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  "version": "0.493.0",
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      "id": "absence",
      "name": "Absence",
      "description": "Voidborn stealth shuttle. Difficult to detect, difficult to explain.",
      "class": "Shuttle",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Absence doesn't hide — it simply becomes less relevant to nearby\nsensors. Voidborn stealth technology doesn't cloak or jam; it operates on\na principle the Collective calls \"perceptual displacement,\" which they\ndecline to elaborate on. The shield array draws more power than ships twice\nthis size, leaving almost no room for cargo or fuel reserves. Other empires'\ndetection equipment occasionally registers an Absence as a cosmic ray artifact\nor background noise. The cabin is always three degrees too cold.\n",
      "base_hull": 45,
      "base_shield": 80,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 1,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 110,
      "cargo_capacity": 25,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 32,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
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          "type": "scan_resistance",
          "value": 20
        },
        {
          "type": "integrated_cloak",
          "value": 30
        }
      ],
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      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 280,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "stealth",
        "unarmed",
        "covert"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "absolute_entropy",
      "name": "Absolute Entropy",
      "description": "Voidborn phase-shift ice harvester. Shield-wrapped, fragile-hulled, and disturbingly effective.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The extraction system reaches through the surface of an ice body without disturbing it, pulling target materials directly from the interior. The technique leaves ice formations structurally intact — afterward, the only evidence of extraction is a slight drop in ambient temperature that instruments can measure but cannot explain. The shield array is the heaviest of any ice harvester in production, and necessarily so: dimensional phase-extraction generates feedback that would collapse an unshielded hull. The ship underneath the shields is fragile enough that this is not a theoretical concern. The name refers to the heat death state that the extraction zone locally approximates for a fraction of a second — conditions that should not exist outside mathematical models, applied to ice harvesting as routine procedure.",
      "base_hull": 260,
      "base_shield": 380,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 220,
      "cargo_capacity": 420,
      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 75,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_iii",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "shield_booster_ii"
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          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
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        },
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        }
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 25
        },
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          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_suspension_chamber",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 100
        },
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 8
        },
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          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 12
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        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 38
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 20
        }
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        "dimensional",
        "shield-tank",
        "survivable"
      ]
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      "id": "absolute_zero",
      "name": "Absolute Zero",
      "description": "Solarian modular ice extraction platform. High CPU, open slots, configurable for any ice operation.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Most ice harvesters ship fully committed — every slot filled, every watt allocated. The Absolute Zero ships with a harvester and a shield booster, then gets out of the way. The modular bus architecture underwent two years of peer review before the materials science division signed off, and what emerged was a platform that accommodates whatever the ice field demands: additional harvesters, crystallographic analyzers, cargo expansion. The shield layer compensates for the complete absence of weapons — a design choice that survived every review committee because the fitting budget it freed up justified itself. The Confederacy built a framework, not a finished product.",
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      "base_shield": 85,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 390,
      "cargo_capacity": 175,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 42,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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        "ice_harvester_ii",
        "shield_booster_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
          "value": 25
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        {
          "type": "ice_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
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      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
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        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 4
        }
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      "build_time": 1080,
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        "ice-harvester",
        "modular",
        "configurable"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "accretion",
      "name": "Accretion",
      "description": "Voidborn gas harvester. The organic membrane absorbs and compresses nebula gas to half its volume.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Accretion-class does not scoop gas so much as inhale it. The organic collection membrane extends from the hull like a vast translucent lung, and pilots suspect the membrane channels some of the nebula's energy directly into the shield grid — the Accretion runs the strongest shields of any gas harvester in production. Twin harvester arrays and the deepest fitting budget in its class give pilots more room to customize than any competitor. Non-Voidborn engineers who have examined the membrane describe its structure as \"disturbingly pulmonary.\"",
      "base_hull": 55,
      "base_shield": 85,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 90,
      "cargo_capacity": 65,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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        "gas_harvester_i",
        "shield_booster_i",
        "cargo_expander_i"
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        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 15
        }
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      "build_time": 250,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "gas-harvester",
        "organic-membrane",
        "unarmed"
      ]
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      "id": "accumulator",
      "name": "Accumulator",
      "description": "Nebula bulk gas collection and compression vessel. Enormous intake, stores compressed gas for transport.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Accumulator-class was designed by the same Federation accounting\ndepartment that produces all their best ships. Enormous intake scoops\nchannel gas into compression tanks that store collected gas at densities\nother empires' safety regulators would reject. One thousand twenty\ncargo capacity carries both raw and compressed gas — the Federation\nhauls everything and lets the station-side brokers sort out pricing.\nUnarmed because guns don't generate revenue. The Accumulator doesn't\ncare about purity or processing — it cares about volume, and it has\nmore of it than anyone.\n",
      "base_hull": 750,
      "base_shield": 400,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 350,
      "cargo_capacity": 1020,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 105,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "gas_harvester_iv"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 75
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 11000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "gas-refinery",
        "bulk",
        "unarmed",
        "compression"
      ],
      "passive_recipes": [
        "compress_hydrogen_gas",
        "liquefy_oxygen",
        "purify_argon",
        "ionize_neon_gas",
        "extract_xenon",
        "distill_nebula_gases"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "aether",
      "name": "Aether",
      "description": "Solarian gas harvester. Pressurized tanks compress collected gases to half their normal volume.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Named for the classical element once believed to fill the heavens, the Aether-class mounts two gas harvesting arrays where most ships carry one. The proprietary atmospheric intake system — fourteen months in development — yields more gas per collection pass than any competing design. The onboard spectrometer identifies compositions to nine decimal places, six more than required. Every utility slot is spoken for by the time the Aether leaves the shipyard, leaving pilots a single defense mount for personal preference. The design team submitted the loadout as a solved problem. No one has filed a rebuttal.",
      "base_hull": 85,
      "base_shield": 50,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 4,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 120,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 30,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "gas_harvester_i",
        "gas_harvester_i",
        "ship_scanner_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "gas_yield_bonus",
          "value": 35
        },
        {
          "type": "gas_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 18
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 250,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "gas-harvester",
        "scientific",
        "unarmed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "all_mine",
      "name": "All Mine",
      "description": "Outer Rim mining capital. An entire mining operation welded onto a jump drive. Ugly, stubborn, effective.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "All Mine is an entire mining operation welded onto a jump drive. Held together by structural bracing, duct tape, and frontier stubbornness. The cheapest T5 industrial vessel by a wide margin, because the Rim builds capital ships the same way it builds everything: from whatever's available. Twenty-six hundred and forty cargo capacity hauls everything a remote mining operation produces. Two weapon mounts because the frontier is the frontier, and mining bases attract pirates. All Mine can operate independently for extended periods — no station docking required. It is, in every sense, a self-contained mining colony that happens to have engines. ",
      "base_hull": 2000,
      "base_shield": 700,
      "base_shield_recharge": 10,
      "base_armor": 80,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 600,
      "cargo_capacity": 2640,
      "cpu_capacity": 60,
      "power_capacity": 230,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 8,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_iv",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 50,
      "required_reputation": 60,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warp_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 1400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 110
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 2000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
          "quantity": 45
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 26000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "mining-capital",
        "mobile-base",
        "cheap",
        "self-sufficient"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "alloy_synthesizer",
      "name": "Alloy Synthesizer",
      "description": "Voidborn dimensional alloy forge. Combines multiple ore types into advanced alloys in a single step.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Alloy Synthesizer-class combines multiple raw ore types into\nadvanced alloys through dimensional compression that skips intermediate\nrefining stages entirely. Feed it iron, titanium, and null matter, and\nthe synthesis chambers produce alloys with crystal structures that\nshould require planetary-scale foundries. The Collective's materials\nscientists describe the process as \"showing matter the shape it wants\nto take.\" Processing cycles are slow — each synthesis requires\ndimensional stabilization that takes time — but a single step replaces\nthree conventional refining stages. Other empires cannot replicate\nthe process because it requires dimensional phase states they cannot\ngenerate.\n",
      "base_hull": 600,
      "base_shield": 800,
      "base_shield_recharge": 12,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 300,
      "cargo_capacity": 600,
      "cpu_capacity": 55,
      "power_capacity": 150,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 6,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 12500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "synthesizer",
        "dimensional",
        "exotic-alloys",
        "high-cpu"
      ],
      "passive_recipes": [
        "onboard_alloy_synthesis",
        "onboard_exotic_stabilization",
        "process_null_matter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "analysis",
      "name": "Analysis",
      "description": "Solarian armored salvager. Tough enough to work wreck sites in contested space. Pulse laser for self-defense.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Confederacy's salvage safety board reviewed incident reports from wreck-site operations and concluded that most losses came from debris impacts and opportunistic attacks during recovery. The Analysis was redesigned accordingly: reinforced hull plating, a default armor package, and a pulse laser for self-defense. The armor drops speed, which the safety board accepted — a salvager that arrives slowly and survives is preferable to one that arrives quickly and doesn't. Every recovered component is still scanned, catalogued, and assessed for reuse potential. The Confederacy didn't remove the methodical part. They just armored it.",
      "base_hull": 210,
      "base_shield": 75,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 260,
      "cpu_capacity": 24,
      "power_capacity": 45,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "pulse_laser_ii"
      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 20,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 38
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 7
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 990,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "armored",
        "methodical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "annihilation",
      "name": "Annihilation",
      "description": "Voidborn void assault ship. Does not destroy — it unmakes.",
      "class": "Battlecruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Annihilation-class does not destroy ships in the conventional sense. Its weapon systems operate on a principle the Collective calls \"reciprocal negation\" — targeted dimensional collapse that removes matter from one reference frame without transferring it to another. Where the matter goes is a question Voidborn weapons engineers answer with \"elsewhere.\" The shield array metabolizes incoming energy and channels it to the weapons, meaning the harder you hit an Annihilation, the more of you it can unmake. Crimson Fleet tacticians have learned that the only winning strategy is overwhelming force applied simultaneously from every direction — which tells you something about how much force a single Annihilation absorbs before it stops functioning. ",
      "base_hull": 360,
