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Part of the NOMAD: Stellar Alliance series.
Technology of the Stellar Alliance
Technological Age: Early Galactic
The Alliance has entered the full Early Galactic Age. Any technology or device marked as “Early Galactic” is available to Alliance personnel, with very few (mostly security) restrictions.
In addition, the Alliance has developed the following technologies.
Fabricators
Fabricators allow Alliance craftsmen to manufacture bespoke objects or machine parts without recourse to a full factory. Food fabricators can create palatable food from raw foodstuffs.
Rules and additional information will be available shortly.
FTL Telegraph
The FTL Telegraph and a network of FTL routers allows Alliance ships to receive orders while on deep space missions and send responses (or requests for aid).
See “FTL Telegraph” for rules and further information.
Technology of Other Civilizations
Algolian Spacers
Technological Age: Late Interstellar
The Algolian Spacers live almost their entire lives aboard a habitat ship without touching the surface of a planet. They export their air scrubbers and biomatter recyclers to other interplanetary and interstellar fleets including the Alliance.
Rumor has it that their other industry involves low-tech weapons made with high-tech materials – ceramics, plastics, even unique explosives – that do not show up on routine security scans. They keep most of these for the personal use of the Itleixu, Algolian organized crime.
The Dominion of the First
Technological Age: Cosmic
While the “dominion” of The First extends only as far as one of their ships' weapon ranges, the First still possess astounding and sometimes disturbing technologies:
- Ships the size of cities that can jump instantaneously across a sector.
- Buildings that seem bigger on the inside than on the outside.
- Medical instruments that can slice a person into pieces, keep them alive (and mercifully passed out), then reverse the process without leaving a single scar or mark.
- A harness that lets one of their species spread their wings, leap into space and fly as if they were wearing a warp generator. The harness also generates a bolt of energy “something like an Exo-Beam, and then again, something not like one.” (Quoting the report.)
Other reported technologies are too strange to believe.
Draconian Empire
Technological Age: Late Interstellar
What the Draconian Empire lack in science acumen they more than make up for in weapons technology: when Draconian Torpedos explode they produce not only superheated plasma and shrapnel but an as yet unidentified substance that erodes armor and outer hull plating.