diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt index 30d8c7dc..3e2db375 100644 --- a/CMakeLists.txt +++ b/CMakeLists.txt @@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ INSTALL(FILES factions.xml DESTINATION share/vegastrike) INSTALL(FILES master_part_list.csv DESTINATION share/vegastrike) INSTALL(FILES master_part_list.json DESTINATION share/vegastrike) +INSTALL(FILES master_asteroid_list.json DESTINATION share/vegastrike) +INSTALL(FILES master_component_list.json DESTINATION share/vegastrike) +INSTALL(FILES master_ship_list.json DESTINATION share/vegastrike) + INSTALL(FILES py27_modules.7z DESTINATION share/vegastrike) diff --git a/master_asteroid_list.json b/master_asteroid_list.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2fc3916b --- /dev/null +++ b/master_asteroid_list.json @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +[ + { + "file": "small_asteroid0", + "categoryname": "Fragments", + "price": "0", + "mass": "100", + "volume": "1000", + "description": "@cargo/gems.image@A chunk of asteroid. Can be mined for ore if further shot upon." + }, + { + "file": "small_asteroid1", + "categoryname": "Fragments", + "price": "0", + "mass": "100", + "volume": "1000", + "description": "@cargo/gems.image@A chunk of asteroid. Can be mined for ore if further shot upon." + }, + { + "file": "small_asteroid2", + "categoryname": "Fragments", + "price": "0", + "mass": "100", + "volume": "1000", + "description": "@cargo/gems.image@A chunk of asteroid. Can be mined for ore if further shot upon." + }, + { + "file": "small_asteroid3", + "categoryname": "Fragments", + "price": "0", + "mass": "100", + "volume": "1000", + "description": "@cargo/gems.image@A chunk of asteroid. Can be mined for ore if further shot upon." + }, + { + "file": "small_asteroid4", + "categoryname": "Fragments", + "price": "0", + "mass": "100", + "volume": "1000", + "description": "@cargo/gems.image@A chunk of asteroid. Can be mined for ore if further shot upon." + }, + { + "file": "small_asteroid5", + "categoryname": "Fragments", + "price": "0", + "mass": "100", + "volume": "1000", + "description": "@cargo/gems.image@A chunk of asteroid. Can be mined for ore if further shot upon." + }, + { + "file": "small_asteroid6", + "categoryname": "Fragments", + "price": "0", + "mass": "100", + "volume": "1000", + "description": "@cargo/gems.image@A chunk of asteroid. Can be mined for ore if further shot upon." + }, + { + "file": "small_asteroid7", + "categoryname": "Fragments", + "price": "0", + "mass": "100", + "volume": "1000", + "description": "@cargo/gems.image@A chunk of asteroid. Can be mined for ore if further shot upon." + } +] diff --git a/master_component_list.json b/master_component_list.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..06dd5bb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/master_component_list.json @@ -0,0 +1,1866 @@ +[ + { + "file": "Areus_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "4000000", + "mass": "216", + "volume": "4400", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Ariston_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "2500000", + "mass": "197", + "volume": "4000", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Clydesdale_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "200000000", + "mass": "29000000", + "volume": "590000000", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Convolution_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "1000000", + "mass": "62", + "volume": "1280", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Derivative_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "800000", + "mass": "134", + "volume": "2700", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Determinant_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "800000", + "mass": "54", + "volume": "1100", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Dodo_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "90000", + "mass": "1096", + "volume": "21000", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Dostoevsky_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "350000", + "mass": "63", + "volume": "1300", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Franklin_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "1200000", + "mass": "575", + "volume": "12000", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Gawain_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "3000000", + "mass": "40", + "volume": "800", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Goddard_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "7000000", + "mass": "2150", + "volume": "43000", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Lancelot_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "4000000", + "mass": "170", + "volume": "3500", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Mule_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "6000000", + "mass": "20000", + "volume": "570000", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Nicander_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "2100000", + "mass": "132", + "volume": "2700", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Pacifier_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "800000", + "mass": "490", + "volume": "10000", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Progeny_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "800000", + "mass": "62", + "volume": "1200", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Schroedinger_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "2000000", + "mass": "80", + "volume": "1600", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Shizu_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "200000", + "mass": "57", + "volume": "1140", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Taizong_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "3500000", + "mass": "230", + "volume": "4600", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + { + "file": "Zhuangzong_Milspec_Package", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", + "price": "1400000", + "mass": "65", + "volume": "1300", + "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + }, + + + { + "file": "beam_heavy_lr", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "2500000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The logical conclusion of decades of upscaling work with spatial disruption technology, this weapon finds its home only among the weapons mounted on the capital vessels of well funded space navies." + }, + { + "file": "flak", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "6500", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@Like fireworks - only full of razorblades." + }, + { + "file": "flak_heavy", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "9500", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@There, there Snowden.... there, there." + }, + { + "file": "lr_disruptor_beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "120000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@A variant of the Disruptor Beam, this weapon uses the same functional principals, but is engineered for use at long range. Projecting something that is, in many respects, an extremely long sliver of a shield poses a number of technical difficulties. Long range disruptor beams increase the effective range of the weapon, but at the cost of dramatic reductions to efficiency, damage output, and beam stability alongside a significantly increased physical size. However, for certain applications, such as point-defense emplacements, these trade-offs have been considered more than worthwhile." + }, + { + "file": "Relativistic_Particle_Beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "250000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@While slinging particles of negligible mass, and in chaste quantities, this weapon does manage to propel them at significant fractions of lightspeed, rendering the particles quite dangerous to encounter." + }, + { + "file": "photon_capship", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "2500000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@The standard armament of most heavy Aeran vessels, this is a scaled up version of the same PESC type warhead delivery system used in Aeran combat craft." + }, + { + "file": "rlr_laser_beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "150000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@A long ranged laser weapon used primarily in Aeran point defence emplacements." + }, + { + "file": "FS_MWRF_Laser", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", + "price": "20000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@Rapid-fire microwave laser: When an enemy vessel has had enough it will go 'ding'. Or, possibly, explode." + }, + { + "file": "FS_MW_Laser", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", + "price": "20000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@Microwave laser: Caution -- do not stand in front of laser when attempting to defrost chickens." + }, + { + "file": "FS_IRRF_Laser", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", + "price": "26000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@Rapid-fire infrared laser: Even on the coldest sea, it can still be Hot, Hot, Hot!" + }, + { + "file": "FS_IR_Laser", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", + "price": "26000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@Infrared laser: When using for grilling, please refrain from putting hands, feet, or population centers in front of the lasing surface." + }, + { + "file": "Jackhammer", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", + "price": "24000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@The Jackhammer is an open-cycle laser, venting its coolant after every firing sequence. While this does wonders for the size and complexity of the cooling system, it does raise ammunition capacity issues not frequently associated with modern lasers." + }, + { + "file": "Jackhammer_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", + "price": "20", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/halogen_gasses.image@Coolant for the open-cycle Jackhammer laser." + }, + { + "file": "CS_UVRF_Laser", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "75000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@Rapid-fire UV Laser. UV and other higher frequency lasers raise increasing concerns about cooling. Fortunately, UV and higher frequency lasers are effective enough to warrant being built into capital sized mounts that can handle their cooling requirements." + }, + { + "file": "CS_UV_Laser", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "75000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@UV Laser. Unlike most exposures to UV light, taking in these rays decreases the risk of dying from skin cancer." + }, + { + "file": "CS_XRRF_Laser", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "2500000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@Rapid-fire Xaser. Used properly, one can use a Xaser to figure out what the inside of an enemy vessel looks like. The crew, however, tends to cease to have insides at about the same time." + }, + { + "file": "CS_XR_Laser", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "2500000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@Xaser. The X-ray spectrum and lasers are notoriously unfriendly to being combined. That xasers exist at all just goes to show that some relationships can be made to work if there's enough money in it for everyone else involved." + }, + { + "file": "Particle_Beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", + "price": "7500", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@It has long been known that lightweight, charged particles, while easy to accelerate, suffer greatly from electro-static bloom effects. However, it has also long been known that there's not much in the universe cheaper to obtain than lightweight, charged particles. Still, it's not your great-to-the-Nth-granddaddy's cathode ray tube. (It's a lot bigger than that)." + }, + { + "file": "Ion_Beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", + "price": "16000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@Adding a bit more heft to the input stream than what is found in weapons termed particle beams, this weapon nonetheless operates on the same general principles. The electric charge of ionized plasma makes it particularly easy to compress and fire using simple magnetics. Deceptively simple in design, these weapons' cost comes from the inherent difficulty in making a stream of ionized plasma remain coherent _after_ firing. In the last ten years, advances in this field have led to noted increases in the accessibility of ion beam weapons, and to a market glut of cheap knockoff brands." + }, + { + "file": "Heavy_Ion_Beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", + "price": "25000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@A variant of the somewhat more common Ion Beam, these weapons utilizes heavier ions, such as xenon. Heavier ions are more difficult to accelerate to the desired exit velocities, but do not suffer nearly as much from electro-static bloom effects as their lighter counterparts." + }, + { + "file": "Ion_Burster", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Light", + "price": "7000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@One of the smallest of the ion weapon family, the Ion Burster, despite a seemingly projectile output, is more closely related to ion beam weapons than to anything else. Indeed, the lower speed and packetized nature of the weapon's output are not so much desirable attributes as concessions: in order to make the weapon small enough to meet design specifications, the beam can only be pulsed, and infrequently at that. To compensate for this disability, the Ion Burster relies on specially prepared vaporization plates, rather than the homogeneous gas-streams ususally feeding Ion weapons." + }, + { + "file": "Ion_Burster_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", + "price": "4", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/halogen_gasses.image@Prepackaged vaporization plates for the Ion Burster gun." + }, + { + "file": "Disruptor_Beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", + "price": "45000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The canonical example of shield-based weaponry, the disruptor beam is highly effective at disrupting the twisted maze of forces created by a shield generator, but entirely unequipped to trickle damage past a shield until the shield in question has already nearly faltered. Disruptors, just like the shields they share most of their technological lineage with, interact violently with matter, making them poorly suited to use outside of vacuum. Fortunately for those on the receiving end of a disruptor blast, even a shield de-patterned to the point of collapse will mitigate a disruptor's effects on materials beyond the shield. Unfortunately for those on the receiving end of a disruptor, mitigate is not the same as eliminate. Those unfortunate enough to receive disruptor fire with no shield generator at all are usually at least fortunate enough that the shear forces kill them before they can notice. This design is exceptionally popular among adherents to the trekkie religion, but its reliability and effectiveness make it nothing to scoff at." + }, + { + "file": "Shield_Breaker", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Confed_Milspec", + "price": "400000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@This Highborn Milspec weapon was designed alongside the Lancelot superiority fighter. If nearly equivalent in fundamental design principles, its implementation and engineering is superior in nearly every respect to the Disruptor Beams it shares a common origin with. In keeping with the naming of the ship it was co-designed with, the Shield Breaker is well suited to render any shield within reach quite humbled in but a small number of lancing blows." + }, + { + "file": "LR_Disruptor_Beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "1200000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@A variant of the Disruptor Beam, this weapon uses the same functional principals, but is engineered for use at long range. Projecting something that is, in many respects, an extremely long sliver of a shield poses a number of technical difficulties. Long range disruptor beams increase the effective range of the weapon, but at the cost of dramatic reductions to efficiency, damage output, and beam stability alongside a significantly increased physical size. However, for certain applications, such as point-defense emplacements, these trade-offs have been considered more than worthwhile." + }, + { + "file": "Ktek_Beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Rlaan_Milspec", + "price": "1200000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The Rlaan have studied disruptor based weaponry for far longer than any other extant species, and this is the most common fruit of that research." + }, + { + "file": "Ktek_Beam_PD", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Rlaan_Milspec", + "price": "400000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@A version of the Rlaan Ktek beam repurposed for point defense installations." + }, + { + "file": "Ktek_Gun", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Rlaan_Milspec", + "price": "200000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@Originally developed to break apart debris fields, this medium sized pulsed disruptor weapon is very deadly at close range. However, as the pulses, once disconnected from their generator, move slowly and rapidly decay, this weapon is of questionable value at any significant distance." + }, + { + "file": "Ktek_Mini_Grav-thumper", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Rlaan_Milspec", + "price": "200000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@What Rlaan do to the erstwhile laws of physics in their own homes is their own business. When they do it on the business end of this space-disrupting weapon, its everyone else's business to not be in the way. This miniature version of the Janissary class main weapon is used in lieu of torpedos by Rlaan assault craft." + }, + { + "file": "Ktek_Mini_Grav-thumper_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Rlaan", + "price": "60000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/maul.image@Unlike the larger version of the same device that the Janissary class is built around, the 'mini' version of the grav-thumper renders portions of the device used to generate the distortion damaged and inoperable. Fortunately, the relevant portions are both modular and easily ejected, leading to an ammunition-like solution to the problem." + }, + { + "file": "Disruptor", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Medium", + "price": "60000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@A pulsed form of the shield-based disruptor beam technology, designs such as this have faded in popularity since the introduction of reliable shield decoupling mechanisms for the beam forms of disruptors. However, the significant time and investment already sunk into such designs, and the continued utility of the extremely high-end pulsed disruptor devices keeps the market stocked with current revisions of this aging weaponry." + }, + { + "file": "Pugilist", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Light", + "price": "75000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The lightest and smallest of the disruptors manufactured by groups in Unadorned space, it can only provide body blows, but can keep on swinging with remarkable stamina." + }, + { + "file": "Dissonance", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", + "price": "500000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@A standard weapon on light Unadorned craft, the Dissonance is larger, weaker, and slower than the Rlaan Ktek gun, but has a significantly longer effective range." + }, + { + "file": "LR_Disruptor", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Heavy", + "price": "400000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@Sacrificing efficiency and stopping power, this long ranged variant of the ubiquitous disruptor gun makes an effective fly-swatter. Primarily found in turret mounts on ships large enough to afford the energy demands, the low damage output tends to relegate this weapon to a deterrent role rather than the spearpoint of more aggressive actions." + }, + { + "file": "Micro_Driver", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Light", + "price": "10000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@Long before the dawn of modern man, it was known to various hominids that hurling a blunt object was a reasonable way to deliver damage from a distance. Fittingly enough, the worlds of the Purist faction are among the chief manufacturers of mass drivers." + }, + { + "file": "Mini_Driver", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Medium", + "price": "15000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@Long before the dawn of modern man, it was known to various hominids that hurling a blunt object was a reasonable way to deliver damage from a distance. Fittingly enough, the worlds of the Purist faction are among the chief manufacturers of mass drivers." + }, + { + "file": "Micro_Driver_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", + "price": "200", + "mass": "8", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@Very small, very dense, somewhat cheap, magnetically reactive." + }, + { + "file": "Mini_Driver_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", + "price": "150", + "mass": "8", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@Small, dense, cheap, magnetically reactive." + }, + { + "file": "Hephaestus_Mini", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", + "price": "110000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@A scaled down version of the electromagnetic accelerator used in the Hephaestus point defense emplacements, this Andolian death-dealer is special less in its ability to fling its projectiles rapidly and at high velocity than its compatibility with a very particular projectile of Andolian manufacture." + }, + { + "file": "Hephaestus_Mini_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Confed", + "price": "500", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@The ammunition for the Hephaestus mini-driver is by far one of the smallest and most advanced shield-piercing rounds developed to date." + }, + { + "file": "laser", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Light", + "price": "3500", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/light.image@Though not a laser by any stretch of the imagination, due to its resemblance to the so called 'lasers' of classic games and movies of the previous millenium, the misnomer has stuck stronger than space rated epoxy. Cheap and utterly dependable, this and other similar low yield exhaust-compression weapons are ubiquitous in armed civilian populations." + }, + { + "file": "Arc_Device", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", + "price": "6000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@The trick, as many an unfortunate pirate has learned by experience, is to keep sufficient distance that the disabled enemy vessel is not accidently welded to your own ship. When used on security drones, the welding failure-mode is seen as more of a bonus." + }, + { + "file": "leech_gun", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", + "price": "66000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@Like the Crippler, the leech gun relies on sophisticated projectiles housing single-shot laser warheads and minimal targeting systems to do the dirty work of rendering a target vessel disabled. Unlike the Crippler, the leech gun has a reputation for being sufficiently underpowered that it's dangerous to not pack more lethal weaponry as well." + }, + { + "file": "crippler", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", + "price": "120000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@Originally designed for IntelSec and Homeland Security forces, the Crippler has reached increasingly large customer bases in the many decades since its introduction. Most experts believe this to be due to the fact that competitors looking to enter the less-than-lethal weapons market have tended to underestimate how difficult it is to hit appropriate subsystems to render a craft disabled but intact." + }, + { + "file": "Plasma_Plume", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Light", + "price": "500", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/light.image@It's a (plasma) flamethrower! ... in space! If you can actually get close enough to hit anything, the ionization can disable all sort and manner of targetted electrical systems, but the plasma plume's range tends to limit its applications to relatively stationary objects. Cheap as vaccuum, flashy as a nova, and unlikely to cause any real harm, this is a favored weapon of rent-a-cops and parking enforcement officials everywhere. " + }, + { + "file": "Photon_MK_I", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Aera_Milspec", + "price": "400000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@The oldest active armament of what would come to be a long series of Aeran PESC (Photon Emission on Shield Collapse) weapons, the gun itself is a non-descript warhead accelerator designed around the MK I PESC ammunition." + }, + { + "file": "Photon_MK_II", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Aera_Milspec", + "price": "600000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@A significant improvement with respect to the MK I in both accelerator and warhead, the MK II is a briusing weapon with solid shield penetration still heavily in service across the entire Aeran fleet." + }, + { + "file": "Photon_MK_III", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Aera_Milspec", + "price": "400000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@A refinement, rather than an improvement over the MK II, the MK III is a smaller weapon based around a much smaller warhead and a faster rate of fire, extending the PESC weaponry to lighter Aeran craft and emplacements." + }, + { + "file": "razor_gun", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", + "price": "400000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/razor_gun.image@Sadly enough for their former marketing exectutives, 'Ring around the targets, pocket-size the fuzies, deuterium-deuterium, they all go boom!' did not in fact make for a good advertising campaign." + }, + { + "file": "reaper_cannon", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", + "price": "800000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@The grimmest part of this Reaper is probably the 37 page manual on the appropriate handling of the anti-matter filled rounds. The gun itself, after all, is a rather sporty number." + }, + { + "file": "Photon_MK_I_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", + "price": "4000", + "mass": "5", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@Aeran PESC (Photon Emission on Shield Collapse) Warhead. Essentially consisting of a faulty shield generator in miniature, on contact with any shield or object, the warhead's shield will collapse through the warhead itself, emitting a large number of high-energy photons in the process, thus lending notable shield-penetrating damage. While the root principle has been known to all of the major space-faring groups for some time, only the Aera have pursured significant weaponization." + }, + { + "file": "Photon_MK_II_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", + "price": "5000", + "mass": "5", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@Aeran PESC (Photon Emission on Shield Collapse) Warhead. Essentially consisting of a faulty shield generator in miniature, on contact with any shield or object, the warhead's shield will collapse through the warhead itself, emitting a large number of high-energy photons in the process, thus lending notable shield-penetrating damage. While the root principle has been known to all of the major space-faring groups for some time, only the Aera have pursured significant weaponization." + }, + { + "file": "Photon_MK_III_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", + "price": "6000", + "mass": "5", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@Aeran PESC (Photon Emission on Shield Collapse) Warhead. Essentially consisting of a faulty shield generator in miniature, on contact with any shield or object, the warhead's shield will collapse through the warhead itself, emitting a large number of high-energy photons in the process, thus lending notable shield-penetrating damage. While the root principle has been known to all of the major space-faring groups for some time, only the Aera have pursured significant weaponization." + }, + { + "file": "razor_gun_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Confed", + "price": "4000", + "mass": "5", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/razor_gun.image@Each Razor round is a miniature fusion device, and a real pain to get through customs." + }, + { + "file": "reaper_cannon_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Confed", + "price": "6000", + "mass": "5", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@Keeping an anti-matter containment unit intact when being hurled out of a gun at several kilometers per second is no trivial matter, as the pricetag will verify." + }, + { + "file": "hellspawn", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "45000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@missile-hud.image@Echewing strong AI, the Rlaan rely on an engineered species derived from something akin to a hunting dog to pilot their drones. Most other species find the idea of giving disembodied pet brains firing control over energy weapons to be mildly disconcerting. The Hellspawn model is one of the smaller Rlaan drones, consisting of little more than two turrets, sensors, and a drive system. Survivability is not a priority, as evidenced by the sizeable self-destruct package." + }, + { + "file": "stormfire", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "\"@upgrades/swarm.image@While individually fairly worthless, the PC-031 \"\"Stormfire\"\" rounds were designed as a low-yield, low-overhead projectiles that could be rapidly emmitted in high numbers by fighters with multiple weapon mountpoints, or as point defense on capital ships. Surplus Stormfires have seen additional use among merchants as cheap, reliable alternatives to energy weapons. \"" + }, + { + "file": "antimatter_gun", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", + "price": "720000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@As may be expected of a device created to sling anti-matter, any error during the firing process will not merely slag the gun, but may evapourate it and a large portion of the vessel on which it is mounted; thus, every aspect of the process is perfectly controlled and subject to significant redundancy. Needless to say, such engineering does not come cheap." + }, + { + "file": "tractor_beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Light", + "price": "7500", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/tractor_beam.image@Gravitic technology can be used in a wide variety of ways: arguably, the most popular is keeping your soup in its bowl. A tractor beam, on the other hand, is good at putting somebody else's soup in your bowl. " + }, + { + "file": "repulsor_beam", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Light", + "price": "50000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/repulsor_beam.image@Repulsor beams, relatively new items on the market, have seen considerable use in large-scale construction projects ever since it was discovered how to keep them from mangling the point of contact; some creative combatants have found different uses for them." + }, + { + "file": "tractor_heavy", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Confed_Milspec", + "price": "27500", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/tractor_heavy.image@Animal magnetism is overrated. This is just over-engineered. Capable of producing a g-forces that would turn people, elephants, and any appropriately hued fruits into raspberry colored toast topping, heavy tractor beams are rarely seen outside of deepspace construction yards and piracy organizations." + }, + { + "file": "tractor_capability", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mount_Enhancements", + "price": "50000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/tractor_capability.image@Traditionally, most weapon mounts aren't constructed to handle the strains associated with tractor beam usage. Fortunately, this is usually a cost-cutting measure, and installing the necessary reinforcements doesn't tend to interfere with the weapon mount, although it may void certain warranties. 