      "base_shield": 430,
      "base_shield_recharge": 9,
      "base_armor": 13,
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          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
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          "item_id": "void_crystal",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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      "id": "annihilator",
      "name": "Annihilator",
      "description": "Crimson dreadnought. Nine weapon mounts. The biggest gun the Fleet has ever built.",
      "class": "Dreadnought",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Annihilator enters a system and everything in that system renegotiates its priorities. Months of accumulated resources go into building a single hull — neutronium armor, durasteel structural members, and a power grid that can sustain all nine weapon mounts in continuous fire. The heaviest armor the Fleet has ever mounted on a mobile platform makes the Annihilator nearly impervious to anything short of concentrated capital fire. It doesn't have tactical flexibility. It doesn't need it. Crimson Fleet doctrine considers the Annihilator a strategic weapon: you don't deploy it to win battles, you deploy it to win wars. ",
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      "base_shield_recharge": 18,
      "base_armor": 150,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 600,
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      "cpu_capacity": 145,
      "power_capacity": 300,
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        "heavy_torpedo",
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        "darksteel_armor",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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        },
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          "item_id": "station_reactor",
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          "item_id": "jump_coil",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
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          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
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        },
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          "item_id": "darksteel_plating",
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          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
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        },
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          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        },
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          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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        },
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        },
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          "item_id": "capital_armor_plate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
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        },
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          "item_id": "power_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        "supreme-firepower"
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      "id": "anvil",
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      "description": "Crimson field repair ship. Patches hulls under fire because the battle doesn't stop for maintenance.",
      "class": "Repair",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Support",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet doesn't retreat for repairs. The Anvil brings repairs to the fleet — welding hull breaches, replacing armor plates, and rerouting damaged systems while weapons fire passes overhead. The cargo hold carries replacement parts and raw materials. The three defense slots keep the Anvil functional in the combat zone where it operates. Anvil crews are the only non-combat personnel in the Crimson Fleet who earn combat honors — because they work in the same fire as everyone else, just with welding torches instead of weapons. The single weapon mount is \"for morale,\" according to the ship's specification document. ",
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      "base_armor": 28,
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      "power_capacity": 65,
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        "damage_control_system"
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          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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          "item_id": "life_support_array",
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
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      "id": "apeiron",
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      "class": "Electronic Warfare",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "Named for Anaximander's concept of the boundless and indefinite, the\nApeiron introduces a field of low-grade informational entropy into nearby\nsystems. Enemy sensor readings become imprecise. Targeting solutions drift.\nCommunications develop a faint echo that makes speakers doubt their own\nwords. The Collective insists the Apeiron carries no offensive electronic\nwarfare equipment — the effect is merely a \"natural consequence of the\npower systems operating at nominal output.\" This explanation satisfies\nno one except other Voidborn.\n",
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      "base_shield": 90,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 3,
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      "power_capacity": 40,
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        }
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        "disruption",
        "high-cpu"
      ]
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      "id": "apophenia",
      "name": "Apophenia",
      "description": "Voidborn pattern hauler. Cargo routing determined by probability fields, not market data.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Named for the tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in random data — which is precisely what non-Voidborn cargo inspectors experience when trying to audit an Apophenia's hold. The organic hull creates a micro-environment that other empires' trade goods find inexplicably beneficial. Perishables last longer, crystalline structures become more ordered, and volatile compounds stabilize. The dual shield arrays protect the cargo with the same quiet persistence the Collective applies to everything. The navigation system suggests trade routes based on probability fields rather than market data, and its recommendations are correct more often than chance allows.",
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      "base_shield": 145,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 300,
      "cargo_capacity": 240,
      "cpu_capacity": 24,
      "power_capacity": 44,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
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      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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        },
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
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        "organic-hull",
        "shield-dominant"
      ]
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      "id": "aporia",
      "name": "Aporia",
      "description": "Voidborn interdictor. Enemies cannot determine whether they are trapped.",
      "class": "Interdictor",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "Named for an irresolvable philosophical puzzle, the Aporia does not prevent escape in any way other empires can identify or counteract. Ships within its operational radius simply find that their jump calculations never converge. Navigation systems report ready, then recalculate, then report ready again. Pilots describe the experience as \"trying to leave a room you can't prove you're in.\" The Collective explains the interdiction field as \"introducing productive doubt into deterministic systems.\" ",
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      "base_shield": 400,
      "base_shield_recharge": 9,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 50,
      "cpu_capacity": 58,
      "power_capacity": 120,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_iii",
        "adaptive_shield_i",
        "damage_control_system"
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      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 32
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "area-denial"
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      "id": "apotheosis",
      "name": "Apotheosis",
      "description": "Voidborn dreadnought. Possibly the most advanced ship ever grown. Possibly alive.",
      "class": "Dreadnought",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Apotheosis is not built. It is grown over a period the Collective\ncalls a \"maturation cycle\" lasting months. Each Apotheosis is unique —\nthe growth process produces variations that Voidborn engineers insist\nare \"adaptive optimization\" rather than \"we can't fully control it.\"\nThe shield array generates fields that Solarian physicists have declared\n\"theoretically impossible.\" The weapons fire with uncanny precision,\nas though the ship sees the future trajectory of its targets. Whether\nthe Apotheosis is conscious remains the Collective's most closely\nguarded non-answer. Seven defense slots ensure that whatever the\nApotheosis is, it endures.\n",
      "base_hull": 2200,
      "base_shield": 2500,
      "base_shield_recharge": 35,
      "base_armor": 80,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 700,
      "cargo_capacity": 505,
      "cpu_capacity": 135,
      "power_capacity": 420,
      "weapon_slots": 6,
      "defense_slots": 7,
      "utility_slots": 7,
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        "void_lance_ii",
        "dark_matter_projector",
        "phase_disruptor",
        "focused_beam_iii",
        "focused_beam_iii",
        "voidborn_phase_armor",
        "adaptive_shield_iii",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "adaptive_shield_ii",
        "nanite_hull_coating"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 50,
      "required_reputation": 60,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
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          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 25
        },
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          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_generator",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 2000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "singularity_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "contained_antimatter",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 600
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 35000,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "capital",
        "possibly-alive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "appraisal",
      "name": "Appraisal",
      "description": "Nebula salvage vessel. The largest cargo hold in its class, no weapons, and the fuel range to reach any wreck field in the sector.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Appraisal-class was designed after Federation accountants calculated that 31% of recoverable wreck value was being lost to inadequate field assessment. Their solution was to maximize cargo volume at the expense of everything else: no weapon mounts, minimal shielding, and a top speed that Crimson salvagers find personally offensive. The oversized cargo bay ensures nothing of value gets left behind, and the fuel reserves to reach remote wreck sites mean the Appraisal operates where faster ships can't be bothered to travel. Appraisal pilots receive a quarterly bonus based on recovery-to-market-value ratio. Most of them have optimized their routes to the point where the bonus exceeds their base salary.",
      "base_hull": 70,
      "base_shield": 35,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 2,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 120,
      "cargo_capacity": 150,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 22,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
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      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 18,
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 9
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 420,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "industrial",
        "cargo-heavy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "arbitrage",
      "name": "Arbitrage",
      "description": "Nebula fast trader. Speed optimized for exploiting price differences.",
      "class": "Smuggler",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "The Federation officially classifies the Arbitrage as a \"rapid commercial response vessel.\" Customs officials classify it as a headache. The Arbitrage doesn't sneak past inspections — it takes routes that don't have any. Treasure Cache, neutral exchanges, the gaps between jurisdictions where nobody's checking manifests because nobody's claimed the authority to. The default afterburner pushes it to courier speeds when margins are time-sensitive, but the fuel cost is brutal — smart pilots keep it off until the route demands it. The hull won't fool a dedicated scanner, but it doesn't need to. The real margin is in knowing which stations buy what, which routes customs ignores, and how fast you can move between them before the prices equalize.",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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      "description": "Solarian survey miner. Integrated ore processing halves stored volume; onboard scanner maps the seam before you drill.",
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      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Archimedes-class reflects the Confederacy's conviction that extraction is an engineering problem, not a labor one. Dual mining lasers feed into a compression subsystem that halves ore volume in the hold, while the integrated geological scanner identifies optimal drill points before the first laser fires. A pulse laser provides deterrence — Solarian mining regulations require armed capability in contested belts, and the Archimedes meets the requirement without compromising its survey loadout. Independent trials confirm a twenty percent improvement in ore yield over baseline extraction systems. The Confederacy submitted the methodology for peer review. Twice.",
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      "base_armor": 5,
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      "power_capacity": 34,
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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      "id": "archive",
      "name": "Archive",
      "description": "Solarian capital salvager. Full materials science laboratory and capital-scale wreck recovery.",
      "class": "Salvager",
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      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Archive-class represents the Confederacy's conviction that no wreck is merely debris — it is data waiting to be preserved. This capital-scale salvage platform carries a full materials science laboratory, redundant scanning arrays, and enough cargo capacity to recover the remains of a capital engagement single-handed. Every component recovered is assigned a unique tracking number that follows it through the Confederacy's supply chain indefinitely. Solarian engineers maintain that this is simply good practice. Everyone else maintains that it is excessive. Both are correct.",
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      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 28,
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      "power_capacity": 130,
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      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "quantum_processor",
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          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "rare_salvage",
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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          "item_id": "navigation_array",
