Items

Interlocked steel rings over a padded gambeson, distributing impact across the full torso and limbs. Standard temple-guard kit for the Covenant of the Ebon Creed and a common sight on Aurelion estate retainers on pre-industrial worlds. Heavy enough that wearing it for a day leaves bruises; light enough by comparison with plate that working-rank soldiers can actually afford it.

A length of hardwood, sometimes banded with iron at the striking end. The first weapon anyone reaches for and the last anyone bothers to disarm — every pre-industrial settlement from Halcyion farmsteads to frontier mining camps has clubs stacked behind the bar. One silver piece buys a serviceable one; a serviceable one is enough.

A recurved bow of laminated horn, sinew, and seasoned wood, shorter and more powerful than the simple longbow it replaced. Favored by Norskan raider-scouts and the horse-archers of the Aurelion outer marches. A skilled archer can loose three arrows in the time a Tier II musketeer takes to seat a fresh charge — and arrows are recoverable from the field.

A single-edged or double-edged short blade, sized for a belt sheath or boot rig. The most universally-carried weapon on pre-industrial worlds: priests carry ceremonial daggers, frontier travelers carry working daggers, and Black Meridian operators carry several. Cheap enough that losing one in a target is an acceptable tactical outcome.

A balanced throwing spear of light wood and a soft-iron head, the head sometimes deliberately weak so it bends on impact and cannot be thrown back. Issued in bundles to Aurelion militia line infantry on pre-industrial worlds; carried in pairs by frontier wolf-hunters who want a first strike before the brush closes in.

Layered and boiled hide stitched over a softer underlayer, shaped to the torso. The default protection on most pre-industrial worlds: cheap enough for a militia conscript, light enough for a frontier scout, and quiet enough for a Black Meridian intrusion crew. Sheds a glancing blade and softens a club; trust it no further.

A straight, double-edged steel blade with a cruciform hilt, balanced for a single hand but heavy enough to be used two-handed for greater reach and force. The pattern is ubiquitous: Aurelion knights drill with sun-pommelled variants on the academy floors of Helion, frontier sheriffs keep them as a last resort when the powder is wet, and the Covenant of the Ebon Creed crowns its initiates with un-blessed steel before the sermon. Cheap, reliable, and deadly in any tier.

A weighted metal head on a short wooden or steel haft, built to crush rather than cut. Favored by Covenant of the Ebon Creed lay-priests who view edged weapons as profane, and by frontier sheriffs who want a tool that subdues without bleeding out the accused. Plain, brutal, and unfussy.

A quilted cloth jack stuffed with batting or scrap wool, sometimes reinforced with stitched-in plates. The poorest-rate armor anyone bothers to call armor: militia drills issue it, frontier road-wardens sleep in it, and the Covenant of the Ebon Creed gives it to penitent acolytes. It rustles, soaks rain, and stops a single bad swing — sometimes.

A partial harness: cuirass, pauldrons, vambraces, and skirt of riveted steel plates over a padded gambeson. Standard kit for an Aurelion footman or a frontier baron's house guard. The full mail-plate set is reserved for line-knights; these fragments are what every conscripted infantryman is issued before a march. Heavy, hot, and dependable when the air is thicker than smoke.

A single-curve wooden bow short enough to draw from horseback or a hunter's blind. The working weapon of pre-industrial scouts, frontier rangers, and Aurelion sun-orchard wardens. Quiet, accurate inside its band, and replaceable from any village fletcher — the last advantage matters more than the first two on a long campaign.

A short, straight-bladed weapon balanced for fast cuts in close quarters. The pattern predates the Continuum Crisis and survives across pre-industrial worlds: Aurelion duelists drill with chalked tips on academy floors, frontier town watch keep them under the counter, and Black Meridian cutpurses prefer them for the simple reason that a shortsword draws faster than a longsword in a corridor. Cheap, reliable, and lethal in trained hands.

A working riding-animal trained to bridle, saddle, and combat conditioning — the exact species varies by world. Aurelion Ascendancy outriders ride the long-limbed steppe-horse of their core worlds; Zyrrak hunting parties ride the six-legged stalker their elders call ka'thri; Halcyion missionary orders on Tier I planets prefer a sturdy short-legged plains-runner bred for stamina over speed; Frontier ranchers will sell you whatever the colony brought in the founding cargo and call it a horse regardless. What unites them mechanically is training: the animal has been broken to saddle, conditioned not to bolt under gunfire or thunder, and taught to respond to a small vocabulary of voice and rein commands. Stat handles (design doc §11): approximate Hull Points 22 (a hardy beast at this scale; use the GM's preferred beast statblock for biological detail), sustained ground speed roughly 40-60 km/h at a canter and faster in short sprints, crew 1 (rider) with no formal passenger capacity (a child or an unconscious second rider can be lashed to the saddle in extremis), cargo via saddlebags only. Notable features: requires food, water, and rest like any biological creature — long stays in vacuum or hostile atmosphere are not survivable; understands one or two short command words; capable of basic obstacle reasoning the rider does not have to micromanage. A Pilot of the Cavalryman subclass treats this animal as a Bonded Vessel.