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A full-powered military auto-tracker like this greatly enhances weapon accuracy." + }, + + + { + "file": "rlaan_turret_pd", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets/Rlaan", + "price": "100000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The Rlaan are well known for their disdain of missiles, especially those fired at them." + }, + { + "file": "rlaan_turret_mini", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets/Rlaan", + "price": "140000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/turret_medium.image@While Rlaan ships tend to mount flash-shields capable of shrugging off most small arms fire, they still prefer the option of 'convincing' fighters to stop firing." + }, + { + "file": "aera_turret_pd", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets/Aera", + "price": "100000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@Using low yield pulse lasers, the aera have made simple and effective anti-missile turrets." + }, + { + "file": "beam_turret", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", + "price": "150000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@Specially designed for the energy and heat dissipation requirements of beam weapons, this turret has everything you need to mount a pair of them." + }, + { + "file": "turret_pd", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", + "price": "100000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@One is heavily advised to not play 'catch the missile' unless one mounts several of these." + }, + { + "file": "heavy_turret", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", + "price": "300000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@For when evasive maneuvers are too subtle a hint your tailgaters." + }, + { + "file": "small_turret", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", + "price": "80000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/turret_light.image@Given the armament commonly placed in such turrets, the small turret has become affectionately known as 'the machine that goes ping'." + }, + { + "file": "medium_turret", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", + "price": "250000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/turret_medium.image@It turns, it shoots, it slices. No, it does not dice, but it does come with a free fuzzy pair." + }, + { + "file": "capship_turret", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", + "price": "1600000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/razor_gun.image@When hunting for bear, hover softly, and carry a big stick" + }, + { + "file": "capship_turret_heavy", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", + "price": "8000000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@If your vessel can mount this, this can mount whatever you want." + }, + { + "file": "turret_pd_long", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", + "price": "800000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@One of the most impressive applications of disruptor technology, this military rated point defense turret is the best of its kind." + }, + { + "file": "franklin_pd", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", + "price": "600000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@../units/franklin/franklin-hud.image@These turrets were custom designed for the Franklin class diplomatic transport. Any hotshot who splurges on the Franklin should undoubtedly get these fine turrets to complement the exterior decor." + }, + + + { + "file": "kineticmissile", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", + "price": "4000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@missile-hud.image@Behold KE=1/2MV^2: large values of M and high values of V yield large numbers of obliterated fragments of intended targets. (Capital sized launch platform sold separately, shield batteries included.)" + }, + { + "file": "capiff_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/capiff.image@Drawing upon the greater sensor capability and volumetric resources of a capital vessel, these larger IFF missiles can deliver a larger payload over a much longer intercept sphere than their fighter-launched cousins." + }, + { + "file": "cap_iff", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/capiff.image@Drawing upon the greater sensor capability and volumetric resources of a capital vessel, these larger IFF missiles can deliver a larger payload over a much longer intercept sphere than their fighter-launched cousins." + }, + { + "file": "capcluster_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/missile.image@Capital ships benefit both from being large enough to launch effective cluster munitions and robust enough to not worry about doorstep detonations." + }, + { + "file": "capshipmissile_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/capshipmissile.image@As large as some insystem fighters and sporting the latest in stealth and ECCM technology, these SPEC capable missiles, frequently seen tipped with warheads in the 10 megaton or higher range, can make dropping one's shields to retreat a truly nerve-wracking decision." + }, + { + "file": "grand_gauss", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", + "price": "3000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/emp2.image@The spinal mounted armament of the Leonidas class dreadnaughts is something to behold. If the principle behind the massive accelerators is not novel, their scale remains awe-inspiring." + }, + { + "file": "dumbfire_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", + "price": "20", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/dumbfire.image@Removing maneuvering jets capable of counteracting a missile's momentum leaves a lot more room for a warhead. Of course, it also makes for a missile that only flies in a straight line." + }, + { + "file": "heatseeker_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", + "price": "35", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/heatseeker.image@A missile which locks onto a heat source -- a ship's engines, for example -- rather than a radar or IFF signal. The Heatseeker is not as vulnerable to ECM as torpedoes, IFF or other guided missiles are. Damage is respectable for their small size. They are also relatively inexpensive and widely available. Most effective against light and medium ships. They are best used in salvos rather than individually. One missile often will weaken the target's defenses enough to let the others get through and do damage to the ship itself. CAUTION: If you are attacking targets near a friendly capship, heat seekers launched at targets within a few hundred meters from the capship may well lock onto the capship instead. That tends to get you talked about by the capship. 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Fortunately for missile and sensor manufacturers everywhere, such proponents have a remarkable tendency to find their ships hit by IFF missiles." + }, + { + "file": "torpedo_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Confed", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/emp1.image@Featuring bulk and drive style rapidly approaching that of a small vessel, these beasts pack a heavy punch, but tend to have acceleration curves suited to catching only the less than fleet of foot." + }, + { + "file": "advtorpedo_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/missile.image@The Aeran equivalent of the Confederation torpedo is just as sluggish, but packs a more vicious punch." + }, + { + "file": "emp_torpedo_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", + "price": "2500", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/emp3.image@Employed in increasingly large numbers by regional guard units, EMP torpedos seek to sufficiently damage the electronics of a vessel so as to render it out of user control. Such devices, in the absence of an atmosphere to assist with EMP effects, must be quite large, and have thus been adapted to a torpedo chassis." + }, + { + "file": "javelin_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", + "price": "4000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@An older Aeran PESC mini-warhead adapted for rocket pod distribution." + }, + { + "file": "cluster_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/cluster.image@While fighter-mounted cluster missiles are unlikely to actually destroy any vessels, they are extremely useful for getting the attention of several craft in one go." + }, + { + "file": "swarm_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", + "price": "80", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@If you love the smell of Katyushas in the morning, then you probably already have one of these." + }, + { + "file": "photon_swarm_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", + "price": "90", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@A more recently developed Aeran PESC mini-warhead, photon swarm rocket pods are extremely common on Aeran light craft." + }, + { + "file": "killer_bee_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", + "price": "85", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@Like their namesake, one sting won't hurt too much, but nobody fires just one of these." + }, + { + "file": "hail_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", + "price": "90", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@Sometimes it rains, sometimes it hails, but when you're armed with Hail emplacents, it rains death from above." + }, + { + "file": "breeze_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", + "price": "300", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/missile.image@An otherwise unremarkable missile with an odd aspect ratio." + }, + { + "file": "porcupine_mine_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", + "price": "300", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@upgrades/porcupine_mine.image@Dropped by Aeran mine-layers and, in smaller numbers, other small craft, these mines each mount a single gun with a limited number of rounds. Once ammunition or energy is depleted, the mines self-destruct. These mines are used in both defensive emplacements and as a harassing distraction against pursuing craft." + }, + { + "file": "leech_ammo", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", + "price": "1000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/leech.image@Complicated rounds with sensors and one-shot lasers designed to disable, not destroy, enemy craft." + }, + + + { + "file": "cloaking_device", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Experimental", + "price": "259000", + "mass": "8.9", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/cloaking_device_experimental.image@This device uses gravity manipulation technology. A powerful gravitational lens distorts a massive region around the vessel, bending signals emitted by active sensors around the ship and out at seeming random angles and locations. This makes it very easy to know that a ship mounting a cloaking device is present, but very hard to figure out what class of ship, where it's headed, and where exactly it is." + }, + { + "file": "capacitor01", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Capacitors/Standard", + "price": "500", + "mass": "2", + "volume": "2", + "description": "@upgrades/capacitor.image@Energy storage." + }, + { + "file": "capacitor02", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Capacitors/Standard", + "price": "1000", + "mass": "4", + "volume": "4", + "description": "@upgrades/capacitor.image@Energy storage." + }, + { + "file": "capacitor03", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Capacitors/Standard", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "6", + "volume": "6", + "description": "@upgrades/capacitor.image@Energy storage." + }, + { + "file": "capacitor04", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Capacitors/Standard", + "price": "4000", + "mass": "8", + "volume": "8", + "description": "@upgrades/capacitor2.image@Energy storage." + }, + { + "file": "capacitor05", + 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The Rlaan eye only perceives depth when it moves, and this trait is found again in this radar." + }, + { + "file": "add_cargo_expansion", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Cargo", + "price": "100000", + "mass": "10", + "volume": "20", + "description": "@cargo/cargo_expansion.image@Trades upgrade space and support systems for cargo volume" + }, + { + "file": "mult_shady_moreupgrade", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", + "price": "32000", + "mass": "10", + "volume": "50", + "description": "@cargo/cargo_hud.image@Trades cargo space for upgrade room." + }, + { + "file": "mult_shady_morethrust", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", + "price": "64000", + "mass": "4", + "volume": "8", + "description": "@weapons/beamtexture2.image@More thruster nodes, less engine shielding." + }, + { + "file": "mult_shady_moreshields", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", + "price": "113000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@weapons/beamtexture.image@Increased shield capacity at the expense of weakened main-hull structural integrity." + }, + { + "file": "mult_shady_moregunrecharge", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", + "price": "250000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "0.25", + "description": "@upgrades/circuit1.image@Trades energy capacity for recharge rate." + }, + { + "file": "mult_shady_moreshieldrecharge", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", + "price": "500000", + "mass": "1.1", + "volume": "5", + "description": "@upgrades/mult_shield_regenerator.image@Increases effective ship mass, increases shield recharge." + }, + { + "file": "mult_shady_moreturning", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", + "price": "600000", + "mass": "3.7", + "volume": "8", + "description": "@upgrades/mult_turn_jet_enhancer.image@Violates safety specifications to increase maneuvering performance." + }, + { + "file": "repair_droid01", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", + "price": "30000", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "2", + "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" + }, + { + "file": "repair_droid02", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", + "price": "75000", + "mass": "5", + "volume": "4", + "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" + }, + { + "file": "repair_droid03", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", + "price": "147000", + "mass": "20", + "volume": "8", + "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" + }, + { + "file": "repair_droid04", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", + "price": "290000", + "mass": "50", + "volume": "16", + "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" + }, + { + "file": "repair_droid05", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", + "price": "500000", + "mass": "100", + "volume": "32", + "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" + }, + { + "file": "ecm_package01", + "categoryname": "upgrades/ECM_Systems", + "price": "5000", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/ecm1.image@Electronic CounterMeasures\\ ECM refers to a broad spectrum of techniques designed to defeat or spoof enemy sensors and communications." + }, + { + "file": "ecm_package02", + "categoryname": "upgrades/ECM_Systems", + "price": "20000", + "mass": "0.05", + "volume": "2", + "description": "@upgrades/ecm2.image@Electronic CounterMeasures\\ ECM refers to a broad spectrum of techniques designed to defeat or spoof enemy sensors and communications." + }, + { + "file": "ecm_package03", + "categoryname": "upgrades/ECM_Systems", + "price": "50000", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "3", + "description": "@upgrades/ecm3.image@Electronic CounterMeasures\\ ECM refers to a broad spectrum of techniques designed to defeat or spoof enemy sensors and communications." + }, + { + "file": "hud_repair", + "categoryname": "upgrades/DEPRECATED_FUNCTIONALITY", + "price": "0", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/circuit2.image@Given that any craft of decent size has no physical viewport for its pilot, and that no pilot could fly without the nav cues overlaid by the HUD, the ability to do in-flight repair of damaged HUD systems is nearly vital." + }, + { + "file": "cloaking_device", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Miscellaneous/Aera_Milspec", + "price": "1000000", + "mass": "8.9", + "volume": "5", + "description": "@cargo/cloaking_device_aeramilspec.image@A dire necessity for those wishing to remain undetected, it is not, however, capable of permanently fooling modern sensor technology." + }, + { + "file": "passenger_quarters_01", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Passenger_Quarters", + "price": "20000", + "mass": "0.5", + "volume": "3", + "description": "@upgrades/passenger_cryo_chamber.image@All the life-support a frozen passenger needs to survive the journey in a depressurized cargo hold. 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Provides life-support and space for up to 4 passengers." + }, + { + "file": "passenger_quarters_04", + "categoryname": "upgrades/Passenger_Quarters", + "price": "200000", + "mass": "1.2", + "volume": "25", + "description": "@upgrades/passenger_comfort_class.image@Life-support, seat and even bunk-beds provide a level of comfort the captain would like to have. Provides life-support and space for up to 2 passengers." + } +] diff --git a/master_part_list.json b/master_part_list.json index 4c7bc9a7..54333a39 100644 --- a/master_part_list.json +++ b/master_part_list.json @@ -1,4275 +1,1667 @@ [ { - "file": "Admonisher.stock", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Heavy", - "price": "3000000", - "mass": "275", - "volume": "5600", - "description": "A Purist crafted light assault vessel, the Admonisher is often used for internal policing duties by Homeland Security and others within the Confederation. 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As might be expected from a vessel used for such purposes, it excels at neutralizing both small craft and their support vessels, a valuable asset in the suppression of Pirates and the dangerous ideologies of the Luddites and ISO." + "file": "Hitchhiker", + "categoryname": "Passengers/Economy", + "price": "0", + "mass": "0.4", + "volume": "6", + "description": "@cargo/steerage_class@Always brings a towel of his/her own." }, { - "file": "Admonisher.rgspec", - "categoryname": "starships/Regional_Guard/Heavy", - "price": "3000000", - "mass": "275", - "volume": "5600", - "description": "A Purist crafted light assault vessel, the Admonisher is often used for internal policing duties by Homeland Security and others within the Confederation. As might be expected from a vessel used for such purposes, it excels at neutralizing both small craft and their support vessels, a valuable asset in the suppression of Pirates and the dangerous ideologies of the Luddites and ISO." + "file": "Ration_Mealpacks", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Confed", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1.2", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/ration_mealpacks.image@Owing to the generally high danger of radiation deterioration, most foods consumed in space by humans are mealpacks. These compact mealpacks contain energy bars and an energy liquid drink. Highly nutritious, and absolutely tasteless to the eye and palate." }, { - "file": "Admonisher.salvage", - "categoryname": "starships/Pirate/Heavy", - "price": "2000000", - "mass": "275", - "volume": "5600", - "description": "A Purist crafted light assault vessel, the Admonisher is often used for internal policing duties by Homeland Security and others within the Confederation. As might be expected from a vessel used for such purposes, it excels at neutralizing both small craft and their support vessels, a valuable asset in the suppression of Pirates and the dangerous ideologies of the Luddites and ISO." + "file": "Standard_Mealpacks", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Confed", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1.2", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/standard_mealpacks.image@Standard Mealpacks are designed for regular people who want a halfway decent meal without a lot of trouble. Self-heating, these mealpacks are hermetically sealed packs of cheap and satisfying foodstuffs. A great alternative to the staple foods on many developed worlds: vat grown meats, algae sludge and tofu bars." }, { - "file": "Ancestor.stock", - "categoryname": "starships/Shaper/Light", - "price": "190000", - "mass": "40", - "volume": "1000", - "description": "The 'ancestors' of the Ancestor class have been flying for hundreds of years. This most recent remodelling of the Shaper's aerospace frame has been in service for 15 years, and has seen action several times in assaults on dirtside criminal bases." + "file": "Luxury_Mealpacks", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Confed", + "price": "180", + "mass": "0.8", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/luxury_mealpacks.image@Oriented towards the human digestive system, such packs typically contain actual game meat, exotic fruits, vegetables and other rarest of rare foods. Despite repeated denials, rumours persist that meat from other sentient beings are included for the palates of those most decadent of the rich and famous." }, { - "file": "Ancestor.milspec", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Milspec", - "price": "700000", - "mass": "40", - "volume": "800", - "description": "The 'ancestors' of the Ancestor class have been flying for hundreds of years. This most recent remodelling of the Shaper's aerospace frame has been in service for 15 years, and has seen action several times in assaults on dirtside criminal bases." + "file": "Filtered_Water", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Confed", + "price": "40", + "mass": "10", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/fresh_water.image@The main building block of life. Fresh water is required by most animalistic species to maintain bodily function. A body will normally use water to carry nutrients to all cells of the body, and remove toxic wastes to avoid poisoning and death." }, { - "file": "Ancestor_Milspec_Package", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", - "price": "500000", - "mass": "40", - "volume": "800", - "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + "file": "Filtered_Water", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Aera", + "price": "40", + "mass": "3", + "volume": "3", + "description": "@cargo/fresh_water.image@The main building block of life. 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This most recent remodelling of the Shaper's aerospace frame has been in service for 15 years, and has seen action several times in assaults on dirtside criminal bases." + "file": "Aera_Ration", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Aera", + "price": "40", + "mass": "1.4", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/aera_ration.image@Containing utilitarian dehydrated meal bars with jerky for dessert, the Aera ration is human edible, but prolonged human consumption will result in eventual sickness and death due to alkaloid content." }, { - "file": "Areus", - "categoryname": "starships/restricted", - "price": "1", - "mass": "216", - "volume": "4400", - "description": "More a fighter than a bomber, this is the secondary assault craft the Aera rely on, after the Agis. These light assault craft are commonly seen as escorts to the larger, more dangerous Agis class assault corvettes, though it is not uncommon to see wings of Areus detatch to spearhead assaults on subcapitals and support vessels. While larger and not as nimble as fighters or interceptors, the Areus is perfectly well equipped to engage any smaller craft foolish enough to wander near its gun sights. Armament on the Areus isn't well suited to assaulting capital vessels directly, but is entirely sufficient for destroying subcapitals, support craft, or softening up craft too large to destroy outright with the limited payload available. The Areus is almost never seen in defensive operations outside of the aforementioned escort of larger strike forces." + "file": "Jhurlon", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Aera", + "price": "140", + "mass": "1.05", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/jhurlon.image@A native of the Bzbr world, the Jhurlon most closely resembles a boulder sized land dwelling abalone. While well protected against native predators, modern technology has made cutting through their shell somewhat easier." }, { - "file": "Areus.milspec", - "categoryname": "starships/Aera/Milspec", - "price": "6000000", - "mass": "216", - "volume": "4400", - "description": "More a fighter than a bomber, this is the secondary assault craft the Aera rely on, after the Agis. These light assault craft are commonly seen as escorts to the larger, more dangerous Agis class assault corvettes, though it is not uncommon to see wings of Areus detatch to spearhead assaults on subcapitals and support vessels. While larger and not as nimble as fighters or interceptors, the Areus is perfectly well equipped to engage any smaller craft foolish enough to wander near its gun sights. Armament on the Areus isn't well suited to assaulting capital vessels directly, but is entirely sufficient for destroying subcapitals, support craft, or softening up craft too large to destroy outright with the limited payload available. The Areus is almost never seen in defensive operations outside of the aforementioned escort of larger strike forces." + "file": "Salted_Thok", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Aera", + "price": "130", + "mass": "1.2", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/salted_thok.image@Though the Aera destroyed their jungle forests, the seas fared better, and continue to produce this tasty fish-like creature." }, { - "file": "Areus_Milspec_Package", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", - "price": "4000000", - "mass": "216", - "volume": "4400", - "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + "file": "Sustipack", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Rlaan", + "price": "140", + "mass": "0.8", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/sustipacks.image@Containing the bare minimum in ammonia based concentrates and a carb syrup, these packs provide a Rlaan with absolute minimum sustenance. 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Likewise, a reserve of Aristons tends to be kept near capital vessels to launch alongside Nicander class interceptors, so as to engage enemy fighter escorts." + "file": "Nutripack", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Rlaan", + "price": "150", + "mass": "0.9", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/nutripacks.image@Containing a protein brick, carb glop and gels in ammonia solutions stored at such temperatures that ammonia is a liquid. An unprepared human would have a fatal experience opening, let alone eating, this pack." }, { - "file": "Ariston.escort", - "categoryname": "starships/restricted", - "price": "1", - "mass": "197", - "volume": "4000", - "description": "The Aeran Ascendancy's Ariston class is not the most nimble fighter and is impotent against large vessels, but it is very well armed and armored against small craft. The Ariston is a defensively oriented fighter, flying escort and superiority missions, and never assault. Significant numbers of Aristons will accompany strike missions, but ordinance loads are universily anti-interceptor. Likewise, a reserve of Aristons tends to be kept near capital vessels to launch alongside Nicander class interceptors, so as to engage enemy fighter escorts." + "file": "Ultrapack", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Rlaan", + "price": "40", + "mass": "0.9", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/ultrapacks.image@These Rlaan foodpacks are factory processed and hermetically sealed biofoods somewhat more tasteworthy to the Rlaan palate. Typically used as an addition to Nutripacks." }, { - "file": "Ariston.milspec", - "categoryname": "starships/Aera/Milspec", - "price": "3500000", - "mass": "197", - "volume": "4000", - "description": "The Aeran Ascendancy's Ariston class is not the most nimble fighter and is impotent against large vessels, but it is very well armed and armored against small craft. The Ariston is a defensively oriented fighter, flying escort and superiority missions, and never assault. Significant numbers of Aristons will accompany strike missions, but ordinance loads are universily anti-interceptor. Likewise, a reserve of Aristons tends to be kept near capital vessels to launch alongside Nicander class interceptors, so as to engage enemy fighter escorts." + "file": "Coffee", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", + "price": "140", + "mass": "0.75", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/coffee.image@Generation upon generation of addicts have made the production of coffee one of the largest industries in known space." }, { - "file": "Ariston_Milspec_Package", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", - "price": "2500000", - "mass": "197", - "volume": "4000", - "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + "file": "Animal_Products", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", + "price": "110", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/animal_products.image@Typically diary, eggs, caviar and other products of various animal internal organs, they remain a food source of high nutritional value for all species, and some diners derive a twisted pleasure from eating foods originating from such a source." }, { - "file": "Clydesdale", - "categoryname": "starships/restricted", - "price": "1", - "mass": "29000000", - "volume": "590000000", - "description": "The only warship produced at Merchant shipyards, the Clydesdale suffers somewhat from being a truly Confederation designed vessel, with noticeable committee effects. If not posessing unrivaled capabilities, nor visionary design, it is nonetheless a solid, workhorse of a vessel and produced, like all craft rolling off the Merchant shipyards, in some number." + "file": "Grains", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", + "price": "70", + "mass": "6", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/grains.image@The edible grass seeds, grains, and the carbohydrates garnered from them, are a pillar of an omnivorous diet. When fermented properly, they become the pillars of a liquid diet." }, { - "file": "Clydesdale.milspec", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Light_Capship", - "price": "400000000", - "mass": "29000000", - "volume": "590000000", - "description": "The only warship produced at Merchant shipyards, the Clydesdale suffers somewhat from being a truly Confederation designed vessel, with noticeable committee effects. If not posessing unrivaled capabilities, nor visionary design, it is nonetheless a solid, workhorse of a vessel and produced, like all craft rolling off the Merchant shipyards, in some number." + "file": "Seafood", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", + "price": "115", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/seafood.image@This product range includes water dwelling creatures and their by-products. Typically it includes fish, crustaceans, and other such creatures from which all species can obtain nutritional value." }, { - "file": "Clydesdale_Milspec_Package", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", - "price": "200000000", - "mass": "29000000", - "volume": "590000000", - "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + "file": "Meats", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", + "price": "110", + "mass": "1.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/animal_meat.image@Although no food movement has ever managed to persuade diners away from their omnivorous roots, as range animals are too resource intensive, nearly all meat is vat grown." }, { - "file": "Clydesdale.merchant", - "categoryname": "starships/Merchant/Light_Capship", - "price": "300000000", - "mass": "29000000", - "volume": "590000000", - "description": "The only warship produced at Merchant shipyards, the Clydesdale suffers somewhat from being a truly Confederation designed vessel, with noticeable committee effects. If not posessing unrivaled capabilities, nor visionary design, it is nonetheless a solid, workhorse of a vessel and produced, like all craft rolling off the Merchant shipyards, in some number." + "file": "Produce", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", + "price": "80", + "mass": "1.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/produce.image@Fruits and vegetables ranging from the humble citrus fruit and salad vegetables to those exotic items found only in the most out of the way locations." }, { - "file": "Convolution.stock", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Medium", - "price": "760000", - "mass": "62", - "volume": "1280", - "description": "Typically used as a light assault craft, the Convolution relies on its heavy energy-weapon firepower rather than missiles to overpower its foes with sequences of strafing runs. It is an Unadorned design; as befits the faction's name, it is far from an aesthetic marvel, asymmetric and without pretense of beauty, but is well-designed, cost-effective, and the preferred strike craft of a small minority of pilots." + "file": "Malt_Beverages", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor", + "price": "45", + "mass": "0.9", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/beer.image@Incorporating alcohols such as beer, ale and mead, such drink is usually made from fermented grains, barley and hops, but not necessarily limited to this. Served cold in warm climes, and warm in cold climes." }, { - "file": "Convolution.milspec", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Milspec", - "price": "1500000", - "mass": "62", - "volume": "1280", - "description": "Typically used as a light assault craft, the Convolution relies on its heavy energy-weapon firepower rather than missiles to overpower its foes with sequences of strafing runs. It is an Unadorned design; as befits the faction's name, it is far from an aesthetic marvel, asymmetric and without pretense of beauty, but is well-designed, cost-effective, and the preferred strike craft of a small minority of pilots." + "file": "Wines", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor", + "price": "100", + "mass": "0.9", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/wine.image@The fermented juices of fruit, typically grapes, crushed under the feet of whoever was passing by, hence the various distinctive tastes. After aging and bottling, wine is sold to the mass market in the mistaken belief that it provides refined social graces." }, { - "file": "Convolution_Milspec_Package", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", - "price": "1000000", - "mass": "62", - "volume": "1280", - "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + "file": "Spirits", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor", + "price": "55", + "mass": "0.9", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/spirits.image@Consisting in the main of hard alcohols distilled from whatever was handy at the time and usually aged in wood barrels to disguise the aftertaste. One of the prime sources of battle causes and maudlin singing." }, { - "file": "Derivative.stock", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Medium", - "price": "800000", - "mass": "134", - "volume": "2700", - "description": "An Unadorned missile-based interceptor, the Derivative is commonly deployed as part of Confederate fleets. It can quikly bring to bear a large amount of firepower from its compact, almost skeletal, frame. Because of this, its mere presence is often enough to make undesireables reconsider their intended courses of action." + "file": "Brandy", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor", + "price": "70", + "mass": "0.9", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/brandy.image@Fermented fruit, distilled into liver quaking perfection. Notably, after humans expanded offworld, people stopped caring as much as to whether their brandy came from the Cognac region..." }, { - "file": "Derivative.milspec", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Milspec", - "price": "1200000", - "mass": "134", - "volume": "2700", - "description": "An Unadorned missile-based interceptor, the Derivative is commonly deployed as part of Confederate fleets. It can quikly bring to bear a large amount of firepower from its compact, almost skeletal, frame. Because of this, its mere presence is often enough to make undesireables reconsider their intended courses of action." + "file": "Space_Grog", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor", + "price": "60", + "mass": "1.8", + "volume": "2", + "description": "@cargo/space_grog.image@This is the stuff guaranteed to knock a drinker out cold after a couple of glasses have burned down their throat. Known in previous ages as moonshine, hooch, rough gut and so on, this is the liquor with no quality control for ingredients, made in those out of the way places where alcohol is drunk for its kick, not its taste." }, { - "file": "Derivative_Milspec_Package", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", - "price": "800000", - "mass": "134", - "volume": "2700", - "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + "file": "Tripezian_Premium", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor/Confed", + "price": "55", + "mass": "0.2", + "volume": "0.25", + "description": "@cargo/tripezian_premium.image@Taste the flavour of the Frontier! Tripezian Ale is the product of fermented tripezian berries, an alien fruit lethal when eaten, but whose fermented juices have an intense and exotic flavour. Tripezian berries are produced on only a few worlds and in limited quantities. This makes Tripezian Ale one of the most expensive and sought after beverages in all of known space." }, { - "file": "Determinant.stock", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Medium", - "price": "700000", - "mass": "54", - "volume": "1100", - "description": "Solid and reliable, the Unadorned Determinant-class ships can often be seen prowling Confederate space, and have now even proven themselves in skirmishes with Aeran raiders. Though its popularity is highest among the Unadorned, it remains well-liked by the rest of the Confederation, and others, due to its relatively low cost to produce." + "file": "Emendolya", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor/Confed", + "price": "2000", + "mass": "2", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/specialty_wines.image@This product was released to the public by Velthatris Corporation. Some of the latest achievements in gene alteration seem to be connected to it although Velthatris remains silent about this. 