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- Mirrorswarm consistently uses SI units, and Earth calendar time. [day,hour,year,kg,s,mol,cd,Ampere,Kelvin,m]
- The host planet Mercury ("Host") is low-gravity to help get the swarm into orbit and is close to the necessary location of the swarm, between the host and the sun.
- Avogadro says there are 6E23 atoms in every mole of material. A reasonable estimate for the average mass of a mole of the host is 54g.
- The raw material for the swarm and its factories is elements. These elements are extracted from the host. There are fewer then a hundred elements needed.
- The construction material for the swarm and its factories is the nanite. This is a general purpose machine consisting of fewer than 1E20 atoms (0.25g). Teams will specify the requirements and design of the nanite.
The 1% of the host which is available as raw material has a mass of 3.3E21kg and makes up to 1.3E25 nanites.