Scanner

 | Property | Details | | --- | --- | | **Description** | Critical survival tool. Scans the world to generate databank entries and fabrication blueprints. | | **Source** | Crafting | | **Category** | Tools |  -![Scanner](Scanner.png)+![alt=The Scanner scanning an object.|thumb|The Scanner scanning an object.](wiki-images/d6/d682ab48122bb32c7858c67fc73503b2.gif)   The **Scanner** is one of your character's most important tools, allowing them to collect fragments of unknown blueprints and add information about lifeforms, technology, and raw materials to the databank.   ## Recipe   This recipe is available at the start of the game.   | Ingredient | Quantity | | --- | --- | | Titanium | 2 | | Quartz | 2 | | Basic Battery | 1 |   **Crafted at:** Fabricator   ## Usage  -![The Scanner scanning an object.](wiki-images/d6/d682ab48122bb32c7858c67fc73503b2.gif)-  The Scanner requires a Battery to function.   ## On Collecting  -NoA will tell the player the following:+The PDA will tell the player the following:   > Stranded on 4546b, Ryley Robinson used a field scanner to outwit teleporting alien cyborgs and treat his kharaa infection. > Behavioral economists still debate why Ryley abandoned a lucrative motivational speaking career to return to frontier life.   ## Databank Entry   **OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS**   Equip to quick-access toolbelt. Never remove. Scan everything. Scanning technology fragments will generate new blueprints.   Scannable targets trigger an icon in your HUD, prompting you to equip and use the scanner.   **BACKGROUND**   Alterra's pride, the essential science and survival tool. In cooperation with a PDA, the spectral scanner can image and analyze anything a pioneer encounters. Ryley Robinson used a standard field scanner to discover and cure 4546b's kharaa infestation, a feat of solitary survival unmatched in human history.   The scanner is a hyperspectral imager, integrating techniques from resonance enhanced Raman spectroscopy to Spiff muon tomography. The PDA then generates a best-fit theory from a corpus of past data. When generating names and databank entries, the PDA considers - but does not always respect - the user's cultural background, educational accomplishments, and personal preferences.  -*   Scan fragments of technology to add their blueprints to your PDA databank. Multiple fragment scans may be required to synthesize a complete blueprint-*   Novel species are assigned an easy-to-remember name and a databank entry populated with best-guess behavior, anatomy, niche, reproduction, and evolution (BANRE). Remember that this information is provisional. Alterra cannot be held liable for errors or mistakes caused by a mismatch between Al induction and real outcomes-*   The user may run a self-scan to determine their own physical well-being, but this function is usually redundant with implanted PDA diagnostics and biobed scans-*   Data gathered with the scanner can also be delivered to a higher- order artificial intelligence (such as Alterra's Noetic Advisor) to generate advanced theory+- Scan fragments of technology to add their blueprints to your PDA databank. Multiple fragment scans may be required to synthesize a complete blueprint+- Novel species are assigned an easy-to-remember name and a databank entry populated with best-guess behavior, anatomy, niche, reproduction, and evolution (BANRE). Remember that this information is provisional. Alterra cannot be held liable for errors or mistakes caused by a mismatch between Al induction and real outcomes+- The user may run a self-scan to determine their own physical well-being, but this function is usually redundant with implanted PDA diagnostics and biobed scans+- Data gathered with the scanner can also be delivered to a higher- order artificial intelligence (such as Alterra's Noetic Advisor) to generate advanced theory   "The Alterra Hyperspectral Scanner: it's all you need to know*."  -*-Intellectual property generated by use of the Alterra Hyperspectral Scanner (including but not limited to novel physical and biological theory, genetic and biomechanical applications, and licensing rights for charismatic species) is by default assigned to the user's employer in perpetuity. Terms of contract may vary.+*Intellectual property generated by use of the Alterra Hyperspectral Scanner (including but not limited to novel physical and biological theory, genetic and biomechanical applications, and licensing rights for charismatic species) is by default assigned to the user's employer in perpetuity. Terms of contract may vary.