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I don't write (for on here anyway) nearly as much scifi stuff as I shove into my brainpan. This is largely, it must be admitted, because the trends in scifi rpgs/fiction/etc have not really marched with mine in a while (when they do/did at all). But I do love scifi stuff.
An interesting ("interesting" *grumblemutter*) side-effect of this -- and also of how scifi by its nature starts off infinitely more specialized in its settings and terminologies than fantasy -- is that writing a non-specific trinket table is a hell of a lot more of a brain pain >.> But I think I mostly managed. Sort of >.>;;
This is still basically a flavoured table; it also presumes scifi of the spaceships-and-stations-and-alien-worlds type. Hopefully its generic enough to be of at least some use.
Stuff for starter PCs, things left behind in ship's quarters, random bits and bobs ...
01. A sketch of orbital station blueprints on folded plasfilm showing several hidden areas
02. Spool of nanofilament in ceramic case
03. Palm-sized insectile autodrone needing a powercell charge
04. A handful of titanium ball bearings in a foam case
05. Plasfilm passenger manifest from a ship of the line, a year old, highlights in red
06. A microwelder that burns white-bright from its needle
07. A violet-orange tile from a ship's hull, scorched and crazed
08. A teardrop holo-pendant with a message from someone not seen in years
09. Six tokens for the organic food autofac
10. Thin slip of alloy laminate, a skeleton passkey with at least a half-dozen uses before null
11. A shard of glassteel from a vacc-suit's visor, speckled with blood
12. Two fully charged powercells for a truly antique sidearm
13. An identification nodule, smooth, glassy and adhesive, coded for someone else
14. A collapsible duranium omniwrench
15. An entire case of retro holo disclets -- at least two dozen, surely something watchable
16. A psionic focus stone, oblong and shifting through pale colours
17. Sample of feathery, icy blue foliage in a sealed cryo-vial
18. Forearm-sized canister of asteroid samples labeled "hell sand" in angry scribbling
19. Crew patches for a famous ship in a nondescript plas folder
20. Dozen illumi-strips, white and blue and orange light
21. Palm-tablet and stylus filled with personal notes and doodles
22. Plas folder of transfer papers detailing a ship's last seven transits
23. Uniform patch depicting a paw clutching a gear and a ringed planet
24. Four packets of dry myco-noodles
25. Passage chit for out of system travel with no ID encoded yet
26. A chrome animatronic mouse
27. Sealed neolaminate ampoule labeled "astramutagen"
28. A dozen different colourful station tags on a ball-chain
29. Pocket radiation meter with empty radpill dispenser
30. Unopened tube of quick-dry ferroenamel
31. Autoinjector pod and six doses of universal antitoxin
32. An eye that looks human, except for its luminous iris and slit pupil, not decaying
33. Hand-sized duranium case of repair tools and replacement light-circuits
34. Four slap-on Wake! patches (better than nu-caf!)
35. Etcher-pen with three different nibs: synthpla, ceramic, standard alloys
36. Packet of worn synthfiber papers: letters from a lost colony world
37. Alumifibre waist pouch packed with basic medkit and handheld autodoc
38. Fragment from a detonated cloud bomb, half-crystallized
39. A malfunctioning(?) psi-collar, smoothly chrome and featureless, unlocked, but what is the code
40. Handful of mysterious spherules (seeds? spores? stones? art project?) in lucite specimen box
41. Oldtech datapad still loaded with files from times before, needs a power cord or converter
42. Hand-sized vacc-packet: emergency environmental clingsuit, one use only
43. Child's drawing of a planetary system, bright colours on plasfilm sheet
44. Canister of water purification tablets, ten remaining
45. The focus lens belonging to a prototype beam weapon
46. Two applications of hair chrome in foil squeezy-packs
47. A model spacecraft, lovingly but roughly painted, with a secret "box" inside
48. A dataprism recording a military craft's last transmission
