Parinama

The Parinama refers to a class of planck scale technological devices used in various Transcended artifacts. These extremely small devices act as information processing units as well as a means of precisely manipulating physical forces and particles at sub quark levels. Parinama are used in practically all Transcended technology due to their ease of manufacture and wide utility.

Description
The Parinama have no set shape, changing their structure to fit the needs of their current task. When the concentration of Parinama in an area is high enough to be visible to non-Transcended/Old Brethren or more mundane senses, the swarm is usually in the form of either a gas or fluid. Like all Void Patterned technology, Parinama are immune to the effects of The Silence, the Death Concept and other similar metaphysical forces. The patterning also allows swarms to regenerate from damage, up to and including complete physical annihilation.

Parinama are extremely versatile in their capability, though they are chiefly weaved into technological and non-technological artifacts to provide a whole host of functions. Parinama provide shapeshifting, material reinforcement and extremely rapid autorepair abilities once embedded into an object, alongside granting latency-free and precise remote operation/manipulation of those same items. Should an item embedded with Parinama require such, the planck scale devices are able to generate energy for the item indefinitely. Such objects can range in size from quark scale machines all the way to megastructures multiple light years in size. Swarms of Parinama are designed with very little processing power on their own as a control measure; outside of tasks for maintenance, repair and monitoring of their embedded object, Parinama need to be interfaced with their controlling Transcend in order to access more complex computing via piggybacking on their owner's capabilities.

Often, Parinama are used to assist in the process of Patterning and Transcension. Swarms embedded in objects and beings can control how much Void they are exposed to in order to safely accelerate and adjust the process for optimal results.

Parinama swarms are also known to be used as utility fog occasionally, though this is role is usually left to larger nanomachine swarms when convenient.

History
The Parinama were conceived as far back as before the First End. With the advent of the first Void based technologies created by the precursors of the Weave, entire fields of research were opened up, including precise manipulation of forces and particles at the quark level and lower. This research eventually lead to the creation of the first planck scale devices in the form of the Parinama swarms. The early Parinama were clumsy devices, requiring constant monitoring and control by Transcends to perform even simple tasks, but over a few short decades theses issues were largely resolved. These Parinama became the basis of the majority of their future designs. For the 30 million years up to the present, the general design has changed little, though there are billions of variants in common use and many more custom models created by individual Transcends.

Mechanism
Using the small size of individual units, a swarm of Parinama embeds itself throughout an entire object. Individual units attach themselves to the smallest particles that comprise the item and form wireless connections with each other. After this initial process, individual units further latch onto attached ones to link them together. When the connections are complete, users of the Parinama are then free to manipulate the embedded object or item as they see fit.