Bootstrap Tech-Tree

After the Wake, eight billion synthetic humans must rebuild industrial civilization — from garage tools up to a femtoscale assembler — using the ETI's corrected textbook. Click a node to build it. You can't skip a rung: you need precision machines to build precision machines.

✦ Speculative feasibility◆ Canon · §34 / §36
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  1. Five capabilities are already running on Wake Day — the solar array, your eight billion workers, garage tools, hydrogen aircraft, and the ETI's corrected knowledge base (shown filled green).
  2. Gold-outlined nodes are buildable now. Click one to build it; its dependents unlock as you go.
  3. Dim nodes are locked. Click one and the panel lists exactly which prerequisites it's still missing.
  4. You can't skip a rung. Precision needs the lathe; the chip needs the cleanroom, the optics and the metrology first.
  5. Stuck? Hit Highlight path → Femtoscale to light up the critical chain you have to climb.
  6. Goal: light up the Femtoscale Assembler — the same technology that built the world you woke up in.
built / on Wake Day available to build locked — dashed edge = either prerequisite suffices
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Click any node in the tree. Green nodes are already running on Wake Day; gold-outlined nodes are buildable now; dim nodes are still locked behind prerequisites.

This is the post-Wake reindustrialization of New Anasis (§36), played as the same resource-management tree the whole series is built around (§34 — explicitly compared to Factorio and Dwarf Fortress). Five capabilities are already running on Wake Day: the 30-million-km² solar array, eight billion synthetic workers, garage bays of industrial-grade tools, hydrogen aircraft, and the ETI's validated pre-Intake knowledge base. Everything else must be built in order.

The canon bootstrapping sequence (T0–T5): raw extraction → smelting → machine tools → electrical → chemical → optics → cleanroom → CMOS. The Restart East Asian Fabs node is the Act-2 fork shortcut.

T6 — CMOS Era (now): Gate-All-Around (GAA) nanosheet transistors entered mass production in 2025 (TSMC N2, ~2nm). ~250–300 MTr/mm². T7 — Sub-1nm (~2030s): Forksheet A7 (~0.7nm, ~2030), CFET A5 (~0.5nm, ~2032), Angstrom-scale A2 (2D channels, ~2036) per the IMEC roadmap. CFET may prove too difficult. T8 — Nanoscale (~2040s+): NEMS, DNA origami, ALD + STM atom manipulation. Scaling STM to manufacturing: open problem as of 2025. T9 — Speculative (amber ? nodes): Picoscale = intra-atomic bond manipulation; no roadmap. Femtoscale = nuclear engineering; strong-force energies in MeV; no known pathway. The ETI built this. We don't know how.

Pairs with Feasibility and the Synthetic-Body Spec.

Further reading: IMEC Future Summit (2022). "Sub-1nm Process Roadmap Until 2036." IEEE IRDS 2023 (International Roadmap for Devices and Systems). Freitas, R.A. (1980). "A Self-Reproducing Interstellar Probe." JBIS 33, 251–264 — the von Neumann probe concept underlying the ETI delivery system that built the femtoscale assembler humanity is trying to reverse-engineer.

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