49. System charts for an unfamiliar sector of space, one star labeled Rise Up! in red handwriting
50. Worn synthpaper chapbook: Finding Your Psychic Self
51. Pristine synthpaper chapbook: The Dangers Of Unshackled Psi
52. Translucent holobead that projects the stars of an alien sky
53. Comms headset sculpted to look like a hair ornament
54. Holo-overlay lenses, three different enviroments preprogrammed
55. Smooth black arc-visor, UV and infrared capable
56. Holographic measurement-projector with four different standards of measurement
57. Set of coloured marbles in a slim black case, for teaching star types
58. Lenticular holovinyl poster for a resort station
59. Scorched Sample Loading Dock signplate, paint starting to chip
60. A dozen data wafers in clingcase, fresh and unencoded
61. Small plas box of samples of soil from a dozen worlds
62. Nu-canvas tag, red on black: Remove Before Ejecting
63. Nu-canvas tag, gold on grey: Astra Diaspora
64. Nu-canvas tag, silver on blue: Pilot On Board
65. Stained military identification tags, deactivated and apparently inert
66. Tiny duralloy case containing glass ampoule of swirling green fluid and a ciphered note
67. Space squid plushie, shimmery blue-violet with black glass eyes
68. Worker pod mantenance manual, tattered and dog-eared
69. Sleek and form-fitting filter mask, lower face only, rhinestoned
70. Crew identification skin-circuit, not yet activated (also kind of tingly)
71. Sugar-wax container of cooking lipids, neutral flavour
72. Pocket sweets-fac, still powered but needs feedstock
73. Personal log datafilm, foldable and has about a week of storage left
74. Thermal water-bulb, brushed metal surface covered with holo tape and an "Ad Terra" sticker
75. Plasteel-fibre gloves, thermally lined
76. Touch-seal pouch filled with bolts, springs, wire, scrap, bits of ceramic, quick-dry enamel applicators
77. Four vacc-packets of sliced fruits from a distant agriworld
78. Dataslug loaded with info and contact codes for a mechanists' union
79. A tangle of crystalline alien circuitry the size of a fist
80. Three phosphorescent gel brush-applicators
81. Sealed foil packet of six omnitreat medical slap patches
82. Well-loved nanoedge bolt cutters with cherry pink grips
83. Universal adapter cable with three extra handmade adapter heads, just in case
84. Scrap of a xenodocument: alien script in raised coloured inks on a sheet of filmy material
85. Single-use border chit for admittance into a restricted sector
86. Duralloy case long as a forearm welded shut and labeled Do Not Open; it jingles and sloshes
87. A thin, brightly-coloured ceramic plate peeled from a custom armour sheath
88. Dataslate loaded with attempts at formulating better space kibbles
89. Flavour dropper ampoules for space kibbles: "beef", sweet-and-pepper, vanilla, and ginger-lemon
90. Mini antigrav disc and control bead, disc adhesive and good for up to 50 lbs
91. Cold light wand, blue-green-red-pink plus colourless, 12 hrs before charging
92. Foil-sealed case containing data wafer and synthpaper copies of a ship's letter of recommendation
93. Vacc-suit emergency repair kit pouch
94. Packet of two dozen enameled decals of ship identification codes
95. Screwtop metal vial containing six capsules of psi-sense meds
96. Pocket-sized booklet half filled with ship, colony and station stamps
97. A pressed fractal "flower", iridescent black, in transparent plasfilm
98. An animatronic kitten, blue striped brown tabby, very fluffy
99. Three water-bulbs filled with lab shine
100. Bundle of literature in varying formats for a good dozen stellar cults
An interesting ("interesting" *grumblemutter*) side-effect of this -- and also of how scifi by its nature starts off infinitely more specialized in its settings and terminologies than fantasy -- is that writing a non-specific trinket table is a hell of a lot more of a brain pain >.> But I think I mostly managed. Sort of >.>;;
This is still basically a flavoured table; it also presumes scifi of the spaceships-and-stations-and-alien-worlds type. Hopefully its generic enough to be of at least some use.
Stuff for starter PCs, things left behind in ship's quarters, random bits and bobs ...