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Unlike the cheap wines from farm planets devoted to wine production, every bottle contains liquid craftsmanship and the potential for culinary exploration." }, { - "file": "Determinant_Milspec_Package", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", - "price": "800000", - "mass": "54", - "volume": "1100", - "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + "file": "Sarakan_Tears", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor/Uln", + "price": "160", + "mass": "0.2", + "volume": "0.25", + "description": "@cargo/sarakan_tears.image@Distilled from the sap of the Sarak bush, this spirit defines the old adage: 'Whatever doesn't kill you, will numb the mouth, burn the throat, upset the stomach, tear you a new one and leave you with a nice rosy outlook towards the universe!'" }, { - "file": "Dirge", - "categoryname": "starships/restricted", - "price": "1", - "mass": "123456789", - "volume": "123456789", - "description": "An insystem fighter design, the Dirge is a sturdy, flexible ship that can be fitted with both guns and missiles. Versatile, balanced, and agile, it is most often seen in the use of its creators, the Shmrn. " + "file": "Cotton", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Renewable_Resources", + "price": "120", + "mass": "11", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/cotton.image@Used in the main as a fabric in clothing, textiles and home furnishings, cotton remains one of the best natural fibres in use today." }, { - "file": "Dodo.stock", - "categoryname": "starships/Merchant/Light", - "price": "75000", - "mass": "1096", - "volume": "22000", - "description": "As a cargo tug, quite successful - as a piece of art, quite ugly." + "file": "Water", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Renewable_Resources", + "price": "10", + "mass": "10", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/fresh_water.image@The main building block of life. Fresh water is required by most animalistic species to maintain bodily function. 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Though designed to engage other fighters, its ability to carry a torpedo, if only one, broadens the range of targets that must stay wary, especially in the numbers that Dostoevskys tend to appear in." + "file": "Spices", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Plant_Products", + "price": "30", + "mass": "0.05", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@cargo/spices.image@Useful as a preservative and in general food preparation. Traders often use spices to disguise the taste of rancid meat after transport. Many human travellers use spices to add (disguise) the flavour in standard mealpacks." }, { - "file": "Dostoevsky.klkkspec", - "categoryname": "starships/klk'k/Medium", - "price": "550000", - "mass": "63", - "volume": "1300", - "description": "A superiority fighter manufactured in massive numbers by the Andolian Protectorate, the Dostoevsky combines a light, efficient design with immediately palpable firepower. Though designed to engage other fighters, its ability to carry a torpedo, if only one, broadens the range of targets that must stay wary, especially in the numbers that Dostoevskys tend to appear in." + "file": "Incense", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Plant_Products", + "price": "50", + "mass": "0.5", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/incense.image@Consisting of compressed fragrant plantlife, oils and the occasional recreational drug, incense is used for both religious purposes, and by the mass market for relaxation." }, { - "file": "Dostoevsky.milspec", - "categoryname": "starships/klk'k/Milspec", - "price": "500000", - "mass": "63", - "volume": "1300", - "description": "A superiority fighter manufactured in massive numbers by the Andolian Protectorate, the Dostoevsky combines a light, efficient design with immediately palpable firepower. Though designed to engage other fighters, its ability to carry a torpedo, if only one, broadens the range of targets that must stay wary, especially in the numbers that Dostoevskys tend to appear in." + "file": "Narcotics", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Plant_Products", + "price": "110", + "mass": "0.15", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@cargo/narcotics.image@Typically, the cured product of various plants burnt to produce an aromatic smoke and inhaled through a respiratory system. The most common variety used is the Nicotiana (nicotine) leaf. 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Though designed to engage other fighters, its ability to carry a torpedo, if only one, broadens the range of targets that must stay wary, especially in the numbers that Dostoevskys tend to appear in." + "file": "Khaisalantimin_F62", + "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Plant_Products", + "price": "500", + "mass": "0.04", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@cargo/khaisalantimin_F62.image@Produced by a genetically engineered hybrid of Terran and Xeno flora, the F62 variant of the extract of the seeds of the Khaisal plant induces a prolonged state of euphoria in humans. 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Magnificently built, it offers an array of features: a number of gun mounts, missile room, and a powerful engine capable of firm acceleration. It also offers a number of luxuries to the pilot as well, and those that have flown the Gawain consider it an experience to which little can compare. Like all Highborn vessels, it is known for its durability and reliability even under the worst conditions. Its features come at a great price, however, and it is one that few can afford. Perhaps for this reason, there are relatively few Gawains in service, with some buyers opting to requisition several of the much-cheaper Derivative class interceptors instead." + "file": "Astral_Gases", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Gases", + "price": "40", + "mass": "1.2", + "volume": "25", + "description": "@cargo/astral_gases.image@Astral gases are the highly valuable and rare products of uncommon reactions in nebulas and gas giants. 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Perhaps for this reason, there are relatively few Gawains in service, with some buyers opting to requisition several of the much-cheaper Derivative class interceptors instead." + "file": "Halogen_Gases", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Gases", + "price": "80", + "mass": "1.2", + "volume": "25", + "description": "@cargo/halogen_gases.image@Halogen gases are characterized as salt forming (hence sodium chloride or common table salt) They are used primarily in the production of various nuclear, chemical and petrochemical fuels, as well as general manufacturing and the purification of water." }, { - "file": "Gawain_Milspec_Package", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", - "price": "3000000", - "mass": "40", - "volume": "800", - "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + "file": "Noble_Gases", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Gases", + "price": "65", + "mass": "1.2", + "volume": "25", + "description": "@cargo/noble_gases.image@Otherwise known as the inert gases. 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Its nearly two dozen gun, turrets, and missile mounts allow it to unleash devastation on whatever its target may be." + "file": "Corundum_Crystals", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Industrial_Gems", + "price": "1400", + "mass": "30", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/corundum_crystal.image@A hard aluminum oxide, the common forms of which are used as abrasives." }, { - "file": "Goddard.milspec", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Milspec", - "price": "11000000", - "mass": "2150", - "volume": "43000", - "description": "The Goddard is a heavy bomber of Andolian manufacture, and the current crown jewel of the Confederation's array of small craft. Created from lessons gleaned from the Aera-Rlaan conflict, the Goddard is a flying fortress, able to weather a considerable amount of punishment. However, as strong as it is defensively, it is even more impressive offensively. Its nearly two dozen gun, turrets, and missile mounts allow it to unleash devastation on whatever its target may be." + "file": "Dilithium_Crystals", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Industrial_Gems", + "price": "1340", + "mass": "20", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/dilithium.image@Dilithium telluride, while not particularly impressive, is always a desired item among the religious fanatics of the trekkie religion." }, { - "file": "Goddard_Milspec_Package", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Packages/Milspec", - "price": "7000000", - "mass": "2150", - "volume": "43000", - "description": "Full-Custom Milspec Configuration" + "file": "Quartz_Crystals", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Industrial_Gems", + "price": "1000", + "mass": "20", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/quartz_crystal.image@A useful component of cheap oscillators and cheap art." }, { - "file": "GTIO", - "categoryname": "starships/restricted", - "price": "1", - "mass": "123456789", - "volume": "123456789", - "description": "What happens when you maximize speed and style to the exclusion of everything else? The GTIO happens. Simply the best sportship on the market today, the GTIO is a redefinition of power and luxury, and carries a pricetag that reflects that." + "file": "Trilithium_Crystals", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Industrial_Gems", + "price": "1600", + "mass": "20", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/trilithium_crystal.image@Prized possessions of the trekkie religion, the crystals (trilithium nitride) have precious little actual value." }, { - "file": "Hammer.stock", - "categoryname": "starships/Hunter/Heavy", - "price": "200000", - "mass": "115", - "volume": "2300", - "description": "The Hammer assault craft was originally named the 'Toad', a creation of the LIHW. However, usage of this model by the ISO has made it iconic, to the point where few call it by its original name. Much larger than the other famous ISO ship, the Sickle, the Hammer has sometimes been referred to as 'the mighty arm of the proletariat' in ISO propaganda." + "file": "Construction_Stone", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Stone", + "price": "20", + "mass": "120", + "volume": "50", + "description": "@cargo/facing_stone.image@When advanced contruction materials are unavailable, or not usable in a particular environment, large stone blocks (typically granite or basalt) are used. Used mainly as foundation stone, water planets in particular use stone as a sea barrier, creating artificial islands." }, { - "file": "Hammer.iso", - "categoryname": "starships/restricted", - "price": "1", - "mass": "115", - "volume": "2300", - "description": "The Hammer assault craft was originally named the 'Toad', a creation of the LIHW. However, usage of this model by the ISO has made it iconic, to the point where few call it by its original name. Much larger than the other famous ISO ship, the Sickle, the Hammer has sometimes been referred to as 'the mighty arm of the proletariat' in ISO propaganda." + "file": "Facing_Stone", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Stone", + "price": "100", + "mass": "50", + "volume": "25", + "description": "@cargo/construction_stone.image@The finer, better textured stone (of which marble is famous) is used as a decorative covering on buildings, and for stonework. Possessing a building with stone facing, rather than standard materials is a sign of status and wealth." }, { - "file": "Hammer.isospec", - "categoryname": "starships/ISO/Heavy", - "price": "280000", - "mass": "115", - "volume": "2300", - "description": "The Hammer assault craft was originally named the 'Toad', a creation of the LIHW. However, usage of this model by the ISO has made it iconic, to the point where few call it by its original name. Much larger than the other famous ISO ship, the Sickle, the Hammer has sometimes been referred to as 'the mighty arm of the proletariat' in ISO propaganda." + "file": "Natural_Sculptures", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Stone", + "price": "350", + "mass": "65", + "volume": "50", + "description": "@cargo/natural_sculptures.image@Originally considered waste, stone that has been carved by nature is now considered both decoration and art. Large slabs are used as wall decoration, while small pieces are used in artwork, or are works of art themselves." }, { - "file": "Hyena.stock", - "categoryname": "starships/Pirate/Light", - "price": "110000", - "mass": "40", - "volume": "1000", - "description": "Like their namesakes from the savannahs of Earth, Hyenas are often seen preferring to engage the damaged, the naive, and the straggler rather than pursuing more solid prey, especially when in the hands of Pirates. Though they possess neither great speed, nor impressive maneuverability, the Hyenas nonetheless pack enough firepower to give a pilot pause, especially in packs." + "file": "Natural_Gas", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Hydrocarbons", + "price": "92", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "25", + "description": "@cargo/natural_gas.image@A combustible mixture of gases, usable as both a fuel and a raw material in production. A secondary source of such gas is the by-product of animal bio-waste." }, { - "file": "Hyena.hunter", - "categoryname": "starships/Hunter/Light", - "price": "140000", - "mass": "40", - "volume": "1000", - "description": "Like their namesakes from the savannahs of Earth, Hyenas are often seen preferring to engage the damaged, the naive, and the straggler rather than pursuing more solid prey, especially when in the hands of Pirates. Though they possess neither great speed, nor impressive maneuverability, the Hyenas nonetheless pack enough firepower to give a pilot pause, especially in packs." + "file": "Oil", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Hydrocarbons", + "price": "80", + "mass": "8", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/oil.image@Liquid lipids of various origin." }, { - "file": "Hyena.pirates", - "categoryname": "starships/restricted", - "price": "1", - "mass": "40", - "volume": "1000", - "description": "Like their namesakes from the savannahs of Earth, Hyenas are often seen preferring to engage the damaged, the naive, and the straggler rather than pursuing more solid prey, especially when in the hands of Pirates. Though they possess neither great speed, nor impressive maneuverability, the Hyenas nonetheless pack enough firepower to give a pilot pause, especially in packs." + "file": "Coal", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Hydrocarbons", + "price": "20", + "mass": "12", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/hydrocarbons.image@Ancient dead compressed carbon-life. Solid form." }, { - "file": "Kafka", - "categoryname": "starships/restricted", - "price": "1", - "mass": "123456789", - "volume": "123456789", - "description": "While the Merchant's Guild has a well-recognized line of cargo vessels, the Kafka is a simple, cost-effective shuttle that can transport a good amount of cargo. It is most often found in the more lawful regions of space, usually those inhabited by its designers, the Klk'k." + "file": "Butane", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Hydrocarbons", + "price": "120", + "mass": "8", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/butane.image@Because sometimes, with all the technology around you, what you really want is a Zippo." }, { - "file": "Kafka.civvie", - "categoryname": "starships/restricted", - "price": "1", - "mass": "123456789", - "volume": "123456789", - "description": "While the Merchant's Guild has a well-recognized line of cargo vessels, the Kafka is a simple, cost-effective shuttle that can transport a good amount of cargo. It is most often found in the more lawful regions of space, usually those inhabited by its designers, the Klk'k." + "file": "Diesel", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Hydrocarbons", + "price": "130", + "mass": "8", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/diesel.image@On planets where resupply is expensive, diesel is an efficient, if polluting, fuel of choice." }, { - "file": "Kierkegaard", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Milspec", - "price": "800000", - "mass": "1800", - "volume": "15000", - "description": "Used to near exclusion in anti-capital roles, the Kierkegaard is a missile oriented Andolian gunboat. Its heavy reliance on missiles, coupled with its modest acceleration curves, makes it much more suited to defensive deployments than spearheading strikeforces. While it excels at weakening and destroying capital vessels, it has been found wanting when faced with packs of nimble fighters, and must hastily return to friendlier space when its missile supplies run low." + "file": "Petroleum", + "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Hydrocarbons", + "price": "90", + "mass": "8", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/petroleum.image@Ancient dead carbon-life. Liquid form." }, { - "file": "Lancelot.stock", - "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Heavy", - "price": "3800000", - "mass": "170", - "volume": "3500", - "description": "A heavy superiority fighter designed by the Highborn, the Lancelot really is superior in almost every sense of the word. Superbly engineered, even the older Lancelot models seldom have mechanical problems, and the interior, spartan in most other military vessels, is nothing short of luxurious. 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Now these corvettes have begun trickling into the frontier territories to thwart rampant piracy and Aeran incursions. Though lacking the cutting-edge systems and relative mobility of others in it's class, the Vigilance still holds it's own with greater survivability and firepower at a more affordable price." - }, - { - "file": "Zhuangzong.milspec", - "categoryname": "starships/Rlaan/Milspec", - "price": "2000000", - "mass": "65", - "volume": "1300", - "description": "The backbone of the Rlaan fighter squadrons, the Zhuangzong's four weapon mounts make it deadly at close range, and its maneuverability stats are a dogfighter's dream, even if the linear acceleration is more modest. Of course, in keeping with the Rlaan disdain for missiles, actually closing to weapons range can be interesting. 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" - }, - { - "file": "beam_heavy_lr", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "2500000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The logical conclusion of decades of upscaling work with spatial disruption technology, this weapon finds its home only among the weapons mounted on the capital vessels of well funded space navies." - }, - { - "file": "flak", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "6500", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@Like fireworks - only full of razorblades." - }, - { - "file": "flak_heavy", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "9500", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@There, there Snowden.... there, there." - }, - { - "file": "lr_disruptor_beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "120000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@A variant of the Disruptor Beam, this weapon uses the same functional principals, but is engineered for use at long range. Projecting something that is, in many respects, an extremely long sliver of a shield poses a number of technical difficulties. Long range disruptor beams increase the effective range of the weapon, but at the cost of dramatic reductions to efficiency, damage output, and beam stability alongside a significantly increased physical size. However, for certain applications, such as point-defense emplacements, these trade-offs have been considered more than worthwhile." - }, - { - "file": "Relativistic_Particle_Beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "250000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@While slinging particles of negligible mass, and in chaste quantities, this weapon does manage to propel them at significant fractions of lightspeed, rendering the particles quite dangerous to encounter." - }, - { - "file": "photon_capship", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "2500000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@The standard armament of most heavy Aeran vessels, this is a scaled up version of the same PESC type warhead delivery system used in Aeran combat craft." - }, - { - "file": "rlr_laser_beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "150000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@A long ranged laser weapon used primarily in Aeran point defence emplacements." - }, - { - "file": "FS_MWRF_Laser", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", - "price": "20000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@Rapid-fire microwave laser: When an enemy vessel has had enough it will go 'ding'. Or, possibly, explode." - }, - { - "file": "FS_MW_Laser", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", - "price": "20000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@Microwave laser: Caution -- do not stand in front of laser when attempting to defrost chickens." - }, - { - "file": "FS_IRRF_Laser", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", - "price": "26000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@Rapid-fire infrared laser: Even on the coldest sea, it can still be Hot, Hot, Hot!" - }, - { - "file": "FS_IR_Laser", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", - "price": "26000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@Infrared laser: When using for grilling, please refrain from putting hands, feet, or population centers in front of the lasing surface." - }, - { - "file": "Jackhammer", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", - "price": "24000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@The Jackhammer is an open-cycle laser, venting its coolant after every firing sequence. While this does wonders for the size and complexity of the cooling system, it does raise ammunition capacity issues not frequently associated with modern lasers." - }, - { - "file": "Jackhammer_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", - "price": "20", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Chemical_Mix", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/halogen_gasses.image@Coolant for the open-cycle Jackhammer laser." + "description": "@cargo/chemical_mix.image@Original sources of chemicals used in the creation of gases, liquids and solids that form chemical fuel." }, { - "file": "CS_UVRF_Laser", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "75000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Heavy_Water", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@Rapid-fire UV Laser. UV and other higher frequency lasers raise increasing concerns about cooling. Fortunately, UV and higher frequency lasers are effective enough to warrant being built into capital sized mounts that can handle their cooling requirements." + "description": "@cargo/heavy_water.image@While not a fuel in itself, it is a key component in several types of advanced fuels. It is a water molecule where the hydrogen atom contains an additional neutron. Heavy Water has extensive use in both nuclear fission and fusion, and is used in water dynamo batteries." }, { - "file": "CS_UV_Laser", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "75000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Dyes", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@UV Laser. Unlike most exposures to UV light, taking in these rays decreases the risk of dying from skin cancer." + "description": "@cargo/dyes.image@Dyes are colored substances obtained from various chemical compounds and used to give products such as food, textiles and suchlike a coloration different to their original form." }, { - "file": "CS_XRRF_Laser", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "2500000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Acids", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@Rapid-fire Xaser. Used properly, one can use a Xaser to figure out what the inside of an enemy vessel looks like. The crew, however, tends to cease to have insides at about the same time." + "description": "@cargo/acids.image@Acids are substances that taste sour in water solution, react with some metals to release hydrogen, react with a base to form salts, and enact certain chemical reactions known as acid catalysis. Used extensively in the manufacturing process." }, { - "file": "CS_XR_Laser", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "2500000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Catalysts", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@Xaser. The X-ray spectrum and lasers are notoriously unfriendly to being combined. That xasers exist at all just goes to show that some relationships can be made to work if there's enough money in it for everyone else involved." + "description": "@cargo/catalysts.image@Catalysts are substances that enable a chemical reaction to occur at a faster rate, lower temperature or in conditions altered from what would normally occur. Used extensively in industrial processes." }, { - "file": "Particle_Beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", - "price": "7500", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Esters", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@It has long been known that lightweight, charged particles, while easy to accelerate, suffer greatly from electro-static bloom effects. However, it has also long been known that there's not much in the universe cheaper to obtain than lightweight, charged particles. Still, it's not your great-to-the-Nth-granddaddy's cathode ray tube. (It's a lot bigger than that)." + "description": "@cargo/esters.image@Any of a class of often fragrant compounds that can be represented by the formula RCOOR and that are usually formed by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water. Typically used for aromatic purposes." }, { - "file": "Ion_Beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", - "price": "16000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Rare_Catalysts", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "200", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@Adding a bit more heft to the input stream than what is found in weapons termed particle beams, this weapon nonetheless operates on the same general principles. The electric charge of ionized plasma makes it particularly easy to compress and fire using simple magnetics. Deceptively simple in design, these weapons' cost comes from the inherent difficulty in making a stream of ionized plasma remain coherent _after_ firing. In the last ten years, advances in this field have led to noted increases in the accessibility of ion beam weapons, and to a market glut of cheap knockoff brands." + "description": "@cargo/rare_catalysts.image@Corporations have made fortunes by perfecting a single chemical reaction for maximum efficiency. One of the best ways of doing this is to use the best catalysts to move the reaction faster and with less waste. The most valuable catalysts are often very difficult and expensive to obtain." }, { - "file": "Heavy_Ion_Beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Heavy", - "price": "25000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Ethanol", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@A variant of the somewhat more common Ion Beam, these weapons utilizes heavier ions, such as xenon. Heavier ions are more difficult to accelerate to the desired exit velocities, but do not suffer nearly as much from electro-static bloom effects as their lighter counterparts." + "description": "@cargo/ethanol.image@Explosive fuel liquid used as a basic fuel source for powering primitive combustion motors. The motor ignites the fuel, which expands on ignition. The pressure of the explosion drives a piston, in turn driving a power shaft." }, { - "file": "Ion_Burster", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Light", - "price": "7000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Petrochemicals", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@One of the smallest of the ion weapon family, the Ion Burster, despite a seemingly projectile output, is more closely related to ion beam weapons than to anything else. Indeed, the lower speed and packetized nature of the weapon's output are not so much desirable attributes as concessions: in order to make the weapon small enough to meet design specifications, the beam can only be pulsed, and infrequently at that. To compensate for this disability, the Ion Burster relies on specially prepared vaporization plates, rather than the homogeneous gas-streams ususally feeding Ion weapons." + "description": "@cargo/petrochems.image@Refined hydrocarbon fuels. Used to power lower tech combustion equipment and vehicles. Having seen use for centuries, petrochem power plants have been developed to a high degree of efficiency in converting petrochems to energy. Plus, almost all waste emission is now recycled for industrial usage. Strongly desired for its high power to mass ratio on developing worlds with low technological infrastructure." }, { - "file": "Ion_Burster_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", - "price": "4", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Chemical_Fuels", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", + "price": "100", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/halogen_gasses.image@Prepackaged vaporization plates for the Ion Burster gun." + "description": "@cargo/chemfuel.image@Gases, liquids and solids that when superheated, explode, providing heat and thrust when directed out of a nozzle. Typically used as a propellant in solid weaponry, and in space vehicles where other power sources are unavailable or unnecessary." }, { - "file": "Disruptor_Beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", - "price": "45000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Industrial_Gemstones", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", + "price": "1130", + "mass": "3", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The canonical example of shield-based weaponry, the disruptor beam is highly effective at disrupting the twisted maze of forces created by a shield generator, but entirely unequipped to trickle damage past a shield until the shield in question has already nearly faltered. Disruptors, just like the shields they share most of their technological lineage with, interact violently with matter, making them poorly suited to use outside of vacuum. Fortunately for those on the receiving end of a disruptor blast, even a shield de-patterned to the point of collapse will mitigate a disruptor's effects on materials beyond the shield. Unfortunately for those on the receiving end of a disruptor, mitigate is not the same as eliminate. Those unfortunate enough to receive disruptor fire with no shield generator at all are usually at least fortunate enough that the shear forces kill them before they can notice. This design is exceptionally popular among adherents to the trekkie religion, but its reliability and effectiveness make it nothing to scoff at." + "description": "@cargo/industrial_gemstones.image@Lesser quality and flawed gemstones are more often used in industrial processes rather than for personal adornment. They form part of the manufacturing process itself, but occasionally are used as part of the end product." }, { - "file": "Shield_Breaker", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Confed_Milspec", - "price": "400000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Jewels", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", + "price": "1130", + "mass": "3", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@This Highborn Milspec weapon was designed alongside the Lancelot superiority fighter. If nearly equivalent in fundamental design principles, its implementation and engineering is superior in nearly every respect to the Disruptor Beams it shares a common origin with. In keeping with the naming of the ship it was co-designed with, the Shield Breaker is well suited to render any shield within reach quite humbled in but a small number of lancing blows." + "description": "@cargo/jewels.image@Formed by high planetary pressure and heat, jewels are brilliantly colored gemstones usually used for personal adornment. Rubies, sapphires and emeralds are the most popularly known jewels. Some jewels also find use in weapons research." }, { - "file": "LR_Disruptor_Beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "1200000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Diamonds", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", + "price": "1000", + "mass": "3", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/heavy.image@A variant of the Disruptor Beam, this weapon uses the same functional principals, but is engineered for use at long range. Projecting something that is, in many respects, an extremely long sliver of a shield poses a number of technical difficulties. Long range disruptor beams increase the effective range of the weapon, but at the cost of dramatic reductions to efficiency, damage output, and beam stability alongside a significantly increased physical size. However, for certain applications, such as point-defense emplacements, these trade-offs have been considered more than worthwhile." + "description": "@cargo/diamonds.image@As one of the hardest known natural substances, diamonds are a rarity among gemstones. They find use in most industrial processes, usually for cutting, weapons research, and are also highly valued for their appearance