This chapter condenses the scattered hard sci-fi pivots into a setting table that can be directly used for stats, levels, and logs. Principle: All extrapolations fall within the limits allowed by existing physics, pushing existing theories only to the engineering limits of Type II civilizations, and marking them as "Known / Inferred / Foundation Top Secret."
Practical anchor: Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc four transcription factors can reprogram somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells; Short-pulse, demyc, or chemically simulated partial reprogramming can rewind the epigenetic clock and enhance DNA repair while preserving cell identity. Continuous overexpression (especially containing c-Myc) can lead to teratomas and identity collapse.
In-game Location: The public anti-aging technology of Type II civilizations. Due to Dyson interception + rubber ball noise, the damage rate exceeds the partial reprogramming window, and the maximum lifespan decreases by about 5–6 years every 20 years. The official team pinned their hopes on a "better mountain formula." What is truly lacking are stents that can pin the cascade within the "partial, circulating, non-cancerous" range.
Levels | Effect | Cost / Failure Mode |
|---|---|---|
OSKM Laboratory | In vitro apparent age regresses by decades | It cannot be sustained in a live radiation environment |
Partial reprogramming of drugs / pulses | Organ-level brief rejuvenation, standard for official colonies | Rebound immediately after stopping the medication; Excess leads to loss of organizational identity |
Rubber ball scaffold symbiote | Unlimited partial reprogramming + dual-chain repair, no identity loss | Planet-scale phase locking requires millions of living entropy baths (Sirius) |
Reality anchor: The pure gluon-bound state predicted by quantum chromodynamics, excluding valence quarks. Grid QCD gives the lightest scalar rubber ball mass of about 1.6–1.7 GeV; Flavor monomorphism, equivalently coupled with all quark flavors, making it extremely difficult to distinguish from ordinary mesons. Gluon self-coupling is the reason it can "gain mass out of thin air" and form a bound state.
In-game and offline: Type II civilizations extract and freeze the gum sphere condensation from the QCD vacuum. Monomorphic flavor allows it to simultaneously anchor all DNA bases (immortal scaffold), rewrite the standard field configuration of condensed electronic systems (electronic life forms), and provide a negative pressure working fluid (curvature propulsion) in the wormhole throat. The same particle, three branches of engineering.
Engineering branch | Purpose | Visible in the plot |
|---|---|---|
Energy / Advancement | Dyson inner collision array extraction; Negative pressure working fluid for curvature bubbles and short-pass wormholes | 500 light-years/6-month range, space station resonator |
Hybrid substances | Gum Balls – Hadron Crystals: Ming Dynasty "Luminescent Metal / Outer Golden Elixir" | Inside the cultivation chamber, floating light patterns, model 37 chest core |
Information life forms | Replication is done using a standardized field configuration rather than electromagnetic bits | Electronic lifeforms are contagious, construction robots are "taking refuge," and remote rewriting |
Reprogramming the bracket | Stage interlocking in the mountain center is partially within the recyclable range | Immortal DNA symbiote; The physical excuse of the Sirius program |
The gel sphere condensate in the solar system can only be maintained in artificial resonators at milliseconds to hour levels. Tidal locking on Planet F triggers the freezing of eternal nights and eternal daylight flares, combined with an orbital period of about 130 days, forming natural planet-scale heat pumps: dark side storage, bright side pumps, and dawn and dusk line calibration. Cradle facilities are arranged across dark and bright surfaces, corresponding to the boundary conditions of the field equation. Shutting down the cradle (stopping clearing and temperature control) is like handing over the heat pump's phase to Sirius—replacing the environment with population and forcibly locking in.
For external copywriting and character descriptions, prioritize using "Yamanaka Factor / Partial Reprogramming / Luminescent Metal / Golden Elixirs"; "Glue sphere / QCD / entropy bath / phase locking" are left for terminal logs, second playthrough decryption, and spatial simulation devices. On your first playthrough, you should only feel that there is something that is both metal-like and life-like, without needing to learn particle physics first. The portal is externally referred to as "teleportation," and the principle (quantum tunneling + electronic state) is written in the engineering log.