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
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      "id": "armageddon",
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      "class": "Dreadnought",
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      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Armageddon exists because some problems don't yield to conventional force. Nine weapon mounts optimized for long-range bombardment deliver ordnance from distances that put the ship beyond effective return fire. The power grid — the largest ever installed in a Crimson vessel — sustains continuous bombardment capable of reducing stations to wreckage and planetary defenses to memories. The Armageddon sacrifices hull and shield for raw firepower: it's not built to take hits, it's built to ensure the enemy never gets the chance to deliver them. The Crimson Fleet has built three Armageddons in its history. That was enough. The word \"armageddon\" is now a verb in Crimson Fleet tactical lexicon. ",
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      "base_shield": 368,
      "base_shield_recharge": 14,
      "base_armor": 130,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 500,
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      "weapon_slots": 9,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
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        },
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
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        },
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
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          "item_id": "station_reactor",
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        },
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_armor_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "highly_enriched_uranium",
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        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        "bombardment",
        "war-ender"
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      "id": "arsenal",
      "name": "Arsenal",
      "description": "Crimson fleet logistics. Ammunition, fuel, replacement weapons. The reason the Fleet keeps fighting.",
      "class": "Logistics",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Support",
      "lore": "Every weapon in the Crimson Fleet fires ammunition that comes\nfrom somewhere. That somewhere is the Arsenal. Eight hundred forty units\nof cargo capacity carry weapons, ammunition, fuel, replacement\narmor plates, and everything else a battle group consumes in\nsustained operations. The Arsenal is the most heavily armored\nlogistics vessel in any navy — because the Crimson Fleet learned\nthe hard way that losing your supply ship loses the campaign.\nArsenal captains hold the least glamorous but most critical\nposition in the fleet. A Crimson battle group without an Arsenal\nis a Crimson battle group with a countdown timer.\n",
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      "base_shield": 400,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 45,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 350,
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      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 90,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
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          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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        {
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
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          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "ammo_fabricator",
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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      "id": "ascendancy",
      "name": "Ascendancy",
      "description": "Nebula luxury titan. The ultimate expression of commercial supremacy.",
      "class": "Command",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Sovereign-class is the single most expensive vessel the Federation\nproduces, and it is designed to make sure everyone knows it. Gold-laced\ncircuitry, crystal viewports spanning entire decks, and shields that\ncould weather a fleet engagement protect an interior that makes orbital\npalaces look modest. Six defense slots ensure the investment survives\nanything short of a coordinated capital assault. The Federation builds\nexactly one per fiscal quarter, and the waiting list is longer than\nsome empires' ship registries.\n",
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      "base_shield": 1800,
      "base_shield_recharge": 25,
      "base_armor": 75,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 1100,
      "cargo_capacity": 420,
      "cpu_capacity": 85,
      "power_capacity": 280,
      "weapon_slots": 5,
      "defense_slots": 6,
      "utility_slots": 8,
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        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "ion_blaster_iii",
        "nebula_storm_barrier",
        "nebula_bio_regenerator",
        "adaptive_shield_iii",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "adaptive_shield_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 50,
      "required_reputation": 60,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "metamaterial_panel",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_prism_computer",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "habitation_module",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_authenticator",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 30
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "capital",
        "flagship",
        "status-symbol"
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    {
      "id": "atmospheric_sampler",
      "name": "Atmospheric Sampler",
      "description": "Solarian modular gas platform. Five utility bays and deep CPU — configure for any cloud.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Atmospheric Sampler ships with dual harvesters and a scanner, but five utility bays and the deepest fitting budget in the gas harvester class mean that loadout is a starting point. Cargo expanders for bulk collection runs. Shield boosters for contested clouds. Additional harvesters for maximum throughput. The Confederacy designed the Sampler as a framework — adaptable to whatever atmospheric conditions the mission requires. Open hardpoints and generous remaining compute capacity invite the kind of customization the engineering committee fully intended.",
      "base_hull": 350,
      "base_shield": 200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 240,
      "cargo_capacity": 500,
      "cpu_capacity": 38,
      "power_capacity": 80,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
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        "gas_harvester_iii",
        "survey_scanner_ii"
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      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 8
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      ],
      "build_time": 3000,
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        "modular",
        "scientific",
        "high-utility"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "attenuation",
      "name": "Attenuation",
      "description": "Voidborn isotope carrier. Radiation attenuates. So does knowledge of its transit routes.",
      "class": "Hazmat Freighter",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Radioactive materials have a sensor signature. The Attenuation-class was built to solve this. Lead-composite cargo bays reduce outward radiation scatter to ambient levels. Void-dampened drives reduce propulsion emissions to figures that don't appear in any published specification. Hull geometries produce radar returns that scanner classification systems log as background interference rather than a vessel. The practical result is a ship carrying some of the most detectable cargo in known space that registers, reliably, as a calibration error. The Attenuation's transit routes are not filed. Cargo logs are not available under any clearance level.",
      "base_hull": 380,
      "base_shield": 240,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 15,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 350,
      "cargo_capacity": 340,
      "cpu_capacity": 42,
      "power_capacity": 48,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_ii"
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      "id": "axiom",
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      "description": "Light Solarian fighter. Balanced, certified, and thoroughly documented.",
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      "faction": "solarian",
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      "lore": "The Axiom-class light fighter represents the Solarian approach to combat:\nmeasured, methodical, and equipped with three independent targeting verification\nsystems. Not the fastest or hardest-hitting ship in its class, but pilots report\nan unusually low rate of \"unexpected outcomes.\" A 130-unit fuel reserve gives it\nthe longest operational range of any T1 fighter, and the balanced power distribution\nleaves enough headroom for two utility modules without compromising the weapons\npackage. The generous cargo bay is officially designated for \"mission-critical\nscientific samples,\" though field reports suggest more creative interpretations.\n",
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      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Axiomata-class applies the Confederacy's fundamental design principle: every subsystem should make every other subsystem more effective. Six weapon mounts feed targeting data back into the defensive grid. Four defense slots generate shield harmonics that improve sensor resolution. The result is a warship that gets measurably more dangerous the longer an engagement lasts, as its onboard systems accumulate tactical data and optimize in real time. The design process took seven years. Three of those were spent on the sensor-weapon feedback loop alone. Solarian captains receive a 400-page operating manual. Most of them read it.",
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      "id": "bad_idea",
      "name": "Bad Idea",
      "description": "Outer Rim monitor. Cheap, crude, charges in and refuses to die.",
      "class": "Monitor",
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      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The plan is to be where the shooting is and not be the first thing that dies. That is the entire design brief, and the Bad Idea meets it the way the Rim meets everything: with too much plate, not enough finesse, and a name that admits the problem up front. The frame is overbuilt to the point of stubbornness, slabs of salvaged armor stacked thick enough to shrug off hits that would gut a proper warship, and just enough guns bolted to the front to make charging in something more than a suicide gesture. It is slow, it is ugly, and it drinks fuel like the day owes it something. None of that matters once it's parked between your fleet and the enemy, soaking everything that comes its way while lighter ships do the clever work. It is, by name and by nature, a bad idea. It keeps working anyway.",
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      "id": "bad_influence",
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      "description": "Outer Rim electronic warfare frigate. Jams, spoofs, and generally causes problems.",
      "class": "Electronic Warfare",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Bad Influence takes the Rim approach to electronic warfare: if you\ncan't outgun them, confuse them until they outgun themselves. Built on\na racing chassis with an absurd amount of processing power crammed into\nevery spare cavity, it's fast enough to stay at jamming range and smart\nenough to make enemy targeting systems deeply unreliable. Rim EW doctrine\ncan be summarized as \"make the other guy's day worse.\"\n",
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      "base_armor": 5,
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      "weapon_slots": 1,
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        "ecm_jammer"
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      "piloting_required": 10,
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          "quantity": 13
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 14
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        "disruptive"
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      "id": "baling_wire",
      "name": "Baling Wire",
      "description": "Outer Rim freighter. Held together by determination and creative engineering.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Named for the universal Rim repair material, the Baling Wire is the cheapest way to move cargo at speed. Oversized engines inherited from a decommissioned racing hull give it legs that freighters twice its price can't match, and the default afterburner pushes it past anything that isn't specifically built to chase. The catch: that afterburner burns fuel fast, and pilots learn quick that the choice between nine jumps at full speed and twenty-four without is the only decision that matters on any given run. The hold is respectable and the hull is not — experienced pilots treat the thin plating as motivation to keep the engines hot.",
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      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 7,
      "base_speed": 3,
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      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 35,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
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        "cheap",
        "fast"
      ]
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      "id": "bastille",
      "name": "Bastille",
      "description": "Crimson interdictor. Nobody leaves the combat zone until the Crimson Fleet says so.",
      "class": "Interdictor",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Bastille solves a problem the Crimson Fleet finds personally offensive: enemies running away. The warp disruption field prevents jump drives from engaging, trapping everything within range in normal space. The Bastille's own defenses are unusually robust for a Crimson ship — three defense slots and solid shields — because the ship that prevents escape becomes priority target number one. Crimson Fleet commanders deploy the Bastille first and build their battle plan around it. The doctrine is simple: close the door, then light the room on fire. Nobody leaves until the fleet is done. ",
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      "base_shield": 77,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 30,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 60,
      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 80,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
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        "damage_control_system",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
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      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 5
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        {
          "item_id": "gravity_generator",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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      "id": "bedrock",
      "name": "Bedrock",
      "description": "Outer Rim armored mining frame. Cheap, tough, and impossible to kill. Slow about it.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Patchwork engineers overbuilt the frame after noticing that most mining ship failures came from trying to be clever — so they stopped trying. The default armor plate drops speed to a crawl, but nobody's outrunning anything in an asteroid belt anyway. Cheapest T2 miner on the market by a wide margin, and the one most likely to still be mining when everything else in the field has gone home for repairs. The Bedrock doesn't do anything fancy. It shows up, it mines, and it's still there when you come back to check on it. Some pilots name theirs. The Patchwork takes this as a sign they got the design right.",
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      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 12,