01. A sketch of orbital station blueprints on folded plasfilm showing several hidden areas
02. Spool of nanofilament in ceramic case
03. Palm-sized insectile autodrone needing a powercell charge
04. A handful of titanium ball bearings in a foam case
05. Plasfilm passenger manifest from a ship of the line, a year old, highlights in red
06. A microwelder that burns white-bright from its needle
07. A violet-orange tile from a ship's hull, scorched and crazed
08. A teardrop holo-pendant with a message from someone not seen in years
09. Six tokens for the organic food autofac
10. Thin slip of alloy laminate, a skeleton passkey with at least a half-dozen uses before null
11. A shard of glassteel from a vacc-suit's visor, speckled with blood
12. Two fully charged powercells for a truly antique sidearm
13. An identification nodule, smooth, glassy and adhesive, coded for someone else
14. A collapsible duranium omniwrench
15. An entire case of retro holo disclets -- at least two dozen, surely something watchable
16. A psionic focus stone, oblong and shifting through pale colours
17. Sample of feathery, icy blue foliage in a sealed cryo-vial
18. Forearm-sized canister of asteroid samples labeled "hell sand" in angry scribbling
19. Crew patches for a famous ship in a nondescript plas folder
20. Dozen illumi-strips, white and blue and orange light
21. Palm-tablet and stylus filled with personal notes and doodles
22. Plas folder of transfer papers detailing a ship's last seven transits
23. Uniform patch depicting a paw clutching a gear and a ringed planet
24. Four packets of dry myco-noodles
25. Passage chit for out of system travel with no ID encoded yet
26. A chrome animatronic mouse
27. Sealed neolaminate ampoule labeled "astramutagen"
28. A dozen different colourful station tags on a ball-chain
29. Pocket radiation meter with empty radpill dispenser
30. Unopened tube of quick-dry ferroenamel
31. Autoinjector pod and six doses of universal antitoxin
32. An eye that looks human, except for its luminous iris and slit pupil, not decaying
33. Hand-sized duranium case of repair tools and replacement light-circuits
34. Four slap-on Wake! patches (better than nu-caf!)
35. Etcher-pen with three different nibs: synthpla, ceramic, standard alloys
36. Packet of worn synthfiber papers: letters from a lost colony world
37. Alumifibre waist pouch packed with basic medkit and handheld autodoc
38. Fragment from a detonated cloud bomb, half-crystallized
39. A malfunctioning(?) psi-collar, smoothly chrome and featureless, unlocked, but what is the code
40. Handful of mysterious spherules (seeds? spores? stones? art project?) in lucite specimen box
41. Oldtech datapad still loaded with files from times before, needs a power cord or converter
42. Hand-sized vacc-packet: emergency environmental clingsuit, one use only
43. Child's drawing of a planetary system, bright colours on plasfilm sheet
44. Canister of water purification tablets, ten remaining
45. The focus lens belonging to a prototype beam weapon
46. Two applications of hair chrome in foil squeezy-packs
47. A model spacecraft, lovingly but roughly painted, with a secret "box" inside
48. A dataprism recording a military craft's last transmission
49. System charts for an unfamiliar sector of space, one star labeled Rise Up! in red handwriting
50. Worn synthpaper chapbook: Finding Your Psychic Self
51. Pristine synthpaper chapbook: The Dangers Of Unshackled Psi
52. Translucent holobead that projects the stars of an alien sky
53. Comms headset sculpted to look like a hair ornament
54. Holo-overlay lenses, three different enviroments preprogrammed
55. Smooth black arc-visor, UV and infrared capable
56. Holographic measurement-projector with four different standards of measurement
57. Set of coloured marbles in a slim black case, for teaching star types
58. Lenticular holovinyl poster for a resort station
59. Scorched Sample Loading Dock signplate, paint starting to chip
60. A dozen data wafers in clingcase, fresh and unencoded
61. Small plas box of samples of soil from a dozen worlds
62. Nu-canvas tag, red on black: Remove Before Ejecting
63. Nu-canvas tag, gold on grey: Astra Diaspora
64. Nu-canvas tag, silver on blue: Pilot On Board
65. Stained military identification tags, deactivated and apparently inert
66. Tiny duralloy case containing glass ampoule of swirling green fluid and a ciphered note
67. Space squid plushie, shimmery blue-violet with black glass eyes
68. Worker pod mantenance manual, tattered and dog-eared
69. Sleek and form-fitting filter mask, lower face only, rhinestoned
70. Crew identification skin-circuit, not yet activated (also kind of tingly)
71. Sugar-wax container of cooking lipids, neutral flavour
72. Pocket sweets-fac, still powered but needs feedstock
73. Personal log datafilm, foldable and has about a week of storage left
74. Thermal water-bulb, brushed metal surface covered with holo tape and an "Ad Terra" sticker
75. Plasteel-fibre gloves, thermally lined
76. Touch-seal pouch filled with bolts, springs, wire, scrap, bits of ceramic, quick-dry enamel applicators
77. Four vacc-packets of sliced fruits from a distant agriworld
78. Dataslug loaded with info and contact codes for a mechanists' union
79. A tangle of crystalline alien circuitry the size of a fist
80. Three phosphorescent gel brush-applicators
81. Sealed foil packet of six omnitreat medical slap patches
82. Well-loved nanoedge bolt cutters with cherry pink grips
83. Universal adapter cable with three extra handmade adapter heads, just in case
84. Scrap of a xenodocument: alien script in raised coloured inks on a sheet of filmy material
85. Single-use border chit for admittance into a restricted sector
86. Duralloy case long as a forearm welded shut and labeled Do Not Open; it jingles and sloshes
87. A thin, brightly-coloured ceramic plate peeled from a custom armour sheath
88. Dataslate loaded with attempts at formulating better space kibbles
89. Flavour dropper ampoules for space kibbles: "beef", sweet-and-pepper, vanilla, and ginger-lemon
90. Mini antigrav disc and control bead, disc adhesive and good for up to 50 lbs
91. Cold light wand, blue-green-red-pink plus colourless, 12 hrs before charging
92. Foil-sealed case containing data wafer and synthpaper copies of a ship's letter of recommendation
93. Vacc-suit emergency repair kit pouch
94. Packet of two dozen enameled decals of ship identification codes
95. Screwtop metal vial containing six capsules of psi-sense meds
96. Pocket-sized booklet half filled with ship, colony and station stamps
97. A pressed fractal "flower", iridescent black, in transparent plasfilm
98. An animatronic kitten, blue striped brown tabby, very fluffy
99. Three water-bulbs filled with lab shine
100. Bundle of literature in varying formats for a good dozen stellar cults
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