alone." }, { - "file": "Ktek_Beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Rlaan_Milspec", - "price": "1200000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Sorir_Lightstones", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", + "price": "1130", + "mass": "0.8", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The Rlaan have studied disruptor based weaponry for far longer than any other extant species, and this is the most common fruit of that research." + "description": "@cargo/sorir_lightstones.image@Researchers are still undecided if this stone is a live being, or a chemically reactant mineral. Either way, when immersed in water, these stones provide a bright light in ruby, sapphire and emerald hues. Aside from their beauty, these stones are commonly used as emergency lighting where alternative power is unavailable." }, { - "file": "Ktek_Beam_PD", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Rlaan_Milspec", - "price": "400000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Reinforced_Rubber", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", + "price": "1130", + "mass": "1.7", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@A version of the Rlaan Ktek beam repurposed for point defense installations." + "description": "@cargo/reinforced_rubber.image@Natural or synthetic rubber modified by chemical treatment to increase its useful properties such as toughness and resistance to wear. Used especially in airlocks, electrical insulation, and for waterproofing materials." }, { - "file": "Ktek_Gun", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Rlaan_Milspec", - "price": "200000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@Originally developed to break apart debris fields, this medium sized pulsed disruptor weapon is very deadly at close range. However, as the pulses, once disconnected from their generator, move slowly and rapidly decay, this weapon is of questionable value at any significant distance." + "file": "Wood_Boards", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", + "price": "130", + "mass": "6", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/wood_boards.image@While wood is no longer required for its structural aspects on developed worlds, lesser developed planets still use it as a primary construction material. It does maintain, however, an aesthetic preference for its appearance." }, { - "file": "Ktek_Mini_Grav-thumper", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Rlaan_Milspec", - "price": "200000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Plastics", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Synthetics", + "price": "240", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@What Rlaan do to the erstwhile laws of physics in their own homes is their own business. When they do it on the business end of this space-disrupting weapon, its everyone else's business to not be in the way. This miniature version of the Janissary class main weapon is used in lieu of torpedos by Rlaan assault craft." + "description": "@cargo/plastics.image@Any of various organic compounds artificially produced by polymerization and capable of being molded, extruded, cast into various shapes and films, or drawn into filaments." }, { - "file": "Ktek_Mini_Grav-thumper_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Rlaan", - "price": "60000", - "mass": "0.01", + "file": "Computer_Fibres", + "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Synthetics", + "price": "370", + "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/maul.image@Unlike the larger version of the same device that the Janissary class is built around, the 'mini' version of the grav-thumper renders portions of the device used to generate the distortion damaged and inoperable. Fortunately, the relevant portions are both modular and easily ejected, leading to an ammunition-like solution to the problem." + "description": "@cargo/computer_fibres.image@The most common component of modern electronics and computers is the 'computer fibre'. These fibers act as carriers of data between different computer subunits in modern systems, and also as small dynamic logic processors in everyday objects." }, { - "file": "Disruptor", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Medium", - "price": "60000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@A pulsed form of the shield-based disruptor beam technology, designs such as this have faded in popularity since the introduction of reliable shield decoupling mechanisms for the beam forms of disruptors. However, the significant time and investment already sunk into such designs, and the continued utility of the extremely high-end pulsed disruptor devices keeps the market stocked with current revisions of this aging weaponry." + "file": "Bulk_Seeds", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Agricultural", + "price": "25", + "mass": "60", + "volume": "100", + "description": "@cargo/bulk_seeds.image@As most seed crops develop sterile adult forms when growing in alien soils, only a select few planets have the ability to generate seed supplies. Hence, all non-native crops must still be brought in through interstellar shipping, and most agricultural colonies tend to lack the genetic research facilities to produce their own variants." }, { - "file": "Pugilist", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Light", - "price": "75000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The lightest and smallest of the disruptors manufactured by groups in Unadorned space, it can only provide body blows, but can keep on swinging with remarkable stamina." + "file": "Engineered_Seeds", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Agricultural", + "price": "25", + "mass": "35", + "volume": "50", + "description": "@cargo/engineered_seeds.image@Genetically enhanced or varied cropseed developed to remain fertile in alien soils, to produce more from a given amount or to produce more quickly. Environmental terrorists still protest the use of such products, despite acceptance by the population at large." }, { - "file": "Dissonance", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", - "price": "500000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@A standard weapon on light Unadorned craft, the Dissonance is larger, weaker, and slower than the Rlaan Ktek gun, but has a significantly longer effective range." + "file": "Pesticides", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Agricultural", + "price": "100", + "mass": "27", + "volume": "25", + "description": "@cargo/pesticides.image@No matter where one goes, it seems that every world capable of supporting life supports at least one species that is exceptionally annoying to whatever civilization attempts to colonize it. The age-old solution to this problem is to kill said species. Admittedly, doing so in a fashion that doesn't manage to hurt the colonists is still a subject of intense research. However, any pesticide producer will proudly claim that having a few babies born with the wrong number of legs is surely a small price to pay for not having disfiguring holes in all of the world's crops." }, { - "file": "LR_Disruptor", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Heavy", - "price": "400000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@Sacrificing efficiency and stopping power, this long ranged variant of the ubiquitous disruptor gun makes an effective fly-swatter. Primarily found in turret mounts on ships large enough to afford the energy demands, the low damage output tends to relegate this weapon to a deterrent role rather than the spearpoint of more aggressive actions." + "file": "Synthetic_Fertilizer", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Agricultural", + "price": "140", + "mass": "80", + "volume": "64", + "description": "@cargo/synthetic_fertilizer.image@Since the smell of organic fertilizer is impossible to get out of one's cargo hold, most transport haulers will only allow synthetic fertilizer through their bay doors. Synthetic fertilizer consists of those compounds needed to place nutrients in planetary soils, without those added extras to get on the nose." }, { - "file": "Micro_Driver", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Light", - "price": "10000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@Long before the dawn of modern man, it was known to various hominids that hurling a blunt object was a reasonable way to deliver damage from a distance. Fittingly enough, the worlds of the Purist faction are among the chief manufacturers of mass drivers." - }, - { - "file": "Mini_Driver", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Medium", - "price": "15000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@Long before the dawn of modern man, it was known to various hominids that hurling a blunt object was a reasonable way to deliver damage from a distance. Fittingly enough, the worlds of the Purist faction are among the chief manufacturers of mass drivers." - }, - { - "file": "Micro_Driver_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", + "file": "Distillators", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Agricultural", "price": "200", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@Very small, very dense, somewhat cheap, magnetically reactive." - }, - { - "file": "Mini_Driver_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", - "price": "150", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@Small, dense, cheap, magnetically reactive." - }, - { - "file": "Hephaestus_Mini", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", - "price": "110000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/accelerator_gun.image@A scaled down version of the electromagnetic accelerator used in the Hephaestus point defense emplacements, this Andolian death-dealer is special less in its ability to fling its projectiles rapidly and at high velocity than its compatibility with a very particular projectile of Andolian manufacture." - }, - { - "file": "Hephaestus_Mini_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Confed", - "price": "500", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@The ammunition for the Hephaestus mini-driver is by far one of the smallest and most advanced shield-piercing rounds developed to date." - }, - { - "file": "laser", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Light", - "price": "3500", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/light.image@Though not a laser by any stretch of the imagination, due to its resemblance to the so called 'lasers' of classic games and movies of the previous millenium, the misnomer has stuck stronger than space rated epoxy. Cheap and utterly dependable, this and other similar low yield exhaust-compression weapons are ubiquitous in armed civilian populations." - }, - { - "file": "Arc_Device", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Medium", - "price": "6000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@The trick, as many an unfortunate pirate has learned by experience, is to keep sufficient distance that the disabled enemy vessel is not accidently welded to your own ship. When used on security drones, the welding failure-mode is seen as more of a bonus." - }, - { - "file": "leech_gun", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", - "price": "66000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@Like the Crippler, the leech gun relies on sophisticated projectiles housing single-shot laser warheads and minimal targeting systems to do the dirty work of rendering a target vessel disabled. Unlike the Crippler, the leech gun has a reputation for being sufficiently underpowered that it's dangerous to not pack more lethal weaponry as well." - }, - { - "file": "crippler", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", - "price": "120000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@Originally designed for IntelSec and Homeland Security forces, the Crippler has reached increasingly large customer bases in the many decades since its introduction. Most experts believe this to be due to the fact that competitors looking to enter the less-than-lethal weapons market have tended to underestimate how difficult it is to hit appropriate subsystems to render a craft disabled but intact." - }, - { - "file": "Plasma_Plume", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Light", - "price": "500", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/light.image@It's a (plasma) flamethrower! ... in space! If you can actually get close enough to hit anything, the ionization can disable all sort and manner of targetted electrical systems, but the plasma plume's range tends to limit its applications to relatively stationary objects. Cheap as vaccuum, flashy as a nova, and unlikely to cause any real harm, this is a favored weapon of rent-a-cops and parking enforcement officials everywhere. " - }, - { - "file": "Photon_MK_I", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Aera_Milspec", - "price": "400000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@The oldest active armament of what would come to be a long series of Aeran PESC (Photon Emission on Shield Collapse) weapons, the gun itself is a non-descript warhead accelerator designed around the MK I PESC ammunition." - }, - { - "file": "Photon_MK_II", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Aera_Milspec", - "price": "600000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@A significant improvement with respect to the MK I in both accelerator and warhead, the MK II is a briusing weapon with solid shield penetration still heavily in service across the entire Aeran fleet." - }, - { - "file": "Photon_MK_III", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Aera_Milspec", - "price": "400000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@A refinement, rather than an improvement over the MK II, the MK III is a smaller weapon based around a much smaller warhead and a faster rate of fire, extending the PESC weaponry to lighter Aeran craft and emplacements." - }, - { - "file": "razor_gun", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", - "price": "400000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/razor_gun.image@Sadly enough for their former marketing exectutives, 'Ring around the targets, pocket-size the fuzies, deuterium-deuterium, they all go boom!' did not in fact make for a good advertising campaign." - }, - { - "file": "reaper_cannon", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", - "price": "800000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@The grimmest part of this Reaper is probably the 37 page manual on the appropriate handling of the anti-matter filled rounds. The gun itself, after all, is a rather sporty number." - }, - { - "file": "Photon_MK_I_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", - "price": "4000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@Aeran PESC (Photon Emission on Shield Collapse) Warhead. Essentially consisting of a faulty shield generator in miniature, on contact with any shield or object, the warhead's shield will collapse through the warhead itself, emitting a large number of high-energy photons in the process, thus lending notable shield-penetrating damage. While the root principle has been known to all of the major space-faring groups for some time, only the Aera have pursured significant weaponization." - }, - { - "file": "Photon_MK_II_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", - "price": "5000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@Aeran PESC (Photon Emission on Shield Collapse) Warhead. Essentially consisting of a faulty shield generator in miniature, on contact with any shield or object, the warhead's shield will collapse through the warhead itself, emitting a large number of high-energy photons in the process, thus lending notable shield-penetrating damage. While the root principle has been known to all of the major space-faring groups for some time, only the Aera have pursured significant weaponization." - }, - { - "file": "Photon_MK_III_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", - "price": "6000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@Aeran PESC (Photon Emission on Shield Collapse) Warhead. Essentially consisting of a faulty shield generator in miniature, on contact with any shield or object, the warhead's shield will collapse through the warhead itself, emitting a large number of high-energy photons in the process, thus lending notable shield-penetrating damage. While the root principle has been known to all of the major space-faring groups for some time, only the Aera have pursured significant weaponization." - }, - { - "file": "razor_gun_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Confed", - "price": "4000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/razor_gun.image@Each Razor round is a miniature fusion device, and a real pain to get through customs." - }, - { - "file": "reaper_cannon_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Confed", - "price": "6000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@Keeping an anti-matter containment unit intact when being hurled out of a gun at several kilometers per second is no trivial matter, as the pricetag will verify." - }, - { - "file": "hellspawn", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "45000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@missile-hud.image@Echewing strong AI, the Rlaan rely on an engineered species derived from something akin to a hunting dog to pilot their drones. Most other species find the idea of giving disembodied pet brains firing control over energy weapons to be mildly disconcerting. The Hellspawn model is one of the smaller Rlaan drones, consisting of little more than two turrets, sensors, and a drive system. Survivability is not a priority, as evidenced by the sizeable self-destruct package." - }, - { - "file": "stormfire", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mounted_Guns_Confed_Milspec", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "\"@upgrades/swarm.image@While individually fairly worthless, the PC-031 \"\"Stormfire\"\" rounds were designed as a low-yield, low-overhead projectiles that could be rapidly emmitted in high numbers by fighters with multiple weapon mountpoints, or as point defense on capital ships. Surplus Stormfires have seen additional use among merchants as cheap, reliable alternatives to energy weapons. \"" - }, - { - "file": "antimatter_gun", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Capship", - "price": "720000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/medium.image@As may be expected of a device created to sling anti-matter, any error during the firing process will not merely slag the gun, but may evapourate it and a large portion of the vessel on which it is mounted; thus, every aspect of the process is perfectly controlled and subject to significant redundancy. Needless to say, such engineering does not come cheap." - }, - { - "file": "tractor_beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Light", - "price": "7500", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/tractor_beam.image@Gravitic technology can be used in a wide variety of ways: arguably, the most popular is keeping your soup in its bowl. A tractor beam, on the other hand, is good at putting somebody else's soup in your bowl. " - }, - { - "file": "repulsor_beam", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Light", - "price": "50000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/repulsor_beam.image@Repulsor beams, relatively new items on the market, have seen considerable use in large-scale construction projects ever since it was discovered how to keep them from mangling the point of contact; some creative combatants have found different uses for them." - }, - { - "file": "tractor_heavy", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Beam_Arrays_Confed_Milspec", - "price": "27500", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/tractor_heavy.image@Animal magnetism is overrated. This is just over-engineered. Capable of producing a g-forces that would turn people, elephants, and any appropriately hued fruits into raspberry colored toast topping, heavy tractor beams are rarely seen outside of deepspace construction yards and piracy organizations." - }, - { - "file": "tractor_capability", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mount_Enhancements", - "price": "50000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/tractor_capability.image@Traditionally, most weapon mounts aren't constructed to handle the strains associated with tractor beam usage. Fortunately, this is usually a cost-cutting measure, and installing the necessary reinforcements doesn't tend to interfere with the weapon mount, although it may void certain warranties. " - }, - { - "file": "autotracking", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Mount_Enhancements", - "price": "100000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/circuit1.image@While all mounted weapons have inherent auto-tracking capabilities, these defaults are limited in civilian mounts. A full-powered military auto-tracker like this greatly enhances weapon accuracy." - }, - { - "file": "rlaan_turret_pd", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets/Rlaan", - "price": "100000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@The Rlaan are well known for their disdain of missiles, especially those fired at them." - }, - { - "file": "rlaan_turret_mini", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets/Rlaan", - "price": "140000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/turret_medium.image@While Rlaan ships tend to mount flash-shields capable of shrugging off most small arms fire, they still prefer the option of 'convincing' fighters to stop firing." - }, - { - "file": "aera_turret_pd", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets/Aera", - "price": "100000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@Using low yield pulse lasers, the aera have made simple and effective anti-missile turrets." - }, - { - "file": "beam_turret", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", - "price": "150000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@Specially designed for the energy and heat dissipation requirements of beam weapons, this turret has everything you need to mount a pair of them." - }, - { - "file": "turret_pd", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", - "price": "100000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam3.image@One is heavily advised to not play 'catch the missile' unless one mounts several of these." - }, - { - "file": "heavy_turret", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", - "price": "300000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/turret_heavy.image@For when evasive maneuvers are too subtle a hint your tailgaters." - }, - { - "file": "small_turret", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", - "price": "80000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/turret_light.image@Given the armament commonly placed in such turrets, the small turret has become affectionately known as 'the machine that goes ping'." - }, - { - "file": "medium_turret", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", - "price": "250000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/turret_medium.image@It turns, it shoots, it slices. No, it does not dice, but it does come with a free fuzzy pair." - }, - { - "file": "capship_turret", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", - "price": "1600000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/razor_gun.image@When hunting for bear, hover softly, and carry a big stick" - }, - { - "file": "capship_turret_heavy", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", - "price": "8000000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam2.image@If your vessel can mount this, this can mount whatever you want." - }, - { - "file": "turret_pd_long", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", - "price": "800000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/beam1.image@One of the most impressive applications of disruptor technology, this military rated point defense turret is the best of its kind." - }, - { - "file": "franklin_pd", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Weapons/Turrets", - "price": "600000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@../units/franklin/franklin-hud.image@These turrets were custom designed for the Franklin class diplomatic transport. Any hotshot who splurges on the Franklin should undoubtedly get these fine turrets to complement the exterior decor." - }, - { - "file": "kineticmissile", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", - "price": "4000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@missile-hud.image@Behold KE=1/2MV^2: large values of M and high values of V yield large numbers of obliterated fragments of intended targets. (Capital sized launch platform sold separately, shield batteries included.)" - }, - { - "file": "capiff_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/capiff.image@Drawing upon the greater sensor capability and volumetric resources of a capital vessel, these larger IFF missiles can deliver a larger payload over a much longer intercept sphere than their fighter-launched cousins." - }, - { - "file": "cap_iff", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/capiff.image@Drawing upon the greater sensor capability and volumetric resources of a capital vessel, these larger IFF missiles can deliver a larger payload over a much longer intercept sphere than their fighter-launched cousins." - }, - { - "file": "capcluster_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/missile.image@Capital ships benefit both from being large enough to launch effective cluster munitions and robust enough to not worry about doorstep detonations." - }, - { - "file": "capshipmissile_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/capshipmissile.image@As large as some insystem fighters and sporting the latest in stealth and ECCM technology, these SPEC capable missiles, frequently seen tipped with warheads in the 10 megaton or higher range, can make dropping one's shields to retreat a truly nerve-wracking decision." - }, - { - "file": "grand_gauss", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Capship", - "price": "3000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/emp2.image@The spinal mounted armament of the Leonidas class dreadnaughts is something to behold. If the principle behind the massive accelerators is not novel, their scale remains awe-inspiring." - }, - { - "file": "dumbfire_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", - "price": "20", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/dumbfire.image@Removing maneuvering jets capable of counteracting a missile's momentum leaves a lot more room for a warhead. Of course, it also makes for a missile that only flies in a straight line." - }, - { - "file": "heatseeker_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", - "price": "35", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/heatseeker.image@A missile which locks onto a heat source -- a ship's engines, for example -- rather than a radar or IFF signal. The Heatseeker is not as vulnerable to ECM as torpedoes, IFF or other guided missiles are. Damage is respectable for their small size. They are also relatively inexpensive and widely available. Most effective against light and medium ships. They are best used in salvos rather than individually. One missile often will weaken the target's defenses enough to let the others get through and do damage to the ship itself. CAUTION: If you are attacking targets near a friendly capship, heat seekers launched at targets within a few hundred meters from the capship may well lock onto the capship instead. That tends to get you talked about by the capship. " - }, - { - "file": "image_recognition_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", - "price": "75", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/imrec.image@Like an obsessive-compulsive stalker, once it knows what you look like, it's not going to stop showing up at your doorstep." - }, - { - "file": "friend_or_foe_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Common", - "price": "100", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/fof.image@There are those who, steadfast in their desire to reduce signals cluttering battlefield communications, have advocated abandoning traditional IFF mechanisms. Fortunately for missile and sensor manufacturers everywhere, such proponents have a remarkable tendency to find their ships hit by IFF missiles." - }, - { - "file": "torpedo_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Confed", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/emp1.image@Featuring bulk and drive style rapidly approaching that of a small vessel, these beasts pack a heavy punch, but tend to have acceleration curves suited to catching only the less than fleet of foot." - }, - { - "file": "advtorpedo_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/missile.image@The Aeran equivalent of the Confederation torpedo is just as sluggish, but packs a more vicious punch." - }, - { - "file": "emp_torpedo_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", - "price": "2500", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/emp3.image@Employed in increasingly large numbers by regional guard units, EMP torpedos seek to sufficiently damage the electronics of a vessel so as to render it out of user control. Such devices, in the absence of an atmosphere to assist with EMP effects, must be quite large, and have thus been adapted to a torpedo chassis." - }, - { - "file": "javelin_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", - "price": "4000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@An older Aeran PESC mini-warhead adapted for rocket pod distribution." - }, - { - "file": "cluster_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/cluster.image@While fighter-mounted cluster missiles are unlikely to actually destroy any vessels, they are extremely useful for getting the attention of several craft in one go." - }, - { - "file": "swarm_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", - "price": "80", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@If you love the smell of Katyushas in the morning, then you probably already have one of these." - }, - { - "file": "photon_swarm_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", - "price": "90", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@A more recently developed Aeran PESC mini-warhead, photon swarm rocket pods are extremely common on Aeran light craft." - }, - { - "file": "killer_bee_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", - "price": "85", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@Like their namesake, one sting won't hurt too much, but nobody fires just one of these." - }, - { - "file": "hail_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", - "price": "90", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/swarm.image@Sometimes it rains, sometimes it hails, but when you're armed with Hail emplacents, it rains death from above." - }, - { - "file": "breeze_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", - "price": "300", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/missile.image@An otherwise unremarkable missile with an odd aspect ratio." - }, - { - "file": "porcupine_mine_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Aera", - "price": "300", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@upgrades/porcupine_mine.image@Dropped by Aeran mine-layers and, in smaller numbers, other small craft, these mines each mount a single gun with a limited number of rounds. Once ammunition or energy is depleted, the mines self-destruct. These mines are used in both defensive emplacements and as a harassing distraction against pursuing craft." - }, - { - "file": "leech_ammo", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Ammunition/Uncommon", - "price": "1000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/leech.image@Complicated rounds with sensors and one-shot lasers designed to disable, not destroy, enemy craft." - }, - { - "file": "cloaking_device", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Experimental", - "price": "259000", - "mass": "8.9", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/cloaking_device_experimental.image@This device uses gravity manipulation technology. A powerful gravitational lens distorts a massive region around the vessel, bending signals emitted by active sensors around the ship and out at seeming random angles and locations. This makes it very easy to know that a ship mounting a cloaking device is present, but very hard to figure out what class of ship, where it's headed, and where exactly it is." - }, - { - "file": "First_Class_Passenger", - "categoryname": "Passengers", - "price": "0", - "mass": "4", - "volume": "100", - "description": "@cargo/first_class_passenger.image@If you are taking first class passengers around, they had better have all the amenities one expects." - }, - { - "file": "Business_Class_Passenger", - "categoryname": "Passengers", - "price": "0", - "mass": "3", - "volume": "50", - "description": "@cargo/business_class_passenger.image@With a laptop and a wide rear, the business class passenger enjoys some of the room of the first class passenger." - }, - { - "file": "Frozen_Colonist", - "categoryname": "Passengers/Economy", - "price": "0", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "3", - "description": "@cargo/frozen_colonist.image@Polite, space-efficient, doesn't try to back-seat pilot, doesn't care how long it takes to get there. Unfortunately, being technically, if only temporarily, deceased - not much for conversation." - }, - { - "file": "Hitchhiker", - "categoryname": "Passengers/Economy", - "price": "0", - "mass": "0.4", - "volume": "6", - "description": "@cargo/steerage_class@Always brings a towel of his/her own." - }, - { - "file": "Ration_Mealpacks", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Confed", - "price": "100", - "mass": "1.2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/ration_mealpacks.image@Owing to the generally high danger of radiation deterioration, most foods consumed in space by humans are mealpacks. These compact mealpacks contain energy bars and an energy liquid drink. Highly nutritious, and absolutely tasteless to the eye and palate." - }, - { - "file": "Standard_Mealpacks", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Confed", - "price": "100", - "mass": "1.2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/standard_mealpacks.image@Standard Mealpacks are designed for regular people who want a halfway decent meal without a lot of trouble. Self-heating, these mealpacks are hermetically sealed packs of cheap and satisfying foodstuffs. A great alternative to the staple foods on many developed worlds: vat grown meats, algae sludge and tofu bars." - }, - { - "file": "Luxury_Mealpacks", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Confed", - "price": "180", - "mass": "0.8", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/luxury_mealpacks.image@Oriented towards the human digestive system, such packs typically contain actual game meat, exotic fruits, vegetables and other rarest of rare foods. Despite repeated denials, rumours persist that meat from other sentient beings are included for the palates of those most decadent of the rich and famous." - }, - { - "file": "Filtered_Water", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Confed", - "price": "40", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/fresh_water.image@The main building block of life. Fresh water is required by most animalistic species to maintain bodily function. A body will normally use water to carry nutrients to all cells of the body, and remove toxic wastes to avoid poisoning and death." - }, - { - "file": "Filtered_Water", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Aera", - "price": "40", - "mass": "3", - "volume": "3", - "description": "@cargo/fresh_water.image@The main building block of life. Fresh water is required by most animalistic species to maintain bodily function. A body will normally use water to carry nutrients to all cells of the body, and remove toxic wastes to avoid poisoning and death." - }, - { - "file": "Aera_Ration", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Aera", - "price": "40", - "mass": "1.4", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/aera_ration.image@Containing utilitarian dehydrated meal bars with jerky for dessert, the Aera ration is human edible, but prolonged human consumption will result in eventual sickness and death due to alkaloid content." - }, - { - "file": "Jhurlon", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Aera", - "price": "140", - "mass": "1.05", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/jhurlon.image@A native of the Bzbr world, the Jhurlon most closely resembles a boulder sized land dwelling abalone. While well protected against native predators, modern technology has made cutting through their shell somewhat easier." - }, - { - "file": "Salted_Thok", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Aera", - "price": "130", - "mass": "1.2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/salted_thok.image@Though the Aera destroyed their jungle forests, the seas fared better, and continue to produce this tasty fish-like creature." - }, - { - "file": "Sustipack", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Rlaan", - "price": "140", - "mass": "0.8", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/sustipacks.image@Containing the bare minimum in ammonia based concentrates and a carb syrup, these packs provide a Rlaan with absolute minimum sustenance. Strangely enough, these packs aid Rlaan fitness, as they will make every effort to avoid eating one." - }, - { - "file": "Nutripack", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Rlaan", - "price": "150", - "mass": "0.9", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/nutripacks.image@Containing a protein brick, carb glop and gels in ammonia solutions stored at such temperatures that ammonia is a liquid. An unprepared human would have a fatal experience opening, let alone eating, this pack." - }, - { - "file": "Ultrapack", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Rlaan", - "price": "40", - "mass": "0.9", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/ultrapacks.image@These Rlaan foodpacks are factory processed and hermetically sealed biofoods somewhat more tasteworthy to the Rlaan palate. Typically used as an addition to Nutripacks." - }, - { - "file": "Coffee", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", - "price": "140", - "mass": "0.75", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/coffee.image@Generation upon generation of addicts have made the production of coffee one of the largest industries in known space." - }, - { - "file": "Animal_Products", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", - "price": "110", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/animal_products.image@Typically diary, eggs, caviar and other products of various animal internal organs, they remain a food source of high nutritional value for all species, and some diners derive a twisted pleasure from eating foods originating from such a source." - }, - { - "file": "Grains", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", - "price": "70", - "mass": "6", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/grains.image@The edible grass seeds, grains, and the carbohydrates garnered from them, are a pillar of an omnivorous diet. When fermented properly, they become the pillars of a liquid diet." - }, - { - "file": "Seafood", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Food/Generic", - "price": "115", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/seafood.image@This product range includes water dwelling creatures and their by-products. 