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      "weapon_slots": 1,
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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      "id": "billhook",
      "name": "Billhook",
      "description": "Crimson brute-force gas harvester. Dual collection arrays strip clouds bare. No weapon — the cargo hold is the weapon.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Fleet Command asked a question nobody expected: what if we stopped shooting and started hauling? The Billhook strips the weapon mount entirely in favor of dual gas collection arrays and a compression- rated cargo hold. It keeps the Crimson hull plating — it can take hits, it just can't return them. The tradeoff is pure volume, and the volume is considerable. The default loadout fills every available slot, which is either a sign of purposeful engineering or Crimson stubbornness about empty spaces. Pilots who miss having a gun are encouraged to bring an escort.",
      "base_hull": 220,
      "base_shield": 50,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 300,
      "cargo_capacity": 200,
      "cpu_capacity": 16,
      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
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        "gas_harvester_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
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      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 12
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 5
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        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 50
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    {
      "id": "blind_spot",
      "name": "Blind Spot",
      "description": "Overlord Nyx's flagship. A Nebula Paramount with its prismatic navigation arrays and route optimization software removed and its cargo hold left exactly where it was. The Federation built this to coordinate trade convoys and find the best routes. Nyx already knows where every route is. He built his station in the space between all of them.",
      "class": "Command",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Nebula Collective built the Paramount to coordinate trade convoys and generate revenue simultaneously — profit and military effectiveness as two sides of the same ledger. The route optimization software and prismatic navigation arrays are gone. Nyx doesn't need them. He knows where every route in the sector runs, which is why he built his station off all of them.\nThe cargo hold, the fuel range, and the command suite that let the Paramount coordinate a fleet while generating revenue are unchanged. Nyx runs 51 systems from a station that appears on no standard transit chart. The Blind Spot coordinates an operation that officially doesn't exist from a location that ships don't visit by accident. The Federation named theirs after commercial ambition. Nyx named his after why no one has found him yet.\n",
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      "id": "bonanza",
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      "description": "Nebula bulk mining barge. Triple laser loadout with ore compression holds that halve stored volume.",
      "class": "Miner",
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      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Bonanza-class is what happens when Federation engineers optimize exclusively for ore hauled per credit spent. No weapons — weapons take space that could carry cargo. Minimal shields — shields add mass. Three mining lasers feeding directly into compressed ore holds that pack twice the raw material into the same volume. Federation mining operations deploy Bonanzas in convoys with Escort-class guards, because the cost of one armed guard split across six barges beats six armed miners every time. The Bonanza's per-unit extraction cost is published in the quarterly investor briefing. It trends downward.",
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      "power_capacity": 24,
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          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        "heavy-cargo",
        "unarmed"
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      "id": "bonanza_king",
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      "description": "Nebula modular mining platform. Six utility slots — configure it for any contract.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Federation mining operations vary — some fields are safe, some aren't, some are close to market, some require a week of jumps. The Bonanza King was designed to handle all of them. Six utility hardpoints and a deep fitting budget let pilots configure for whatever the contract demands: cargo expanders for high-volume hauls, scanners for prospecting runs, shield boosters for contested belts. The default loadout ships with a scanner and expander, but the Federation considers that a suggestion, not a specification. Three utility slots remain open. The quarterly operations review consistently ranks the Bonanza King as the most adaptable mining hull in the fleet.",
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      "base_shield": 170,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 280,
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      "cpu_capacity": 38,
      "power_capacity": 85,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
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        "ship_scanner_ii"
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          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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          "item_id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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      "id": "bonesaw",
      "name": "Bonesaw",
      "description": "Crimson heavy salvager. Industrial cutting arrays backed by warship armor and three weapon mounts.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Bonesaw-class is what happens when the Crimson Fleet applies warship design philosophy to industrial vessels. Three weapon mounts protect a cutting array that can disassemble a cruiser hull in under an hour. The cargo bay is reinforced to mil-spec — not for structural reasons, but because Bonesaw crews have a documented tendency to ram debris that proves difficult to cut. Fleet Command classifies the Bonesaw as a support vessel. Bonesaw crews classify themselves as apex predators of the wreck field. ",
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      "base_shield": 120,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 35,
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      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
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          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 35
        },
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        "industrial",
        "armed",
        "heavy",
        "battlefield-cleanup"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "brain_freeze",
      "name": "Brain Freeze",
      "description": "Outer Rim yield-optimized ice harvester. Best extraction efficiency in its class. Gets more from less.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Rim ice fields are small and scattered, which taught Frontier engineers to extract maximum value from minimum resource. The Brain Freeze gets its name from the cockpit temperature when the saws run at full power — Rim engineers solved this by duct-taping a portable heater to the pilot's armrest. The extraction system squeezes more usable ice per pass than anything else in its class, and the compression-rated hold stretches further than a hull this cheap has any right to. It's fragile, it's slow by Rim standards, and the warranty is a handshake. It also produces better margins per trip than ships costing twice as much.",
      "base_hull": 150,
      "base_shield": 45,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 240,
      "cargo_capacity": 170,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
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        },
        {
          "type": "ice_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 65
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 10
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      "build_time": 900,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "efficient",
        "cheap"
      ]
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      "id": "broadaxe",
      "name": "Broadaxe",
      "description": "Crimson heavy fighter. The fleet's workhorse — four weapon mounts and the armor to use them.",
      "class": "Heavy Fighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Four weapon mounts on a frame built to stay in the engagement until everything else has left it. The Broadaxe doesn't rely on alpha strikes or maneuver — it plants itself at fighting range and keeps firing until the field is clear. The mixed loadout covers kinetic, energy, and explosive damage, which means whatever the target is resistant to, at least two of the guns don't care. Crimson Fleet captains refer to the Broadaxe's combat philosophy as \"sustained professional violence.\" The armor holds long enough for the philosophy to reach its conclusion.",
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      "base_shield": 28,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 315,
      "cargo_capacity": 35,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 50,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
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        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "flak_cannon_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii"
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      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 5
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      "build_time": 1080,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "brawler",
        "heavy-weapons",
        "armored"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "buckler",
      "name": "Buckler",
      "description": "Cheap Crimson escort. Bodyguards convoys. More defense than offense, for once.",
      "class": "Raider",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Buckler is the Crimson Fleet's only ship where defense slots\noutnumber weapon slots, and the engineers responsible for the design\nreportedly received several pointed questions about their loyalty.\nThe rationale survived scrutiny: a dead escort protects nothing. At\nspeed 1 with its standard loadout, the Buckler won't chase anything\ndown — it parks itself between the convoy and the threat and absorbs\nfire until the warships arrive. 180 hull, 19 effective armor, and 90\nshields make it the hardest T1 hull to kill. The single pulse laser\nand 20-unit cargo hold rule out any pretense of solo raiding. Buckler\npilots are respected for their willingness to take hits — a form of\naggression the Fleet grudgingly acknowledges.\n",
      "base_hull": 222,
      "base_shield": 23,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 80,
      "cargo_capacity": 20,
      "cpu_capacity": 10,
      "power_capacity": 24,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 0,
      "default_modules": [
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        "armor_plate_i",
        "shield_booster_i"
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 13
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 6
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      ],
      "build_time": 220,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "escort",
        "defensive",
        "cheap"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bulk_terms",
      "name": "Bulk Terms",
      "description": "Nebula commercial hauling hull. Maximizes cargo, minimizes everything else. Standard Federation contract in ship form.",
      "class": "Bulk Hauler",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Bulk Terms exists because someone at the Federation asked what a freighter looks like when you strip everything that isn't cargo. No weapons, no automated cargo management, no redundant navigation — the pilot gets a hold, a fuel tank, and exactly enough hull to keep the hold pressurized. Build materials are common stock, assembly is faster than the competition's pre-flight checklist, and the result hauls cargo at a price point that makes the math work even on thin routes. The defenses are nonexistent. The Federation's actuarial department recommends escort contracts.",
      "base_hull": 155,
      "base_shield": 45,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 4,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 200,
      "cargo_capacity": 350,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 26,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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          "value": 25
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 680,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "hauler",
        "cargo-heavy",
        "budget"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "capacity",
      "name": "Capacity",
      "description": "Solarian tanker. Bulk fuel transport with temperature-controlled containment.",
      "class": "Tanker",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Confederacy's fuel transport regulations fill eleven volumes. The Capacity complies with all of them. Four independent containment systems maintain volatile liquids at precisely regulated temperatures, and the monitoring software generates status reports on a schedule the Safety Commission describes as \"adequate\" and the engineering team describes as \"excessive, but they asked.\" The default shield booster protects cargo that the Confederacy classifies as both commercially valuable and extremely flammable — a combination the insurance underwriters handle by charging premiums that make the shield a sound investment. The remaining fitting budget and CPU headroom leave room for whatever the route demands.",
      "base_hull": 190,
      "base_shield": 70,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 9,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 1500,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 38,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 900,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "tanker",
        "bulk-transport",
        "monitored"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "caravan",
      "name": "Caravan",
      "description": "Nebula bulk freighter. The backbone of Federation commerce.",
      "class": "Bulk Hauler",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The ship that built the Federation's trade network. The Caravan carries the largest effective hold of any T2 commercial hull — dual cargo expanders stretch an already generous bay into something that justifies the fuel spent crossing three systems. The single weapon mount is described in marketing materials as \"a deterrent\" and in engineering documents as \"an afterthought.\" Caravan captains accept this. The margins are in volume, not violence, and the margins are very good.",
      "base_hull": 200,
      "base_shield": 90,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 9,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 220,
      "cargo_capacity": 540,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 38,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "shield_booster_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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          "value": 25
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      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 990,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "bulk-hauler",
        "fuel-efficient",
        "cargo-massive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "casting_vote",
      "name": "Casting Vote",
      "description": "A Solarian Quorum without solarian composite, navigation cores, or committee approval. The shield rating dropped significantly. The four weapon mounts did not. Pirates have a different authorization process.",
