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** Can inhabit a creature's body and enhance its abilities
** Can inhabit a creature's body and enhance its abilities
* Force field
* Force field
* Cloacking device (invisibility)
** Invisible door
** A personal force field
** A space ship's shield
* Other kinds of field
** Magnetic field
** Attraction (tractor beam)
** Repulsion (deflector shield)
* Cloaking device (invisibility)
* Holograms and projections
* Holograms and projections
* Communication devices
* Communication devices

Revision as of 04:48, 31 October 2005

(This is a stub, referenced by Magic)

Advanced technology

  • Space travel
  • Time travel
  • Instant transportation
    • Transmat beams (short range)
    • Teleportation
    • Worm holes / gateways / portals to another region of space (one or two way)
  • Weapons
    • Handguns - pistol, blaster, laser, phaser. May have various settings from "stun" to "lethal".
    • Large guns - rifle (normal, laser, sniper), shotgun, rail gun, machine gun
    • Grenades - stun, smoke, gas, incendiary, fragmentation
    • Heavy duty - bazooka / rocket launcher
    • Mounted - missile (guided / heat seeking), torpedo, energy weapons
  • Nanotechnology (microscopic machines)
    • Can inhabit a creature's body and enhance its abilities
  • Force field
    • Invisible door
    • A personal force field
    • A space ship's shield
  • Other kinds of field
    • Magnetic field
    • Attraction (tractor beam)
    • Repulsion (deflector shield)
  • Cloaking device (invisibility)
  • Holograms and projections
  • Communication devices
    • Hand held communicator (or bracelet)
    • May require line of sight (or at least no major obstacles between the sender and receiver)
    • Messages may be broadcast on "all known frequencies"
    • Jammers to prevent communication inside a region
    • Secure and insecure communication lines (which may be tapped into or forged)
  • Recording devices
    • Voice recorders
    • Video
    • Holographic (3D) recording
    • Recording with limited interactive ability (cf. the movie I, Robot)