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Served cold in warm climes, and warm in cold climes." - }, - { - "file": "Wines", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor", - "price": "100", - "mass": "0.9", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/wine.image@The fermented juices of fruit, typically grapes, crushed under the feet of whoever was passing by, hence the various distinctive tastes. After aging and bottling, wine is sold to the mass market in the mistaken belief that it provides refined social graces." - }, - { - "file": "Spirits", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor", - "price": "55", - "mass": "0.9", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/spirits.image@Consisting in the main of hard alcohols distilled from whatever was handy at the time and usually aged in wood barrels to disguise the aftertaste. One of the prime sources of battle causes and maudlin singing." - }, - { - "file": "Brandy", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor", - "price": "70", - "mass": "0.9", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/brandy.image@Fermented fruit, distilled into liver quaking perfection. Notably, after humans expanded offworld, people stopped caring as much as to whether their brandy came from the Cognac region..." - }, - { - "file": "Space_Grog", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor", - "price": "60", - "mass": "1.8", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/space_grog.image@This is the stuff guaranteed to knock a drinker out cold after a couple of glasses have burned down their throat. Known in previous ages as moonshine, hooch, rough gut and so on, this is the liquor with no quality control for ingredients, made in those out of the way places where alcohol is drunk for its kick, not its taste." - }, - { - "file": "Tripezian_Premium", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor/Confed", - "price": "55", - "mass": "0.2", - "volume": "0.25", - "description": "@cargo/tripezian_premium.image@Taste the flavour of the Frontier! Tripezian Ale is the product of fermented tripezian berries, an alien fruit lethal when eaten, but whose fermented juices have an intense and exotic flavour. Tripezian berries are produced on only a few worlds and in limited quantities. This makes Tripezian Ale one of the most expensive and sought after beverages in all of known space." - }, - { - "file": "Emendolya", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor/Confed", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/specialty_wines.image@This product was released to the public by Velthatris Corporation. Some of the latest achievements in gene alteration seem to be connected to it although Velthatris remains silent about this. It is on the right track to be an en vogue beverage despite the fact that long term effects on the human physiology have still not been fully investigated." - }, - { - "file": "Specialty_Wines", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor/Confed", - "price": "10000", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/specialty_wines.image@Finely crafted wines from carefully cultivated vineyards. Unlike the cheap wines from farm planets devoted to wine production, every bottle contains liquid craftsmanship and the potential for culinary exploration." - }, - { - "file": "Sarakan_Tears", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Liquor/Uln", - "price": "160", - "mass": "0.2", - "volume": "0.25", - "description": "@cargo/sarakan_tears.image@Distilled from the sap of the Sarak bush, this spirit defines the old adage: 'Whatever doesn't kill you, will numb the mouth, burn the throat, upset the stomach, tear you a new one and leave you with a nice rosy outlook towards the universe!'" - }, - { - "file": "Cotton", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Renewable_Resources", - "price": "120", - "mass": "11", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/cotton.image@Used in the main as a fabric in clothing, textiles and home furnishings, cotton remains one of the best natural fibres in use today." - }, - { - "file": "Water", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Renewable_Resources", - "price": "10", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/fresh_water.image@The main building block of life. 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Basic uses are in correspondence, manufacturing, clothing and sexual activities." - }, - { - "file": "Lumber", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Renewable_Resources", - "price": "105", - "mass": "17", - "volume": "27", - "description": "@cargo/lumber.image@The stripped down trunks of larger plantlife, still finding use in construction, religious ceremonies, artwork, furnishings and primitive heating." - }, - { - "file": "Spices", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Plant_Products", - "price": "30", - "mass": "0.05", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@cargo/spices.image@Useful as a preservative and in general food preparation. Traders often use spices to disguise the taste of rancid meat after transport. Many human travellers use spices to add (disguise) the flavour in standard mealpacks." - }, - { - "file": "Incense", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Plant_Products", - "price": "50", - "mass": "0.5", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/incense.image@Consisting of compressed fragrant plantlife, oils and the occasional recreational drug, incense is used for both religious purposes, and by the mass market for relaxation." - }, - { - "file": "Narcotics", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Plant_Products", - "price": "110", - "mass": "0.15", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@cargo/narcotics.image@Typically, the cured product of various plants burnt to produce an aromatic smoke and inhaled through a respiratory system. The most common variety used is the Nicotiana (nicotine) leaf. 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While the extract is not intrinsically toxic and withdrawal is remarkably mild, problems arise due to rapidly increasing tolerance and lost productivity due to excessive use." - }, - { - "file": "Livestock", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Life-forms", - "price": "110", - "mass": "60", - "volume": "100", - "description": "@cargo/livestock.image@Without goats and sheep, the world of good cheese would be greatly crippled." - }, - { - "file": "Bonsai", - "categoryname": "Natural_Products/Life-forms", - "price": "250", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "8", - "description": "@cargo/bonsai.image@The ancient art of Bonsai (crudely: Tree Pruning) creates easily transportable plant shapes of all exotic shape and bent. In high demand for their aesthetic appearance, they are often used to complete landscaped visual surrounds. A secondary use is their calming effect while caring for your Bonsai." - }, - { - "file": "Astral_Gases", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Gases", - "price": "40", - "mass": "1.2", - "volume": "25", - "description": "@cargo/astral_gases.image@Astral gases are the highly valuable and rare products of uncommon reactions in nebulas and gas giants. Comprized of complex structures of fused gaseous elements, Astral gases have a wide range of applications in modern industry and manufacturing." - }, - { - "file": "Atmospheric_Gases", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Gases", - "price": "30", - "mass": "1.2", - "volume": "25", - "description": "@cargo/atmospheric_gases.image@Consisting primarily of those gases required to support life such as hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. These and other gases are mixed according to individual species' requirements. Without these gases, existence in space would be impossible." - }, - { - "file": "Halogen_Gases", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Gases", - "price": "80", - "mass": "1.2", - "volume": "25", - "description": "@cargo/halogen_gases.image@Halogen gases are characterized as salt forming (hence sodium chloride or common table salt) They are used primarily in the production of various nuclear, chemical and petrochemical fuels, as well as general manufacturing and the purification of water." - }, - { - "file": "Noble_Gases", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Gases", - "price": "65", - "mass": "1.2", - "volume": "25", - "description": "@cargo/noble_gases.image@Otherwise known as the inert gases. 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Used mainly as foundation stone, water planets in particular use stone as a sea barrier, creating artificial islands." - }, - { - "file": "Facing_Stone", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Stone", - "price": "100", - "mass": "50", - "volume": "25", - "description": "@cargo/construction_stone.image@The finer, better textured stone (of which marble is famous) is used as a decorative covering on buildings, and for stonework. Possessing a building with stone facing, rather than standard materials is a sign of status and wealth." - }, - { - "file": "Natural_Sculptures", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Stone", - "price": "350", - "mass": "65", - "volume": "50", - "description": "@cargo/natural_sculptures.image@Originally considered waste, stone that has been carved by nature is now considered both decoration and art. 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Solid form." - }, - { - "file": "Butane", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Hydrocarbons", - "price": "120", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/butane.image@Because sometimes, with all the technology around you, what you really want is a Zippo." - }, - { - "file": "Diesel", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Hydrocarbons", - "price": "130", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/diesel.image@On planets where resupply is expensive, diesel is an efficient, if polluting, fuel of choice." - }, - { - "file": "Petroleum", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Hydrocarbons", - "price": "90", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/petroleum.image@Ancient dead carbon-life. Liquid form." - }, - { - "file": "Iron_Ore", - "categoryname": "Raw_Materials/Ores", - "price": "52", - "mass": "70", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/base.image@Iron has been vital in the histories of all of the spacefaring races. 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Common characteristics include igniting spontaneously in air and violent reactions with water." - }, - { - "file": "Isometal", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Alloys/Confed", - "price": "130", - "mass": "16", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/isometal.image@A generic term for any metal alloy which has been strengthened via a slow thermal reduction cycle. As a result these alloys have a high ability to dissipate energy and are frequently used for armor plating." - }, - { - "file": "Plasteel", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Alloys/Confed", - "price": "60", - "mass": "6", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/plasteel.image@An alloy of metals and carbon nanotubes has resulted in a lightweight metal with high strength and durability. Commonly used in aerospace framework and to a small extent as exterior armor." - }, - { - "file": "Plasglass", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Alloys/Confed", - "price": "60", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/plasglass.image@An alloy of metals, plastics and silica glass, this alloy has a transparency slightly less than glass, but with the hardness of metals and is shatterproof. Commonly used for windows in buildings, and where solid walls will detract from visual appearance." - }, - { - "file": "Steel", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Alloys/Confed", - "price": "76", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/steel.image@While surpassed by more highly advanced alloy combinations, steel remains a low cost version for general and machinery construction. 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Commonly used in bulkhead construction and armor plating." - }, - { - "file": "Carbonium", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Alloys/Rlaan", - "price": "40", - "mass": "6", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/carbonium.image@This alloy is generated from the bio-waste of the Rlaan biogenerator energy system. This bio-waste is melded at high temperature with assorted metals to form an odd appearing, flexible yet hard alloy." - }, - { - "file": "Obsidisteel", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Alloys/Rlaan", - "price": "100", - "mass": "7", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/obsidisteel.image@A combination of metals and silicate oxides, this dark, hard substance is actually secreted from living silicon based organisms." - }, - { - "file": "Radium", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Radioactive_Metals", - "price": "400", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/radium.image@A wonderful ingredient for glowing paints." - }, - { - "file": "Thorium", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Radioactive_Metals", - "price": "300", - "mass": "11", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/radioactives.image@An exceptionally common source of nuclear power, it is also known for the exceptional melting points of its oxide." - }, - { - "file": "Uranium", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Radioactive_Metals", - "price": "540", - "mass": "19", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/uranium.image@A rather common radioactive used primarily in fission piles. 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It's conductive properties have, over the last millenium, given it roles in more useful applications." - }, - { - "file": "Rare_Earths", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Precious_Metals", - "price": "156", - "mass": "18", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/rare_earths.image@Otherwise known as lanthanoids or the lanthanide series of metals that are highly reactive in air. 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Used extensively in the manufacturing process." - }, - { - "file": "Catalysts", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", - "price": "100", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/catalysts.image@Catalysts are substances that enable a chemical reaction to occur at a faster rate, lower temperature or in conditions altered from what would normally occur. Used extensively in industrial processes." - }, - { - "file": "Esters", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", - "price": "100", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/esters.image@Any of a class of often fragrant compounds that can be represented by the formula RCOOR and that are usually formed by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water. Typically used for aromatic purposes." - }, - { - "file": "Rare_Catalysts", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", - "price": "200", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/rare_catalysts.image@Corporations have made fortunes by perfecting a single chemical reaction for maximum efficiency. One of the best ways of doing this is to use the best catalysts to move the reaction faster and with less waste. The most valuable catalysts are often very difficult and expensive to obtain." - }, - { - "file": "Ethanol", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", - "price": "100", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/ethanol.image@Explosive fuel liquid used as a basic fuel source for powering primitive combustion motors. The motor ignites the fuel, which expands on ignition. The pressure of the explosion drives a piston, in turn driving a power shaft." - }, - { - "file": "Petrochemicals", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", - "price": "100", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/petrochems.image@Refined hydrocarbon fuels. Used to power lower tech combustion equipment and vehicles. Having seen use for centuries, petrochem power plants have been developed to a high degree of efficiency in converting petrochems to energy. Plus, almost all waste emission is now recycled for industrial usage. Strongly desired for its high power to mass ratio on developing worlds with low technological infrastructure." - }, - { - "file": "Chemical_Fuels", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Chemicals", - "price": "100", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/chemfuel.image@Gases, liquids and solids that when superheated, explode, providing heat and thrust when directed out of a nozzle. Typically used as a propellant in solid weaponry, and in space vehicles where other power sources are unavailable or unnecessary." - }, - { - "file": "Industrial_Gemstones", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", - "price": "1130", - "mass": "3", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/industrial_gemstones.image@Lesser quality and flawed gemstones are more often used in industrial processes rather than for personal adornment. They form part of the manufacturing process itself, but occasionally are used as part of the end product." - }, - { - "file": "Jewels", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", - "price": "1130", - "mass": "3", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/jewels.image@Formed by high planetary pressure and heat, jewels are brilliantly colored gemstones usually used for personal adornment. Rubies, sapphires and emeralds are the most popularly known jewels. Some jewels also find use in weapons research." - }, - { - "file": "Diamonds", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", - "price": "1000", - "mass": "3", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/diamonds.image@As one of the hardest known natural substances, diamonds are a rarity among gemstones. They find use in most industrial processes, usually for cutting, weapons research, and are also highly valued for their appearance alone." - }, - { - "file": "Sorir_Lightstones", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", - "price": "1130", - "mass": "0.8", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/sorir_lightstones.image@Researchers are still undecided if this stone is a live being, or a chemically reactant mineral. Either way, when immersed in water, these stones provide a bright light in ruby, sapphire and emerald hues. Aside from their beauty, these stones are commonly used as emergency lighting where alternative power is unavailable." - }, - { - "file": "Reinforced_Rubber", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", - "price": "1130", - "mass": "1.7", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/reinforced_rubber.image@Natural or synthetic rubber modified by chemical treatment to increase its useful properties such as toughness and resistance to wear. Used especially in airlocks, electrical insulation, and for waterproofing materials." - }, - { - "file": "Wood_Boards", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Purified_and_Enhanced_Materials", - "price": "130", - "mass": "6", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/wood_boards.image@While wood is no longer required for its structural aspects on developed worlds, lesser developed planets still use it as a primary construction material. It does maintain, however, an aesthetic preference for its appearance." - }, - { - "file": "Plastics", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Synthetics", - "price": "240", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/plastics.image@Any of various organic compounds artificially produced by polymerization and capable of being molded, extruded, cast into various shapes and films, or drawn into filaments." - }, - { - "file": "Computer_Fibres", - "categoryname": "Refined_Materials/Synthetics", - "price": "370", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/computer_fibres.image@The most common component of modern electronics and computers is the 'computer fibre'. These fibers act as carriers of data between different computer subunits in modern systems, and also as small dynamic logic processors in everyday objects." - }, - { - "file": "Bulk_Seeds", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Agricultural", - "price": "25", - "mass": "60", - "volume": "100", - "description": "@cargo/bulk_seeds.image@As most seed crops develop sterile adult forms when growing in alien soils, only a select few planets have the ability to generate seed supplies. Hence, all non-native crops must still be brought in through interstellar shipping, and most agricultural colonies tend to lack the genetic research facilities to produce their own variants." - }, - { - "file": "Engineered_Seeds", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Agricultural", - "price": "25", - "mass": "35", - "volume": "50", - "description": "@cargo/engineered_seeds.image@Genetically enhanced or varied cropseed developed to remain fertile in alien soils, to produce more from a given amount or to produce more quickly. Environmental terrorists still protest the use of such products, despite acceptance by the population at large." - }, - { - "file": "Pesticides", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Agricultural", - "price": "100", - "mass": "27", - "volume": "25", - "description": "@cargo/pesticides.image@No matter where one goes, it seems that every world capable of supporting life supports at least one species that is exceptionally annoying to whatever civilization attempts to colonize it. The age-old solution to this problem is to kill said species. Admittedly, doing so in a fashion that doesn't manage to hurt the colonists is still a subject of intense research. However, any pesticide producer will proudly claim that having a few babies born with the wrong number of legs is surely a small price to pay for not having disfiguring holes in all of the world's crops." - }, - { - "file": "Synthetic_Fertilizer", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Agricultural", - "price": "140", - "mass": "80", - "volume": "64", - "description": "@cargo/synthetic_fertilizer.image@Since the smell of organic fertilizer is impossible to get out of one's cargo hold, most transport haulers will only allow synthetic fertilizer through their bay doors. 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Especially useful in environments that do not actually have soil such as spacecraft and stations, or used where planetary soil is not sufficient for the growing of food crops." - }, - { - "file": "Automated_Factories", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Construction", - "price": "27000000", - "mass": "20000", - "volume": "10000", - "description": "@cargo/automated_factories.image@As general production involves - in the main - mindless repetition, it is expected that most spaceborn factories will become automated. This is expected to save countless billions in both wages and sentient life maintenance. AI Cores will fully operate such factories, with the only likely sentient contact being oversight and production program changes." - }, - { - "file": "Construction_Vehicles", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Construction", - "price": "90000", - "mass": "300", - "volume": "75", - "description": "@cargo/construction_vehicles.image@The ability to lift large masses and manipulate them dextrously in three dimensions is essential for construction and lacking in all known sentient beings. These machines make up for the shortcomings of biology." - }, - { - "file": "Factory_Constructors", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Construction", - "price": "100000", - "mass": "4000", - "volume": "800", - "description": "@cargo/factory_constructors.image@Self constructing factories in a large box. These constructors need only be placed in location, and on the press of the Start button they will unfold, construct the prefab buildings and install the necessary factory equipment. Pressing the Start button a second time will cancel the operation." - }, - { - "file": "Landscaping_Equipment", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Construction", - "price": "16620", - "mass": "250", - "volume": "55", - "description": "@cargo/earthmover.image@For when that hill is blocking your view, you want to recreate your garden surrounds in the latest style, or just want to cover up that unsightly nuclear waste dump. Whenever you are altering the appearance of your surrounds, you need this equipment." - }, - { - "file": "PreFab_Buildings", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Construction", - "price": "4400", - "mass": "200", - "volume": "125", - "description": "@cargo/prefab_buildings.image@Prefabricated modular buildings are used for all bar the most costly or esoteric of construction. Easy to construct, seal and furnish, these buildings find use in both residential, industrial and commercial operations. Often used as a structural base with additions made to suit taste." - }, - { - "file": "Recycling_Tanks", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Construction", - "price": "25000", - "mass": "15", - "volume": "8", - "description": "@cargo/recycling_tanks.image@Highly advanced civilizations produce a great deal of waste products. Discarded electronics, empty mealpacks, and old starships contain a wealth of raw and rare materials. Recycling tanks are designed to help break down waste into simple materials that can be reused. This item promises to revolutionize how trash is handled everywhere, from space stations to superdeveloped worlds." - }, - { - "file": "PAI_Wetware", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Electronics", - "price": "12500", - "mass": "0.5", - "volume": "0.5", - "description": "@cargo/pai_wetware.image@Pseudo-Artificial Intelligence. PAIs are wet-ware embedded in hardware - genetically engineered brain-in-boxes that distribute the tasks of thinking between the organic and inorganic components. Commercial PAIs are almost universally designed as idiot-savant systems, capable of limited self-motivation and direction, easy to manipulate, but capable of extraordinary problem solving power for the problems they were designed for and trained to assault. PAIs tend to be able to present more natural user interfaces than the expert systems they compete with, tending to be at least vaguely self-aware, and much more responsive to and on emotional levels. In particular, niche market and custom built models are limited only by legislation requiring that entities surpassing a specified set of standardized metrics cannot be considered property, and must be registered as either custom children or custom dependent employees. While the difference is clear for low end models, standards aside, most will agree that the line between a high-end PAI and a designer cyborg human is exceptionally blurry." - }, - { - "file": "AI_Cores", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Electronics", - "price": "13750000", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "5", - "description": "@cargo/ai_cores.image@An outgrowth of cybernetics, AI Cores approach true artificial intelligence. AI Core development and usage is limited, with the development of expert systems and SuSim? cyborgs. For dry computational tasks and rule interpretation the expert systems' lack of self-awareness was a blessing rather than a burden. For physically manifested tasks considered too menial, too dangerous, or too monotonous, the SuSims and SuSimCys proved cheaper, more reliable, and, through advancements in genetics, easy to dominate. Only for those applications where it is difficult to keep cyborg organics alive; or more than computational processing is required are AI Cores employed." - }, - { - "file": "Welding_Lasers", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Manufacturing", - "price": "180", - "mass": "4", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/welding_lasers.image@There are government projects in every colony that primarily consist of tearing up infrastructure and welding big metal plates over the holes, though no-one knows why. This remains until some second agency comes by a few years later to replace whatever was ripped out. There's also the whole starship construction business, but one wonders which is the bigger market. Either way, effective workers require effective tools." - }, - { - "file": "Factory_Equipment", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Manufacturing", - "price": "9600", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/factory_equipment.image@All hardwired equipment needed for a factory to commence operations. Whether food processing or product manufacture, all you need is supplied in a do it yourself construction kit. Press Start to continue." - }, - { - "file": "Robot_Workers", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Manufacturing", - "price": "2900", - "mass": "25", - "volume": "4", - "description": "@cargo/robot_workers.image@Tireless laborers that will attempt to do nearly any task you can require of them. Unfortunately, in order to keep costs down, their ability to comprehend instructions is somewhat limited." - }, - { - "file": "Assembly_Tools", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Manufacturing", - "price": "96", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "0.5", - "description": "@cargo/assembly_tools.image@To do any job where something needs to be put together, ripped apart or combined with other things, you need the right tools. This packaged set contains everything the happy worker needs to perform their duties. Buy now and receive a free set of socket wrenches." - }, - { - "file": "BioApplicator", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Manufacturing", - "price": "90", - "mass": "4", - "volume": "5", - "description": "@cargo/cargo_hud.image@Essentially a vat full of genetically engineered organisms or their biowaste, with some valves and a spray nozzle. This device is used to create and apply the complex proteins that the Rlaan use as a basic construction material. When the goop sprayed out of the nozzle reacts with the methane atmosphere present on nearly all Rlaan worlds, the required building material denatures into the desired solid form." - }, - { - "file": "BioRemodeler", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Manufacturing", - "price": "96", - "mass": "0.6", - "volume": "0.5", - "description": "@cargo/bio_remodeler.image@This device applies a set of enzymes that sufficiently liquify the organics