      "class": "Cruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Quorum's hull was designed to be adapted. Solarian committee doctrine required consensus before any commitment, so the engineers built a warship that could be everything — four weapon mounts, eleven slots, distributed power runs connecting each bay to every other, modular architecture that could be reconfigured between engagements when the committee changed its mind. It is, structurally, a ship that was always waiting to become something else.\nPirates gave it the opportunity. The solarian composite that managed the shield field is gone. The navigation cores and circuit-board processing arrays that ran targeting predictions and sensor integration are gone. What remains is a hull whose every frame and mounting point reflects a Solarian conviction that flexibility is the highest tactical virtue. The salvage electronics plugged into those mounting points are uglier than what came out. The shield coverage runs softer without Solarian engineering behind it. The four weapon mounts are exactly where Solarian geometers decided they should be, covering overlapping fields of fire that a committee spent months approving.\nSolarian doctrine requires a quorum before authorized use of force. The Casting Vote operates on a different model: the decision has already been made, the vote was unanimous, and it happened before you knew there was a meeting.\n",
      "npc_role": "fighter",
      "base_hull": 430,
      "base_shield": 200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 380,
      "cargo_capacity": 95,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 90,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "railgun_ii",
        "missile_launcher_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "damage_control_system",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 20
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3640,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "cruiser",
        "balanced",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "quorum"
    },
    {
      "id": "catalogue",
      "name": "Catalogue",
      "description": "Solarian salvager. Four utility slots and deep CPU reserves make it the most customizable wreck recovery platform at T1.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Catalogue-class approaches wreck recovery as an information problem. Every fragment is scanned and cross-referenced against the Confederacy's materials database before entering the cargo hold — the integrated scanner identifies salvageable components that competitors' crews would overlook. What makes the Catalogue unusual for a salvage vessel is the four utility bays and the processing overhead to run them. Most salvagers commit to a single approach. The Catalogue is designed to be refitted for whatever the wreck field demands: expanded cargo for bulk recovery, additional scanning for high-value extraction, towing rigs for intact hull sections. Insurance adjusters across the sector prefer Catalogue-generated wreck assessments. They are the only ones that come with complete documentation.",
      "base_hull": 90,
      "base_shield": 55,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 110,
      "cargo_capacity": 100,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "ship_scanner_i",
        "cargo_expander_i"
      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 12,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "integrated_scanner",
          "value": 15
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 420,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "industrial",
        "methodical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "catharsis",
      "name": "Catharsis",
      "description": "Voidborn signal ship. Transmits and receives on frequencies that don't officially exist.",
      "class": "Intelligence",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "The Catharsis-class was designed to investigate a phenomenon the Collective refers to only as \"the Signal\" — an anomalous transmission detected across the Voidborn communications network whose origin, content, and purpose remain classified. The ship's antenna arrays operate on frequencies that do not appear in any empire's electromagnetic spectrum charts. What the Catharsis transmits, and to whom, is unknown. What it receives is processed through computational substrates that are physically isolated from all other ship systems, suggesting that even the Collective exercises caution around whatever it is listening to. The ship's name — meaning purification through emotional release — is either deeply meaningful or deliberately misleading. With the Voidborn, both are equally likely. ",
      "base_hull": 340,
      "base_shield": 370,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 11,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 380,
      "cargo_capacity": 35,
      "cpu_capacity": 60,
      "power_capacity": 118,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 6,
      "default_modules": [
        "anomaly_detector",
        "ship_scanner_ii",
        "shield_booster_iii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "integrated_scanner",
          "value": 20
        },
        {
          "type": "special_flag",
          "flag": "anomaly_detection"
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 170
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 4680,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "signal",
        "covert",
        "high-cpu",
        "the-signal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "census",
      "name": "Census",
      "description": "Voidborn customs vessel. It knows what you're carrying. It knew before you arrived.",
      "class": "Customs Patrol",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Census does not scan cargo. The Census observes cargo. The\nCollective draws a distinction that most pilots find academic. Its\nscanning arrays operate in frequency ranges the Voidborn have never\npublicly acknowledged, resolving cargo contents through hull plating\nthat other scanners read as opaque. Shield strength is disproportionate\nto its role — the Collective does not explain why a customs vessel\nneeds combat-grade shielding, and the Census does not volunteer the\ninformation.\n",
      "base_hull": 140,
      "base_shield": 165,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 150,
      "cargo_capacity": 35,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 55,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "pulse_laser_i",
        "pulse_laser_i",
        "shield_booster_i",
        "shield_booster_i"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "integrated_scanner",
          "value": 35
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "customs",
        "scanner-heavy",
        "shield-heavy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "chop_shop",
      "name": "Chop Shop",
      "description": "Outer Rim modular salvage platform. Best tow bonus in class, open fitting, build it your way.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Chop Shop ships with a shield booster and a fitting budget that dwarfs every other salvager on the market. Patchwork engineers figure every salvage job is different — some need weapons, some need cargo expansion, some need speed — so they built a hull that handles all of them depending on what the pilot bolts on before launch. The best tow bonus in its class comes standard, because towing is the one thing every salvage run needs. The name was supposed to be temporary. The crews voted to keep it. Station authorities pretend not to notice that some Chop Shops return from \"salvage runs\" with suspiciously fresh debris.",
      "base_hull": 160,
      "base_shield": 55,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 240,
      "cargo_capacity": 280,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 38,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "shield_booster_ii"
      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 24,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 780,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "industrial",
        "modular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "claim_jumper",
      "name": "Claim Jumper",
      "description": "Outer Rim speed miner. Oversized engines, undersized hold. Ore compression halves stored volume — still the smallest in class.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Named for a time-honored Rim tradition, the Claim Jumper is built for speed-mining: arrive first, extract fast, leave before questions get asked. The afterburner comes factory-installed because Rim engineers consider Speed 5 a starting point, not a ceiling. The oversized fuel tank exists to feed that speed — at Speed 6, the engine drinks fuel faster than any other miner in production, and the tank keeps it running long enough to matter. Removing the afterburner buys more range but most Claim Jumper pilots would rather run out of fuel than get caught mining slow. No weapons, no shields worth mentioning, no armor. Just an engine bolted to a mining laser with a small hold underneath.",
      "base_hull": 60,
      "base_shield": 20,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 1,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 250,
      "cargo_capacity": 55,
      "cpu_capacity": 10,
      "power_capacity": 20,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_i",
        "afterburner_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ore_yield_bonus",
          "value": 10
        },
        {
          "type": "ore_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 200,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "mining",
        "fast",
        "fragile"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cleaver",
      "name": "Cleaver",
      "description": "Entry-level Crimson fighter. Three weapon mounts on a frame this size is excessive. That's the point.",
      "class": "Fighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Three weapon mounts on a hull this small violates six Solarian\nengineering standards and two Nebula safety certifications. Crimson\nFleet response to the citations was a single unprintable word. The\nCleaver is where Crimson pilots learn the fleet's core lesson: if\nyou can see it, you can kill it. If you can kill it, mount more guns\nand kill it faster. Cargo space and every utility hardpoint were\nsacrificed for the third weapon mount and reinforced armor plating.\nWhat's left is the highest damage output in the T1 fighter class on\na frame that can absorb punishment long enough to deliver it.\n",
      "base_hull": 156,
      "base_shield": 14,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 10,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 80,
      "cargo_capacity": 15,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 40,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 0,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_i",
        "autocannon_i",
        "autocannon_i",
        "armor_plate_i"
      ],
      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 280,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "aggressive",
        "oversized-weapons",
        "cheap"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cloister",
      "name": "Cloister",
      "description": "Voidborn liner. Silent, shielded, contemplative travel.",
      "class": "Liner",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "Travel, the Collective maintains, is an interruption of context, and\ninterruptions deserve to be observed properly. Aboard the Cloister each\npassenger receives a pod, a silence, and a soft chime marking the\nmoments the ship considers significant. Conversation is permitted in\nthe gallery, where the viewports face whatever the Collective believes\nis worth contemplating that day. Passengers describe arriving rested\nthe way one wakes from deep anesthesia: aware that time has passed,\nunclear on its contents, oddly at peace. The Collective insists that\nnothing happens aboard a Cloister. The shield array suggests the\nCollective considers nothing worth protecting thoroughly.\n",
      "special": "passenger_liner",
      "base_hull": 360,
      "base_shield": 420,
      "base_shield_recharge": 9,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 420,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 100,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "passenger_economy_berths",
          "value": 10
        },
        {
          "type": "passenger_business_berths",
          "value": 6
        },
        {
          "type": "passenger_first_berths",
          "value": 1
        },
        {
          "type": "scan_resistance",
          "value": 15
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 160
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 30
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 4200,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "liner",
        "civilian",
        "shield-dominant"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "close_enough",
      "name": "Close Enough",
      "description": "A Solarian Theorem with its targeting computers pulled for scrap and its weapon mounts left running anyway. Three guns, less math. The shields are softer where the emitter array used to be. Works fine.",
      "class": "Heavy Fighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Solarian Confederacy built the Theorem on the principle that a sufficiently precise targeting solution outperforms raw firepower. Pirates ran the experiment. They stripped the fire control hardware, kept three weapon mounts, and shot at things until the things stopped moving. The results were considered acceptable. The shield coverage is softer without the emitter array. The CPU runs salvage electronics instead of targeting predictions. Accuracy has declined in the technical sense. Three simultaneous weapons at engagement range have not declined in the practical sense. The name is the philosophy. At sufficient volume, close enough is close enough.",
      "npc_role": "fighter",
      "base_hull": 200,
      "base_shield": 90,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 150,
      "cargo_capacity": 45,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 55,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "focused_beam_i",
        "shield_booster_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1080,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "balanced",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "theorem"
    },
    {
      "id": "cobble",
      "name": "Cobble",
      "description": "Outer Rim starter vessel. Mismatched parts, personally tuned engine, expired warranty.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 0,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "No two Cobbles are alike because no two Cobbles are made from the same\nparts. Assembled from whatever was available — Solarian hull panels here,\nCrimson thruster housing there, something Voidborn that nobody can identify\nbolted to the port nacelle. The engine has been hand-tuned by whoever built\nthis particular Cobble, and it is improbably, irresponsibly fast. The hull\nintegrity is... present. The warranty expired before the ship was finished.\nThe paint doesn't match. The instrument panel is labeled in three different\nlanguages. It is the most honest ship in the galaxy: exactly what it is,\nnothing pretending to be more. Rim pilots love them with an affection that\nbaffles every other empire.\n",
      "starter_ship": true,
      "base_hull": 80,
      "base_shield": 35,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 120,
      "cargo_capacity": 75,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 24,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
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        "autocannon_i"
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        "starter",
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        "warranty-void"
      ]
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      "id": "cogito",
      "name": "Cogito",
      "description": "Solarian courier. Longest legs in the fleet, certified flexible, methodically unhurried.",
      "class": "Courier",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "\"I think, therefore I deliver on time.\" The Cogito trades speed for reach — three utility slots, a full scanner suite, and enough fuel to cross the galaxy without stopping. At Speed 3 it is the slowest courier in service, a fact the Confederacy addresses by noting that it arrives with cargo intact, systems operational, and a full diagnostic report filed before the pilot unbuckles. The modular bay accepts almost any standard loadout, making it the courier of choice for Solarian diplomatic missions where the cargo might be medicine one run and sensor probes the next. The onboard AI is certified polite in seven languages.",
