| Lithium | Mineral | Li. Element 3. Useful for industry and nuclear physics. Mood stabilizer. |
| Lithium | Loose Pickup | Lithium (Li), element 3.
The softest and least dense of all metals. Often found dissolved in seawater or in pegmatite deposits, especially near thermal vents.
Useful in lubricants, batteries, advanced glass, nano-welding, quantum physics, and anti-aging drugs. Also a budget air-cleaning element on spacecraft.
Lithium’s role in this world’s biosphere is unknown. In humans it has historically been used as an antidepressant. Despite the advent of cognitive connectome therapy, lithium is still used as a folk remedy on some worlds, despite the risk of permanent side effects. |
| Lithium Clamthulu Pearl | Standard | Standard - Unknown |
| LIthium Grains | — | Finely milled lithium. |
| Litholfactory Sense | — | Hold a mineral to sense more of it |
| Lost River Poster | — | — |
| Lucifer Rotsac | Plant Bulb | An oily, glowing bulb. Has a heartbeat. |
| Macaron Crisp tesst | Flora | Macaron Crisp made from Macaron Sponge lining, fat and fish. Will dry you up but fill you just as much as it parches your pores. Adapt before eating maybe, yes? |
| Macaron Lining | Plant Matter | salty, crunchy lining from the Macaron Sponge's silica skeleton. Adapt before eating! Or you'll turn into one of those dried up little packet you forgot years ago in one of your smelly shoe. |
| Macaron Sponge | — | — |
| Maladapted | — | Your body needs human sources of food, water and air. |
| Man-Eating Marrowbreach | Fauna | This is a large predatory organism (tentative name 'Marrowbreach'').
This specimen's digestive tract contains two major anomalies:
1. Human foodstuffs in bulk
2. Digestive enzymes (such as pepsin and gastric lipase) required to digest the human diet.
Origin unknown. Indigenous life cannot produce these enzymes and cannot express human proteins due to major biochemical incompatibilities (c/f Theory tab in your PDA).
If this organism has the ability to digest human foodstuffs, it may also be able to digest human tissue. |
| Mangalloy Ingot | — | Manganese steel alloy useful for fabricating Axum-derived technology. |
| Marrowbreach | — | *Mango marrowbreach*. Dangerous selachian predator. Selachian means sharklike. |
| Marrowbreach | — | — |
| Medical Gel Sac | Flora | Plucked from the stem of an acidic raion. Analysis shows it has medicinal properties. |
| Medkit Fabricator | — | Fabricates a medical kit at regular intervals. |
| Metabolic Oxygenation | — | Restore oxygen when eating |
| Metal Farm | — | Will naturally accumulate minerals from the surrounding environment |
| Metal Farms | — | Industrial metal extractors the Axum used to draw dissolved metal out of the seawater.
-Scan to create blueprints for a colonist metal farm |
| Metal Salvage | — | Debris from a human habitat or vehicle. Easily converted into raw materials in a fabricator. |
| Mild Acid
(at a Processor) | — | Mild, raion-derived acid. |
| Mimic Pylon | — | — |
| Mimic Pylon | — | — |
| Mineral Nibbler | — | Nibble minerals for sustenance |
| Mineralized Clinker | Large Deposit | Hardened industrial runoff. Contents vary based on local production during the waning days of the Axum. |
| Mineralized Water Tablet | — | Mineralized water, charged with calcium carbonates. Tickles the tongue. Again, do NOT drink seawater. |
| Modification Station | — | Create upgrades for your vehicles and more. |
| Necrolei Cyst | Flora | A massive nodule of acidic compounds. High energy potential. |
| Necrolei Egg (Strong Acid) | Standard | *Anthobrachia necrolei*. A clonal stalk of large jellies, similar to Earth's stauromedusae. Each jelly remains moored to the stalk, rather than maturing into a free-swimming medusa.
