Gear: Note can revise or make own stuff. The below are samples. Please note one can keep making new stuff in Arms Race.
Melee Weapons:
1: Big Knife; Big freakken knife, starting melee weapon.
2: Claws: Fore arm blades for slicing and stabbing.
3: Blade: Now a sword. Refined metallic weapon, comes in many sizes/shapes.
4: Wrecking Rod: A shaft of metal with wires connect to a spherical end for smashing.
5: Energy Blade: A blade of compressed energy. Kills stealth and needs battery, but does the job.
6: Pyrotechnic Axe: A axe which the blade is super-heated to cook things with heat, while slashing.
7: Liquid Metal Weapon: A shaft, with base on buttons and skills, liquid metal shoots up and forms into blade in question. A surprise spear or sword.
8: Power Glove: Gets to hold weapon, but can punch things to death or grab target and crush skulls.
Ranged Weapons:
1: Bow and Arrow: Basic starting ranged weapon. Only good news is easy to craft, also can reuse arrows until they break, ad can craft trick arrows.
2: Slug Pistol: Basic bullet based projectile held in one hand.
3: Smart Gun: A Rifle, that has computer program with safety functions so only it’s “master” can use it or one who hacks those codes. It’s a semi-automatic rifle with a grenade attachment.
4: Machine Gun: A big gun that sprays the area with lead.
5: Harpoon Launcher: A really big gun, fires harpoons which are basically spears. It penetrates and bleeds, not to mention big holes.
6: Bazooka: A tube that fires out shells that go boom.
7: Gaus Revolver: A big pistol with eight chambers, that fire gaus ammo.
8: Alloy Gun: A shotgun that fires super-heated alloy bits.
9: Lightning Gun: Short ranged electric gun. Can stun, or kill.
10: Laser Rifle: It’s a sniper rifle, just fires quick moving energy to burn target.
11: Plasma Thrower: A flame thrower, but it fires out plasma stream instead of flames.
12: Crusher Beam: Fires out raw compressed particle/kinetic energy to punch targets with holes or outright crush them.
13: Shrapnel Grenade: Pull pin, toss, explodes and the sharp metal aspect does damage.
14: Fire Bomb: Just like above, but lights target zone in fire.
15: Kinetic Grenade: Toss and what it hits gets hit with a ton of force. For breaking armor, vehicles and bodies.
16: Sticky Grenade: Press button and toss. Air exposure turns on adhesion field. It hits, sticks, then blows up in target area.
Defense:
1: Animal Hide: Chemically treated anial hide, as basic as it comes.
2: Bone Armor: Now replaced by animal bones, the tougher bones that is.
3: Rattan Armor: Made from Wood d Plant Fiber, protects well against low powered cutting, sucks against flame.
4: Chitin Armor: Armor made from remains of plates, big bug plates.
5: Metal Armor: Junk armor. It is made from junk/scarp.
6: Ceramic Armor: A thick fiber suit with plates on inside woven in to absorb extra damage.
7: Exoskeleton: Plated armor that has muscle motors to allow the cripple to walk. Or a automail arm to replace lost arm. Almost power armor, but has lamer fueling process.
8: Power Armor: Motorized power armor that keeps people alive.
9: Jotun: It’s a Hulk Buster style powered armor.
10: Phoenix Armor: it flies, tanks damage and comes stored with rocket guided pods of destruction.
11: Force Wall: Toss ball, energy field springs up to soak damage for a bit.
12: Adaptive Shield: Halo style regenerating energy field.
Vehicles:
1: Sky Cycle: A flying motor cycle. Fast, does not offer much protection.
2: APC: A armored personal carrier that can transport troopers. Also decently armed, the problem is their ground bound. So less mobile.
3: Behemoth: A tank. Yes, an honest to goodness tank. It is solid, but not as mobile as others.
4: Crawler: A tank on spider legs for easier mobility.
5: Sky Runner; A small air craft that is akin to fighter or bomber. That has wings that beat like a birds.
5: Soldier: A exo frame that is humanoid and is armed to the teeth.
6: Hopper: A massive machine that walks or does jet booster assisted jumps. Armed with heavy mounted rocket launchers.
7: Thunder Saur: A robotic dinosaur from Hell that is armed to the teeth.
All starting non research gear.
God damn my family holding up my phone time. Got a early appointment tomorrow. Well npcs and turn 2 then.
Also as you made three actions. You saved day. Next time will deliver SG list of choices. As I think I screwed up too.
Now, to respond to your post then sleep.
Oh and to rebuild the ship would take three hundred years of game time. As the ship is a planetoid worth of mass. It is a soft ware, not hard ware problem with it.