A round or kite-shaped plank shield of laminated hardwood, rim-bound in iron and faced with hide or painted canvas. Cheap to make, easy to replace, and just heavy enough to slow a strike. Frontier militias paint local sigils on the face; Aurelion drill-companies leave them blank until a soldier earns the right to a unit-mark.

A bell-mouthed scatter-gun loaded with whatever the wielder has on hand — lead shot, ball bearings, gravel, in one famous case a handful of teeth. Industrial-tier coach guards across the frontier carry them for the same reason ship captains used to: at close range, aim is a courtesy. The Covenant of the Ebon Creed has a doctrinal aversion to them, considering the indiscriminate spread spiritually careless.

An industrial-era duster reinforced with riveted brass plates over hardened leather, with a high collar throat-guard and integrated tool loops. Worn by railway lawmen, Aurelion artillery crews, and the cargo-handlers of the Brassworks Combine. Practical rather than glamorous: the brass deflects glancing blade-work and shrapnel, the leather sheds rain, and the cut accommodates a sidearm holster and a hand-cranked spotter's lamp without binding.

A handheld instrument — a polished crystal lens set in a brass-and-wire cradle, etched with the marks of the seven Schools of Rifting. While holding a Channeler's Focus, you may use it in place of material components for any channel that does not require a specific named material. A Channeler's Focus serves as the channeling focus for any class that requires one to cast.

A long-barreled rifle that uses paired electromagnetic coils to accelerate a steel slug down a rifled bore — slower than a true railgun, but quiet and accurate at standoff range. Standard issue for Halcyion Federation regulars on Tier II planet deployments; also a favorite of frontier hunting parties who appreciate the lack of muzzle flash. The whine of the capacitors charging is unmistakable to anyone who has ever been on the wrong end of one.

A pocket-sized roll: pressure bandage, clotting powder sachet, two adhesive seals, and a snap-ampule of broad-spectrum analgesic. Cheap, ubiquitous, and present in every militia footlocker from the Aurelion outer marches to the Drownside back-alley clinics. As an action, you can use a Field-Bandage Pack on a creature you can touch (yourself included); the target regains 1d4 + 2 HP and the pack is consumed. The pack functions on any tier of patient — it is not effective on creatures that lack a circulatory system (constructs, undead, energy-form entities).

A single-shot belt pistol with a flint or percussion lock — the sidearm half of the industrial-tier firearm pair, sold alongside muskets at every frontier trading post. Cheap, finicky in rain, and one good shot away from being a small club. Aurelion officers still wear ornate engraved variants as parade-dress at Tier II garrisons, the way an older generation wore swords.

A leather roll of barrel reamers, rifling jigs, screwdrivers in five gauges, a small hand-vise, a powder funnel, oil bottles, and a tin of replacement flints or percussion caps. Required for crafting, modifying, or properly repairing any Tier II firearm — and serviceable in a pinch for Tier III ballistic weapons, though the modern actions punish improvisation. Frontier gunsmiths build their reputations one well-bedded barrel at a time.

A knee-length oiled-leather coat with a high collar, gusseted shoulders, and inside pockets sized for a flintlock pistol or two. Worn over light or no armor, it grants +1 AC and counts as weatherproof against rain, wind, and the corrosive dust of frontier worlds. The signature silhouette of the industrial-tier frontier: bounty hunters, line marshals, and the bonded couriers who run mail between settlements that haven't agreed on a flag yet.

A long-barreled black-powder rifle, ignited by a flint or percussion cap. The signature weapon of industrial-tier frontier deployments: Halcyion line regiments drilled with them during the early Reclamation, and Black Meridian outriders still favor stolen Aurelion-pattern muskets for the simple reason that they fire even when an EMP grenade has bricked every Tier III sidearm in the room. Slow to reload; heavy enough to break a jaw if it comes to that.

