Deconstructor Pod

A deconstruction pod is a form of bio-machinery found within the Webb Star. These pods are used exclusively to break down anything submerged into it; while an object is being broken down its structural, molecular, and genetic structure is recorded for storage in a Deep Shard.

Structure
Deconstruction pods may vary in size depending on what is being deconstructed, but they share the same segmented structure of other pods where a majority of the pod is made of a translucent form of keratin, which is replenished and repaired by the hardier Hive Resin supports. The pod itself contains a viscous and volatile mixture mainly composed of Royal Jelly, which needs refilling after each use, as well as occasional top ups while inactive.

At the top of the pod is a rounded cap which opens into four segments while waiting to be used, and adversely, around the base of the pod are four evenly spaced, valve-based waste pipes. The waste pipes connect to a visible drain system which runs through the floor within the Pod Chamber.

Process
While inactive the pod lowers itself into the floor, only leaving a small amount of the pod accessible, mainly the cap at the top to allow objects in. The pod only rises up and closes the cap once something foreign has been introduced to the mixture inside.

Once in use the mixture inside will begin to instantly strip the object down layer by layer, and the pod notes all of the structural and genetic information present during the stripping process. When the pod detects that all the materials have been broken down, it flushes out the contaminated mixture through its waste pipes as it lowers itself back into the floor.

Workers are required to occasionally check to see if there were no errors found during the stripping process. If an error does occur, the mixture will turn black and the Workers will force the pod to do a manual waste flush.

Any successful deconstruction will pass on the collected information to a Deep Shard in the nearest Memory Chamber, through a specialised type of Hive Resin, known as Memory Fibres.

Associated Roles

 * Worker – Machinery use, Object queue organisation, Observation, Error detection
 * Builder – Structure maintenance, Structure construction
 * Royal – Mixture maintenance