1. Enormous size and hunger
Rather than feeding on prey, the necrolei gathers dead matter from the seawater. The size and height of the stalk are directly related to the rate of death and decay up-current.
2. Acid-yielding metabolism
The necrolei has adapted to low-oxygen seawater. It ferments much of the matter it collects in a central 'basket' stomach, a process which requires no oxygen and yields strong acids. The necrolei concentrates these acids around its eggs as a defense.
Assessment: large numbers of necrolei in this region indicate a bloom, a population explosion caused by a flood of nutrients. This is a poor sign for the health of the ecosystem and perhaps for the state of the global climate.
Produces egg clusters that can be processed into strong acid. |
| Needler Mango | Fauna | *Mango kestros*, the dart-throwing shark. Territorial predator capable of launching uranium-tipped tusks at up to twenty meters per second.
1. Erupted jaw
Dominated by six upper jaw tusk sockets. The lower jaw has receded into the throat for rasping and crushing. Muscles behind each tusk crank ligaments around hard anchors, storing mechanical energy like a crossbow.
2. Teeth battery
Tusks are reloaded from mature spares deeper in the skull. Needlers constantly form new tusks by 'sneezing' ground mineral paste and quick-setting enzyme into dental sacs. Each tusk is tipped with a self-sharpening uranium oxide cap.
3. Body structure
The equally spaced dorsal, pectoral and pelvic fins give the needler excellent stability and aim control. A large caudal fin drives the needler on the sprint. Like its relative the marrowbreach, it has no thruster. Four 'whiskers' detect water currents to help aim.
4. Behavior
Needlers are social, nesting and sometimes hunting in family groups. They may be pack predators — cooperating to bring down larger organisms. Their need for constant mineral intake makes them fiercely territorial.
5. Evolutionary history
The needler shares a close relationship with the nibbler mango, which has a similar battery of constantly regenerating teeth. The needler may have evolved its tusks to penetrate hard shells—first firing into prey already clamped in its jaw, then launching the tusks as harpoons.
Assessment: dangerous, territorial predator. Avoid or distract even when operating submersibles. |
| Needler Mango | — | — |
| New Life Poster | — | Decorative Poster |
| Nibbler Mango | — | *Mango tructa*. Pesky omnivore. Eats anything, thinks little. |
| Nibbler Mango | — | — |
| Nickel | Mineral | Ni. Element 28. Hard. Often a sign of meteorite impact. Important nutrient to some organisms. |
| NoA Terminal | — | Noetic Advisor node. Generates tasks and manages mission resources. |
| Nutrient Block | Medium | Macronutrient cake. Unpleasant but calorie dense. Will not spoil. |
| Oily Salad | Flora | Oily fiber salad. Liminal flavor (between cinnamon and plastic bag). Bowel effects unknown. |
| Old Habitat | — | A developed habitat with internal growbeds and berths for more than twenty colonists.
-Hull ruptured by an explosion
-Seacocks opened to flood the habitat, perhaps as emergency fire control
-Multiple blackboxes on site. A search may indicate where survivors evacuated
-On-site NoA node could be reactivated for data retrieval
-One habitat module is set up as a hot lab to study viral biology
The habitat contains salvage, including a powerful scanner station. |
| OR - Observatory | — | — |
| OR - Power Plant | — | — |
| OR - Root Canyons | — | — |
| Oxygen Adsorption | — | Extend oxygen by 15 seconds |
| Oxygen Bottle | — | Basic human need. Breathe to avert death. Do NOT breathe seawater. |
| Oxygen Control | — | Slows oxygen consumption when not moving |
| Oxygen Reprieve | — | When getting oxygen from an Oxygen Plant, do not consume oxygen for a short period |
| Oxygen Therapy | — | Slowly regain health when at full oxygen |
| Oxygenated Heat Resistance | — | Gain Substantial Heat Resistance from Oxygen Plants |
| Painted Tree Poster | — | Decorative Poster |
