PISSPOWERASSCHRIST

A militantly obscure underground breakbeat industrial “movement” enjoyed by Jason, listened to by Thad and proselytized by Rayne.

A real (joke) “band” with real (joke) music and a real (joke) website.

Premiere Landscaping

PLAMPT (Premiere Landscaping and Manure Processing Technologies) is a waste treatment and disposal corporation headquartered in Morgan Bay, Helios. Originally centered on the landscaping market, the fledgling PLAMPT quickly realized that the enormous demand for high quality fertilizer both planet-side and in space hydroponics presented golden opportunities in the waste extraction, processing, compaction and storage markets. In 451 PLAMPT introduced the COMMANDER series of self-contained bacteria-powered commodes and urinals, available in zero-gravity and gravity-assisted variants.

Pollux

The Pollux is an ICG-built Foundation-class heavy cruiser operated by the ETL Colonial Authority. While similar to the Castores, the Pollux has a few key differences – a longer nose with an observation deck, larger fuel and water tanks, mounting points and docking interfaces for Titan-class picket ships, and a radically different engineering section featuring an ETL-built FTL system.

Psi-Obs

The Psionic Observation Ward is located in the most secure part of Bethlehem Medical Centre – Sub-level Three, way in the back. When properly staffed a number of security checkpoints prevent casual access to the most advanced scanning and recording equipment in the facility.

Quantum Analogue Relay

The Heirotus-built Quantum Analogue Relay (QAR) is a highly advanced piece of real-time telecommunications hardware made possible by a combination of mass abstraction, crystal twinning, and classified advances derived from Judas Lang‘s “patent dump” of MBO-2.

Due to mass abstraction requirements the QAR can only be safely operated in space. The core of the device is a sphere removed from external mass influence, with its own gravity plane and atmosphere. The QAR operates by essentially creating the same environment in two places at once, allowing for realtime communication and interaction. Objects in two separate QAR spheres are – to human perception – effectively in the same QAR sphere. Individuals at the other end of a QAR session create a local Holt-Rischmann Variance.

Rail Tunnel

The rail tunnel is a subterranean area of Earth 3.0, notable for connecting a maintenance closet that overlaps Sublevel Three of Bethlehem Medical Centre with an abandoned missile silo a few miles away. Templar discovered the tunnel and overlap points at some point in the mid 90s and restored parts of the electrical system to working order. The tunnel serves as a covert evacuation route, enabling anyone who can transition between realities to escape from beneath BMC without egressing to the surface.

Rattan Cane

The 4′ long 1/2″ thick Rattan Cane is a walking stick and sometimes-weapon favored by Thad, who also uses it as a focus for harnessing and projecting his psychic will. Dyluck uses the weapon as a foci in a similar fashion, to a much greater effect.

Greymalkin apparently recognized its intended use, insisting that Ornix carry it aboard the Daedalus.

Relay GLF-4728

One of thousands of automated refueling and relay stations scattered across known space, the ICG Combined Refueling Station & Telecommunications Relay in high orbit above GLF-4728 is officially at the very edge of explored space. Sitting at the end of the validated ICG charts and a very very long way from anywhere even remotely interesting, the relay officially exists to support ICG charting operations in grid G.

Sabrosa

Heirotus capital ship prototype 47 (HX-47) Sabrosa is the testbed for several technologies incorporated in the Type 47 class of Heirotus Colonial Authority warships, in mass production at the time of The Dualist. The ship contains the company’s first dual-core biomagnetic transfer system (DC-BTS), the first capital-scale portable multi-field combined mass amplifier and displacement system (CMADS), the first organically powered mass driver, the first two Majestic class recon ships assigned to a deep range deployment, the first vehicle-based Quantum Analogue Relay (QAR) and a host of other innovations, iterations and improvements on proven technology.

SGD-12

The Barghosa Submachine Gun (Disposable, Model 12) is just that. Disposable. Made of cheap ultra-lightweight plastics and polymers with an absolute minimum of metal parts, the weapon is designed to fire a few hundred rounds with low to middling accuracy. Typically used for suppression fire, the SGD-12 persists in space security and related fields for two very simple reasons – first, it’s less than half the weight of the lightest equivalent durable SMG, and second, the low weight and poor build quality come with an equivalent price.

Weapons of this type are typically carried by long endurance spacecraft, where the low mass and long shelf life are considered key selling points.

While the Sabrosa has real guns in its armory, Grij orders the troops deployed to Earth equipped with the lowest quality kit on board – he expects casualties, and doesn’t want the good stuff falling into the hands of a less advanced civilization.

Shuttlepod

Autonomous Entry Vehicle C728 is a small two-person entry craft that disappeared from the Castores around the time of a mysterious electrical fire. A smaller version of the Buran, STS, or Dream Chaser, the AEV is a reusable lifting body designed to transport a pilot and passenger or two passengers via a pre-programmed entry plan from planetary orbit to a planetary landing strip. It cannot attain orbit under its own power, relying on a booster like the X-20 or riding in a payload fairing like the X-37.

Sickbay

The Sabrosa‘s sickbay is a state-of-the-art modular medical facility. Located at the base of the ship’s “neck,” the sprawling series of compartments features per-compartment life support, advanced particulate scrubbers, dynamically adjustable lighting, and a low population density relative to other parts of the ship. As most Heirotus injuries in The Dualist were fatal, the only patient in the sickbay during Transitional Voices is Thaddeus Gallahad.

Snow Globe

The Heirotus-issue “Snow Globe” is a canteen-shaped short range electronic warfare device. It can blanket a specific frequency for a lengthy amount of time or a broad swath of the communications spectrum for a short period of time. The function and effect is somewhat similar to an Atari or 8-bit Nintendo in proximity to an FM radio. It is unclear if the device impacts Addicaine cybernetic capabilities – if it does, it would explain why Greg triggered one after running a ballistic macro.

The device may or may not interfere with Heirotus communications frequencies.

Standard Date

The Galactic Standard Date (GSD) is a wide-spread means of time-keeping. While “Standard Date” is the official term, it’s considered “Galactic Standard” by the Fed and its Colonial Authorities and “Federal Standard” by non-Fed states.

The 360-day Standard Year (SY) is based on no specific orbital period or rotational period. Rather, it is officially based on an average of the orbital periods of several human-inhabited planets, with the 25-hour Standard Day based on a rounded average of broadly sampled human biorhythms. Unofficially, there’s 360 ° to a circle and the math from there is just… easier.

Sub-level One

Sub-level One connects the surface levels of Bethlehem Medical Centre to the more interesting bits beneath. Points of interest include an information kiosk, vending machines, plenty of storage space, and the Biomagnetics Lab. While the PA system and elevators are in good condition, the locks and corridor gates are in need of replacement.

Sub-level Three

Bethlehem Medical Centre Sub-level Three connects Psi-Obs and the secret exit to the Rail Tunnel as well as a number of storage bays and offices to the rest of the facility. It is one of the more secure sections of BMC, with the access to the Psi-Obs BMRI protected by multiple security checkpoints, including a blast door.

Templar

A semi-secret society formed by an alliance of complementary initiatic traditions, the Templar are a loose-knit order of enlightened individuals dedicated to the exploration and documentation of human potential.

Since Judas Lang took control of the organization, the Templar are also a well equipped and capable paramilitary force, financed almost entirely by Expert Technologies.