Calm, rational behavior helps your AI advisors predict and pre-evaluate your future decisions. Do not take your circumstances personally. Remember that an effective system can subsume all critique int
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Calm, rational behavior helps your AI advisors predict and pre-evaluate your future decisions. Do not take your circumstances personally. Remember that an effective system can subsume all critique into itself: humor can provide distance from your difficulties while improving your performance.
Battery Terminal
A charging rack for personal batteries. Draws excess power from the habitat — will not function in a power shortage. Larger power cells used in submersibles and heavy equipment require their own speci
Biobed
The "Shanti Essentials" biobed is a ruggedized scanner/fabricator for human bodies.
Biolab
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
Bioreactor
A bioreactor generates power from organic matter and local chemistry. The bioreactor's nanomachine culture (derived from the colonist's own body) decomposes organic matter into methane to burn with ox
Small Ceiling Light
Internal lighting is critical to a consistent sleep/work cycle and to general health. Deprived of light, pioneers may enter an altered psychological state with negative mission outcomes.
Corridor
Titanium corridor. End user must supply a hatch and external power supply. If powered, generates a breathable atmosphere from seawater. Provides a basic field worksite or the first step towards a larg
Fabricator
Fabrication technology is the power to rearrange matter at the molecular level. It catalyzed the great expansion from Earth, and remains the backbone of the modern world.
Hatch
The "Super Barrique" selective passage portal allows for simultaneous two-way, multiple-crew traffic between a pressurized interior and a dangerous exterior. This eliminates the need for lengthy mecha
Hydroelectric Turbine
Named for a legendary laundress, the "Nausicaa IV" hydroelectric turbine transforms moving water into power. Ocean currents turn blades, which spin the rotor of a polyphase generator to create electri
Interior Door
Bidirectional through-bulkhead indiscriminate ambulatory/atmospheric portal. Dual mode function (open and closed).
Interior Wall
A titanium partition. Dividing undersea habitats into watertight compartments is a proven survivability technique. Dividing living spaces into purpose-oriented compartments may help colonists focus on
Locker
The basic prefab locker (sold as the "Cachet" in the Alterra blueprint catalogue) comes default on all Alterra habitat builders. The Cachet is guaranteed to secure several kilograms of bulk cargo agai
Last updated 2026-05-14