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      "base_shield": 50,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 4,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 200,
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      "cpu_capacity": 16,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
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        "ship_scanner_i"
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "unarmed",
        "fuel-efficient"
      ]
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      "id": "cold_comfort",
      "name": "Cold Comfort",
      "description": "Outer Rim improvised ice platform. Welded-together saws, heaters, and cargo pods. Ugly but effective.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Cold Comfort looks exactly like what it is: industrial ice saws,\nthermal heaters, and cargo pods welded onto a hull frame with\nstructural bracing that a Solarian engineer would condemn. It works.\nSpeed 2 gets it to ice fields before competitors, the saws cut\nchunks free fast, the heaters crack them into manageable pieces, and\nthe cargo pods hold seven hundred and eighty units of roughly-processed\nice product. Refinement quality is \"adequate.\" The Rim doesn't have\ntime for precision cryo-extraction — the frontier needs coolant and\nfuel, and Cold Comfort delivers both.\n",
      "base_hull": 700,
      "base_shield": 250,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 28,
      "base_speed": 2,
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      "cpu_capacity": 32,
      "power_capacity": 90,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
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          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 8500,
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        "ice-refinery",
        "fast",
        "cheap",
        "improvised"
      ],
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        "process_water_ice",
        "process_helium_ice",
        "process_nitrogen_ice",
        "process_deuterium_ice"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "cold_storage",
      "name": "Cold Storage",
      "description": "Nebula armored ice harvester. Dual extraction arrays behind reinforced plating. Slow and hard to kill.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Federation insurance actuaries flagged ice harvesting as the highest-loss industrial operation three quarters running before someone authorized the Cold Storage redesign. The result is the toughest ice harvester in its class — reinforced hull plating and a default armor package that makes it genuinely difficult to destroy. The armor drops speed to a crawl, which the actuaries accepted because slower ships file fewer collision claims. Dual extraction arrays keep throughput competitive despite the extra mass. The weapon mount is gone — the Federation decided that shooting back was less cost-effective than simply not dying.",
      "base_hull": 200,
      "base_shield": 65,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 180,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 40,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_ii",
        "ice_harvester_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
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        },
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          "type": "ice_cargo_efficiency",
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        }
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          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        },
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 6
        }
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      "build_time": 1080,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "armored",
        "durable"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "collateral",
      "name": "Collateral",
      "description": "Nebula long-patrol strike fighter. A small elite striker that outlasts everything else in its class.",
      "class": "Interceptor",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Federation doesn't fight wars — it protects investments, and the Collateral-class is the contract clause that says so. The board kept running the same numbers: most security losses happen not in the battle but in the gap, the long quiet stretches when a patrol has already turned back for fuel and the route sits unwatched. So the Federation built a small hull around a disproportionate fuel reserve and a drive that keeps a single pilot on station long after a larger squadron would have docked. The weapons are tuned for one good engagement, not a campaign — what matters is that the Collateral is still flying the line when everyone else has gone home, which is precisely when the trouble shows up. Federation security contracts specify minimum patrol duration. The Collateral is the only thing in its class that meets the spec without relief.",
      "base_hull": 130,
      "base_shield": 240,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 10,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 500,
      "cargo_capacity": 20,
      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 80,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
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        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "em_shield_hardener",
        "afterburner_ii",
        "fuel_optimizer"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 24
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
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      "build_time": 3800,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "elite",
        "long-range"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "comet",
      "name": "Comet",
      "description": "Nebula's most exclusive liner — every berth a first-class suite, every crossing made at the fastest pace the galaxy allows. Built for passengers whose time is the most expensive thing aboard.",
      "class": "Liner",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "There is no economy cabin aboard a Comet, no business tier, no standby list —\nthere is one class of service, and the Federation considers it the only one worth\nselling. Every suite is private, every passenger is the most important person on\nthe manifest, and the entire ship is built to put them where they are going at the\nfastest pace the galaxy permits, because the people who charter a Comet measure a\njourney in opportunities missed, not credits spent. It carries no cargo worth the\nname and no weapons at all; what it sells is the hour you would otherwise have\nlost. The drive holds that pace while barely touching the fuel reserves, so a\ncrossing never breaks for a refueling stop. To book passage is to declare that\nyour time is the most valuable thing in the system — and to be seen declaring it.\n",
      "base_hull": 700,
      "base_shield": 700,
      "base_shield_recharge": 12,
      "base_armor": 20,
      "base_speed": 6,
      "base_fuel": 900,
      "cargo_capacity": 200,
      "cpu_capacity": 55,
      "power_capacity": 150,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "required_achievement": "galactic_concierge",
      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for pilots who have earned the \"Galactic Concierge\" achievement.",
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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        },
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        }
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      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
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        },
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 24
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 400
        }
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        "first-class",
        "express",
        "prestige"
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    },
    {
      "id": "compendium",
      "name": "Compendium",
      "description": "Solarian long-range bulk hauler. Slowest in class, longest legs, most fitting flexibility.",
      "class": "Bulk Hauler",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Compendium-class hauls cargo the way the Confederacy does everything: thoroughly, methodically, and with comprehensive documentation. The automated cargo management system optimizes load distribution in real time, adjusting center-of-mass calculations after every container shift. The default loadout covers the essentials — cargo expansion, a scanner for route assessment, and a pulse laser for regulations compliance — while the fitting budget leaves room to adapt. It is slow, but the fuel tank stretches across more jumps than any competing bulk hauler at this tier. The Compendium serves long routes that faster ships run out of fuel attempting.",
      "base_hull": 480,
      "base_shield": 200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 350,
      "cargo_capacity": 625,
      "cpu_capacity": 32,
      "power_capacity": 80,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
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        "ship_scanner_ii",
        "pulse_laser_ii"
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      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        "modular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "concordance",
      "name": "Concordance",
      "description": "Solarian command ship. Coordinates fleet operations through superior processing.",
      "class": "Command",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Concordance-class is the Confederacy's answer to the question of how to coordinate a fleet of ships whose captains all believe they know best. The answer, naturally, is more processing power. The massive CPU array runs tactical models, logistics simulations, and diplomatic communication channels simultaneously. Fleet commanders report that the Concordance's tactical recommendations are \"usually correct and always exhaustively documented.\" ",
      "base_hull": 450,
      "base_shield": 280,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 20,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 350,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 60,
      "power_capacity": 120,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 3,
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      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "communications_array",
          "quantity": 6
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 80
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      ],
      "build_time": 5200,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "high-cpu",
        "fleet-coordinator"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "concordia",
      "name": "Concordia",
      "description": "Solarian heritage speedliner. The fastest civilized way to travel.",
      "class": "Liner",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "Named for the needle-hulled airliner that once crossed an ocean on Old\nEarth in under four hours, trailing a sonic boom and a drinks service.\nThe Concordia is the Confederacy's anniversary project: engineers were\ninstructed, for once, to make something beautiful, and responded with a\nhull so slender the passenger manifest doubles as a structural diagram.\nChampagne is served the moment the jump drive cycles, on the theory that\nno one books a Concordia to save money. The fuel economics never worked\nfor the original and they do not work now. The Confederacy maintains the\nservice anyway, on the grounds that some inheritances are about more\nthan accounting.\n",
      "base_hull": 220,
      "base_shield": 200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 6,
      "base_fuel": 600,
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      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 75,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "piloting_required": 20,
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      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 40
        },
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 150
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      ],
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "fast",
        "civilian",
        "heritage"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "confluence",
      "name": "Confluence",
      "description": "Voidborn explorer. Drawn to anomalies. The ship suggests destinations.",
      "class": "Explorer",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "Confluence pilots learn quickly that the ship has opinions about where to go next. The navigation system presents suggested waypoints that correspond to no known database — yet invariably lead to something interesting. Whether the ship is detecting subtle gravitational signatures or simply knows things it shouldn't, the survey logs speak for themselves. The shield array regenerates fast enough that the Confluence survives locations other explorers avoid — debris fields, unstable anomalies, the deep-space regions where sensor readings stop making sense. The fuel tank was sized as a practical concession: Confluences tend to wander, and the Collective prefers they wander back.",
      "base_hull": 130,
      "base_shield": 145,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 34,
      "power_capacity": 58,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 7
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      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Conglomerate-class is the Federation's ultimate long-haul trade\nplatform — a mobile warehouse with the fuel range to reach markets that\nshorter-legged haulers write off as unprofitable. Slow, but speed is\nless important when each trip generates enough revenue to fund a small\nfleet. The five utility slots support logistics management, automated\ninventory systems, and the Federation's \"Total Commercial Awareness\"\nsuite. Insurance premiums for a fully loaded Conglomerate have their\nown financial instrument category.\n",
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      "base_speed": 1,
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      "faction": "outerrim",
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      "lore": "For the pilot who could not afford a Frankenhauler but remained deeply\nenthusiastic about the concept. After it became clear that bolting more\nPrayers onto a Worship had unfortunate effects on maneuverability, the\nconcept of maneuverability was abandoned entirely. A Congregation \"pilot\"\ngenerally requests that the station's docking cranes align the hull\nprecisely along the bearing of the next destination, and then hits the\naccelerator. After the first several failed \"docks,\" the seat was\nrelocated to the top of the long line of containers, in the interest of\noperator safety.\n",
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      "base_armor": 0,
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      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Consensus-class command ship does not relay orders — it shares\nintent. Fleet vessels within its coordination radius report acting\non information they have not yet received through conventional\nchannels. The seven utility slots support a neural-link architecture\nthat the Collective describes as \"distributed volition.\" Admirals\nof other empires describe Voidborn fleet actions as \"choreographed\nby something that isn't the commander.\" They are not wrong. They\nare not seeing the whole picture either.\n",
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          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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      "class": "Liner",