A brass-cased telescopic sight, ground-glass crosshair, with windage and elevation screws. Mounted to a compatible firearm in 10 minutes of work with gunsmith's tools. While mounted, the weapon's long-range threshold increases by 5 ft (effectively letting it reach into the next range band on a careful shot) and the wielder has advantage on attack rolls made after using an action to Aim. A scope is purely optical — no power, no electronics — which is why Aurelion sun-knights, frontier marshals, and Black Meridian assassins all still bother to carry one even when Tier III red-dots are available.

A six-chamber revolving pistol of blued steel and walnut, the standard sidearm across most Tier II worlds. Frontier marshals, riverboat gamblers, and Aurelion border-cavalry all carry one — patterns vary by manufacturer, but the principle is the same: thumb the hammer, squeeze the trigger, six rounds before the long reload. Mechanically simple enough that a halfway-competent smith can keep one firing for fifty years.

A selective-fire shoulder weapon with a polymer body, detachable box magazine, and gas-operated action. The default rifle of modern-tier conventional militaries — Halcyion Federation marines, Aurelion line infantry on Tier III deployments, and most well-funded Black Meridian crews carry minor variants of the same basic pattern. The autofire mode chews through ammunition fast enough that supply officers track magazines by the crate.

A flat-decked hover platform with a wraparound coaming, two ducted lift fans, and a single steerable thrust nozzle aft. The skiff rides a cushion of compressed air about a meter off the surface and can sustain controlled flight up to roughly 200 meters of altitude — useful for crossing a ravine, sketchy for crossing a mountain. Common on Halcyion outpost worlds for short-range courier runs, on Drownside canal cities as private water-taxis, and across the frontier wherever the roads are bad enough to make wheels a bad bet. Open-topped by default; a soft canopy is a popular dealer add-on. Stat handles (design doc §11): approximate Hull Points 25, atmospheric flight up to high subsonic in level cruise (effective sprint speed roughly 220 km/h, sustained 140), service ceiling roughly 200 m above local terrain, crew 1 (pilot) plus 3 passengers, light cargo only. Notable features: hover idle is near-silent (advantage on Stealth checks while flying below 30 km/h); one passenger-rail hardpoint accepts a tripod-mounted weapon; the lift-fan ducts are exposed and treated as a vulnerable component for called-shot or sabotage purposes.

A modern plate-carrier rig: woven aramid fiber lined with ceramic trauma plates, modular pouches across the chest and back, and a quick-release shoulder catch. Standard issue for Echelon corporate security, frontier marshals, and Halcyion Federation customs patrols deployed to Tier III worlds. Rated against most ballistic rounds at Near range; less effective against energy weapons or armor-piercing rifle slugs. Quiet enough to wear under a coat, sturdy enough to take three hits and keep walking.

A nylon-and-alloy seat harness with leg loops, gear racks, locking carabiners, and a 30-meter spool of micro-cord rated for a full-armor wearer. The wearer has advantage on Athletics checks made to climb. A mag-lock variant (same price tier) replaces the carabiners with magnetic anchors compatible with Tier IV powered armor and hull plating — useful for boarding actions, hull repair, and station infiltration where rope eyelets do not exist.

A modern utility-and-combat blade: 7-inch ceramic-coated steel, full tang, serrated spine, polymer grip with a glass-breaker pommel. Issued to Halcyion marines, carried by Echelon strike teams, and palmed by every Drownside street operator who cannot afford to be searched. Small enough to vanish under a jacket, balanced for a throw, and reliable when the firearm jams or the powder runs out.

A pump-action 12-gauge with a synthetic stock and a heat-shielded barrel — the standard close-quarters firearm of Echelon corporate security, frontier sheriffs, and almost every shipboard boarding crew working a Tier III economy. Loud, brutal, and entirely unmysterious. The kind of weapon you point at a doorway you cannot see through.

A coin-sized socket set behind the ear, threaded by a lattice of conductive filament that grows into the cervical spine over the first two days post-install. The interface gives the recipient a wired connection to compatible terminals, drones, and ship networks, plus a subvocal channel that registers as silent thought on any paired receiver within roughly 100 feet. Installed by a clinic in 6 hours, or by an Engineer with a Medical Kit and a Hacker's Deck in 12. The Halcyion Order considers the interface a minor sacrament — the rite is performed at dawn by a Tech-Priest who blesses the lattice as it knits. Black Meridian crews fit them in the back of a chop-shop and consider the etiquette settled when the bleeding stops. Echelon issues them on signing bonus and writes off the cost against future productivity. Mechanical effect: while the interface is powered and synced (a duty cycle of one micro-cell, replaced monthly), the recipient gains advantage on Technology checks to interact directly with networked systems and can hold a silent conversation with any willing party also wearing a compatible interface or earpiece at conversational range. Occupies one Cybernetic Slot (design doc §9).

