?

Also is there going to be any more info on Mars in Shadowrun?
What the Big D did in his will made me think that there should be more research on mars in the general public. Any ideas??????????

I believe that even if the pictures were faked.
People would be interested in Mars again because of the pictures.

There is an adventure where you find the stuff that was actually brought back from Mars. It includes troll bones. Your guess is as good as mine.

-Frank

what adventure is that?

One of the Missions adventures.

By that I mean one of the adventures from the Missions book, not the confusingly-named campaign.

~J

It's been a while since i read it, but as I remember it, what happened was that there was a mission on Mars when the awakening came and the main ship had a massive system failure, only part of the team made it back and everything was hushed up and, in the panic that v followed the awakening, forgotten. What are a fewefunky pics on another world when you're own planet's turned upside down?

One issue with nano-devices in space is radiation. There's a lot of high energy particles bouncing around in space and nano devices are small enough to be impacted negatively. That high voltage surge when an energetic photon slams into a nano device will be messy.

It's not as much of a problem on mars or venus where there's an atmosphere but the asteroid belt is pretty much offlimits for nanites.

Which is not to say that a nanite-based deepspace probe isn't possible but that it will require copious amounts of shielding to ensure the nanites don't get fried.

Except that those highly energetic photons arn't alone. Enough of them will come at once to eliminate an entire colony of nanites. You also have a problem trying to power those nanties without frying them. Inside the human body, you could probably work up some sort of wacky system to utilize your own energy source (atp, blood sugar, whatever), but outside of a living thing, you have problems. In space, it's even worse. So you set up a solar panel which shades the nanites and provides power, but how are you going to get the power to the nanites? You can't beam it, as that would likely fry your nanites. So you have to use wires, but how much power can an individual nanite store? I'm willing to bet it's "not enough," At this point, you have a crazy contraption that is made up of a giant array of solar panels danging trillions of microscopic nanites from hundreds of miles of extremly fine wire.

How is that better?