Survival Multitool

OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS Equip to quick-access toolbelt. Strike targets to shatter small resource deposits, cut samples, harvest material or drive off attackers. Cuttable targets trigger an icon in your HUD, prompting you to equip and use the survival multitool. BACKGROUND A downscaled civilian version of the combat-tested SR3 Stryker switch-axe, which TSF Frontiersmen use to hack apart kharaa infestation. The Frontiersmen learned that even hardened combat knives quickly lose their edge when wasted on sawing, prying, and percussive maintenance. Axes and hammers are more useful for breaking up resource deposits, and fine cut work like gutting or fiber-splicing can be left to fabricators. Alterra applied these findings to produce the all-titanium survival multitool, which features a longer lever arm and a solid hammer/pry claw for hand mining. A sharp reverse edge retains the knife's utility in cutting and self-defense (though this remains strictly a last resort). Despite protests from seasoned pioneers, such as celebrity survivor Rauli Isotalo, Alterra has replaced the standard knife with the survival multitool in the Cicada's basic fabricator offerings. Although all fabricators are capable of producing firearms such as the P-PLUS, M39K and G70GX, these weapons are only licensed for trained specialists such as TSF Frontiersmen. In the hands of untrained colonists, evidence indicates that firearms are most likely to be discharged against other colonists or the self.