Category: Equipment

Model: Saldalith Manufacturing Veridicator 200Type: Response analysis deviceSkill: Sensors: personal sensorsCost: 4,000Availability: 4, RGame Notes: An Easy sensors roll is required for normal use. Detection range is 5 meters within a 60-degree scanning arc. Device acts as a Perception check (4D+2) when rolled to detect possible falsehoods. If target is aware of possible scans, the target can make a willpower roll to control natural biorhythms and disguise a lie. Disclaimer: Be advised that in some systems it is illegal to question a being under a verification scan without consent. Statements…

Model: Consolidated Learning Systems Model ES23Type: Emotion suppression systemCost: 750Availability: 3Game Notes: Device uses micro-power cells. Each pair must be worn a minimum of 24-30 hours to allow for proper calibration to the wearer’s life function rhythms. Device adds +2D bonus to any willpower rolls to resist emotional-impulses. Note that this device could conceivably be used to help resist torture (although it has no effect on resisting Force abilities). Background: In some situations, the outward display of emotion is not only considered socially unacceptable, but may be offensive! When confronted…

Model: Traxes BioElectronics Ultrawave Sight EnhancerType: Ultrasonic wave motion sensory systemCost: 12,500; does not include cost of implantation surgeryAvailability: 4 Background: The visually impaired can now experience a kind of sight thanks to the latest advance in implant technology from Traxes BioElectronics. Traxes’s newest invention looks like an ordinary metallic headband. In reality it is a sophisticated sensory motion system that feeds imput directly into the user’s brain. When worn, the device “paints” a three-dimensional sonic graph of the user’s surroundings. The result is a crystal clear (if black and…

Model: zZip Product Concepts Limited Transponder RingType: Personal location detectorCost: 100-500 (depending on setting design selected)Availability: 2Game Notes: A Very Easy sensors roll is required to locate transponder signal within a 200 meter radius. Background: Having trouble keeping track of the kitlings as they scamper around the house? Ever forget to tell someone where you planned to wait for them after work? Do you often forget where your associate parked the speeder after dropping you off? Solve those problems with a personal transponder ring. Functional as well as decorative, each…

Model: Raflkind Industrials Radiation ScreenerType: Personal ornamentation energy deflectors (various styles)Cost: 250-500Availability: 2Game Notes: Miniature power cell must be replaced after 50 hours of continuous use. This item adds + 1 D to any survival rolls concerning low-level radiation. Bonus does not apply to high-energy radiation situations, but a warning alarm will sound if radiation levels exceed specified amounts. Background: Are you particularly sensitive to the effects of harmful radiation? Are there potentially dangerous radiation levels at your next port of call? If so, then avoid unnecessary distress with Raflkind’s…

Model: Gorondin Chronometrics Time Piece Model 7643Type: Personal holographic chronometerCost: 300 (standard model), 50 (chips with additional imagery), 500+ for deluxe models (depending upon features)Availability: 2 Background: With a Gorondin holographic chronometer you’ll never think of time quite the same way again. Accurate to within one second per standard year, the Gorondin chronometer is much more than a simple time-piece. The wearer can choose from over a dozen built-in holographic displays to relay time (standard or programmable for 30 local timekeeping standards), temperature, or other vital information. Deluxe models also…

Model: Palladia Electronics OFB-200Type: Proximity defense field generatorCost: 700Availability: 3Game Notes: Any significant kinetic energy pressure automatically triggers energy release equivalent to 1 D-40 stun damage (damage set by wearer; net effect varies from a mild electrical shock to a damaging, but non-lethal, blast). Background: Don’t sacrifice your security in a crowd. With the Palladia Electronics DFB-200, you can be sure that “No” means “NO!” Designed as a stylish accessory, this technological marvel generates a low-energy, 360-degree force field radiating out to 3 centimeters from the wearer’s body. The unit’s…