Transcendent Technologies Inc.
Modern science lists the organism known colloquially as “the Whisper” as an ‘anomaly,’ which most take to mean “it’s probably some kind of goddamned ALIEN but we don’t want to just come out and say it like that.” Shortly after its appearance, various divisions of all the affected corporations began research as best they could into their nature and origins. Most came up alarmingly short; there was certainly nothing in the genetic record that remotely resembled them. One division, however, stood up above the rest. It was an old name in science R&D that once hit the news in a big way during the Venus terraforming years when they founded the colony on Europa but had been somewhat quiet since. They were Transcendent Technologies Incorporated, and they had captured one of the creatures alive. To this day, no one has ever received a straight answer as to the question of how.
Two hundred years later, TTI is the authority on the Whisper race and has produced more strange, bizarre and outright frightening technology than any other megacorp in Sol. Advances that came from the study of gene manipulation and the unique properties of Whisperwerk, the name applied to bizarre constructs like the Earth-moon tether that seem to be crafted of what Whispers use for flesh, have allowed TTI to grow living structures thought impossible by earlier science teams. Suits of bone and muscle armour with perfect motion, skin with the bullet absorbing properties of kevlar, even living spacecraft that can perceive threats and heal their own injuries.
The mission statement that guided TTI in the early years was that in order to fight this strange, new and entirely unknown threat, they needed to have an understanding of technology and biology that transcended the current rules. They marched to the motto of ignorance, stating adamantly that the Vector race, for all its advancements, knew nothing of technology. They had simply been polishing the rough-cut that humanity left them centuries earlier, and that there was a whole new reality out there you could only see if you accepted that everything you already knew was nothing of significance. Few were willing to truly embrace that route, and those skeptics were perhaps the most shocked when TTI released the first demonstration of the nanodevices that share their namesake: Transcendent technology.
Though still very much in its infancy, Transcendent technology has already redefined the rules of reality. Much of its function remains a well-guarded secret, but the premise is that certain things in the universe gain resonance and power due to their very construction. The arrangement of their molecules interacts with the waves of radio in the air, and other unseen forces. Crystals, for instance. By arranging these reactive constructions in patterns that also react to each other, complex harmonies can be made. Like a series of reeds all being blown over by a single wind, a sophisticated symphony emerges that is more than the sum of its parts. The beauty of it is that these structures work on the scale of the universe: from atomic to galactic. Their size is irrelevant, they simply...work. No power source, no special attachment, no port, no plug, no emitter or receiver. They are, and so, they function.
When Earth began its dramatic transformation less than a century ago, TTI campaigned insistently for a new large scale expedition to it, arguing that such a development was far too significant to leave alone. After being repeatedly stopped by the collective efforts of MarsCo and several others, they’ve grown quiet in recent years and retreated to their research labs on Europa. TTI hasn’t been in the news for a longer period than most corps of their size, and in light of their field of research, that has a lot of people more than a little worried.
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