| Lithium | Resources | Li. Element 3. Useful for industry and nuclear physics. Mood stabilizer. |
| Lithium | Loose | 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 | Nodes | — |
| Litholfactory Sense | Bio Lab | Hold a mineral to sense more of it |
| Locust Swarm | Nodes | — |
| Lost River Poster | Base Building | — |
| Lucifer Rotsac | Personal | An oily, glowing bulb. Has a heartbeat. |
| Macaron Sponge | Organic | *Symphon macaron*. A sponge that has developed a disc of flagellated feeding cells. Named for the dessert sandwich cookie (not available in current fabricator settings).
1. Hardened plates
Instead of a sponge's normal inner and outer layers, the macaron develops two hard plates of pinacoderm. These anchor the feeding disc to a holdfast.
2. Feeding disc
The sponge's mesohyl (internal jelly) has specialized into feeding disc, with tentacled cells that pull particles from the surrounding seawater. This leaves the delicate jelly vulnerable to predators and parasites.
3. Hostage exchange
The feeding disc hosts the larvae of sponge-eating organisms in its pores. By providing a shelter and habitat for their young, the macaron may buy itself a degree of safety and defense. (These larvae are themselves tempting prey for many species.)
4. Unusual protein expression
Many of the cells in the feeding disc express proteins also found in the hosted larvae. This may be a recognition signal to attract the desired species.
ASSESSMENT: Inedible despite name. Await further updates.
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| Macaron Sponge Plant | Organic | Harvestable native plant life. |
| Maladapted | Bio Lab | Your body needs human sources of food, water and air. |
| Man-Eating Marrowbreach | Creatures | 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 | Resources | Manganese steel alloy useful for fabricating Axum-derived technology. |
| Marrowbreach | Creatures | *Mango marrowbreach*. Dangerous selachian predator. Selachian means sharklike. |
| Marrowbreach | Bio Lab | — |
| Medical Gel Sac | Resources | Plucked from the stem of an acidic raion. Analysis shows it has medicinal properties. |
| Metabolic Oxygenation | Bio Lab | Restore oxygen when eating |
| Metal Farm | Resources | Will naturally accumulate minerals from the surrounding environment |
| Metal Farms | Investigations | 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 | Resources | Debris from a human habitat or vehicle. Easily converted into raw materials in a fabricator. |
| Mild Acid | Resources | Mild, raion-derived acid. |
| Mimic Pylon | Bio Lab | — |
| Mineral Nibbler | Bio Lab | Nibble minerals for sustenance |
| Mineralized Clinker | Deposits | Hardened industrial runoff. Contents vary based on local production during the waning days of the Axum. |
| Modification Station | Base Building | Create upgrades for your vehicles and more. |
| Necrolei Cyst | Resources | A massive nodule of acidic compounds. High energy potential. |
| Necrolei Cyst | Nodes | — |
| Necrolei Egg (Strong Acid) | Organic | — |
| Needler Mango | Bio Lab | — |
| Needler Shark | Creatures | *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 Shark Needle Clump (Deposit) | Deposits | — |
| New Life Poster | Base Building | Decorative Poster |
| Nibbler Mango | Creatures | *Mango tructa*. Pesky omnivore. Eats anything, thinks little. |
| Nibbler Mango | Bio Lab | — |
| Nickel | Resources | Ni. Element 28. Hard. Often a sign of meteorite impact. Important nutrient to some organisms. |
| NoA Terminal | Base Building | Noetic Advisor node. Generates tasks and manages mission resources. |
| Nutrient Block | Personal | Macronutrient cake. Unpleasant but calorie dense. Will not spoil. |
| Oily Salad | Sustenance | Oily fiber salad. Liminal flavor (between cinnamon and plastic bag). Bowel effects unknown. |
| Old Habitat | Investigations | 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 | Biomes | — |
| OR - Power Plant | Biomes | — |
| OR - Root Canyons | Biomes | — |
| Oxygen Adsorption | Bio Lab | Extend oxygen by 15 seconds |
| Oxygen Control | Bio Lab | Slows oxygen consumption when not moving |
| Oxygen Plant L | Organic | — |
| Oxygen Reprieve | Bio Lab | When getting oxygen from an Oxygen Plant, do not consume oxygen for a short period |
| Oxygen Therapy | Bio Lab | Slowly regain health when at full oxygen |
| Oxygenated Heat Resistance | Bio Lab | Gain Substantial Heat Resistance from Oxygen Plants |
| Painted Tree Poster | Base Building | Decorative Poster |
| Pathfinder | Bio Lab | Release a trail of pheremones you can follow to find your way |
| Pavlova | Sustenance | Intentionally prepared, human-digestible ration made at a fabricator. |
