Overview

Long-term survival demands survivors understand how to harness their environment. To this end all lifepod fabricators now come as standard with the handheld scanner blueprint.

Scanner in Detail:

The scanner is a miniaturized spectroscope. It emits electromagnetic radiation in the specified direction, which bounces off or is absorbed by objects in view, and then analyzes the results to determine the physical and chemical make-up of those objects.

Fragment Analysis:

The scanner can record the physical parameters of salvaged technology fragments, allowing the user to synthesize new blueprints for later fabrication.

Organism Analysis:

Scanning living or dead organisms will attempt to match them against the existing database. If no match is found then biological data will be recorded to the PDA data bank for later analysis.