Grey Goo

Grey Goo is a hypothetical future artifact, a sort of nanotechnology gone horribly wrong.

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Nanotechnology

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• N: Nanotechnology (Nano-)
  • Angel Net
  • Apocalypse Package
  • Claytronics
  • Grey Goo
  • Makertech
  • Nanocyte
  • Nanomedicine
  • Self-replicating Factory
  • Smartdust
  • Starseed Launcher
  • Utility Fog
  • Von Neumann Machine

Description (Specifications)

Gray goo (...also spelled grey goo) is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves, a scenario that has been called ecophagy ("eating the environment", more literally "eating the habitation").

Nanocytes or nanotechnological machines are typically built in with preprogrammed lifespan limits, keeping them from running amok... But, what if those limitations didn't work. What would happen? What if the fail safes fail?

Nantechnological Goo Variations

Variations on this term include:

Nantechnological Goo Variations
Type	Remarks
Black Goo	It is the use of nanomachines by military forces in open combat. Many associate it with sanctioned military applications.
Red Goo	It is the use of nanomachines by terrorists or nihilists to destroy all or some segment of humanity. Many associate it with unsanctioned politically violent applications.
Pink Goo	Pink goo is a self-replicating entity with a tendency to fill up existing space. Many associate it with commercial applications.
Green Goo	It is an antidote to the tendency of pink goo to spread, perhaps limiting its ability to reproduce. Many associate it with agricultural applications.
Grey Goo	It is an assembler nanomachine used for widescale construction and transformation of the environment. Many associate it with construction and manufacturing applications.
Blue Goo	It is a defensive nanotechnological systems. It is often used to denote any form of benign and protective neumann-capable technology. Many associate it with defensive applications. It is also associated with aquaculture applications.
Golden Goo	It is an economic optimizer, that optimizes resource collection and processing across vast scales. It associated with resource collection and concentration on a lesser scale than grey goo.
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History & Background (Dossier)

There are rumnors that some Red Zone worlds on the Imperial Fringe may be former Ancients experiments gone wrong... Experiments with Grey Goo...

References & Contributors (Sources)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Gray_goo. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Self-replicating_machines_in_fiction. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• T5 Core Rules
• EXTERNAL LINK: Grey Goo at TV Tropes
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science