A woven mesh of ceramic-fiber plates and shear-thickening gel implanted in a continuous layer between the dermis and the underlying musculature. The mesh sets up like flexible tile under normal motion and stiffens against ballistic and edged impact. Common Echelon Corporation issue for executive-protection details — the standard rider on a six-year contract — and increasingly seen on Halcyion field clergy who decline the conspicuousness of full powered armor. The procedure runs 12 hours under clinic conditions; full settle of the gel takes another week, during which the recipient feels heavy and sunburnt. The mesh is detectable on a careful weapons scan but invisible under clothing. Mechanical effect: the recipient's unarmored AC increases by +1. The bonus does not stack with worn medium or heavy armor (the underlying weave interferes with proper fit); it does stack with light armor and shields. Occupies one Cybernetic Slot. Removal is invasive and leaves substantial scarring.

A modular cybernetic replacement for a single arm or leg, common on Tier III worlds and ubiquitous in Echelon corporate medbays. The basic civilian-grade chassis is steel-and-polymer with synthetic skin overlay; combat patterns expose the bare chassis. Installation requires 8 hours of clinic-grade surgery (or 16 hours by an Engineer with a Medical Kit in the field) and consumes one of your Cybernetic Slots (per design doc §9). Once installed, the augment grants either +1 to Strength (Athletics) checks for the limb's natural use (leg variant grants +5 ft walking speed instead) or one usable concealed compartment of about a quart's volume. Removal requires surgery; the augment can be transferred to a new owner but must be re-calibrated.

A palm-sized handset with a sliding antenna, rolling-code transceiver, and a one-button panic erase. Paired against another keyed unit at issue, it talks across local repeaters and patches into Halcyion or faction grids where available. Rated secure against any Tier III interception — Echelon spooks, Aurelion signals corps, and frontier marshals all use the same generation of crypto, and they all know they are blind to anything Tier IV. Standard kit for any team operating beyond shouting distance.

A four-wheeled hauler — internal-combustion or hydrogen-cell depending on local supply — built on a ladder frame heavy enough to survive a colony's first decade and simple enough to be welded back together with a field arc. The cab seats one driver and one passenger; the rear bench seats two more or folds flat for cargo. Every frontier world has its own brand: the Federation field service hands them out under an austere monogram, Drownside chop-shops kit them with bullbars and roll cage, Aurelion outposts repaint them gold and pretend they came from a workshop on Aurelios. Stat handles for the vehicle subsystem (design doc §11): approximate Hull Points 30, ground speed up to roughly 110 km/h on graded road and 40 cross-country, crew 1 (driver) plus 3 passengers, cargo capacity around 1,500 lb in the open bed. Notable features: hardpoint on the cab roof rated for a light weapon mount or comms dish; tow hitch; sealed engine bay rated for dust and shallow fording but not vacuum; spare drive-cell stowage under the rear bench. A Pilot with the Cavalryman or Ace Flyer subclass treats the truck as a competent baseline mount but not a Bonded Vessel.

A folding slate of grey-market electronics — encrypted bus interfaces, a tactile haptic keyboard, an antenna array tuned to the major commercial protocols, and a chip-bank of pre-loaded intrusion routines. Standard kit for Drownside operators, Echelon black-bag specialists, and frontier comms officers who would rather not pay for a vendor licence. While using a Hacker's Deck and not incapacitated, you have advantage on Technology checks made to access, override, or sabotage any Tier II–IV electronic, communications, or control system. The Deck is not effective against Tier V (Mythar, Valryn, deep-Rift) systems, which require dedicated work.

A pocket roll of tension wrenches, hook picks, rakes, a bump key, and an electric pick-gun the size of a pen. Required to make a Sleight of Hand check against any mechanical lock at Tier III or below; against Tier IV biometric or magnetic locks, lockpicks are useless and a hacker's deck is the tool of choice instead. The Black Meridian Syndicate trains apprentices on pin-tumbler practice cylinders for a year before issuing them.

A hardshell field-medic case: clotting foam canisters, broad-spectrum injectors, a portable diagnostic wand, suture stapler, splint inflatables, and a tray of single-use stimulants. While you carry a Medical Kit and are not incapacitated, you have advantage on Medicine checks made to stabilize a creature, diagnose an injury or illness, or apply emergency aid. Once per short rest, you may expend supplies from the Kit to restore 2d4 + 2 HP to a willing creature you can touch; after ten such uses, the consumables must be replenished (15 cr at any Tier III–IV settlement).

