- Quantum computer
- A computer that uses entangled particles to perform extremely complex calculations very, very quickly.
- Ecto
- Mesh inserts, but on a phone. For people who like phones instead of implants, or are worried about contracting viruses or malware through their mesh inserts.
- Ego Bridges
- Vat devices used for uploading and downloading minds when sleeving or merging forks.
- Fabber
- (Nanofabricator) Assembler of a specific kind of object using raw materials and blueprints. Most can also deconstruct most non-living material.
- Cornucopia Machine
- Slower than nanofabbers but can literally make anything if you give it the right materials and blueprints. If the blueprint is bigger than the CM, might need to assemble with Hardware.
- Maker
- Short for Nutrient Maker. Makes bad food and fast. Better models make okay food.
- Utilitool
- The ultimate swiss army knife.
- Smart Clothing
- The last outfit you’ll ever wear, and helps with some extreme temperatures. Might also confer some camoflage benefits.
- Smart Vac Clothing
- It’s the Smart PC’s Smarter Clothing. In. SPACE. Minor armor and sealed as a vacsuit.
- Specs / Viewers
- Vision-enhancing glasses or binoculars that increase magnification and broaden wavelengths you can percieve. Viewers magnify more.
- Portable Sensor
- Choose a specific thing to sense (360 degree vision, nanoscopic vision, infrared, thermal, lidar, ultraviolet, radar, x-ray, gamma ray, ultrasound, sound, infrasound). A thing you carry or wear now senses that. Fancier versions sense multiple.
- Micrograv Shoes
- Help you walk like normal on surfaces in zero-g or almost no g.
Colonies of nanobots created in a hive, with specific instructions for a rote task, typically lasting 2 weeks without returning to the hive. Pretty stable tech at this point, but some is engineered from TITAN leftovers, which makes some people sus.
- Cleaners
- Remove stains, toxins, chemicals, etc. +2 on Investigate actions to tamper with or eliminate physical evidence. (EPF 59)
- Scouts
- Map, explore, take samples, forensics. +2 on Investigate actions to collect and catalog physical evidence (EPF 59)
- Guardians
- Use Program instead of Shoot when attacking hostile swarms. This bypasses the invulnerable defense swarms have against many forms of physical attack (EPF 59)
- Engineers
- Use Program in place of Hardware for construction tasks (EPF 59).
- Saboteurs
- Infiltrate electronics and sabotage in small but unnoticeable ways. +2 on Infiltrate actions where making the opposition’s equipment go haywire would aid success (EPF 59)
- Proteans
- Speacialized disassembler/nanofabber swarms that deconstruct everything around them to make one thing.
- Disassemblers
- Smart corrosives, can be weaponized against synthmorphs.
- Fixers
- Act like automated repair spray.
- Injectors
- Hold a drug payload, could be healing, narcotics, toxins.
- Gardeners
- Nanoswarms for agricultural purposes.
- Taggants
- Used to track who has gone through an area. Great for finding out who trespassed.
Mostly done by radio, which is ubiquitous and interacts with the mesh and mesh inserts.
- Radio boosters
- Extends radio signal from other short-range radios like from implants, ectos, or microbugs.
- Fiberoptic cables
- Cheap but private and signals can’t be intercepted.
- Laser / Microwave Link
- Portable for tight-beam, line-of-sight communication with another laser/microwave link.
- Neutrino Communicators / Transceiver
- Tight beam and easy to transmit, but take a LOT of power and space, and easy to be intercepted. Includes computers for quantum farcasting.
- QE Comms
- Quantum entanglement communicators, portable FTL communication device. Expensive, tight-beam, instantaneous, and go really really far between planets. Destroys qubits to work, which must be replenished.
- Quantum Farcaster
- Special computers that securely encrypt data, including egos (egocasting using neutrino communication).
- Miniature Radio Farcaster
- Portable high-yield radio antenna and transceiver.
Basic spy tech is easy to get and pervasive, but it’s still difficult to covertly get info on people. Eavesdroppers can try to stealth a transmitted radio transmission or better yet just set devices to record without transmitting and then pick them up later. Expect rare or super-illegal things to be more expensive.
- Covert Ops Tool (COT)
- Catch-all future-tech thieves tool.
- Chameleon Cloak
- Not quite an invisibility cloak. Hide from visual spectrum, microwave, ultraviolet, and thermal infrared, but not radar, x-ray, or gamma ray sensors.
- Invisibility Cloak
- It’s like in Harry Potter but you also can’t see out. Use external cameras or a fancy tech window to see out. Doesn’t work on radar or x-rays.