used in most Rlaan construction. The organics become gel-like, and can be remodelled into the desired forms with little effort." - }, - { - "file": "Atmospheric_Scrubbers", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", - "price": "27000", - "mass": "4", - "volume": "8", - "description": "@cargo/atmospheric_scrubbers.image@Atmostpheric scrubbers consist of a series of screens, containers and filters to remove toxic wastes from an artificial atmosphere. As few if any spaceborn craft have an effective contained ecology, they require such artificial means of providing a sustained breathable atmosphere.." - }, - { - "file": "Boring_Droids", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", - "price": "90", - "mass": "150", - "volume": "25", - "description": "@cargo/boring_droids.image@Construction of mine shafts has never been so easy. Just feed your tunnel plans to these babies, and come back a few days later to find huge mounds of debris and delightfully polished passageways." - }, - { - "file": "Explosives", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", - "price": "95", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/explosives.image@Things that go BOOM are always required to obtain materials from rock strata. Whether removing surface materials to get to the mining beneath, breaking up large amounts of materials for processing, or rough access work, explosives will do the job every time. Made for vacuum as well as atmospheric use, they have few usage limitations." - }, - { - "file": "Hull_Patches", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", - "price": "95", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/hull_patches.image@As hull leaks are frequent due to general use (let alone battle), various products have been developed to maintain hull integrity. They range from liquid spray canisters with QuickFast? Sealant (tm), to diskcaps to full sized metal plates. Most are used in automated repair systems, while others need to be applied in spacedock." - }, - { - "file": "Laser_Drills", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", - "price": "95", - "mass": "4", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/laser_drills.image@While the precise nature of the cuts produced by this drill certainly add to its usefulness, the fact that laser drills never go blunt or snag on dense ore deposits has caused the laser drill to replace all other competitors. With a detachable powerpack for low power usage, or with cable attachments to a high power source, drilling depth, operating time and area of operation can vary immensely." - }, - { - "file": "Light_Alls", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", - "price": "88", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/light_alls.image@There are few things more terrifying to an asteroid miner than the classic scene from the holovid movie 'The Dark Rock', wherein a group of asteroid miners' standard light droid loses power, and they are attacked by a hideous alien awoken by their mining. While no voracious aliens have ever actually been found in an asteroid mine, reality has never been been a particularly key component of marketing strategy." - }, - { - "file": "Material_Processors", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", - "price": "45000", - "mass": "40", - "volume": "100", - "description": "@cargo/material_processors.image@On site initial processing and refining of raw materials are performed by material processors. From autoloading of materials, to extraction of useful products and packaging of waste for disposal, look no further than these monsters to do the job" - }, - { - "file": "Waste_Recyclers", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", - "price": "24000", - "mass": "20", - "volume": "20", - "description": "@cargo/waste_recyclers.image@Waste Recyclers will filter all shipboard waste, recycling usable matter. Such includes fresh water, and a limited amount of nutrients to be added to food. The remainder is stored and dumped into a local sun or added to a planetary ecology." - }, - { - "file": "Recycled_Electronics", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Recycled_Products", - "price": "190", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/recycled_electronics.image@Especially prized by the collectors of the arcane, though also prized by cheapskates, the garbage of the modern day is still valuable in its obsolescence." - }, - { - "file": "Recycled_Metals", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Recycled_Products", - "price": "50", - "mass": "500", - "volume": "50", - "description": "@cargo/recycled_metals.image@That which can be readily melted can be readily re-made." - }, - { - "file": "Recycled_Oil", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Recycled_Products", - "price": "60", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/recycled_oil.image@Given the prodigious use of hydrocarbons by sentient life, it is useful to reuse when possible." - }, - { - "file": "Recycled_Plastics", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Recycled_Products", - "price": "38", - "mass": "15", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/recycled_plastics.image@As nearly all human civilian products rely on hydrocarbon polymers, were there not a massive recycling program, humanity would have drowned under its own refuse." - }, - { - "file": "Fuel_Cell", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Power_Utilities", - "price": "70", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/water_dynamo.image@A fuel cell using the hydrogen+oxygen=water chemical reaction. Conversion of the gases to water produces direct current electricity, with the water produced being collected in a secondary chamber for recycling. Highly durable and environment-friendly, but eventual failure through heat loss and filament decay, plus a comparatively low power output, means such cells are used only in portable electronic devices and for backup power." - }, - { - "file": "AM_Magcells", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Power_Utilities", - "price": "70", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/am_magcells.image@The Magcell is a storage container and injector that stores charged matter and antimatter inside separate electro-magnetic fields. The magcell injects fuel through injector fields directly into the reactor core to ignite a fusion reaction." - }, - { - "file": "Nuclear_Pods", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Power_Utilities", - "price": "70", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/nuclear_pods.image@These pods hold fissionable fuel within dense radiation shielding. As advanced fission techniques allow energy generation from both the original fuel and the primary waste material, this fuel is greatly reduced in radioactivity. The pods then contain the final waste product for shipment and disposal in solar cores." - }, - { - "file": "Fusion_Injectors", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Power_Utilities", - "price": "70", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/fusion_injectors.image@Fusion Injectors are designed to hold the heavy water required for the fusion process. When required, it then injects the heavy water into the plasma core at the centre of the power source." - }, - { - "file": "H-Dispenser", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Power_Utilities", - "price": "70", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/baakgah.image@An Aeran fuel cell material that releases hydrogen in an easily controlled manner. Highly efficient energy generation used in all applications barring spaceflight." - }, - { - "file": "Biocell", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Power_Utilities", - "price": "70", - "mass": "0.8", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/biocell.image@Rlaan fuel cell technology evolved along the bio-energy path. Living micro-organisms provide additional energy surplus to life requirements. A biocell is capable of storing this energy when captured, and provides sufficient energy to power most Rlaan personal and small item needs." - }, - { - "file": "Chitty-chitty-boom-boom", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Power_Utilities", - "price": "40", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/chitty-boom.image@An incredibly large, incredibly complex, and incredibly unstable hydrocarbon, CCBB is used in applications where fusion reactors are too large, antimatter cells are too expensive, and fission reactors are impractical. This tends to limit its use to power-tools and personal transport units." - }, - { - "file": "Weather_Control", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Xenoforming", - "price": "400", - "mass": "230", - "volume": "100", - "description": "@cargo/weather_control.image@Even after several centuries, the prediction of weather is still an unreliable practice. As such, scientists decided that rather than predicting weather, they would control it. The benefits of such would include ensuring rainfall and sunshine in doses for maximum production." - }, - { - "file": "Atmospheric_Processors", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Xenoforming", - "price": "400", - "mass": "75", - "volume": "50", - "description": "@cargo/atmospheric_processors.image@Whether it be because of over-industrialization or innate unpleasantness, if a planetary atmosphere is not to one's liking, deploying a few of these will ensure the atmosphere can support sentient life.\\nWARNING: Do not fire weaponry beneath these things, as you will likely cause a thermonuclear explosion." - }, - { - "file": "Ozone_Replacement", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Xenoforming", - "price": "330", - "mass": "75", - "volume": "50", - "description": "@cargo/ozone_replacement.image@Many electronic devices naturally produce ozone. However, as most of these devices tend to be grounded, they do not contribute to the accretion of an ozone layer at high altitude. A recently arrived at solution: move lots of electronic devices out to the ozone layer on high efficiency flying platforms. These are the platforms." - }, - { - "file": "Forest_Regenerator", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Xenoforming", - "price": "520", - "mass": "75", - "volume": "25", - "description": "@cargo/forest_regenerators.image@While many civilized races, with the notable exception of the Aera, would love to see their ancestral forests of old regrown, nearly all are disinclined to do much work towards this goal. Therefore, some effort has been made into producing autonomous forestry units that can oversee the regrowth of an ecosystem without anyone having to get their manipulator appendages dirty." - }, - { - "file": "Xenoforming_Units", - "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Xenoforming", - "price": "8342", - "mass": "50000", - "volume": "1600", - "description": "@cargo/terraforming_units.image@Incorporating atmospheric processing, development of a viable biosphere of plantlife and creation of surface water, terraforming units are automated monstrosities that can be landed on a hostile planets surface. Over the course of decades or centuries, these units slowly convert a non-livable planet into a functioning ecosystem." - }, - { - "file": "Home_Furnishings", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic", - "price": "140", - "mass": "25", - "volume": "75", - "description": "@cargo/home_furnishings.image@Whether filling a multi-room dwelling with creature comforts, or just a rug to avoid standing on cold metal in a stateroom, all sentients prefer furnishings to make a house their home." - }, - { - "file": "Home_Appliances", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic", - "price": "100", - "mass": "20", - "volume": "64", - "description": "@cargo/home_appliances.image@From the esoteric hover-masseuse to the ubiquitous Insta-Nuker, these are the champions of eternal consumerism. All these products are designed to simplify the life of the buyer, or so the sales pitch goes." - }, - { - "file": "Robot_Servants", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic", - "price": "442", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/robot_servants.image@Trained in the nuances of absolute servility, and having the abilities of a bodyservant and portable data storage unit, these machines are valued accessories for those too poor or too ethical to use human servants." - }, - { - "file": "Personal_Transport", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic", - "price": "1896", - "mass": "69", - "volume": "42", - "description": "@cargo/personal_transport.image@Whether dropping down to the local dispensary, or travelling around the planet to visit friends, these wheeled, hover and flight conveyances serve every requirement of the average traveler." - }, - { - "file": "Standard_PADs", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Electronics", - "price": "45", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/standard_PAD.image@Personal Assistant Devices incorporate functions such as planetary communications, data storage and retrieval, and electronic diary, all in one small, usually hand sized and hand held package." - }, - { - "file": "Premium_PADs", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Electronics", - "price": "45", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/premium_pad.image@While costly, advanced developments in electronics now permit PADs that can be strapped to a wrist or similar appendage, rather than be carried in hand. A holographic projection provides the interface device, rather than hard wiring in the PAD itself." - }, - { - "file": "Consoles", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Electronics", - "price": "45", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/consoles.image@Popular descriptive name for a Central Entertainment System. These systems include wall mounted 2D video screens, holographic projectors, recording and playback devices for audio and visual, planetary communications and the ability to play games over virtual networks." - }, - { - "file": "Classical_Instruments", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Luxury", - "price": "1200", - "mass": "0.05", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/classical_instruments.image@Typically, those musical instruments designed and built before the age of industrialization. Usually percussion and acoustic instruments, most of which were built by those regarded as masters in their musical fields." - }, - { - "file": "Jewelry", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Luxury", - "price": "1200", - "mass": "0.3", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@cargo/jewelry.image@All sentients enjoy personal adornment. Both for the visual appearance alone, as well as to serve as a measurement of personal success. Usually consisting of precious metals and gems worked into fantastic pieces of work by master jewellers. The most famous was Xilothee's Dress, consisting of several ropes of gold and three large gemstones, strategically placed and worn with no other stitch of material." - }, - { - "file": "Rare_Artwork", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Luxury", - "price": "105", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/rare_artwork.image@In the age of plasprints and holvids, the creations of the hand hold an especial value to today's connoisseur. There is just something about wood, canvas and oil paints that appeals. The more famous the artwork, or the artist, the more valuable the piece. Most famous of all is the 'Moaning Lisa', itself apparently a derivative of an older, lost work of art." - }, - { - "file": "Pearls", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Luxury", - "price": "1200", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/pearls.image@Pearls are formed from the concentric nacre secretions of a mollusc around an impurity. They are usually of one color, but individual pearls of varying colors have been known to exist." - }, - { - "file": "Personal_Hygienics", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", - "price": "110", - "mass": "1.2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/personal_hygienics.image@As advanced as the sentient races have become, they have not escaped the need for a good scrubbing up every once and a while. Creams and balms promise to use the latest advances in nanoscale chemical transport to remove wrinkles and provide superior skin tone, anti-esthers seek out and destroy unpleasant scent particles, and lastly orifice specific probes to prevent or clean up awkward bodily excretions." - }, - { - "file": "Clothing", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", - "price": "60", - "mass": "101", - "volume": "100", - "description": "@cargo/clothing.image@Clothing of all manner of make and manufacture can be sold in almost any region of inhabited space. Ranging from military unitards influenced by ancient holovids, to the current trends of haute couture, to apparel derived from animals on lesser developed worlds." - }, - { - "file": "Aromatic_Scents", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", - "price": "160", - "mass": "0.2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/aromatic_scents.image@Scented oils, perfumes and fragrances derived from various plants and minerals that are pleasing to the senses. Often used for their effect on sentient biochemistry - whether for relaxation, stimulation or eroticism. Commonly mixed with water and delivered by evaporation, though some are applied directly to the body." - }, - { - "file": "IntaTouch", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", - "price": "50", - "mass": "0.8", - "volume": "4", - "description": "@cargo/intatouch.image@A tactile simulator that reminds provides an Aera with relaxing sensations." - }, - { - "file": "VirtuArea", - "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", - "price": "50", - "mass": "0.05", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/virtuarea.image@A wall hanging that projects the illusion of open space." - }, - { - "file": "Robotic_Surgeons", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", - "price": "480", - "mass": "0.3", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/robotic_surgeons.image@While robotic assistance has long been the norm for medical procedures, generating an AI capable of reacting to operating room conditions without guidance has been an ongoing research project. This is the latest, and most promising, result." - }, - { - "file": "Regen_Tank", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", - "price": "742", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "5", - "description": "@cargo/regen_tank.image@With advances in DNA and cellular research, the medical establishment is now able to restore lost or damaged cellular material. Unfortunately, cellular reconstruction takes several months to regrow a digit, let alone any other bodypart, thus limiting usage to necessary body regeneration therapy only. Lastly, they have not figured out how to stop the replacement part from itching the entire time it's growing back..." - }, - { - "file": "Cryogenic_Pods", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", - "price": "505", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "2.5", - "description": "@cargo/cryogenic_pods.image@For the last thousand years humans have been freezing themselves (or their heads) in the hope that they will one day be revived. While the oddsmakers on New Vegas tend to see the survival rate ever breaking fifty/fifty as too close to call one way or the other, it is clear that our ability to freeze things has advanced rather more rapidly than our ability to defrost them." - }, - { - "file": "Hyposyringes", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", - "price": "480", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/hyposyringes.image@After the medical lawsuits of last century, something was needed to stop certain segments of the medical community from gaining some perverse pleasure by jamming large hollow needles into their fellow beings. The hyposyringe uses an explosive blast of air to insert the required dosage, and vacuum to extract bodily tissue." - }, - { - "file": "First_Aid_Kits", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", - "price": "480", - "mass": "7", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/first_aid_kits.image@While the contents have changed countless times, these kits can be found in every public transport and in every overprotective mother's travel bags. Typically containing everything to required to heal a papercut to amputating a limb, use of the advanced items is recommended only by those with a medical license or suffering psychopathy." - }, - { - "file": "Medical_Kit", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", - "price": "90", - "mass": "12", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/medical_kit.image@Given their somewhat similar chemical makeup, the Aera medical kit contains many items similar or analogous to those found in human first aid.\\nOf noteworthy exception, however, is the standard issue in all Aera packs of a suicide pill marked 'Treatment for Terminal Trauma'." - }, - { - "file": "Pseudotherms", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", - "price": "90", - "mass": "16", - "volume": "10", - "description": "@cargo/pseudotherms.image@The Aera originated on a warm world, and are subject to episodes of reduced functionality if caught unprepared in a frigid environment. These coveralls are packed with shielded isotopes and spectral converters that are guaranteed to warm an Aera back up to body temperature within a few minutes." - }, - { - "file": "DNA_Resequencer", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", - "price": "90", - "mass": "0.3", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/dna_resequencer.image@This portable device can take any DNA sample and transcribe it into the more familiar Rlaan analogs so that it may be more conveniently analyzed." - }, - { - "file": "Cellular_Accelerant", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", - "price": "90", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/cellular_accelerant.image@A gel pack of complex organic muck that when applied to the site of an injury, will greatly increase the rate of a Rlaan's healing process." - }, - { - "file": "Simple_Medicines", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", - "price": "25", - "mass": "0.6", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/simple_medicines.image@Common herbs, bandages and mixtures have use in a wide variety of applications. As life provides the normal knocks, a sentient being needs the occasional help to keep going." - }, - { - "file": "Vaccines", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", - "price": "25", - "mass": "0.6", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/vaccines.image@With interstellar trade and war, the risk of infection from dangerous diseases and biological weapons requires vaccinations against every conceivable threat." - }, - { - "file": "Advanced_Medicines", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", - "price": "25", - "mass": "0.6", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/advanced_medicines.image@Artificially created or derived treatments used in the fight against all problems that occur while leading a modern life. Whether treating cancers, diseases, or the common cold, there is something for everyone." - }, - { - "file": "Longevity_Drugs", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", - "price": "25", - "mass": "0.6", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/longevity_drugs.image@The term longevity is a misnomer. While not extending life as such, these drugs DO ensure that one's body and mind remain fully capable until the very end. They provide a trade off between slow deterioration of body tissue, and fully functional tissue followed by extremely rapid decay to cellular matter in minutes. Brings new meaning to the phrase 'melting pot'." - }, - { - "file": "Blood_Plasma", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", - "price": "25", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/blood_plasma.image@Each sentient species requires its own supply of interchangeable bodily fluids. Blood plasma is useful in restoring lost fluids from accidents or injury. Compatible with all types within one sentient species. Without blood plasma advanced medical technology would be useless." - }, - { - "file": "Enhanced_Limbs", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", - "price": "200", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/enhanced_limbs.image@When the limbs of a sentient being are just not up to the job, fiber enhancements, neuro drivers and some bone reinforcing can increase function by several orders of magnitude." - }, - { - "file": "Enhanced_Organs", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", - "price": "300", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/enhanced_organs.image@Sometimes genecrafting alone cannot provide the benefits desired. Whether organs are failing from age or ill health, or the host requires increased function because of adverse operating conditions, these enhancements will both strengthen the organ and increase performance." - }, - { - "file": "Artificial_Limbs", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", - "price": "250", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/artificial_limbs.image@Whether a limb is lost, or a sentient needs performance over and above enhancements, these limbs, made from advanced alloys are connected directly to a body's neural network and function with equal proficiency. Reports of limbs attacking the host body are unsubstantiated." - }, - { - "file": "Artificial_Organs", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", - "price": "300", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/artificial_organs.image@Where conditions are so dangerous that natural body organs wither and die, replacement artificial organs will keep functioning. Originally touted as replacement organs, artificial organs are now popular with those engaged in dangerous jobs and pursuits." - }, - { - "file": "Neural_Interface", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", - "price": "205", - "mass": "0.07", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@cargo/neural_interface.image@The true pulse of an Andolian is not the calm beating of her heart, but the rampaging datastream of her mind. Neural Interfaces connect a sentient being directly into any computerized network. Brain signals are converted to electronic impulses which in turn are read as operational commands by the network. Interfaces allow the operator to perform actions at a vastly superior speed in comparison to manual input." - }, - { - "file": "Neural_Computer", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", - "price": "205", - "mass": "0.08", - "volume": "0.1", - "description": "@cargo/neural_computer.image@A development of neural interfaces, the neural computer acts as a secondary brain, often controlling sentient actions when the primary intelligence is incapable. Such functions reflect the ability of pilots to function under high inertia, and explain the reports of zombie mercenaries." - }, - { - "file": "Full_Body_Augmentation", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", - "price": "205", - "mass": "0.2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/fullbody.image@The full body package involves the replacement of all applicable limbs and organs with artificial versions, the enhancement of remaining body parts, neural interfacing and a neural computer. As the process is irreversible, only those in highly dangerous fields such as mercenaries or asteroid miners will opt for this.." - }, - { - "file": "Pleasure_Borgs", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", - "price": "530", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/pleasure_borgs.image@With the rise in dangerous transmitted diseases, self-cleansing pleasure borgs were developed to serve as the oldest profession in known history. Highly trained and able to perform duties ranging from the gentlest of touches, to the wildest imaginings of S and M, these borgs are an expensive but pleasurable pastime." - }, - { - "file": "Books", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", - "price": "50", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/books.image@A well-told tale still remains one of the chief forms of entertainment. Only the delivery of the tale changes. While books of the past consisted of large tomes filled with biodegradable paper, today's versions consist of plasfilm storage to be inserted into your PAD for projection." - }, - { - "file": "Musik", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", - "price": "50", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/music.image@Being entertainment consisting of sound, music takes many forms ranging from classical melodies, to heavy beat music, to today's synthetic muzo. Strangely, music from bands with bug names features highly in music culture, and one fellow known only as 'The King' has been generating music for several centuries." - }, - { - "file": "Holovids", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", - "price": "57", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/holovids.image@Mindless 3D visual entertainment for the masses. Especially popular among those with no noticeable social life. This year's top seller on the Confederation frontier: 'Who's your Dgn?: Interspecies Fantasies XXIV'. And, as always, the top seller in High Born space: 'Birth of a Nation II.'" - }, - { - "file": "Erotica", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", - "price": "650", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "3", - "description": "@cargo/erotica.image@Consisting of a meld of most forms of entertainment (holovid, aromatic oil, music, and the odd pleasure borg), erotica is a sensual feast wherein the purveyor is immersed in all the forms of sensation known to their race." - }, - { - "file": "Games", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", - "price": "52", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/games.image@Providing near endless possibility for gameplay and maximizing entertainment return, interactive computer games are a market fuelled by the hard labors of under funded dreamers. Despite their lack of fiscal resources they still manage to produce high quality products and garner wide fan bases. These fan bases could theoretically provide support for the poor, downtrodden programmers and content providers, but strangely they never seem to." - }, - { - "file": "Musical_Instruments", - "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", - "price": "52", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/musical_instruments.image@Collective description of contemporary music generation equipment. Commonly consisting of sound synthesizers, they also include modern forms of the percussion and acoustic instruments of older times." - }, - { - "file": "Surgical_Techniques", - "categoryname": "Research", - "price": "55", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.01", - "description": "@cargo/surgical_techniques.image@The medical establishments of all species can appreciate the development of any techniques that are more discussed by surgeons than by lawyers." - }, - { - "file": "Engineered_Bacteria", - "categoryname": "Research", - "price": "560", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "0.02", - "description": "@cargo/engineered_bacteria.image@Engineered bacteria have been used for over a millennia - but the set of tasks gets bigger every year." - }, - { - "file": "Quantum_Deductor", - "categoryname": "Research", - "price": "420", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/circuit2.image@The ever so polite name for the class of devices used to attack quantum cryptosystems." - }, - { - "file": "Virtual_Tunneling_Terminal", - "categoryname": "Research", - "price": "240", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/virtual_tunneling_terminal.image@A device used for viewing and traversing the internals of macro-scale objects via tunnelling effects." - }, - { - "file": "Quantum_Computers", - "categoryname": "Research", - "price": "75", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/quantum_processor.image@Featuring massive parallelism and minute feature size, a top of the line number cruncher can analyze more useless facts about its user in a second than most users desire to know in a lifetime." - }, - { - "file": "Cyborg_Defenders", - "categoryname": "Contraband", - "price": "270", - "mass": "15", - "volume": "30", - "description": "@cargo/cyborg_mercs.image@The modern day equivalent to the private security officers of old, these cyborgs tend to be somewhat more cost effective, if somewhat less pleasant to stand next to. So they ride in the cargo hold instead..." - }, - { - "file": "Resistant_biologics", - "categoryname": "Contraband", - "price": "90", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/resistant_biologics.image@While of potential legitimate use for research, these pathogens are deemed too dangerous to transport, if only because someone willing to use them might intercept them." - }, - { - "file": "Illegal_Weapons", - "categoryname": "Contraband", - "price": "300", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/illegal_weapons.image@While it may seem odd, given the loose nature of the laws governing what armaments may be placed on civilian ships, certain weapons, such as thermonuclear mortars, hunter-killer drones, and Anchadaen wrestling worms, are not allowed to be carried around by the civilians of any known political entity deserving of the title. This does not prevent groups and individuals from desiring the acquisition of such devices." - }, - { - "file": "Pilot", - "categoryname": "Contraband", - "price": "760", - "mass": "0.15", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/pilot.image@Much as you may hate the pilot of the ship that attempted to destroy yours, destroying that pilot's ship does not grant one, under interstellar law, the right to sell said pilot into slavery. That being said, many have been known to justify such actions by claiming it to be an entirely proper form of remuneration. [Note to editors: Do not change name as the code relies on Pilot]" - }, - { - "file": "Slaves", - "categoryname": "Contraband", - "price": "750", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/slaves.image@Illegal due to fears of interspecies domination, among a plethora of other reasons, economic inefficiencies looming largest of all." - }, - { - "file": "Clones", - "categoryname": "Contraband", - "price": "720", - "mass": "25", - "volume": "200", - "description": "@cargo/clones.image@It is illegal to transport clones as mass cargo. Each clone must book individual passage at cabin rate on a certified civilian transport. Exceptions may be granted for clones under the age of gestation." - }, - { - "file": "ISO_Propaganda", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", - "price": "100", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/swj.image@A fair portion of it's true a fair portion of the time, but all of it's illegal all of the time." - }, - { - "file": "ISO_Party_Member", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", - "price": "800", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/iso_member.image@Anyone in Confederation space willing to openly declare their membership in the ISO either has great fortitude or suffers from great idiocy. The same however, must be said of those willing to transport them through said space." - }, - { - "file": "Socialist_Worker_Journal", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", - "price": "35", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/swj.image@The Socialist Worker Journal is a bi-monthly electronic publication believed to have its origins on Berkeley in the Trotsky system. The SWJ highlights the importance of advancing socialism, and features artwork and music produced by workers, for workers. This product has been officially deemed 'unworthy for use even in the task of wiping one's rear.'" - }, - { - "file": "Luddite_Religious_Tracts", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", - "price": "100", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/luddite_tracts.image@Carrying ISO propaganda will get one arrested. Carrying luddite propaganda, outside of the more sympathetic Purist regions, is likely to get one summarily shot." - }, - { - "file": "Escaped_Political_Prisoners", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", - "price": "920", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/political_prisoners.image@Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the ISO?" - }, - { - "file": "Overeager_Immigrants", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", - "price": "160", - "mass": "20", - "volume": "200", - "description": "@cargo/overeager_immigrants.image@With the passing of the Confederation's so called 'Enough is Enough' legislation, it is illegal to transport individuals whose stated purpose is to settle on a planet deemed to have already reached its maximum desired population. While many decried the legislative package as both idiotic and unenforceable and hearings on the act dragged on for years, the coalition of Purists, High Born, Shapers, and various minor factions prevailed over the opposition of the Andolians and the Merchants, with the Unadorned not deigning to participate in the discussion." - }, - { - "file": "ICBINF", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Rlaan", - "price": "80", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/icbinf.image@Originally designed as a cheap, renewable, and environmentally friendly refrigerant, it was found to induce exceptionally terminal cancers in Rlaan." - }, - { - "file": "Zhollus", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Rlaan", - "price": "80", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/zhollus.image@A plant-like lifeform that, while exceptionally tasty to a Rlaan, is exceptionally devastating to a Rlaan friendly ecosystem." - }, - { - "file": "RetrifiedSalt", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Aera", - "price": "80", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/retrified_salt.image@Salted crematory remains. Illegal in Aera space due to the combination of a cultural disdain for such and an unwillingness to remove an ancient law from the books." - }, - { - "file": "AeraNerveStimuli", - "categoryname": "Contraband/Aera", - "price": "80", - "mass": "1", - "volume": "1", - "description": "@cargo/aeranervestimuli.image@Ever watched an Aera spasm in something that looks like a cross between an epileptic fit and an orgasm? Give them some of this and sit back. Way back. Preferably behind a barrier, because when the Aera in question starts to go into withdrawal induced fits of berserker rage, you might live to tell the tale." - }, - { - "file": "small_asteroid0", - "categoryname": "Fragments", - "price": "0", - "mass": "100", - "volume": "1000", - "description": "@cargo/gems.image@A chunk of asteroid. 