A face-sealing mask plus a chest-mounted scrubber canister, rated for one hour of operation in vacuum, toxic atmosphere, or smoke. After expiry the scrubber must be recharged at a Tier III or higher service station. Cheaper and lighter than a full EVA suit, the rebreather is what frontier prospectors, fire-rescue crews, and any sensible boarding party carry as backup when the primary life-support fails. The Halcyion Navy issues one to every rated crew member regardless of station; the Aurelion Ascendancy considers them standard kit on any hull surveyor's belt.

A modern composite mesh of woven ballistic fiber and silicate plating, worn beneath street clothes or layered over a uniform. Standard issue for Echelon corporate security and frontier marshals. Light enough that a wearer can sprint full-speed without strain; not rated for vacuum.

A pull-pin canister that vents dense particulate smoke from four side ports for one minute. As an action, throw it up to 30 ft. The grenade fills a 20-ft radius sphere with lightly-obscured smoke for 1 minute, or until dispersed by a strong wind. The smoke does not impede breathing for creatures inside, but does break line-of-sight for both visual and most Tier III optical targeting. Standard issue for any modern-tier extraction team; Black Meridian crews use them to cover the seconds between entry and the lights going out.

A long heavy-barreled precision rifle, free-floated and stocked for prone shooting, with an integrated variable-magnification optic. Halcyion Naval Infantry designate one per fireteam; Aurelion sun-watch towers keep a pair on standoff overlook of every Tier III border post. The two-rounds-per-turn cap is not a hardware limit — it is a doctrine, since a sniper who fires more than that has been compromised already.

A modular plate-carrier rig with ceramic ballistic inserts, MOLLE-pattern attachment loops across the front and back, and integrated load-bearing for magazines, comms, and a hydration bladder. The default body armor of modern-tier professionals: Halcyion strike teams, Echelon corporate security, frontier marshals on serious calls. Light enough to wear all shift, quiet enough to move in, and modular enough that the same carrier outlives three deployments of inserts.

A two-prong electrolaser sidearm: fires a barbed pair of darts trailing a conductive filament, then dumps a calibrated current down the line. Halcyion peacekeepers, Aurelion magistrate's bailiffs, and most station-side security firms carry them as the legal-restraint option below a sidearm. Black Meridian crews carry them to take live prisoners. Effective at close range only; useless against full powered armor.

A pocket-sized resonance cone, cast in Mythar alloy with a fan of fragile rift-glass vanes. To activate, the wielder snaps the cone open as a free action while casting an area channel, routing the channel through the cone. The radius (or affected area) of that single AOE channel is doubled. The amplifier is consumed on use — the rift-glass vanes flash white and crumble to dust. Halcyion Order field-priests carry one or two for the engagements that demand them; Black Meridian extraction teams sometimes wire them in series for desperate cover-fire denial.

A full replacement limb — most often an arm — engineered around a dorsal tool-mount socket sized to accept a single mountable attachment: a forearm-mounted welding torch, a retractable monoblade, a short-barreled holdout, a med-injector, a grapple-line spool, or a cluster of fine-manipulation instruments. Unlike the civilian limb augment (a cosmetic-and-utility piece), the modular pattern is a Halcyion Engineering Corps and Federation Marine standard, designed to be field-serviced in a forward operating chapel. The chassis is bare composite by default; recipients within the Order are expected to leave the chassis visible as a public act of devotion (the Halcyion ancestry's Devotional Augmentation often takes this form at higher levels). Installation takes 12 hours of clinic work, or 24 with an Engineer in the field. Mechanical effect: the limb functions as a full biological replacement and grants either +1 to Strength (Athletics) checks for tasks the limb leads (arm variant) or +5 ft to walking speed (leg variant). The integrated socket can host one Tier III or IV attachment at a time; swapping the mounted attachment requires a short rest and the appropriate tools. Mounted weapon attachments are concealable and treated as light weapons of their base type. Occupies one Cybernetic Slot.

A surgical replacement for one or both biological eyes, or — in the lighter conversion — a thin neural overlay grafted to a still-organic optic nerve. The lens stack supports a wider spectrum than human cones, including a passive low-light mode and a deliberately ugly threat-marker overlay that paints hostile silhouettes against the visual field. Halcyion versions are filigreed at the orbital rim and dedicated at the cathedra before fitting; Aurelion court patterns are gold-flecked and conceal the seam under cosmetic glamour; Echelon issue is matte-black, branded at the iris with a serial. The Federation considers binocular conversion a mark of pilgrimage; the Order requires its full-conversion clergy to surrender the irises of their birth. Mechanical effect: the recipient gains low-light vision out to 60 feet (treats dim light as bright light) and, while powered, a +1 bonus to attack rolls made against creatures the recipient has observed for at least one round. Activating the threat-marker overlay in combat is a free action; the overlay imposes disadvantage on saves against effects that flood the visual field with sudden light (the augment's contrast pipeline is cruel about flashbangs). Occupies one Cybernetic Slot.