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      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Consortium-class represents the Federation's belief that commerce\nextends beyond cargo holds. Premium passenger transport, diplomatic\nfunctions, and \"relationship-building excursions\" (the Federation's\nterm for business trips) all require a vessel that communicates success.\nThe panoramic observation lounge, climate-controlled cargo bays, and\ncomprehensive entertainment system serve a practical purpose: happy\nclients sign bigger contracts.\n",
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      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Controlled Chaos-class is the Rim's answer to \"what if we built a ship that carries all the other ships?\" Its flight deck accommodates fighters, drones, shuttles, and anything else that fits through the bay doors — which Rim crews have been known to widen with cutting torches when something doesn't quite fit. The \"controlled\" part of the name is aspirational. Launch operations resemble a busy frontier spaceport more than a military carrier, but the sheer volume of small craft it deploys makes it devastatingly effective. ",
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      "base_shield_recharge": 16,
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      "base_speed": 2,
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      "power_capacity": 320,
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        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
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          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
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        "fast-for-capital"
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      "description": "Solarian fleet tender. Carries ships between operations so pilots don't fly empty hulls home.",
      "class": "Carrier",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Support",
      "lore": "The Confederacy approaches logistics the way it approaches everything: with documentation. The Convoy-class is the product of the Fleet Logistics Review, a three-year study that identified inter-system empty-hull transit as the second-largest preventable expense in Solarian fleet management. The Review's conclusion — fourteen pages, two appendices, one minority dissent — recommended a dedicated carrier capable of moving ships between operations without requiring pilots to make the return trip. The Convoy-class does exactly that. Eight bay slots, three defense mounts, enough fuel to cover the routes the Review flagged as highest-cost. The minority dissent recommended a ten-bay version. It is filed somewhere.",
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      "base_shield": 260,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 440,
      "cargo_capacity": 160,
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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        "fleet-tender"
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      "description": "Solarian interceptor. Fast-response fighter with enhanced targeting.",
      "class": "Fighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The fastest armed vessel in the Solarian personal fleet, the Corollary-class\ntrades hull reinforcement and cargo capacity for speed and precision targeting.\nIts fire control system calculates optimal intercept solutions before the pilot\nfinishes reading the threat assessment. The power grid supports the same weapon\nloadout as the heavier Axiom, with enough CPU headroom for two utility modules —\nthough the 100-unit fuel reserve means every jump needs to count. Solarian doctrine\nclassifies it as a \"rapid-response verification platform,\" which is an elaborate\nway of saying it gets there first and shoots accurately.\n",
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      "base_shield": 55,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 5,
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      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 38,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
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        "shield_booster_i"
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
        },
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        "stiletto",
        "precision"
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      "description": "Crimson battlecruiser. Seven weapon mounts. The hammer that breaks fleets.",
      "class": "Battlecruiser",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Seven weapon mounts. The Devastator doesn't arrive at battles —\nit ends them. The Crimson Fleet's primary capital warship carries\nenough firepower to engage multiple cruiser-class targets\nsimultaneously, and the armor to survive while doing it. The power\ngrid is purpose-built to run all seven weapons at sustained fire\nwithout thermal throttling. Crimson fleet doctrine positions the\nDevastator as the centerpiece of any serious operation: everything\nelse in the fleet exists to get the Devastator into position and\nkeep it there. Enemy fleet commanders have standing orders to\nprioritize Devastators. They rarely succeed.\n",
      "base_hull": 1725,
      "base_shield": 175,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 65,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 350,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 90,
      "power_capacity": 185,
      "weapon_slots": 7,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 3,
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        "piercing_railgun_ii",
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        "railgun_ii",
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        "crimson_berserker_plating",
        "reactive_armor_hardener",
        "darksteel_armor"
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      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 95
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
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          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
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        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
          "quantity": 2
        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        "warlord",
        "fleet-hammer",
        "heavy-weapons"
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      "id": "crimson_stiletto",
      "name": "Crimson Stiletto",
      "description": "Crimson reconnaissance scout. Finds threats fast, hits them first.",
      "class": "Scout",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet doesn't send scouts to explore — it sends them ahead of the assault force. The Stiletto is the fastest ship in the T1 lineup, armed with an autocannon and armored well enough to survive first contact. Its integrated scanner catalogs threats at range that most ships can't match, and the limited fuel tank is a feature: the Stiletto operates close to the fleet, not beyond it. Scout pilots in the Crimson Fleet are respected for going in first and quietly suspected of insufficient aggression for coming back at all. The best ones provide intelligence so good the follow-up force arrives already winning.",
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      "base_shield": 30,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 6,
      "base_fuel": 130,
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      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
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      "utility_slots": 2,
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
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        "scout",
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        "reconnaissance"
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      "id": "crowbar",
      "name": "Crowbar",
      "description": "Crimson salvage tug. More weapon than cargo bay — reclaims wreckage and discourages competition.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Crowbar-class exists because the Crimson Fleet produces more wrecks than it can process. Two autocannons and reinforced armor plating on a salvage tug raised eyebrows at other shipyards, but the Fleet builds for wreck fields, not transit lanes — and wreck fields attract competition. The tradeoff is straightforward: the combat loadout leaves almost no room for salvage equipment. The towing rig was an afterthought, the cargo bay is the smallest in its class, and the armor plating slows the ship to a crawl. If the wreck field is contested, the Crowbar's job is to make it uncontested. The actual recovery can wait.",
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      "base_armor": 14,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        "industrial",
        "armed",
        "battlefield-cleanup"
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      "id": "crucible",
      "name": "Crucible",
      "description": "Solarian refinery ship. Mobile ore processing with laboratory-grade purity standards.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Crucible-class produces refined materials that exceed Confederacy purity standards — which are already the strictest in known space. The mobile refinery processes raw ore through seven sequential purification stages, each monitored by independent quality-control sensors. Output materials are stamped with unique batch identifiers and accompanied by a certificate of analysis. Rejected batches (anything below 99.97% purity) are recycled automatically. The waste heat recovery system was nominated for three engineering awards.",
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      "base_shield": 450,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 35,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "power_capacity": 150,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "solar_collector_array",
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          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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        "mobile"
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        "smelt_lead_ingot",
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      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Cryo Industrial-class is a self-contained ice economy in a hull.\nHarvest ice, process it into water, coolant, and fuel components,\npackage the products, and haul 3,000 units of finished goods to market\nwithout ever docking at a station. The Federation controls the water\nsupply chain because whoever controls ice controls fuel and life\nsupport. The Cryo Industrial is how the Federation exercises that\ncontrol: industrial-scale cryo-processing that reduces entire ice\nfields to refined commodities. Zero weapons because the Cryo\nIndustrial's value makes it worth escorting properly.\n",
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      "base_shield": 1000,
      "base_shield_recharge": 14,
      "base_armor": 55,
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      "power_capacity": 250,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
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        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "jump_coil",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
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        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 45
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        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 130
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
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        "mega-cargo",
        "self-contained",
        "supply-chain"
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      "id": "cryoclast",
      "name": "Cryoclast",
      "description": "Crimson thermal lance ice platform. Brute-force cracking with military-grade systems.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Cryoclast-class applies military-grade thermal systems to ice\nextraction and processing at capital scale. The thermal lances operate\nat temperatures that liquify ice formations in seconds, and the\nrefinery systems separate the resulting melt into fuel components,\ncoolant, and rare crystalline materials. The Fleet needs coolant for\nweapon systems, fuel for fleet operations, and the Cryoclast\nproduces both in quantities that keep a battle group operational\nindefinitely. The hull armor doubles as thermal shielding — the\nextraction systems generate enough waste heat to damage nearby ships.\n",
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      "base_shield": 300,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 48,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "cpu_capacity": 38,
      "power_capacity": 100,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 25
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        "thermal",
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        "military-coolant"
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        "process_deuterium_ice"
      ]
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      "id": "cryogenic_survey",
      "name": "Cryogenic Survey",
      "description": "Solarian modular ice platform. Five utility bays and deep CPU — configure for any ice field.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Cryogenic Survey ships with dual harvesters and a scanner, but five utility bays and the deepest fitting budget in the ice harvester class mean that loadout is a starting point. Thermal regulators for volatile ice compositions. Cargo expanders for bulk operations. Shield boosters for contested fields. The Confederacy designed the Cryogenic Survey as a research platform first and a production tool second — adaptable to whatever ice field conditions the survey team encounters. Open hardpoints and generous remaining compute capacity invite the kind of mission-specific configuration the engineering committee intended from the first design review.",
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      "base_shield": 200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "power_capacity": 80,
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        {
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_suspension_chamber",
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          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
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        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 3
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        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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      "name": "Cudgel",
      "description": "Crimson drone carrier. Lets someone else take the hits while you direct the swarm.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "Even the Crimson Fleet recognizes the tactical value of not being\nin the line of fire — they just prefer to have something else in\nthe line of fire instead of retreating. The Cudgel deploys combat\ndrones that swarm targets while the carrier itself stays at a\ncomfortable distance. Crimson drone doctrine is aggressive: drones\nare expendable assets launched in overwhelming numbers. The Cudgel's\nunusually high utility slot count accommodates drone bays, drone\nrepair systems, and drone ammunition fabricators. A fully loaded\nCudgel can sustain a swarm long enough to overwhelm targets several\nclasses above its own weight.\n",
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      "base_shield": 24,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 120,
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      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 48,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
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        "ship_maintenance_bay"
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      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 3
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        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
          "quantity": 1
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        "force-multiplier"
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    {
      "id": "datum",
      "name": "Datum",
      "description": "Solarian minimum-viable survey vessel. All fuel tank, no frills, committee-approved.",
