u/Fairways_and_Greens

Is the Deathless Enemy a species or an idea? It seems like if you restarted humanity a thousand times, every time we don't wipe ourselves out, we end up with AI and nanobots.

The Carryx aren't just anti AI, they are anti technology in general. They don't have guns with bullets, they have nodes with bees. They don't have computers, they have half minds.

They've had to come across aliens with nanobots helping augment their bodies dozens, if not hundreds of times. Is there a single sentient mechanical society that makes livesuits, or are livesuits an emergent thing in the universe that the Carryx are fighting, over and over?

Goals

• Design a tip for the stock 2026 Beta XTrainer 300 exhaust.
• Here is an example of the stock tip.
• Here is an example of an aftermarket.
• The prime goal is lowering perceptible sound of for those away from the machine.
• The tip should also provide spark arrestation.
• The horsepower of the motorcycle should not get worse.
• The weight is kept low.

Tools

• I have CNC mill capable of machining aluminum and steel.
• I have a Bambu H2S. I can purchase high temp filaments you recommend.
• I am able to design in Fusion 360

Ideas/Questions

• Based on research, I need to turn the exhaust towards the ground. So this is at least 90 degrees, but that's not straight down due to the upward angle of the exhaust stinger. Since this is a 2-stroke, what considerations on this turn?
• Are there acoustic tip treatments like the saw-toothing on the 787 nacelle?
• Are there any other acoustic principles for designing exhausts?

Thanks!

I’m a 45yo male, 5’9” / 32” inseam, 180lb, and used to ride a YZ250F 15 years ago. I have a 14yo son that wants to get into trail riding. We would mostly be riding trails in Gifford Pinchot.

We borrowed an XR100 and XR200 last weekend and did 40 miles and both loved it. I have zero desire to go fast (I didn’t get out of second gear on the XR200 on account of not wanting to leave my son behind).

It seems like an Xtrainer is the KDX220 of today’s time. There is a KDX220 for $2,800, a 2023 Xtrainer for $6,500, and a 2025 TE300 for $10,000 nearby.

Also, I have 5 acres of land, and the Xtrainer seems like the best for “play”. I only want to be able to ride with my son… no races, scrambles, hard enduro, etc. I might a well disable 4th gear.

What do you guys think?

Is it the forgetting drugs or the Botox?

After rereading parts of TFoB I’m leaning towards the nanites being mechanical.

If true, have the Carryx been fighting nanobots for millions of years? Or are they fighting against the inevitable digitization of any intelligent species that likely almost always leads to AI and miniaturization of technology?

They may have fought the “same enemy” many times throughout their history, but it’s really the “same technology” being invented over and over again by new species.

The Carryx call themselves librarians, I have always seen them more as gardeners, but maybe they are space shrimp Luddites.

Are the swarm, livesuits, 5-fold, and the canister all the same stuff? Is it all natural nanites or a mix of natural and synthetic?

• Swarm tech seems more powerful than the Livesuit material. It takes several livesuits, with weapons, to take down a Carryx. Swarm says confidently that it could take out several Carryx if it needed to.
• The livesuits need a camel hump; Swarm and 5-folds don’t seem to.
• The 5-fold in the ship reanimates when the ship is turn. When Piotr dies but comes back, there is a “reinitializing” or something similar that comes up on the HUD. Is this the same?
• When Jessyn released the canister, it dissolved and the ship failed. I initially thought she made herself into Swarm2, but it doesn’t read that way. Where did the canister material go? Was it natural or synthetic? Was it all the same stuff?