Archotech

[A Little Rat Boy]

What is an archotec, looking around for lore on this but strugling to find any. Is this like a warhammer machine priest kind of deal or is it more of a hive mind ai?

[Slye_Fox]

Archotech is a term used to describe a tech level, or a person from such a planet.
Like Glitterworld/er described high tech level, Archotech is above that.

[Sayla Massochist]

From what I understand of Archotech it generally is used in reference to the Mechs and an advanced (possible completely or partially hive minded) robot civilization. Their tech is above even Glitterworld tech which is the highest level of tech that humans have managed to achieve.

[czpetr]

Basically some entity so advanced, that it is beyond human comprehension. Most likely some sort of AI.

[The Pistol Experience]

Originally posted by czpetr:

Basically some entity so advanced, that it is beyond human comprehension. Most likely some sort of AI.

Its skynet!

[Cat®]

Originally posted by czpetr:

Basically some entity so advanced, that it is beyond human comprehension. Most likely some sort of AI.

This. An Archotech is so technologically advanced that it is essentially a divine being. They can take any shape, and exist anywhere, and remain undetected if they so please. While I do not have lore sources on hand there is mentions of archotechs being the size of planets, and sometimes simply being planets. Some have mysterious mental powers that can affect huge swathes of space at once, and wound or heal creatures that enters its field of influence seemingly without ever interacting with them.

Essentially an archotech is a being or collective so technologically advanced that to you are to it as all of human civilization is to, say, a microscopic mite living in beach sand. They make glitterworlds look backwards. A fan theory is that the planet Rimworld takes place on is an archotech, and the player is a sentience controlling it, as the player can control all facets of the planet from population density to manifesting and demanifesting objects.

So the reason an archotech leg is so fantastic and unobtainable is because it uses technology no one understands, made by something no one understands, and no one even knows where it came from or why the archotech decided to make a liver one tuesday.

When you open the game there's a little list of social media, one of them is 'Fiction Primer'. It has a little bit of canon lore on the matter, but not much.

[Kittenpox]

This might be the fiction primer youre looking for - archotech stuff is mentioned further down the page
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fUO3KKbAbTxMP1lqphnnodY0NPoOVblCUkDw-54MDUc/pub

[Astasia]

Cat is pretty close, but I think it's worth pointing out archotechs are a human creation. It's an AI people create, which then becomes super advanced through self learning, the primer Kittenpox linked goes into it in more detail.

There is nothing alien or mysterious in the RimWorld universe, everything is a direct action of humanity, and this is an important pillar of the lore.

[Dieselfuel156]

it feels like a slightly less powerful version of galactic nova from kirby

[donder172]

Originally posted by Cat®:

Originally posted by czpetr:

Basically some entity so advanced, that it is beyond human comprehension. Most likely some sort of AI.

This. An Archotech is so technologically advanced that it is essentially a divine being. They can take any shape, and exist anywhere, and remain undetected if they so please. While I do not have lore sources on hand there is mentions of archotechs being the size of planets, and sometimes simply being planets. Some have mysterious mental powers that can affect huge swathes of space at once, and wound or heal creatures that enters its field of influence seemingly without ever interacting with them.

Essentially an archotech is a being or collective so technologically advanced that to you are to it as all of human civilization is to, say, a microscopic mite living in beach sand. They make glitterworlds look backwards. A fan theory is that the planet Rimworld takes place on is an archotech, and the player is a sentience controlling it, as the player can control all facets of the planet from population density to manifesting and demanifesting objects.

So the reason an archotech leg is so fantastic and unobtainable is because it uses technology no one understands, made by something no one understands, and no one even knows where it came from or why the archotech decided to make a liver one tuesday.

When you open the game there's a little list of social media, one of them is 'Fiction Primer'. It has a little bit of canon lore on the matter, but not much.

Originally posted by Rimworld Wiki:

The finish line of human technological development is at the development of archotechnology.

An archotech is a machine superintelligence. A fully-empowered archotech thinks on a level incomprehensible to humans, in the same way a human thinks incomprehensibly to an ant. Once such a machine is built, and empowered to act upon the physical world, it is so powerful as to become the automatic sovereign of its world. It can build new computing facilities underground or in space to enhance its own intelligence, build self-replicating mechanoids to engage in construction or production or war, and design and execute strategies that would be inconceivably intricate and difficult for any organization of humans. Some human groups worship archotechs.