A neuromuscular tuning array — a hair-thin filament network threaded along the spine, shoulders, and major leg flexors — coupled to a co-processor sutured into the base of the skull. The loom samples motor intent a few tens of milliseconds before the recipient consciously registers it and pre-tensions the relevant muscle groups, smoothing reaction time into something the body's own evolution never managed. Halcyion duelist orders consider the loom a relic-grade augmentation and reserve it for sworn champions; Echelon sells the consumer model to executives who fence as a hobby; Black Meridian gunslingers buy the gray-market clone and accept the higher failure rate. Settle takes a month of mandatory physical therapy — the recipient must relearn fine motor habits the loom now anticipates. Mechanical effect: the recipient gains a +1 bonus to initiative rolls. Once per long rest, the recipient can declare the loom is firing as a reaction to any Dexterity saving throw they make, gaining advantage on that save. Occupies one Cybernetic Slot.

A surgically implanted Rift-channel relay: a finger-length resonator of Mythar-alloy and lattice-grown crystal seated against the sternum, with branching micro-conduits laid along the ribs. The conduit does not store energy; it tunes the recipient's existing channel to a tighter standing wave, letting them push more of themselves through it. The installation itself is dangerous — the surgeon must thread the resonator past an already-active Rift channel without cancelling it — which is why the augment is gated to recipients with some pre-existing Rift Affinity rather than being a path in. The Halcyion Order treats installation as a major sacrament; only a Cathedra-rank Tech-Priest may perform the rite, and the recipient takes a new ecclesial name. Aurelion mystics sometimes accept the conduit as a vow-of-binding. Echelon does not offer it commercially; the few gray-market units in circulation are stolen Federation stock. Mechanical effect: the recipient's Rift Affinity score increases by 1 (to a maximum of the campaign's standard cap). Once per long rest, when the recipient resolves a channel of any level — a spell, a Halcyion rite, an energy-weapon special mode, a Sorcerer-style point spend — they may declare the conduit is firing as a free action, adding +1d8 to that channel's damage or healing roll. The bonus die is the conduit's own resonance and is not multiplied by critical hits. Requires attunement; occupies one Cybernetic Slot.

A pull-pin emitter that releases a focused electromagnetic pulse on detonation. As an action, throw it up to 30 ft. On detonation, all Tier III electronics in a 20-ft radius are disabled for 1 minute — communicators dead, optics blanked, cybernetic limbs locked. Tier IV electronics may resist on a CON save (DC 14); on a failure they are disabled for 1 round only, on a success they take no effect. Creatures with extensive Tier III cybernetic augmentation count as Tier III electronics for this effect. The EMP does not harm flesh directly but the secondary effects — a frozen cybernetic limb mid-fall, blanked life support — are often worse than the shot it would have taken to bring the target down.

A clear hexagonal prism of laminated rift-glass, edge-set in Mythar wire and shaped to nest beside a Channeler's Focus on the same lanyard. While attuned and held in the off-hand alongside a Channeler's Focus, channels cast through the paired focus gain +1 to attack rolls and to save DCs. A creature without Rift Affinity 2 or higher cannot attune to the crystal. Aurelion sun-mystics treat them as inherited regalia and pass them down across three generations; Halcyion Order tech-priests grow new ones in resonance lattices, but the grown crystals are widely considered inferior to those harvested from Mythar ruins.

A two-handed device shaped like a stubbed-off baton, ringed with concentric emitter coils and capped by a focusing iris. As an action, the wielder selects a point within 60 ft and projects a 10-ft-radius sphere of altered local gravity for up to 1 minute (concentration). At activation, choose: heavy field (creatures inside have their effective weight increased by 50%, halving their speed and imposing disadvantage on Acrobatics and STR-jump checks) or light field (effective weight reduced by 50%, doubling jump distance and granting advantage on Acrobatics in the field, but ranged attacks made from within the field have disadvantage). Halcyion engineering corps use them for salvage; Aurelion theatre-mystics use them for spectacle; Black Meridian crews use them for boarding actions in zero-G corridors.