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For physically manifested tasks considered too menial, too dangerous, or too monotonous, the SuSims and SuSimCys proved cheaper, more reliable, and, through advancements in genetics, easy to dominate. Only for those applications where it is difficult to keep cyborg organics alive; or more than computational processing is required are AI Cores employed." }, { - "file": "capacitor09", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Capacitors/Standard", - "price": "128000", - "mass": "18", - "volume": "18", - "description": "@upgrades/capacitor3.image@Energy storage." + "file": "Welding_Lasers", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Manufacturing", + "price": "180", + "mass": "4", + "volume": "2", + "description": "@cargo/welding_lasers.image@There are government projects in every colony that primarily consist of tearing up infrastructure and welding big metal plates over the holes, though no-one knows why. 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Most are used in automated repair systems, while others need to be applied in spacedock." }, { - "file": "reactor04", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Reactors/Standard", - "price": "4000", + "file": "Laser_Drills", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", + "price": "95", "mass": "4", - "volume": "11", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor.image@Energy production, the friendly fusion way." - }, - { - "file": "reactor05", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Reactors/Standard", - "price": "8000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "18", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor2.image@Energy production, the friendly fusion way." - }, - { - "file": "reactor06", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Reactors/Standard", - "price": "16000", - "mass": "6", - "volume": "32", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor2.image@Energy production, the friendly fusion way." + "volume": "2", + "description": "@cargo/laser_drills.image@While the precise nature of the cuts produced by this drill certainly add to its usefulness, the fact that laser drills never go blunt or snag on dense ore deposits has caused the laser drill to replace all other competitors. 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While no voracious aliens have ever actually been found in an asteroid mine, reality has never been been a particularly key component of marketing strategy." }, { - "file": "reactor08", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Reactors/Standard", - "price": "64000", - "mass": "8", + "file": "Material_Processors", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Mining", + "price": "45000", + "mass": "40", "volume": "100", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor2.image@Energy production, the friendly fusion way." - }, - { - "file": "reactor09", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Reactors/Standard", - "price": "128000", - "mass": "9", - "volume": "175", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor3.image@Energy production, the friendly fusion way." + "description": "@cargo/material_processors.image@On site initial processing and refining of raw materials are performed by material processors. 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A biocell is capable of storing this energy when captured, and provides sufficient energy to power most Rlaan personal and small item needs." }, { - "file": "dualshield06", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Dual_Shields", - "price": "8000", - "mass": "3", - "volume": "21", - "description": "@upgrades/shield2medium.image@GEM shielding, with fore and aft decoupling." + "file": "Chitty-chitty-boom-boom", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Power_Utilities", + "price": "40", + "mass": "10", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/chitty-boom.image@An incredibly large, incredibly complex, and incredibly unstable hydrocarbon, CCBB is used in applications where fusion reactors are too large, antimatter cells are too expensive, and fission reactors are impractical. 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The benefits of such would include ensuring rainfall and sunshine in doses for maximum production." }, { - "file": "dualshield08", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Dual_Shields", - "price": "32000", - "mass": "4", - "volume": "30", - "description": "@upgrades/shield4medium.image@GEM shielding, with fore and aft decoupling." + "file": "Atmospheric_Processors", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Xenoforming", + "price": "400", + "mass": "75", + "volume": "50", + "description": "@cargo/atmospheric_processors.image@Whether it be because of over-industrialization or innate unpleasantness, if a planetary atmosphere is not to one's liking, deploying a few of these will ensure the atmosphere can support sentient life.\\nWARNING: Do not fire weaponry beneath these things, as you will likely cause a thermonuclear explosion." }, { - "file": "dualshield09", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Dual_Shields", - "price": "64000", - "mass": "4.5", - "volume": "35", - "description": "@upgrades/shield4medium.image@GEM shielding, with fore and aft decoupling." + "file": "Ozone_Replacement", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Xenoforming", + "price": "330", + "mass": "75", + "volume": "50", + "description": "@cargo/ozone_replacement.image@Many electronic devices naturally produce ozone. However, as most of these devices tend to be grounded, they do not contribute to the accretion of an ozone layer at high altitude. A recently arrived at solution: move lots of electronic devices out to the ozone layer on high efficiency flying platforms. These are the platforms." }, { - "file": "dualshield10", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Dual_Shields", - "price": "128000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "40", - "description": "@upgrades/shield4medium.image@GEM shielding, with fore and aft decoupling." + "file": "Forest_Regenerator", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Xenoforming", + "price": "520", + "mass": "75", + "volume": "25", + "description": "@cargo/forest_regenerators.image@While many civilized races, with the notable exception of the Aera, would love to see their ancestral forests of old regrown, nearly all are disinclined to do much work towards this goal. Therefore, some effort has been made into producing autonomous forestry units that can oversee the regrowth of an ecosystem without anyone having to get their manipulator appendages dirty." }, { - "file": "dualshield11", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Dual_Shields", - "price": "256000", - "mass": "6", - "volume": "46", - "description": "@upgrades/shield2heavy.image@GEM shielding, with fore and aft decoupling." + "file": "Xenoforming_Units", + "categoryname": "Industrially_Manufactured_Goods/Xenoforming", + "price": "8342", + "mass": "50000", + "volume": "1600", + "description": "@cargo/terraforming_units.image@Incorporating atmospheric processing, development of a viable biosphere of plantlife and creation of surface water, terraforming units are automated monstrosities that can be landed on a hostile planets surface. Over the course of decades or centuries, these units slowly convert a non-livable planet into a functioning ecosystem." }, { - "file": "dualshield12", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Dual_Shields", - "price": "512000", - "mass": "7", - "volume": "52", - "description": "@upgrades/shield2heavy.image@GEM shielding, with fore and aft decoupling." + "file": "Home_Furnishings", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic", + "price": "140", + "mass": "25", + "volume": "75", + "description": "@cargo/home_furnishings.image@Whether filling a multi-room dwelling with creature comforts, or just a rug to avoid standing on cold metal in a stateroom, all sentients prefer furnishings to make a house their home." }, { - "file": "dualshield13", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Dual_Shields", - "price": "1024000", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "57", - "description": "@upgrades/shield4heavy.image@GEM shielding, with fore and aft decoupling." + "file": "Home_Appliances", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic", + "price": "100", + "mass": "20", + "volume": "64", + "description": "@cargo/home_appliances.image@From the esoteric hover-masseuse to the ubiquitous Insta-Nuker, these are the champions of eternal consumerism. All these products are designed to simplify the life of the buyer, or so the sales pitch goes." }, { - "file": "dualshield14", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Dual_Shields", - "price": "2048000", - "mass": "9", - "volume": "63", - "description": "@upgrades/shield4heavy.image@GEM shielding, with fore and aft decoupling." + "file": "Robot_Servants", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic", + "price": "442", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "2", + "description": "@cargo/robot_servants.image@Trained in the nuances of absolute servility, and having the abilities of a bodyservant and portable data storage unit, these machines are valued accessories for those too poor or too ethical to use human servants." }, { - "file": "dualshield15", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Dual_Shields", - "price": "4096000", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "70", - "description": "@upgrades/shield4heavy.image@GEM shielding, with fore and aft decoupling." + "file": "Personal_Transport", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic", + "price": "1896", + "mass": "69", + "volume": "42", + "description": "@cargo/personal_transport.image@Whether dropping down to the local dispensary, or travelling around the planet to visit friends, these wheeled, hover and flight conveyances serve every requirement of the average traveler." }, { - "file": "quadshield01", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "500", + "file": "Standard_PADs", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Electronics", + "price": "45", "mass": "1", - "volume": "4", - "description": "@upgrades/shield.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/standard_PAD.image@Personal Assistant Devices incorporate functions such as planetary communications, data storage and retrieval, and electronic diary, all in one small, usually hand sized and hand held package." }, { - "file": "quadshield02", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "1000", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "8", - "description": "@upgrades/shield.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Premium_PADs", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Electronics", + "price": "45", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/premium_pad.image@While costly, advanced developments in electronics now permit PADs that can be strapped to a wrist or similar appendage, rather than be carried in hand. A holographic projection provides the interface device, rather than hard wiring in the PAD itself." }, { - "file": "quadshield03", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "2000", - "mass": "3", - "volume": "13", - "description": "@upgrades/shield.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Consoles", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Electronics", + "price": "45", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/consoles.image@Popular descriptive name for a Central Entertainment System. These systems include wall mounted 2D video screens, holographic projectors, recording and playback devices for audio and visual, planetary communications and the ability to play games over virtual networks." }, { - "file": "quadshield04", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "4000", - "mass": "4", - "volume": "18", - "description": "@upgrades/shield2.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Classical_Instruments", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Luxury", + "price": "1200", + "mass": "0.05", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/classical_instruments.image@Typically, those musical instruments designed and built before the age of industrialization. Usually percussion and acoustic instruments, most of which were built by those regarded as masters in their musical fields." }, { - "file": "quadshield05", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "8000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "24", - "description": "@upgrades/shield2.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Jewelry", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Luxury", + "price": "1200", + "mass": "0.3", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@cargo/jewelry.image@All sentients enjoy personal adornment. Both for the visual appearance alone, as well as to serve as a measurement of personal success. Usually consisting of precious metals and gems worked into fantastic pieces of work by master jewellers. The most famous was Xilothee's Dress, consisting of several ropes of gold and three large gemstones, strategically placed and worn with no other stitch of material." }, { - "file": "quadshield06", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "16000", - "mass": "6", - "volume": "31", - "description": "@upgrades/shield2.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Rare_Artwork", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Luxury", + "price": "105", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "2", + "description": "@cargo/rare_artwork.image@In the age of plasprints and holvids, the creations of the hand hold an especial value to today's connoisseur. There is just something about wood, canvas and oil paints that appeals. The more famous the artwork, or the artist, the more valuable the piece. Most famous of all is the 'Moaning Lisa', itself apparently a derivative of an older, lost work of art." }, { - "file": "quadshield07", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "32000", - "mass": "7", - "volume": "38", - "description": "@upgrades/shield3.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Pearls", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Luxury", + "price": "1200", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/pearls.image@Pearls are formed from the concentric nacre secretions of a mollusc around an impurity. They are usually of one color, but individual pearls of varying colors have been known to exist." }, { - "file": "quadshield08", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "64000", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "45", - "description": "@upgrades/shield3.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Personal_Hygienics", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", + "price": "110", + "mass": "1.2", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/personal_hygienics.image@As advanced as the sentient races have become, they have not escaped the need for a good scrubbing up every once and a while. Creams and balms promise to use the latest advances in nanoscale chemical transport to remove wrinkles and provide superior skin tone, anti-esthers seek out and destroy unpleasant scent particles, and lastly orifice specific probes to prevent or clean up awkward bodily excretions." }, { - "file": "quadshield09", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "128000", - "mass": "9", - "volume": "53", - "description": "@upgrades/shield3.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Clothing", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", + "price": "60", + "mass": "101", + "volume": "100", + "description": "@cargo/clothing.image@Clothing of all manner of make and manufacture can be sold in almost any region of inhabited space. Ranging from military unitards influenced by ancient holovids, to the current trends of haute couture, to apparel derived from animals on lesser developed worlds." }, { - "file": "quadshield10", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "256000", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "61", - "description": "@upgrades/shield4.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Aromatic_Scents", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", + "price": "160", + "mass": "0.2", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/aromatic_scents.image@Scented oils, perfumes and fragrances derived from various plants and minerals that are pleasing to the senses. Often used for their effect on sentient biochemistry - whether for relaxation, stimulation or eroticism. Commonly mixed with water and delivered by evaporation, though some are applied directly to the body." }, { - "file": "quadshield11", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "512000", - "mass": "11", - "volume": "69", - "description": "@upgrades/shield4.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "IntaTouch", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", + "price": "50", + "mass": "0.8", + "volume": "4", + "description": "@cargo/intatouch.image@A tactile simulator that reminds provides an Aera with relaxing sensations." }, { - "file": "quadshield12", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "1024000", - "mass": "12", - "volume": "78", - "description": "@upgrades/shield4.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "VirtuArea", + "categoryname": "Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Personal", + "price": "50", + "mass": "0.05", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/virtuarea.image@A wall hanging that projects the illusion of open space." }, { - "file": "quadshield13", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "2048000", - "mass": "13", - "volume": "86", - "description": "@upgrades/shield5.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Robotic_Surgeons", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", + "price": "480", + "mass": "0.3", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/robotic_surgeons.image@While robotic assistance has long been the norm for medical procedures, generating an AI capable of reacting to operating room conditions without guidance has been an ongoing research project. This is the latest, and most promising, result." }, { - "file": "quadshield14", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "4096000", - "mass": "14", - "volume": "95", - "description": "@upgrades/shield5.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Regen_Tank", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", + "price": "742", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "5", + "description": "@cargo/regen_tank.image@With advances in DNA and cellular research, the medical establishment is now able to restore lost or damaged cellular material. Unfortunately, cellular reconstruction takes several months to regrow a digit, let alone any other bodypart, thus limiting usage to necessary body regeneration therapy only. Lastly, they have not figured out how to stop the replacement part from itching the entire time it's growing back..." }, { - "file": "quadshield15", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shield_Systems/Standard_Quad_Shields", - "price": "8192000", - "mass": "15", - "volume": "104", - "description": "@upgrades/shield5.image@GEM shielding, fore, aft, port, and starboard decoupling." + "file": "Cryogenic_Pods", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", + "price": "505", + "mass": "2", + "volume": "2.5", + "description": "@cargo/cryogenic_pods.image@For the last thousand years humans have been freezing themselves (or their heads) in the hope that they will one day be revived. While the oddsmakers on New Vegas tend to see the survival rate ever breaking fifty/fifty as too close to call one way or the other, it is clear that our ability to freeze things has advanced rather more rapidly than our ability to defrost them." }, { - "file": "mult_overdrive01", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Overdrive", - "price": "4000", + "file": "Hyposyringes", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", + "price": "480", "mass": "1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/afterburner_generic.image@Engine overdrive. Increases thrust at the expense of decreased fuel efficiency. Comes bundled with appropriate vector-governor firmware updates." + "description": "@cargo/hyposyringes.image@After the medical lawsuits of last century, something was needed to stop certain segments of the medical community from gaining some perverse pleasure by jamming large hollow needles into their fellow beings. The hyposyringe uses an explosive blast of air to insert the required dosage, and vacuum to extract bodily tissue." }, { - "file": "mult_overdrive02", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Overdrive", - "price": "8000", - "mass": "2", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@upgrades/afterburner_generic.image@Engine overdrive. Increases thrust at the expense of decreased fuel efficiency. Comes bundled with appropriate vector-governor firmware updates." + "file": "First_Aid_Kits", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", + "price": "480", + "mass": "7", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/first_aid_kits.image@While the contents have changed countless times, these kits can be found in every public transport and in every overprotective mother's travel bags. Typically containing everything to required to heal a papercut to amputating a limb, use of the advanced items is recommended only by those with a medical license or suffering psychopathy." }, { - "file": "mult_overdrive03", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Overdrive", - "price": "16000", - "mass": "4", - "volume": "4", - "description": "@upgrades/afterburner_generic.image@Engine overdrive. Increases thrust at the expense of decreased fuel efficiency. Comes bundled with appropriate vector-governor firmware updates." + "file": "Medical_Kit", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", + "price": "90", + "mass": "12", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/medical_kit.image@Given their somewhat similar chemical makeup, the Aera medical kit contains many items similar or analogous to those found in human first aid.\\nOf noteworthy exception, however, is the standard issue in all Aera packs of a suicide pill marked 'Treatment for Terminal Trauma'." }, { - "file": "mult_overdrive04", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Overdrive", - "price": "32000", - "mass": "8", - "volume": "8", - "description": "@upgrades/afterburner.image@Engine overdrive. Increases thrust at the expense of decreased fuel efficiency. Comes bundled with appropriate vector-governor firmware updates." + "file": "Pseudotherms", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", + "price": "90", + "mass": "16", + "volume": "10", + "description": "@cargo/pseudotherms.image@The Aera originated on a warm world, and are subject to episodes of reduced functionality if caught unprepared in a frigid environment. These coveralls are packed with shielded isotopes and spectral converters that are guaranteed to warm an Aera back up to body temperature within a few minutes." }, { - "file": "mult_overdrive05", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Overdrive", - "price": "64000", - "mass": "12", - "volume": "12", - "description": "@upgrades/afterburner.image@Engine overdrive. Increases thrust at the expense of decreased fuel efficiency. Comes bundled with appropriate vector-governor firmware updates." + "file": "DNA_Resequencer", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", + "price": "90", + "mass": "0.3", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/dna_resequencer.image@This portable device can take any DNA sample and transcribe it into the more familiar Rlaan analogs so that it may be more conveniently analyzed." }, { - "file": "mult_overdrive06", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Overdrive", - "price": "128000", - "mass": "18", - "volume": "18", - "description": "@upgrades/afterburner.image@Engine overdrive. Increases thrust at the expense of decreased fuel efficiency. Comes bundled with appropriate vector-governor firmware updates." + "file": "Cellular_Accelerant", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Medical", + "price": "90", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/cellular_accelerant.image@A gel pack of complex organic muck that when applied to the site of an injury, will greatly increase the rate of a Rlaan's healing process." }, { - "file": "jump_drive", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Jump_Drives", - "price": "8000", - "mass": "16", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@upgrades/jump_drive.image@A jump drive is required for rapid interstellar travel via the jump network." + "file": "Simple_Medicines", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", + "price": "25", + "mass": "0.6", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/simple_medicines.image@Common herbs, bandages and mixtures have use in a wide variety of applications. As life provides the normal knocks, a sentient being needs the occasional help to keep going." }, { - "file": "add_spec_capacitor01", - "categoryname": "upgrades/SPEC_Capacitors", - "price": "6000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "4", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor_capacitance.image@Capacitor for storing energy for FTL travel" + "file": "Vaccines", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", + "price": "25", + "mass": "0.6", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/vaccines.image@With interstellar trade and war, the risk of infection from dangerous diseases and biological weapons requires vaccinations against every conceivable threat." }, { - "file": "add_spec_capacitor02", - "categoryname": "upgrades/SPEC_Capacitors", - "price": "18000", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "6", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor_capacitance.image@Capacitor for storing energy for FTL travel" + "file": "Advanced_Medicines", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", + "price": "25", + "mass": "0.6", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/advanced_medicines.image@Artificially created or derived treatments used in the fight against all problems that occur while leading a modern life. Whether treating cancers, diseases, or the common cold, there is something for everyone." }, { - "file": "add_spec_capacitor03", - "categoryname": "upgrades/SPEC_Capacitors", - "price": "32000", - "mass": "20", - "volume": "12", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor_capacitance.image@Capacitor for storing energy for FTL travel" + "file": "Longevity_Drugs", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", + "price": "25", + "mass": "0.6", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/longevity_drugs.image@The term longevity is a misnomer. While not extending life as such, these drugs DO ensure that one's body and mind remain fully capable until the very end. They provide a trade off between slow deterioration of body tissue, and fully functional tissue followed by extremely rapid decay to cellular matter in minutes. Brings new meaning to the phrase 'melting pot'." + }, + { + "file": "Blood_Plasma", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Pharmaceutical", + "price": "25", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/blood_plasma.image@Each sentient species requires its own supply of interchangeable bodily fluids. Blood plasma is useful in restoring lost fluids from accidents or injury. Compatible with all types within one sentient species. Without blood plasma advanced medical technology would be useless." }, { - "file": "add_spec_capacitor04", - "categoryname": "upgrades/SPEC_Capacitors", - "price": "96000", - "mass": "40", - "volume": "18", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor_capacitance.image@Capacitor for storing energy for FTL travel" + "file": "Enhanced_Limbs", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", + "price": "200", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/enhanced_limbs.image@When the limbs of a sentient being are just not up to the job, fiber enhancements, neuro drivers and some bone reinforcing can increase function by several orders of magnitude." }, { - "file": "add_spec_capacitor05", - "categoryname": "upgrades/SPEC_Capacitors", - "price": "150000", - "mass": "60", - "volume": "24", - "description": "@upgrades/reactor_capacitance.image@Capacitor for storing energy for FTL travel" + "file": "Enhanced_Organs", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", + "price": "300", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/enhanced_organs.image@Sometimes genecrafting alone cannot provide the benefits desired. Whether organs are failing from age or ill health, or the host requires increased function because of adverse operating conditions, these enhancements will both strengthen the organ and increase performance." }, { - "file": "armor01", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Armor", - "price": "4000", - "mass": "20", - "volume": "0", - "description": "@cargo/plasteel.image@Armor takes up no upgrade volume, but does add to the mass of your ship, affecting maneuverability" + "file": "Artificial_Limbs", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", + "price": "250", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/artificial_limbs.image@Whether a limb is lost, or a sentient needs performance over and above enhancements, these limbs, made from advanced alloys are connected directly to a body's neural network and function with equal proficiency. Reports of limbs attacking the host body are unsubstantiated." }, { - "file": "armor02", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Armor", - "price": "8000", - "mass": "25", - "volume": "0", - "description": "@cargo/isometal.image@Armor takes up no upgrade volume, but does add to the mass of your ship, affecting maneuverability" + "file": "Artificial_Organs", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", + "price": "300", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/artificial_organs.image@Where conditions are so dangerous that natural body organs wither and die, replacement artificial organs will keep functioning. Originally touted as replacement organs, artificial organs are now popular with those engaged in dangerous jobs and pursuits." }, { - "file": "armor03", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Armor", - "price": "16000", - "mass": "30", - "volume": "0", - "description": "@cargo/hull_patches.image@Armor takes up no upgrade volume, but does add to the mass of your ship, affecting maneuverability" + "file": "Neural_Interface", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", + "price": "205", + "mass": "0.07", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@cargo/neural_interface.image@The true pulse of an Andolian is not the calm beating of her heart, but the rampaging datastream of her mind. Neural Interfaces connect a sentient being directly into any computerized network. Brain signals are converted to electronic impulses which in turn are read as operational commands by the network. Interfaces allow the operator to perform actions at a vastly superior speed in comparison to manual