Prices and costs

The credits you have can be used to buy things. You don't have a job, so any credits you get have to come by your own efforts.

These costs are approximate - how much you actually pay will depend on availability and bargaining.

Main Illegal Drugs

Rapido - powerful metabolic enhancer - speeds up reactions and heightens awareness
DreamOn - powerful relaxant.
Stardust - powerful hallucinogen
Pink - a powerful and highly illegal recreational drug with a wide and largely undocumented number of effects and side effects.
MAD - [CLASSIFIED], only available to the military.

Weapons

There are two sorts of weapons, legal and illegal. The definitions vary according to the planet you are on - what appear below is a good guide to the attitude on most worlds (though the Banderas Act in Quadrant Five means that you had better make sure you're armed when visiting Martian colonies there).

In general, a legal weapon can be owned by any citizen for sporting or self-defence reasons, provided they have a weapons licence issued by the authorities.

These can be obtained at a Local Government Office or COP Precinct House.

Generally speaking, anyone over 21 can obtain one so long as they have no criminal record, have a fixed address and can be vouched for by someone in authority or of good standing in the community.

Illegal weapons are any weapons in the possession of an unlicensed person, and weapons of certain types.

Types of weapons that require a licence for ownership

> All projectile weapons with a muzzle energy of between 50 and 6000 joules (that's hunting rifles, shotguns, handguns etc.). PWs with an ME of less than 50 joules do not need a licence (i.e air guns)

> Plasmatic boring devices used exclusively for industrial processes (not strictly a weapon - but can be if misused).

> Electrical Stun devices with a power rating greater than 2 and less than 5 (i.e. sub-lethal).

> Stun grenades with a pressure rating of more than 2.

Types of weapons that cannot be owned, even with a licence

·Certain types of ammunition are illegal, even if it is for a licensed weapons class
1. Explosive ammo
2. Energy / Radiation warhead ammo
3. Precision guided munitions (PGM)
4. Flat head or DU rounds.

Projectile weapons with a muzzle energy higher than 6000 joules (military grade HVPW capable of penetrating combat armour - only available to the COPs and military).
Grenades: HE, Radiation, HighPower Stun, Smoke.

> Energy weapons of any class (Lasers and Plasma weapons are only available to the military).
> Combat Robots (only available to the military)
> Armoured fighting vehicles, combat aircraft, artillery, and missiles etc - obviously only for the military.

Information

Everyone has access to information from their homes and on their personal notebooks via the dataweb.
Some areas of the web are, of course, restricted and protected to various degrees of sophistication.
All children are taught to 'datamine' - that is to intelligently search for information from the vast collections of humanity's knowledge contained on the web.

Some are better at datamining that others - doing it quickly and efficiently is more of an art than a science - which is why the 'bright slave' semi-intelligent computers can't do it for you very often - not knowing the best questions to ask - that is still something humans do best.
So, anything you need to know is usually available via the web - so long as you know what to ask for.
Expert dataminers - especially those on the fringes of legality, are often very good at circumventing the defences of the restricted areas of the web - though usually the defences are dynamic - they alter automatically after a breach - so breaches usually only occur once.
A secure site becomes increasingly hard to break into the more it is 'attacked'.
For this reason, military and government secure sites are usually almost impossible to break into via the public web.

Libraries have more information in different formats, and alsousually act as a museum of local history - with artefacts from the early years of the colony etc. The library is widely regarded as the dullest place in the Quadrant.