CHRONOMETER (NO COST)
A chronometer, or clock, is a device used to measure and display the passage of time, often featuring intricate mechanical components or digital systems. In both planetary and spacefaring contexts, chronometers serve crucial timekeeping functions, from tracking daily hours to maintaining stardate synchronization aboard starships. While traditional mechanical clocks add aesthetic appeal, advanced chronometers may be affected by temporal anomalies, sometimes stopping or running backward. Despite their varied forms, these devices are essential for regulating and synchronizing time across different environments.
EMERGENCY TRANSPONDER (OPPORTUNITY 1)
An emergency transponder, also called a command transponder, is a portable device used to send emergency signals. Each transponder has its own unique frequency and code, making it easy to identify and trace the signal. These devices are important in emergencies, providing a way to communicate when other systems do not work. The main job of a transponder is to send out a signal in all directions, which can be picked up by nearby ships or stations. This ensures the distress call reaches a wide area, increasing the chances of a rescue. When activated, the transponder sends a nonstop distress signal with important information like the user’s ID and location.
EXOCOMP (OPPORTUNITY 2)
Exocomps are industrial and utility robots featuring a micro-replication system that can create tools for problem-solving and forms new circuit pathways in the exocomp’s memory when performing new tasks, enabling it to learn. The more tasks it performs, the more pathways are formed. Problems are entered through a command pad, and the exocomp determines which tool is needed, then replicates that tool. This adaptive mechanism allows exocomps to continually improve their problem-solving abilities, making them highly efficient and versatile. Their ability to learn and adapt makes them invaluable in industrial and utility applications.
ISOLINEAR OPTICAL STORAGE (NO COST)
Isolinear storage devices, usually in the form of chips and rods, are advanced tools used for information storage and operational control in various technologies. Replacing less efficient duotronic enhancers, these devices became standardized around 2329. They facilitate warp drive in starships, store memory in portable devices, and serve as primary components in various spacecraft computers.
LIFE SUPPORT BELT (PROTECTION 3, OPPORTUNITY 1, ESCALATION 2)
The Starfleet Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) Atmospheric Containment Field, also known as the life support belt, allows free movement of limbs and fine motor control when using tools. However, these advantages are not sufficient to replace standard EVA suits. The life support belts were removed from active service in 2271 but remained on some Starfleet vessels until the 2290s. Characters can use life support belts when standard EVA suits are too cumbersome for small spaces. Life support belts use their power to protect the user, starting with 8 Stress. Environmental damage reduces this Stress, and if it reaches 0, the belt’s protection ends, exposing the character to environmental conditions.
PATTERN ENHANCERS (OPPORTUNITY 1)
A pattern enhancer, also called a transporter enhancer, is a portable device able to strengthen the signal of a transporter when the signal is not strong enough to maintain pattern cohesion on its own. Pattern enhancers have been utilized to even cut through some types of force field.
In the 23rd century, Starfleet’s pattern enhancers had a spinning part at the top that deployed an antenna-dish, indicating the enhancement field was active. By the late 24th century, pattern enhancers were about one meter tall and had four sections: three legs stored inside the body when not in use, a shiny silver main body, a control cuff, and a cone-shaped top that glowed when turned on. They were used in sets of three, arranged in a triangle about one to seven meters apart. In the early 2370s, a smaller version with the same basic structure was also used. By the 2390s, handheld transport pattern enhancers were available.
Pattern Enhancers in Play
Pattern enhancers are common items found in transport rooms or storage lockers aboard a ship. Once acquired, the Pattern Enhancer becomes a trait. You can determine if transporting is considered impossible without the pattern enhancer.
There are times when an easy transport in and out of a zone could hamper your story’s plot. Or you may want to increase the tension, allowing players to bring along transporter enhancers only to have the equipment destroyed mid-mission.
TELEFOCALS (OPPORTUNITY 1)
Telefocals are hi-tech binoculars that can be tuned to view thermal, visual, and higher frequency radiation, allowing limited use through solid material. While users gain more information about what they are looking at, their awareness of surroundings is reduced, making them more vulnerable to ambushes or missing information outside their field of view. Telefocals also have their own independent multispectral EM sensor, enabling high-resolution scans and analysis of whatever they had a visual lock on. They can also be connected to a standard tricorder via a short-range subspace link. Characters using telefocals gain the trait Focused In on what they can see through the multispectral eyepieces.