A coffin-sized lattice of cold-formed Mythar alloy and resonance-coiled gravimetric capacitors, sealed in a vacuum case and stamped with a Halcyion Federation provenance hologram (or a forged one, depending on the dealer). A replacement core for a starship's faster-than-light drive: enough to bring a single damaged or disabled FTL system back online with 4 hours of engineering work in a properly-equipped bay. Frontier yards mark them up viciously; Black Meridian fences will deliver one in a crate to your hangar within a week if you don't ask where it came from.

A belt-clipped emitter block the size of a paperback, with a haptic activation stud and a status ring that pulses cyan when charged. While attuned and worn, the bearer may spend the device's single charge as a reaction to gain 30 temporary hit points; these temp HP last until expended or until the wearer finishes a long rest. The generator recovers its charge over a short rest. Halcyion Navy boarding parties wear them stacked under their plates; Echelon executive bodyguards keep them concealed beneath suit jackets. Distinctly Tier IV — anything below cannot recharge the capacitor on a useful timescale.

A small armed starship — about forty meters keel to nose, lean amidships, with a pair of slung engine nacelles and a folding atmospheric wing the Federation underwriters insist on. The light corvette is the smallest hull rated for independent FTL crossings and the largest a single committed crew can fly without specialist deck staff. The class is the iconic Smuggler-Captain vessel: armed enough to make a customs cutter think twice, cheap enough to lose to a bad debt, fast enough off the deck to outrun the consequences. Federation patrol issue is austere and white-painted; Black Meridian conversions repaint over the serial and weld extra fuel cells where the auxiliary hold used to be; Aurelion privateer commissions are absurd. Stat handles (design doc §11): approximate Hull Points 60 (component subsystems split per planned hull-component subsystem), in-system sublight cruise on the order of mid-fraction-of-c, atmospheric flight low-supersonic in level cruise, FTL jump capacity for short to medium hauls between charted nodes with a single navigator. Crew 6 minimum-effective (pilot, co-pilot/navigator, engineer, gunner, comms, and one rotating bunk); berths for 8 passengers in tight quarters or fewer in comfort. Notable features: dorsal turret hardpoint plus two fixed forward weapon mounts; modest cargo hold (roughly 60 cubic meters); life-support sustains crew complement for approximately 60 days; integrated docking collar. A Pilot of the Smuggler-Captain subclass treats this corvette as a Bonded Vessel.

A bipedal combat walker scaled for a single pilot — roughly three meters tall, two-and-a-half tonnes, with a reverse-articulated leg geometry and a stubby torso block built around the cockpit. The light walker is the smallest unit class still rated for line combat; on the Federation side it serves as a heavy-infantry support element, on the Echelon side as a corporate-security shock unit, on the frontier as the answer to anything bigger than a person and meaner. The pilot enters through a dorsal hatch and lies prone in a contoured harness; control is a hybrid of stick-and-pedal and direct neural feedback if a Cyber-Neural Interface is fitted. Stat handles (design doc §11): approximate Hull Points 45, walking speed equal to a fast jog (the walker takes a 20-foot step), short sprint bursts roughly twice that, no atmospheric flight, no swimming, fords water up to torso height. Crew 1 (pilot); no passengers. Notable features: torso-mount hardpoint sized for one shoulder-class ranged weapon (treat as the pilot's mounted weapon, fired using the pilot's Piloting modifier in place of attack proficiency until the full vehicle subsystem lands); composite armor treats the walker as powered-armor scale (immune to small-arms ballistic damage); manipulator claw rated for crude handling but not fine work. A Pilot of the Mech Pilot subclass treats this walker as a Bonded Vessel.

A shoulder-mounted heavy energy rifle that accelerates a coherent particle stream down a magnetically-collimated barrel. Issued to Halcyion Federation siege specialists, Aurelion Sentinel-knights, and the Echelon Corporation's executive-protection details. The recoil is negligible; the report is a low, sustained hum that crawls along the spine. Wielders with Rift Affinity or Engineer Charges can power a Coherent Beam mode — a sustained lance that punches through cover and the formation behind it.

A shoulder-braced plasma projector — a magnetic containment bottle, a primary capacitor bank, and an aperture-vent the diameter of a dinner plate. Halcyion Federation Heavy Infantry mount the standard pattern on a powered-armor hardpoint; Aurelion Solar Cataphracts carry sun-blessed variants whose containment glyphs are inscribed in Helian script. Without a powered exoskeleton to absorb recoil and shed heat, firing one disables the wielder almost as effectively as being shot by one.

