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Within your hand is the final fruit of your special, secret scientific program. Built on the back of material deprivation, your advancements in technology, recycling, and culture of re-use has resulted in this, the <span class="mu-s">Reassembler</span>.
Using a combination of powerful molecular-stripping energy fields, high speed tractor beams, and a highly efficient processor; this device can <span class="mu-s">break down objects made of standard matter</span> and reassemble them into new forms.
It's not exactly a new technology on its own. The concept of matter replicators or "creation engines" was talked about long ago with the discovery of BAG, but this concept is simpler. You once created Biocubes with a similar method of combining organic matter into something clean and "edible". Your water reclamation plants set another blueprint, as did your constant upgrading and retrofitting of starships. It was the combination of technologies. Needless to say, this is a breakthru of momentous proportion.
Sand and silicates to make glass and circuits, organic polymers for rubbers and plastics, simple rocks can be used for metals. You could even sift through a great amount of less material; Gas Giant clouds, and just sift for whatever elements you want in the slurry. Just as the Baalathi do. Perhaps in some strange way, they contributed to.
<span class="mu-b">"Who invented this, Threes? The honor must be theirs."</span>
"Well, your Majesty, that is the true puzzle. Nobody did, directly. The parts, techniques, and principles were made by billions of Hegemony citizens, in small places. I compiled the data, engineers designed the parts, the 3d fabrication software was developed by another, and you gave the order. So truly, <span class="mu-i">we</span> all did. But who receives the credit? That's only something you can decide."
<span class="mu-b">"Hmm..."</span>
>Take the credit for it
>Give the credit to the Threemind
>Pick a random scientist and say they invented it
>Appeal to the masses and claim everyone had a hand