input." }, { - "file": "armor04", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Armor", - "price": "32000", - "mass": "25", - "volume": "0", - "description": "@cargo/tritanium.image@Armor takes up no upgrade volume, but does add to the mass of your ship, affecting maneuverability" + "file": "Neural_Computer", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", + "price": "205", + "mass": "0.08", + "volume": "0.1", + "description": "@cargo/neural_computer.image@A development of neural interfaces, the neural computer acts as a secondary brain, often controlling sentient actions when the primary intelligence is incapable. Such functions reflect the ability of pilots to function under high inertia, and explain the reports of zombie mercenaries." }, { - "file": "armor05", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Armor", - "price": "64000", - "mass": "20", - "volume": "0", - "description": "@cargo/carbonium.image@Armor takes up no upgrade volume, but does add to the mass of your ship, affecting maneuverability" + "file": "Full_Body_Augmentation", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Augmentation", + "price": "205", + "mass": "0.2", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/fullbody.image@The full body package involves the replacement of all applicable limbs and organs with artificial versions, the enhancement of remaining body parts, neural interfacing and a neural computer. As the process is irreversible, only those in highly dangerous fields such as mercenaries or asteroid miners will opt for this.." }, { - "file": "armor06", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Armor", - "price": "128000", - "mass": "15", - "volume": "0", - "description": "@cargo/duranium.image@Armor takes up no upgrade volume, but does add to the mass of your ship, affecting maneuverability" + "file": "Pleasure_Borgs", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", + "price": "530", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "2", + "description": "@cargo/pleasure_borgs.image@With the rise in dangerous transmitted diseases, self-cleansing pleasure borgs were developed to serve as the oldest profession in known history. Highly trained and able to perform duties ranging from the gentlest of touches, to the wildest imaginings of S and M, these borgs are an expensive but pleasurable pastime." }, { - "file": "Reinforced_Cockpit", - "categoryname": "upgrades/DEPRICATED", - "price": "4000", + "file": "Books", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", + "price": "50", "mass": "2", - "volume": "3", - "description": "@cargo/plasteel.image@Sometimes, that extra layer of protection is the difference between escape pod launch and inescapable coffin." + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/books.image@A well-told tale still remains one of the chief forms of entertainment. Only the delivery of the tale changes. While books of the past consisted of large tomes filled with biodegradable paper, today's versions consist of plasfilm storage to be inserted into your PAD for projection." }, { - "file": "skyscope1", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Common", - "price": "500", + "file": "Musik", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", + "price": "50", "mass": "0.01", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/skyscope_alpha.image@With its light weight, the SkyScope is particularly well-suited for the peaceful merchant." + "description": "@cargo/music.image@Being entertainment consisting of sound, music takes many forms ranging from classical melodies, to heavy beat music, to today's synthetic muzo. Strangely, music from bands with bug names features highly in music culture, and one fellow known only as 'The King' has been generating music for several centuries." }, { - "file": "skyscope2", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Common", - "price": "1000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@upgrades/skyscope_alphaplus.image@With its light weight, the SkyScope is particularly well-suited for the peaceful merchant." + "file": "Holovids", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", + "price": "57", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/holovids.image@Mindless 3D visual entertainment for the masses. Especially popular among those with no noticeable social life. This year's top seller on the Confederation frontier: 'Who's your Dgn?: Interspecies Fantasies XXIV'. And, as always, the top seller in High Born space: 'Birth of a Nation II.'" }, { - "file": "skyscope3", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Common", - "price": "2000", + "file": "Erotica", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", + "price": "650", "mass": "0.01", "volume": "3", - "description": "@upgrades/skyscope_beta.image@With its light weight, the SkyScope is particularly well-suited for the peaceful merchant." - }, - { - "file": "starscanner1", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Common", - "price": "4000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "5", - "description": "@upgrades/starscanner_2530.image@StarScanner is the most widely used radar in Confed space." + "description": "@cargo/erotica.image@Consisting of a meld of most forms of entertainment (holovid, aromatic oil, music, and the odd pleasure borg), erotica is a sensual feast wherein the purveyor is immersed in all the forms of sensation known to their race." }, { - "file": "starscanner2", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Common", - "price": "8000", + "file": "Games", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", + "price": "52", "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "7", - "description": "@upgrades/starscanner_2545.image@StarScanner is the most widely used radar in Confed space." + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/games.image@Providing near endless possibility for gameplay and maximizing entertainment return, interactive computer games are a market fuelled by the hard labors of under funded dreamers. Despite their lack of fiscal resources they still manage to produce high quality products and garner wide fan bases. These fan bases could theoretically provide support for the poor, downtrodden programmers and content providers, but strangely they never seem to." }, { - "file": "starscanner3", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Common", - "price": "16000", + "file": "Musical_Instruments", + "categoryname": "Specialty_Goods/Entertainment", + "price": "52", "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "9", - "description": "@upgrades/starscanner_2600.image@StarScanner is the most widely used radar in Confed space." + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/musical_instruments.image@Collective description of contemporary music generation equipment. Commonly consisting of sound synthesizers, they also include modern forms of the percussion and acoustic instruments of older times." }, { - "file": "starscanner4", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Common", - "price": "24000", + "file": "Surgical_Techniques", + "categoryname": "Research", + "price": "55", "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "9", - "description": "@upgrades/starscanner_2600.image@This is a mid-life upgrade of the StarScanner 2600 that includes threat assessment, which makes it the natural choice for bounty hunters." + "volume": "0.01", + "description": "@cargo/surgical_techniques.image@The medical establishments of all species can appreciate the development of any techniques that are more discussed by surgeons than by lawyers." }, { - "file": "hawkeye1", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Confed", - "price": "32000", + "file": "Engineered_Bacteria", + "categoryname": "Research", + "price": "560", "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "13", - "description": "@upgrades/hawkeye_zx16.image@Hawkeye is the preferred radar for Confed military operations." + "volume": "0.02", + "description": "@cargo/engineered_bacteria.image@Engineered bacteria have been used for over a millennia - but the set of tasks gets bigger every year." }, { - "file": "hawkeye2", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Confed", - "price": "64000", + "file": "Quantum_Deductor", + "categoryname": "Research", + "price": "420", "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "17", - "description": "@upgrades/hawkeye_zx50.image@Hawkeye is the preferred radar for Confed military operations." + "volume": "1", + "description": "@upgrades/circuit2.image@The ever so polite name for the class of devices used to attack quantum cryptosystems." }, { - "file": "hawkeye3", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Confed", - "price": "128000", + "file": "Virtual_Tunneling_Terminal", + "categoryname": "Research", + "price": "240", "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "21", - "description": "@upgrades/hawkeye_zx86.image@Hawkeye is the preferred radar for Confed military operations." + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/virtual_tunneling_terminal.image@A device used for viewing and traversing the internals of macro-scale objects via tunnelling effects." }, { - "file": "hawkeye4", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Confed", - "price": "160000", + "file": "Quantum_Computers", + "categoryname": "Research", + "price": "75", "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "21", - "description": "@upgrades/hawkeye_zx86.image@Hawkeye ZX-87 is an upgrade of Hawkeye ZX-86 designed for capital ships." + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/quantum_processor.image@Featuring massive parallelism and minute feature size, a top of the line number cruncher can analyze more useless facts about its user in a second than most users desire to know in a lifetime." }, { - "file": "surveyor1", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Highborn", - "price": "700000", - "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "15", - "description": "The award-winning H-line is another quality product of Highborn craftsmanship. Designed for tactical superiority, the radar models space at close and distant ranges." + "file": "Cyborg_Defenders", + "categoryname": "Contraband", + "price": "270", + "mass": "15", + "volume": "30", + "description": "@cargo/cyborg_mercs.image@The modern day equivalent to the private security officers of old, these cyborgs tend to be somewhat more cost effective, if somewhat less pleasant to stand next to. So they ride in the cargo hold instead..." }, { - "file": "surveyor2", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Highborn", - "price": "900000", + "file": "Resistant_biologics", + "categoryname": "Contraband", + "price": "90", "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "16", - "description": "The award-winning H-line is another quality product of Highborn craftsmanship. Designed for tactical superiority, the radar models space at close and distant ranges. High-lights attacking missiles and ships with high firepower." + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/resistant_biologics.image@While of potential legitimate use for research, these pathogens are deemed too dangerous to transport, if only because someone willing to use them might intercept them." }, { - "file": "rlaantracker1", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Sensors/Rlaan", - "price": "240000", + "file": "Illegal_Weapons", + "categoryname": "Contraband", + "price": "300", "mass": "0.01", - "volume": "7", - "description": "The Tracker is a great all-rounder, popular in both the Rlaan Enforcer and Merchant fleets, because of its unique ability to easily distinguish between ships and celestrial bodies. It is robust towards ECM. The Rlaan eye only perceives depth when it moves, and this trait is found again in this radar." - }, - { - "file": "add_cargo_expansion", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Cargo", - "price": "100000", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "20", - "description": "@cargo/cargo_expansion.image@Trades upgrade space and support systems for cargo volume" - }, - { - "file": "mult_shady_moreupgrade", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", - "price": "32000", - "mass": "10", - "volume": "50", - "description": "@cargo/cargo_hud.image@Trades cargo space for upgrade room." - }, - { - "file": "mult_shady_morethrust", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", - "price": "64000", - "mass": "4", - "volume": "8", - "description": "@weapons/beamtexture2.image@More thruster nodes, less engine shielding." - }, - { - "file": "mult_shady_moreshields", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", - "price": "113000", - "mass": "0.1", "volume": "1", - "description": "@weapons/beamtexture.image@Increased shield capacity at the expense of weakened main-hull structural integrity." - }, - { - "file": "mult_shady_moregunrecharge", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", - "price": "250000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "0.25", - "description": "@upgrades/circuit1.image@Trades energy capacity for recharge rate." - }, - { - "file": "mult_shady_moreshieldrecharge", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", - "price": "500000", - "mass": "1.1", - "volume": "5", - "description": "@upgrades/mult_shield_regenerator.image@Increases effective ship mass, increases shield recharge." - }, - { - "file": "mult_shady_moreturning", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Shady_Mechanic", - "price": "600000", - "mass": "3.7", - "volume": "8", - "description": "@upgrades/mult_turn_jet_enhancer.image@Violates safety specifications to increase maneuvering performance." + "description": "@cargo/illegal_weapons.image@While it may seem odd, given the loose nature of the laws governing what armaments may be placed on civilian ships, certain weapons, such as thermonuclear mortars, hunter-killer drones, and Anchadaen wrestling worms, are not allowed to be carried around by the civilians of any known political entity deserving of the title. This does not prevent groups and individuals from desiring the acquisition of such devices." }, { - "file": "repair_droid01", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", - "price": "30000", - "mass": "1", + "file": "Pilot", + "categoryname": "Contraband", + "price": "760", + "mass": "0.15", "volume": "2", - "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" - }, - { - "file": "repair_droid02", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", - "price": "75000", - "mass": "5", - "volume": "4", - "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" + "description": "@cargo/pilot.image@Much as you may hate the pilot of the ship that attempted to destroy yours, destroying that pilot's ship does not grant one, under interstellar law, the right to sell said pilot into slavery. That being said, many have been known to justify such actions by claiming it to be an entirely proper form of remuneration. [Note to editors: Do not change name as the code relies on Pilot]" }, { - "file": "repair_droid03", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", - "price": "147000", - "mass": "20", - "volume": "8", - "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" + "file": "Slaves", + "categoryname": "Contraband", + "price": "750", + "mass": "0.1", + "volume": "2", + "description": "@cargo/slaves.image@Illegal due to fears of interspecies domination, among a plethora of other reasons, economic inefficiencies looming largest of all." }, { - "file": "repair_droid04", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", - "price": "290000", - "mass": "50", - "volume": "16", - "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" + "file": "Clones", + "categoryname": "Contraband", + "price": "720", + "mass": "25", + "volume": "200", + "description": "@cargo/clones.image@It is illegal to transport clones as mass cargo. Each clone must book individual passage at cabin rate on a certified civilian transport. Exceptions may be granted for clones under the age of gestation." }, { - "file": "repair_droid05", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Repair_Systems", - "price": "500000", - "mass": "100", - "volume": "32", - "description": "@cargo/repair_droid01.image@Repairs ship upgrades in-flight" + "file": "ISO_Propaganda", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", + "price": "100", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/swj.image@A fair portion of it's true a fair portion of the time, but all of it's illegal all of the time." }, { - "file": "ecm_package01", - "categoryname": "upgrades/ECM_Systems", - "price": "5000", + "file": "ISO_Party_Member", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", + "price": "800", "mass": "0.01", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/ecm1.image@Electronic CounterMeasures\\ ECM refers to a broad spectrum of techniques designed to defeat or spoof enemy sensors and communications." + "description": "@cargo/iso_member.image@Anyone in Confederation space willing to openly declare their membership in the ISO either has great fortitude or suffers from great idiocy. The same however, must be said of those willing to transport them through said space." }, { - "file": "ecm_package02", - "categoryname": "upgrades/ECM_Systems", - "price": "20000", - "mass": "0.05", - "volume": "2", - "description": "@upgrades/ecm2.image@Electronic CounterMeasures\\ ECM refers to a broad spectrum of techniques designed to defeat or spoof enemy sensors and communications." + "file": "Socialist_Worker_Journal", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", + "price": "35", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/swj.image@The Socialist Worker Journal is a bi-monthly electronic publication believed to have its origins on Berkeley in the Trotsky system. The SWJ highlights the importance of advancing socialism, and features artwork and music produced by workers, for workers. This product has been officially deemed 'unworthy for use even in the task of wiping one's rear.'" }, { - "file": "ecm_package03", - "categoryname": "upgrades/ECM_Systems", - "price": "50000", - "mass": "0.1", - "volume": "3", - "description": "@upgrades/ecm3.image@Electronic CounterMeasures\\ ECM refers to a broad spectrum of techniques designed to defeat or spoof enemy sensors and communications." + "file": "Luddite_Religious_Tracts", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", + "price": "100", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/luddite_tracts.image@Carrying ISO propaganda will get one arrested. Carrying luddite propaganda, outside of the more sympathetic Purist regions, is likely to get one summarily shot." }, { - "file": "hud_repair", - "categoryname": "upgrades/DEPRECATED_FUNCTIONALITY", - "price": "0", + "file": "Escaped_Political_Prisoners", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", + "price": "920", "mass": "0.01", "volume": "1", - "description": "@upgrades/circuit2.image@Given that any craft of decent size has no physical viewport for its pilot, and that no pilot could fly without the nav cues overlaid by the HUD, the ability to do in-flight repair of damaged HUD systems is nearly vital." + "description": "@cargo/political_prisoners.image@Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the ISO?" }, { - "file": "cloaking_device", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Miscellaneous/Aera_Milspec", - "price": "1000000", - "mass": "8.9", - "volume": "5", - "description": "@cargo/cloaking_device_aeramilspec.image@A dire necessity for those wishing to remain undetected, it is not, however, capable of permanently fooling modern sensor technology." + "file": "Overeager_Immigrants", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Confed", + "price": "160", + "mass": "20", + "volume": "200", + "description": "@cargo/overeager_immigrants.image@With the passing of the Confederation's so called 'Enough is Enough' legislation, it is illegal to transport individuals whose stated purpose is to settle on a planet deemed to have already reached its maximum desired population. While many decried the legislative package as both idiotic and unenforceable and hearings on the act dragged on for years, the coalition of Purists, High Born, Shapers, and various minor factions prevailed over the opposition of the Andolians and the Merchants, with the Unadorned not deigning to participate in the discussion." }, { - "file": "passenger_quarters_01", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Passenger_Quarters", - "price": "20000", - "mass": "0.5", - "volume": "3", - "description": "@upgrades/passenger_cryo_chamber.image@All the life-support a frozen passenger needs to survive the journey in a depressurized cargo hold. Provides life-support and space for 1 passenger." + "file": "ICBINF", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Rlaan", + "price": "80", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/icbinf.image@Originally designed as a cheap, renewable, and environmentally friendly refrigerant, it was found to induce exceptionally terminal cancers in Rlaan." }, { - "file": "passenger_quarters_02", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Passenger_Quarters", - "price": "50000", - "mass": "0.8", - "volume": "21", - "description": "@upgrades/passenger_steerage_class.image@Part of the cargo hold is just equipped with an additional life-support for whatever kind of atmosphere is needed for the merry guests standing there or sitting on the floor. Provides life-support and space for up to 4 passengers." + "file": "Zhollus", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Rlaan", + "price": "80", + "mass": "0.01", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/zhollus.image@A plant-like lifeform that, while exceptionally tasty to a Rlaan, is exceptionally devastating to a Rlaan friendly ecosystem." }, { - "file": "passenger_quarters_03", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Passenger_Quarters", - "price": "100000", + "file": "RetrifiedSalt", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Aera", + "price": "80", "mass": "1", - "volume": "21", - "description": "@upgrades/passenger_economy_class.image@Life-support and even seats for the dear customer. Provides life-support and space for up to 4 passengers." + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/retrified_salt.image@Salted crematory remains. Illegal in Aera space due to the combination of a cultural disdain for such and an unwillingness to remove an ancient law from the books." }, { - "file": "passenger_quarters_04", - "categoryname": "upgrades/Passenger_Quarters", - "price": "200000", - "mass": "1.2", - "volume": "25", - "description": "@upgrades/passenger_comfort_class.image@Life-support, seat and even bunk-beds provide a level of comfort the captain would like to have. Provides life-support and space for up to 2 passengers." + "file": "AeraNerveStimuli", + "categoryname": "Contraband/Aera", + "price": "80", + "mass": "1", + "volume": "1", + "description": "@cargo/aeranervestimuli.image@Ever watched an Aera spasm in something that looks like a cross between an epileptic fit and an orgasm? Give them some of this and sit back. Way back. Preferably behind a barrier, because when the Aera in question starts to go into withdrawal induced fits of berserker rage, you might live to tell the tale." }, { "file": "WetBlankets", diff --git a/master_ship_list.json b/master_ship_list.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..38b26a84 --- /dev/null +++ b/master_ship_list.json @@ -0,0 +1,682 @@ +[ + { + "file": "Admonisher.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Heavy", + "price": "3000000", + "mass": "275", + "volume": "5600", + "description": "A Purist crafted light assault vessel, the Admonisher is often used for internal policing duties by Homeland Security and others within the Confederation. 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Much of the non-Merchant's Guild traffic within Purist friendly systems occurs via Plowshares." + }, + { + "file": "Plowshare__pirates", + "categoryname": "starships/restricted", + "price": "1", + "mass": "530", + "volume": "10000", + "description": "Lovingly referred to as a 'large brick with engines and guns', the Plowshare is a top of the line Purist cargo shuttle, far more spacious than the aged LIHW Llama, and easier to obtain for private use than the Merchant Reindeer. Much of the non-Merchant's Guild traffic within Purist friendly systems occurs via Plowshares." + }, + { + "file": "Progeny.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Light", + "price": "400000", + "mass": "62", + "volume": "1200", + "description": "A compact ship originally designed for the Shaper military, the Progeny would seem a natural complement to the Dostoevsky, were they ever both to be deployed by the same group at the same time. 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Though less suited for close engagements than its fighter counterpart, the Progeny nonetheless brings to bear an impressive array of missiles, and excels at its primary role of interceptor." + }, + { + "file": "Progeny.rgspec", + "categoryname": "starships/Regional_Guard/Light", + "price": "900000", + "mass": "63", + "volume": "1300", + "description": "A compact ship originally designed for the Shaper military, the Progeny would seem a natural complement to the Dostoevsky, were they ever both to be deployed by the same group at the same time. Though less suited for close engagements than its fighter counterpart, the Progeny nonetheless brings to bear an impressive array of missiles, and excels at its primary role of interceptor." + }, + { + "file": "Quicksilver", + "categoryname": "starships/restricted", + "price": "1", + "mass": "123456789", + "volume": "123456789", + "description": "Sleek and fast, the Quicksilver is often used as a courier ship by the Confederation and its allies. However, due to this specialization, it is typically unsuitable for combat engagements, and will rely on the robust acceleration of its oversized engine to put a rapidly increasing shield of distance between it and any adversary." + }, + { + "file": "Redeemer.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Luddite/Light", + "price": "40000", + "mass": "38", + "volume": "800", + "description": "The luddites, being by their nature not given to grand industrialization, rely on a small number of hidden facilities and sympathetic manufacturing plants to supply them with ships. The Redeemer bears the distinction of being the only class of spacecraft officially sanctioned by the reverend Sverde, who, when presented with its initial designs 45 years ago, said that prayer had revealed to her that that this was to be the 'shepherds crook' by which man's sins would be constrained. Inexpensive, even at the time of its introduction, the Redeemer remains a utilitarian craft well suited to the production schedules of backwater worlds." + }, + { + "file": "Robin.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Hunter/Medium", + "price": "75000", + "mass": "42", + "volume": "900", + "description": "The avian Robins of Terra were never noted as particularly fierce, and many pilots consider the spacefaring Robins of the LIHW in much the same way. An aging fighter design, the improvements that the Robin has seen over the years have been largely incremental, focusing on small improvements rather than large overhauls. Due to the relatively limited resource of the LIHW compared to other constituents of the Confederation, most of the improvements have been in the way of reliability. Because of this, the Robin is known as an inexpensive vessel that rarely breaks down, and perhaps due to this, it is a common sight in the human-controlled regions of space." + }, + { + "file": "Robin.hunter", + "categoryname": "starships/Hunter/Medium", + "price": "190000", + "mass": "42", + "volume": "900", + "description": "The avian Robins of Terra were never noted as particularly fierce, and many pilots consider the spacefaring Robins of the LIHW in much the same way. An aging fighter design, the improvements that the Robin has seen over the years have been largely incremental, focusing on small improvements rather than large overhauls. Due to the relatively limited resource of the LIHW compared to other constituents of the Confederation, most of the improvements have been in the way of reliability. Because of this, the Robin is known as an inexpensive vessel that rarely breaks down, and perhaps due to this, it is a common sight in the human-controlled regions of space." + }, + { + "file": "Sartre", + "categoryname": "starships/restricted", + "price": "1", + "mass": "123456789", + "volume": "123456789", + "description": "The Sartre is an interplanetary shuttle manufactured by the Klk'k. It is unarmed, and therefore rarely seen outside the very safest sectors of space. A Sartre is often the only legal method by which one may land directly on many Andolian worlds, due to regulation of private craft to orbital berthing areas." + }, + { + "file": "Schroedinger.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Light", + "price": "510000", + "mass": "80", + "volume": "1600", + "description": "The Schroedinger serves as a scout ship, lightly armed when compared to most other vessels. As per the infamous cat, its acceleration curve and advanced ECM and stealth hardware make it difficult to discern whether its in the same state it was last seen in." + }, + { + "file": "Schroedinger.milspec", + "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Milspec", + "price": "3000000", + "mass": "80", + "volume": "1600", + "description": "The Schroedinger serves as a scout ship, lightly armed when compared to most other vessels. As per the infamous cat, its acceleration curve and advanced ECM and stealth hardware make it difficult to discern whether its in the same state it was last seen in." + }, + { + "file": "Shizu.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Rlaan/Light", + "price": "250000", + "mass": "57", + "volume": "1140", + "description": "The Rlaan Shizu is in many ways similar to its Confederate counterpart, the Schroedinger, meant more for reconaissance and scouting patrols than heavy combat. Nonetheless, its twin gun mountings allow it to mount a basic defense, should it come under attack." + }, + { + "file": "Shizu.milspec", + "categoryname": "starships/Rlaan/Milspec", + "price": "300000", + "mass": "57", + "volume": "1140", + "description": "The Rlaan Shizu is in many ways similar to its Confederate counterpart, the Schroedinger, meant more for reconaissance and scouting patrols than heavy combat. Nonetheless, its twin gun mountings allow it to mount a basic defense, should it come under attack." + }, + { + "file": "Sickle.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Hunter/Medium", + "price": "70000", + "mass": "55", + "volume": "1100", + "description": "Like the Hammer, the Sickle is a ship of LIHW design, and was known prior to ISO usage as the 'Goose'. While the Hammer is more feared, the Sickle is more common. By far the most common ship seen in use by the ISO, the Sickle's maneuverability and large missile bays make it a favorite of many Hunters as well." + }, + { + "file": "Sickle.iso", + "categoryname": "starships/restricted", + "price": "1", + "mass": "55", + "volume": "1100", + "description": "Like the Hammer, the Sickle is a ship of LIHW design, and was known prior to ISO usage as the 'Goose'. While the Hammer is more feared, the Sickle is more common. By far the most common ship seen in use by the ISO, the Sickle's maneuverability and large missile bays make it a favorite of many Hunters as well." + }, + { + "file": "Sickle.isospec", + "categoryname": "starships/ISO/Medium", + "price": "90000", + "mass": "55", + "volume": "1100", + "description": "Like the Hammer, the Sickle is a ship of LIHW design, and was known prior to ISO usage as the 'Goose'. While the Hammer is more feared, the Sickle is more common. By far the most common ship seen in use by the ISO, the Sickle's maneuverability and large missile bays make it a favorite of many Hunters as well." + }, + { + "file": "Sickle.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Hunter/Medium", + "price": "70000", + "mass": "55", + "volume": "1100", + "description": "Like the Hammer, the Sickle is a ship of LIHW design, and was known prior to ISO usage as the 'Goose'. While the Hammer is more feared, the Sickle is more common. By far the most common ship seen in use by the ISO, the Sickle's maneuverability and large missile bays make it a favorite of many Hunters as well." + }, + { + "file": "Taizong.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Rlaan/Heavy", + "price": "2800000", + "mass": "230", + "volume": "4600", + "description": "The Taizong are a mass-produced assault vessel of the Rlaan. As with other Rlaan vessels, they do not utilize missile armaments, even in their assault role. Their strength lies instead in miniature, if limited, versions of the Jannisary class' grav-thumper weapon, which allow them to ruthlessly cut down almost any sub-capital vessel." + }, + { + "file": "Taizong.milspec", + "categoryname": "starships/Rlaan/Milspec", + "price": "5600000", + "mass": "230", + "volume": "4600", + "description": "The Taizong are a mass-produced assault vessel of the Rlaan. As with other Rlaan vessels, they do not utilize missile armaments, even in their assault role. Their strength lies instead in miniature, if limited, versions of the Jannisary class' grav-thumper weapon, which allow them to ruthlessly cut down almost any sub-capital vessel." + }, + { + "file": "Vendetta.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Hunter/Medium", + "price": "8800000", + "mass": "230", + "volume": "4600", + "description": "Designed by the LTC to exacting Hunter specifications, the Vendetta can be a relentless, if expensive, aid in populating one's trophy walls." + }, + { + "file": "Vigilance", + "categoryname": "starships/Confed/Milspec", + "price": "18500000", + "mass": "4500", + "volume": "50000", + "description": "Mass produced by it's Purist manufacturers, the Vigilance has been a common sight patrolling the inner commerce lanes for over a decade. Now these corvettes have begun trickling into the frontier territories to thwart rampant piracy and Aeran incursions. Though lacking the cutting-edge systems and relative mobility of others in it's class, the Vigilance still holds it's own with greater survivability and firepower at a more affordable price." + }, + { + "file": "Zhuangzong.milspec", + "categoryname": "starships/Rlaan/Milspec", + "price": "2000000", + "mass": "65", + "volume": "1300", + "description": "The backbone of the Rlaan fighter squadrons, the Zhuangzong's four weapon mounts make it deadly at close range, and its maneuverability stats are a dogfighter's dream, even if the linear acceleration is more modest. Of course, in keeping with the Rlaan disdain for missiles, actually closing to weapons range can be interesting. " + }, + { + "file": "Zhuangzong.stock", + "categoryname": "starships/Rlaan/Heavy", + "price": "500000", + "mass": "65", + "volume": "1300", + "description": "The backbone of the Rlaan fighter squadrons, the Zhuangzong's four weapon mounts make it deadly at close range, and its maneuverability stats are a dogfighter's dream, even if the linear acceleration is more modest. Of course, in keeping with the Rlaan disdain for missiles, actually closing to weapons range can be interesting. " + } +]