Grey Tech as depicted in Burning Skies.
Gray Tech (rendered as Grey Tech in Resistance: Retribution and Resistance: Burning Skies) is the term that SRPA researchers have given to advanced, technological objects that have been recovered from Chimeran towers. Gray Tech is a material created by a yet unknown species, whom were believed to have driven the Chimera from Earth long before humanity's existence. The nature of the technology is not fully explained but desired by both humans and Chimera for its capabilities of creating or augmenting powerful weaponry.
Description[]
In March 1952, a SRPA research team led by Dr. Fyodor Malikov in Station Genesis in Bryce Canyon, Utah discovered ancient, advanced artifacts from Bryce Canyon's Chimeran tower, which Malikov's research team dubbed "Gray Tech."[1] Intensive study on these Gray Tech components was conducted under Project Prometheus, which revealed that the components were far more advanced than the technology the Chimera had in their possession and were believed to belong to another unknown alien race millions of years ago.[2] Specter Team was established for the purpose of locating the Gray Tech components before the Chimera could obtain them.[3]
The Cloven were also keenly interested in the components and had been amassing the technology far more than the Chimera and humans had in their possession. However, the Cloven seem to have no serious intentions for the components and instead used them as religious objects for their bizarre culture.[4]
Features[]
The abilities and capabilities that the Gray Tech have shown were far in excess of anything seen from the Chimera. Examples of this includes:
- Communication and transfer of energy between Gray Tech objects milliseconds before the energy was actually sent.[5]
- The ability to connect and link up automatically to form new objects.[6]
- Extreme internal complexity.[7]
- Bursts of energy strong enough to blast through several floors of a building, etc.[8]
It is unknown what will happen when the objects are fully combined. According to Project Prometheus researchers, the combined effect of only a hundred of such Gray Tech components would have the ability to produce energy equivalent to over twenty-three billion kilotons of TNT.[9] The weapon that these pieces would combine to form was dubbed by SRPA scientist Julia Cathcart as the "Prometheus Weapon."[10]
Daedalus was close on constructing the so-called Prometheus Weapon in Holar, Iceland with the large amount of Gray Tech components that the Chimera had acquired. However, the construction was foiled by Specter Team.[11]
Appearances[]
Resistance 2[]
In online co-op mode, Gray Tech are used to purchase new weapons and accessories. It is acquired by killing Elite Chimeran units and are also found in certain areas in a mission. In Superhuman difficulty, players receive double Gray Tech components than in Normal difficulty.
Resistance: Retribution[]
A piece of Grey Tech, found by James Grayson in a Rotterdam sewer.
During Infected Mode in Resistance: Retribution, the player can reach areas where Grey Tech and Infected Intel can be found. Though Infected Mode is non-canon, Intel in Resistance 2 reveals that James Grayson and the Maquis have found Grey Tech across Europe for SRPA.[12] For example, Grayson discovered a buried fragment of Grey Tech while navigating through a sewer in Rotterdam, indicating that these pieces of technology predate human history.[13] He also speculates about the nature and purpose of these Grey Tech components, stating that they are powered by "small red and white crystals" and that "they give off a lot of heat, and have some kind of energy field around them".[14] For Grayson, though, it remained unclear why the Chimera utilized Grey Tech within their structures.
Resistance: Burning Skies[]
In Burning Skies Grey Tech items are cyan-coloured cubes made of interlocking segments, which are used to upgrade weapons. Each weapon has six upgrades, subdivided into two lists of three coloured red and blue; one red and one blue upgrade can be equipped at any given time.
Grey Tech is first encountered when Tom Riley and the Minutemen find a US Army truck carrying a crate with three Grey Tech items and realized their potential to upgrade their weapons. The artifacts were integral in SRPA's Project Phoenix, which attempt to control individual Chimeran through implanted Gray Tech modules. Project Phoenix's creator, Richard Gorrell, attempted to use the Grey Tech modules to control an incomplete Leviathan and pressing it into service against the Chimera.
Ultimately, Riley destroys all the Grey Tech components found throughout the game by throwing it into the wreckage of the Conversion Tower, stating that it cannot be allowed to fall into the wrong hands.
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See Also[]
References[]
- ^ SRPA Interoffice Memorandum
- ^ SRPA Research Journal
- ^ SRPA Executive Memorandum
- ^ Treasure Trove
- ^ SRPA Research Journal 4
- ^ SRPA Research Journal 3
- ^ SRPA Research Journal 2
- ^ SRPA Research Journal 5
- ^ SRPA Intelligence Memorandum 23
- ^ SRPA Intelligence Memorandum 7
- ^ Mission Status Report 2 (Holar Tower)
- ^ Mission Status Report 2 (Axbridge)
- ^ 'Strange' is a Relative Term
- ^ Power of the Atom