# Universal Asset Management System

## Goals

Build a system to optimally manage assets, taking into account energy transportation costs, time, distributed system of storage locations all across the Universe.

## Definitions

### Asset

Basically anything tangible-ish, on a physical level it's basically a collection of atoms, so the lowest-level physical assets are chemical compounds. Otherwise it can as big as "intergalactic spaceship".

Artificial scarcity can be coded too. But the top priority is management of physical assets.

### Storage

Any location where assets can be stored. With physical assets, there is obviously the maximum amount that can be stored.

Storage has a location in space. Unless it's virtual, of course.

### Carrier

An object that can move assets around between storages. Can be a delivery drone, human, etc.

## Use cases

### Assembling of high-level assets

Here the system would need to figure out the amount of each asset needed to build the high-level asset and do the optimization algorithms to find nearest storages holding needed assets. It had to optimize for time and energy costs.

### Transportation of assets to satisfy business objectives

More low-level algorithm, but basically the same.