| Hand Terminal |
Used for communications and allows user to perform technical tests. |
8 |
| Heads-up Display |
Helmets include a heads-up display (HUD), projecting visual information onto the wearer’s field of vision. Can be enhanced by expert systems. |
10 |
| HUD Expert System |
Specialist software (can be taken multiple times). Each system provides one of +1 Pistols and Rifles, +1 Navigation, +1 Tactics, +1 Searching, +1 Seeing, or +1 Tracking. Each additional system increases cost by 2. |
12+ |
| Terminals |
Used to run more sophisticated software. Can range from simple systems to supercomputers that run station. Basic systems add +1 bonus to the drama die total when being used for advanced tests. Each increase in cost increases proportionally increases the bonus. |
12+ |
| Terminal Expert System |
Specialist software (can be taken multiple times). Each system provides one of +1 Gunnery, +1 Piloting, +1 Cryptography, +1 Engineering, +1 Navigation, +1 Research, +1 Technology. Each additional system increases cost by 2. |
14+ |
| Drone |
Semi-autonomous vehicles remotely controlled using Dexterity (Piloting) or Intelligence (Technology). |
14 |
| Combat Drone |
Surveillance drone with addition of a firearm. Attacks are rolled using Gunnery, and inflict 2d6 + Intelligence damage |
16 |
| Butterfly Drone |
Butterfly drones are tiny and designed to be silent and unobtrusive. -2 to tests to perceive the drone. |
16 |
| Gadfly Drone |
Move quietly and pack a full suite of audio, video, and media-uploading capabilities. Operated with a hand terminal or follow simple voice commands. |
12 |
| Communications Drone |
Comms drones can be placed to act as a signal relay |
16 |
| Decoy Drones |
A drone can be triggered to draw attention to itself |
15 |
| Drone Augmentation |
Removes the need for an external terminal to run a butterfly drone. |
20 |
| Probe |
gather information from an area and transmit it back to their mothership or other set destination |
17 |
| Shoulder Mech |
+5 bonus to Strength (Might) tests. +1 armour bonus -1 armour penalty. Provides +1 bonus to any roll it is designed for. |
15 |
| Construction Mech |
+10 bonus to Strength (Might) tests. +2 armour bonus -2 armour penalty. Provides +1 bonus to any roll it is designed for. |
16 |
| Environment Suit |
Allows for survival in the areas of failing life support. Permanently have the fragile quality. |
9 |
| Vac Suit |
Allows for survival in the areas of failing life support and hard vacuum. Can incorporate HUDs with max 3 expert systems. |
11 |
| Form-fitting Suit |
Allows for survival in the areas of failing life support and hard vacuum. Can incorporate HUDs with max 6 expert systems. |
13 |
| Tool Kit |
Needed for field skills tests. Is associated with one Focus. Additional focuses add +1 to the cost. |
8+ |
| Workshop |
Needed for significant skills tests. Is associated with one Focus. Additional focuses add +1 to the cost. |
10+ |
| Bypass |
Electronic lockpick that allows for overriding locks on doors. |
11 |
| Restraints |
Metal hand/ankle-cuffs with mechanical or electronic locks. |
7 |
| Sedatives |
Drug characters to keep them unconscious - or at least groggy and compliant. |
9 |
| Electronic Surveillance |
Visual and audio bug. |
9 |
| Press Identifier |
A small circular device usually emblazoned with the logo of a journalist’s company or network and activated with a biometric sequence, a press identifier broadcasts credentials to security wavelengths and conventional targeting systems. |
6 |
| Burn Key |
Fingernail-sized device that can be configured to fit input ports. Scours the system and utterly obliterates all files tagged with metadata corresponding to the user’s devices and biometrics |
10 |
| Ghost in a can |
Small, easily concealed, unmarked cannisters and contains a pressurized mix of cleaning agents and heavily modified digestive enzymes designed to destroy physical evidence |
14 |
| EMP DrillHound |
The DrillHound is a semi-autonomous robotic device that resembles a centipede the size of a human forearm with a drill instead of a head. It’s used by pirate boarding parties to disable a prize ship’s electronics. |
14 |
| Boarding Wedge |
It’s a kit about the size of a hand terminal that serves the dual purpose of issuing override codes to the most common electronic locks. |
13 |
| Plumes of IO |
A drug cocktail that, when inhaled, creates incredibly realistic and disturbing hallucinations based in part on what people see dispensed from a small aerosol. |
10 |
| Ship Mapping Expert Systems |
Adds +1 to tests using Sensors to map and catalogue an area of space (for example, mapping a system or planet, but not finding a safe route; that’s pathfinding). |
15 |
| Ship Pathfinding Expert Systems |
Adds +1 to tests using Sensors to chart a route through space to maximize safety and efficiency. |
15 |
| Ship Pattern Searching Expert System |
Adds +1 to tests using Sensors to locate some specific item, person, or other target. |
20 |
| Ship Scientific Analysis Expert System |
Adds +1 to tests using Sensors to collect and process usable data. |
20 |