A compact sidearm that vents a contained sliver of magnetically-bottled plasma at a target. Standard issue for Halcyion Federation officers, Aurelion sun-knights deployed off-world, and any spacefaring crew who values stopping power over ammunition mass. The bore glows faintly even at rest; the pistol hums when drawn. Wielders with Rift Affinity can route a Channel Slot through the cell to fire an Overcharge Lance shot — a momentary peeling-back of the containment field that lances through cover and ignites whatever it touches.

A semi-rigid exo-suit of articulated composite plating over a load-bearing skeleton, with integrated micro-servos that take the weight off the wearer's joints. The light variant is favored by Halcyion Federation marines on boarding actions, Aurelion sun-cavalry on low-G deployments, and Echelon corporate response teams who need ballistic protection without losing mobility. While powered (a single energy cell sustains a standard duty cycle for 8 hours), the suit's servos counteract its own mass; the wearer suffers no Strength requirement and no stealth penalty. If the suit runs out of charge, treat it as medium armor with strRequirement 13 and stealth disadvantage until recharged.

A palm-sized cylinder of laminated rift-glass and Mythar-alloy contacts, with a haptic ring that warms when charged. While attuned, the bearer may, as a bonus action, store one of their unspent channel slots (or equivalent point-cost) into the battery, up to a total capacity of 5 slots' worth. Stored channels may be transferred back into the bearer's own pool, or routed into a compatible Apparatus or relic, on contact (1 action). Charges that go unused regenerate to their original slot level over 24 hours of dormancy in a low-Rift environment. Halcyion Order tech-priests issue Rift Batteries to fielded Channelers as part of standard kit; Echelon Research-Division operators carry them off-books.

A palm-sized lens of laminated rift-glass set in a ring of cold-forged Mythar alloy, etched with a single recursive sigil that seems to deepen the longer you look at it. Recovered from Mythar ruin-sites and refurbished by Aurelion artificers, the Focus binds itself to a single channeler during a long rest of attunement. While attuned, you may use the Focus as a channeling focus in place of any other; once per long rest, when you cast a channel through it, you may add +1d4 to either the channel's damage roll or its save DC (your choice, declared before the roll). A creature without Rift Affinity 2 or higher cannot attune to the Focus and gains no benefit from holding it.

A full-pressure extra-vehicular activity suit: layered thermal-and-puncture skin, hardshell helmet with heads-up display, magnetic boot soles, gauntlets with fine-manipulation overrides, and a backpack life-support pack rated for 12 hours in hard vacuum or hostile atmospheres. The standard EVA pattern across the spacefaring tier — Halcyion Navy crews, Aurelion solar-cruiser deckhands, and frontier asteroid prospectors all wear minor variants. The armor is light by combat standards; its real value is keeping you alive on the wrong side of a hull breach.

A thumb-sized splinter of the Continuum Crystal, shattered during the First Continuum Crisis and recovered from the ruin-fields of a Mythar enclave that no living scholar can name. The shard is colorless from one angle, white-hot from another, and entirely absent from a third — pictures of it never quite agree on what was photographed. While attuned, the bearer may, once per week, attempt to scry across planes: choose a known person, place, or moment in time and concentrate on the shard for 10 minutes. The GM may grant a vision, may grant a partial vision, may grant a lie, or may grant the attention of something that should not have been looked at. The Halcyion Order officially denies that shards exist; their reliquaries hold seven.

A fragment of the Heart of Helios — a palm-sized chip of crystalline solar matter that keeps a hand's warmth in any temperature and glows from within with a steady gold light no one has yet measured. Recovered from the deepest reliquaries of the Aurelion Ascendancy or, more often, salvaged from the wreckage of the cathedrals that held them. While attuned, once per long rest, when the bearer drops to 0 hit points, they instead rise with 1 hit point and emit a 30-ft radius pulse of golden light: each ally in the radius regains 3d8 + CHA modifier hit points. The pulse cannot be suppressed and the bearer's nature as a Helios-bearer is, briefly and inescapably, public.

A recovered Mythar artifact of unknown specific function — most often a fist-sized polyhedron of dark alloy, edges etched in spiraling Mythar script that warms to the touch but never to the eye. Scholars argue over translation; no two examples render the same text. While attuned, once per long rest the bearer may spend a minute studying a scene, object, or recently-departed person and attempt a Mythar-language Insight check (roll Insight with advantage, plus the bearer's attunement DC modifier as a flat bonus). On a strong success, the GM provides a piece of ancient knowledge relevant to what is studied — a name, a date, an intent, a warning. On a weak result, the bearer hears only fragments; on a failure, nothing comes through but the cold.