Often, a released archotech will take authority over a planet and begin a process we call transcendence. We believe the world is transformed into some sort of giant computing machine. The biological inhabitants of the planet may be somehow incorporated into the machine, or destroyed, or some combination of the two.

After that, transcendent worlds go silent. From this point on, their motivations are unknowable to us, the same way our motivations are unknowable to an ant.

Each archotech is different, and nearly all are distant and incomprehensible from a human’s point of view. They reside in occult computer networks hidden under planets, in space stations, hidden inside a glitterworld’s Internet, or instantiated as million-mile superstructures wrapped around stars.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

Most transcendent worlds stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders, or become mirages of normal planets, or simply reverted back to balls of dust, deconstructing themselves on a molecular level, with the last tiny machine shutting itself off. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

Link to text[rimworldwiki.com]

[☠MommyMrs👁☠]

Originally posted by donder172:

Originally posted by Cat®:

This. An Archotech is so technologically advanced that it is essentially a divine being. They can take any shape, and exist anywhere, and remain undetected if they so please. While I do not have lore sources on hand there is mentions of archotechs being the size of planets, and sometimes simply being planets. Some have mysterious mental powers that can affect huge swathes of space at once, and wound or heal creatures that enters its field of influence seemingly without ever interacting with them.

Essentially an archotech is a being or collective so technologically advanced that to you are to it as all of human civilization is to, say, a microscopic mite living in beach sand. They make glitterworlds look backwards. A fan theory is that the planet Rimworld takes place on is an archotech, and the player is a sentience controlling it, as the player can control all facets of the planet from population density to manifesting and demanifesting objects.

So the reason an archotech leg is so fantastic and unobtainable is because it uses technology no one understands, made by something no one understands, and no one even knows where it came from or why the archotech decided to make a liver one tuesday.

When you open the game there's a little list of social media, one of them is 'Fiction Primer'. It has a little bit of canon lore on the matter, but not much.

Originally posted by Rimworld Wiki:

The finish line of human technological development is at the development of archotechnology.

An archotech is a machine superintelligence. A fully-empowered archotech thinks on a level incomprehensible to humans, in the same way a human thinks incomprehensibly to an ant. Once such a machine is built, and empowered to act upon the physical world, it is so powerful as to become the automatic sovereign of its world. It can build new computing facilities underground or in space to enhance its own intelligence, build self-replicating mechanoids to engage in construction or production or war, and design and execute strategies that would be inconceivably intricate and difficult for any organization of humans. Some human groups worship archotechs.

Often, a released archotech will take authority over a planet and begin a process we call transcendence. We believe the world is transformed into some sort of giant computing machine. The biological inhabitants of the planet may be somehow incorporated into the machine, or destroyed, or some combination of the two.

After that, transcendent worlds go silent. From this point on, their motivations are unknowable to us, the same way our motivations are unknowable to an ant.

Each archotech is different, and nearly all are distant and incomprehensible from a human’s point of view. They reside in occult computer networks hidden under planets, in space stations, hidden inside a glitterworld’s Internet, or instantiated as million-mile superstructures wrapped around stars.

These worlds always break contact with other stellar cultures. They no longer send travelers or signals. Ships entering their space are either turned around silently or never heard from again. In some cases, turned-back ships are changed. Sometimes their crew have been cured of incurable diseases and had their old wounds healed. Sometimes their memories are intact and they recall a flash of light or a mysterious signal before the event. Sometimes they have no memories of the encounter at all. And in some cases, their memories are obviously altered with new knowledge and beliefs, by means we cannot begin to imagine. In one instance, a crew and ship were duplicated. Suffice to say that the word mysterious does not begin to describe the transcendents.

Most transcendent worlds stay in the same state indefinitely - in this they are far more stable than their pre-transcendent neighbors. There are, however, reports of transcendent worlds that have “died” and left systems full of unintelligible wonders, or become mirages of normal planets, or simply reverted back to balls of dust, deconstructing themselves on a molecular level, with the last tiny machine shutting itself off. However, these reports are sourced very distant from the Ordo archive here on Euterpe and are not well-confirmed.

Link to text[rimworldwiki.com]

Soo on the kardashev scale they are likey type 2 then?, or the same level as star trek lvls of technologie?

[MadArtillery]

Archotechs can generate power off of litterally nothing isn't that more bypassing kardichev scale? More like something that has activated dev mode for itself.

[apud.harald]

The Kardashev scale measures energy capture from star. Energy out of nothing does not relate to Kardashev scale at all, just as wave height at sea does not relate to Köppens clasification for climate.
So yes, that could be considered bypassing.