- White Noise Machine
- Small wearable that sounds nice and masks conversation from being audibly recorded or heard.
- X-Ray Emitter
- Used with enhanced vision augments or specs to see through walls and containers, including through metal.
- Smart Dust
- Walnut-sized bot that creates dust sized nanobots that can surveil a room collecting visual, audio, chemical info, and DNA. (EP 316)
- Microbug
- Physically larger than smart dust and only one (1mm), but transmissions cannot be detected or blocked, especially if it has a mini-quantum farcaster (1cm).
- Fiber Eye
- A flexible length of fiberoptic cable with viewer to look through cracks, under doors, around corners, etc.
- Dazzler
- Rotating anti-spytech laser disco ball that detects and temporarily blinds any visual, infrared, or ultraviolet camera within line of sight and within 200 meters, as long as it’s on. (EP 316)
- Psi Jammer
- Jams ranged sleights within 20 meters. Doesn’t affect normal brain function, just sleights. If they’re using this on us, RUN.
- Disabler
- If you can grapple or call a shot in melee using this device, you disable a normal-sized synthmorph with a cyberbrain. K.O.
- Cuff Band & Prisoner Mask
- Dabbling in the forknapping racket, are we? (EP 316)
(EP 332)
Drugs and toxins can be chemical, nano-based, or electronic. Drugs are widespread and tabboo’d or criminalized differently depending where you are.
- Cognitive Drugs
- AKA Nootropics - Drive (Increase concrentration, no side effects), Klar (Increased alertness and intelligence), Neem (Mnemonic drug to rememver experiences while taking it, but no emotional connection to it).
- Combat Drugs
- BringIt (Provokes nearby enemies to attack you), Grin (Opiate to suppress pain but decrease perception), Kick (It’s Speed, you react fast, and sometimes react too fast), MRDR (Increase pain tolerance, speed, and strength; can ignore one wound; you also look like a crazy murderer), Phlo (Increases dexterity and perception, and you can be goaded into foolish/dangerous things. YOLO).
- Psi Drugs
- If they exist, they’re probably not well-known:
Inhibitor (General depressant for asynchs that makes it difficult or impossible to use psi sleights for the duration), Psi-Opener (Modified Watts-MacLeod to give ANY biomorph temporary use of one psi-trait), Psike-Out (Mentally addictive, strengthen psi abilities and increase strain when using slights).
- Health Drugs
- Bananas Furiosas (Bunches of radiation-reducing bananas), Comfurt (Ignore the effects of a trauma and improve lucidity, slightly more difficult to manipulate your emotions) (EP 319)
- Recreational Drugs
- Buzz (Strong hallucinogen with common side effect of memory loss), Mono No Aware (Meditative depressant tea), Orbital Hash (It’s potent marijuana. Pretty common, usually sold in bricks. Ignore effects of a trauma but suffer from memory/knowledge issues, munchies, lethargy, and woah-man vibes).
- Social Drugs
- Alpha (Snortable white powder - Become an impatient, unfocused asshole with slightly worse reasoning/memory, but hey, you’re the Big Boss and everyone knows it), Hither (Benefit to persuade targets who are seduceable, you sexy beast you. Might apply to deception, impersonate, networking, etc.), Juice (Potent anti-depressant that makes you almost manically happy. It’ll probably make nearby people uncomfortable as well.).
- Nanodrugs
- Temporary nanobot infestations that apply an effect: Frequency/Freeq (LSD that lets you spot hidden sensors), Gravy (Gravity acclimation), Petals (Narrative Heroin RPGs in a drug), Schizo (Have you ever wanted to be a paranoid schizophrenic? Me neither!) (EP 321).
- Narcoalgorithms
- Software programs that simulate drugs for infomorphs, simulmorphs,cyberbrains, and AIs. exs. DDR (Dance Dance Robot), Linkstate (XP Chat Roulette).
The game books we’re using are as follows. When citing or making references, use the listed abbreviation:
Source Books
| Book |
Abbreviation |
Notes |
| Eclipse Phase (3rd Printing) |
EP |
The core book, first edition |
| Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition |
EP2 |
The core book, second edition |
| Eclipse Phase: Transhumanity’s Fate |
EPF |
The FATE companion |
| Gatecrashing |
GC |
Supplement for exoplanets |
| Rimward |
RW |
Supplement for worlds outside the belt |
| Sunward |
SW |
Supplement for inner system worlds |
| Panopticon |
PO |
Supplement dealing with tech, society, and uplifts |