Equipment Catalogue

With the constant interaction of all the species from multiple galaxies, equipment has a wide variety and variation to suit the needs of its user.

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Advancements
Several advancements are common in most if not all equipment and their manufacture.

Universal Connector
The universal connector was a standard agreed upon by the many manufacturers and designers. These connectors allowed almost every piece of equipment to be modular in design. Increasing the flexibility of many things by simply adding functionality.

Replicators
Replicator technology revolutionized the manufacturing world almost overnight. Within a century, worlds that were material resource poor could just generate the raw goods they need to become a manufacturing powerhouse.

For a replicator to function, all it needed was ample power and the pattern of the thing being built. There are limits to what a replicator can do, and the largest limit is power; the more complex the object it is trying to produce is, the more power it needs to operate. On massive scales, it is a lot easier to use replicators to produce bulk raw materials and then use those materials to make the items desired. It takes way less energy to produce a one kilogram ingot of durasteel than it does to make a one kilogram longarm. This also means that mass produced, replicated items; seem to be at a lower quality because of fade, little errors that occur at the nanoscopic level when the item is manufactured. The less replication used in the manufacturing process, the higher quality the item seems to be.

In any case, replicators are large, expensive, and power hungry, making the personal use of one almost impossible.

Food Synthesizer
The food synthesizer is a technological offshoot of the replicator. It uses less power by only needed to replicate basic proteins, carbohydrates, and minerals in very small batches, and then using a form of assembler, make it look reasonably like the food in question. While nutritiously dense and edible, they are usually used only on long voyages or as a form of ration when fresh foods are unavailable.

Powercells
Powercells provide power to most everything that requires it. Powercells are grouped by size and generally cost the same across the galaxies. What is inside them can vary but their energy output and connections are always the same from cell to cell and generally their life expectancy doesn’t change much.

Currency
Most every group among the galaxies have given themselves to use the same universal currency, the Link.

Links are a form of digital currency that is linked to an individual. Links can be made and destroyed by the distributing banks in order to keep the economy stable and control inflation.

Restriction
Some equipment is generally considered have restricted use. If an item has a restriction, it generally requires the item to be licensed. The price for the item is with the license for the item itself and it is considered illegal to possess without one.

Unlicensed items are considered untraceable to their owners.

Illegal
Few items are illegal in a general sense. Most illegal items are items that are possessed without a license. If an item is illegal, it would still have a price, but will require the item to be acquired on the shadow market.

The cost for an illegal item is the cost that is listed on the tables. To gain a licensed item illegally, the cost of the item is generally greater, but the item is now untraceable to its owner. The cost increases +50% rounded up; so a 100 Link Licensed item would cost 150 Links on the shadow market.