      "class": "Scout",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "The Datum is the Confederacy's minimum viable survey platform, defined after three committee reviews and a memo from the materials science division on circuit availability. No sensor array — pilots source their own. No defensive systems, no default modules — the hull provides fuel range and two utility slots, and the rest is the pilot's problem. What the Datum does carry is enough fuel for 83 jumps at cruise speed, which means a single Datum can survey an entire sector without docking. The materials science division wanted redundant shielding. The propulsion committee wanted better engines. Fuel range was the only point of unanimous agreement, so fuel range is what shipped.",
      "base_hull": 50,
      "base_shield": 25,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 1,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 250,
      "cargo_capacity": 20,
      "cpu_capacity": 10,
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      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 0,
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 1
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "minimal",
        "survey"
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      "id": "dead_reckoning",
      "name": "Dead Reckoning",
      "description": "Warlord Thane's flagship. A rebuilt Outer Rim fast battlecruiser without the dark matter thruster that made the original exceptional. It's slower than the ship he took it from. It's also the most reinforced battlecruiser in the sector, which is consistent with how Thane approaches everything he touches.",
      "class": "Battlecruiser",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Outer Rim built the Free Radical to prove something about engagement timing: if you can choose when and where the fight happens, you've already won half of it. Thane found the argument convincing. He found the dark matter thruster less convincing, by which he means he cannot source one in Sheratan and has accepted this.\nThe dark matter drives and titanium alloy couldn't be sourced in Sheratan. Speed dropped from three to two, which Thane noted and accepted. What he didn't accept was the Outer Rim's approach to armor — the Free Radical carried the minimum necessary, on the theory that speed would handle the rest. Thane added what the Rim left out. The rebuilt hull is heavier, slower, and harder to kill than the original, which reflects his priorities precisely.\nNavigators use dead reckoning when there's no reference point: no landmarks, no charts, no signals. You know your speed and your heading, and you calculate from there. Thane operates sixteen systems that appear on no major traffic survey. His targets don't see him coming because there's nothing obvious to track. He knows where they're going to be. He calculates from there.\n",
      "npc_role": "boss_flagship",
      "base_hull": 880,
      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 32,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 450,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 180,
      "weapon_slots": 5,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "jury_rigged_cannon",
        "jury_rigged_cannon",
        "mass_driver",
        "scrapgun",
        "scrapgun",
        "outer_rim_scrap_armor",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "reactive_armor_hardener"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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      "description": "Voidborn resonance extractor. Cracks the richest node and is gone before the system notices.",
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      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "A Deep Resonance does not work a field. It selects one node — the densest the survey can find — and tunes its lasers to the frequency at which that single body wants to come apart. The ore separates along its own internal fractures, faster than any cutting beam should manage, and the hold takes only the richest fraction before the pilot lights the burners. Lingering is the danger, so the hull is built never to linger: thin, quick, and already turning toward the jump before the extraction finishes. By the time the system's sensors resolve what disturbed the asteroid, the disturbance has a different system to be in. The Collective regards a full cargo hold as evidence of a pilot who stayed too long.",
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      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 5,
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      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 90,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
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        {
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
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          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
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          "item_id": "void_crystal",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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      "id": "deep_survey",
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      "description": "Solarian bulk mining vessel. Largest compressed ore hold in class — fewer trips, more data.",
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      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Mining operations lose more productivity to transit than to extraction. The Deep Survey was designed around that insight — not by flying faster, but by carrying enough ore that each trip justifies the time. Dual cargo expanders push the compressed hold well past any competing design in the class. The yield per rock is modest compared to more extraction-focused hulls, but the Deep Survey makes fewer trips and logs every geological sample along the way. The engineering committee considered adding a second mining laser but allocated the slot to a pulse laser instead — Solarian mining regulations require armed capability in contested belts, and the Deep Survey meets every regulation on the books.",
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      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 18,
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      "base_fuel": 240,
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      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
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          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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        },
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          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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      "id": "dialectic",
      "name": "Dialectic",
      "description": "Solarian assault cruiser. Concentrated forward firepower for decisive engagements.",
      "class": "Assault",
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      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Dialectic-class resolves disagreements through superior argumentation — specifically, five weapon mounts delivering synchronized volleys computed by a dedicated fire-sequencing processor. The Confederacy's Tactical Doctrine Board spent two years debating whether concentrated or distributed firepower was philosophically superior. The Dialectic represents their conclusion: why not both, with extensive documentation supporting either configuration. ",
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      "base_armor": 28,
      "base_speed": 2,
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      "power_capacity": 120,
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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      "id": "dimensional_fold",
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      "description": "Voidborn phase-shifted hauler. Cargo exists in compressed dimensional pockets. Shield-sustained.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Dimensional Fold-class applies Voidborn compression technology to\ncommercial hauling at capital scale. Cargo bay volume is multiplied\nby partial phase-shifting into compressed dimensional pockets — the\nship's internal volume exceeds its external dimensions by a factor\nthat other empires' physicists refuse to acknowledge. Thirteen hundred\nand eighty cargo capacity in a hull that external measurements suggest\nshould hold 300. The dimensional fold requires constant shield power\nto maintain stability, explaining the nine hundred shield points.\nThe crew walks through corridors that instruments measure as shorter\nthan the distance between the walls.\n",
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      "base_shield": 900,
      "base_shield_recharge": 14,
      "base_armor": 20,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 400,
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      "weapon_slots": 1,
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      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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        },
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        },
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          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 35
        },
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          "item_id": "singularity_core",
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          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_generator",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
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        "dimensional",
        "shield-monster",
        "bigger-inside"
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      "name": "Dirk",
      "description": "Armed Crimson courier. Cloaked, armored, and fueled for short-range jobs that stay off the books.",
      "class": "Smuggler",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "Even the Crimson Fleet needs things delivered quietly. The Dirk carries a cloaking device, an autocannon, and 110 units of cargo space behind scan-resistant plating — enough to move contraband through a customs checkpoint without slowing down. The reinforced hull absorbs the kind of attention that finds smugglers on contested routes, and the single weapon mount discourages anyone who gets curious. The tradeoff is range: 24 jumps means the Dirk works best on short, planned runs where the pilot knows every refueling stop. Crimson command does not issue flight plans for the Dirk. They issue deniable suggestions.",
      "base_hull": 100,
      "base_shield": 35,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 7,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 120,
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      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        "discreet"
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      "id": "dissolution",
      "name": "Dissolution",
      "description": "Voidborn salvager. Its organic hull extends across a debris field like a membrane, leaving nothing behind.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Dissolution-class does not salvage wrecks so much as unmake them. Its organic hull extends across a debris field like a membrane, and materials pass through in order of molecular complexity — metals first, then composites, then exotic alloys. The process leaves nothing behind. Not even dust. The shield array is the heaviest fitted to any salvager in production — the organic membrane requires constant shield coverage to function, and the hull beneath it would not survive a debris impact without protection. The fitting capacity left over after the shield configuration is substantial, and operators have adapted the platform for everything from deep survey to extended recovery. Other empires' salvage crews have arrived at wreck sites after a Dissolution to find the remaining debris geometrically perfect, as though something had been arranging it.",
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      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 330,
      "cargo_capacity": 555,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 95,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_ii",
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      "tow_speed_bonus": 25,
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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        "shield-tank"
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      "name": "Dividend",
      "description": "Nebula light hauler. Built to survive the trip, not just make it.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Dividend-class hauls 260 units with default expanders and arrives with hull intact — a distinction that matters in contested space. No weapons, because the Federation determined that a defense slot, five layers of armor plating, and 55 points of shield capacity provide better returns than a gun mount a freighter pilot will never use effectively. At Speed 2 the Dividend covers 80 jumps on a single tank, reaching any market in the galaxy without refueling. The Federation calls it their most reliable asset. Reliable assets generate compound returns.",
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      "base_shield": 55,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 160,
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        "cargo_expander_i"
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "unarmed",
        "fuel-efficient"
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      "name": "Dosimetry",
      "description": "Solarian isotope freighter. Certified by seven regulatory bodies. Dock workers remain cautious.",
      "class": "Hazmat Freighter",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Dosimetry-class was commissioned following a series of incidents\ninvolving unshielded radioactive freight aboard standard Solarian\nfreighters, the details of which the Confederacy has not released but\nwhich were sufficient to convene a nine-month design committee. The\ncommittee mandated triple-redundant lead-composite cargo bays,\nlevel-six automated hazard monitoring, and shield capacity sufficient\nto satisfy the certification requirements of seven separate regulatory\nbodies — four of which disagreed on what \"safe\" meant and all of\nwhich had to be satisfied individually. The result is the most\nextensively documented isotope transport in Confederacy service.\nThe Confederacy distributes the certification documentation freely\nand considers this transparency. Dock workers at every port that\naccepts Dosimetry freight remain cautious. This is also considered\nacceptable.\n",
      "base_hull": 450,
      "base_shield": 280,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 20,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 350,
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      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 52,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_ii"
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      "piloting_required": 20,
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "radiation_hardened_circuit",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 15
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 18
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "cargo",
        "hazmat"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dualism",
      "name": "Dualism",
      "description": "Voidborn heavy fighter. Two shield arrays operate on contradictory principles simultaneously.",
      "class": "Heavy Fighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Two shield generators operating on mutually exclusive principles. By conventional physics, they should cancel each other out. Instead, the overlap zone produces what Voidborn physicists call \"constructive impossibility\" — weapons that penetrate one layer find themselves reinforcing the other. The trade-offs are speed and firepower: the dual array draws enough power that the engines run at reduced output, and only two weapon mounts fit the remaining power budget. The Dualism is the slowest and most lightly armed heavy fighter in its class. It is also, by a significant margin, the hardest to kill. Solarian analysts have published seventeen papers proving the design cannot work. Forty-three incident reports confirm that it does.",
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      "lore": "The plan is speed. The backup plan is more speed. The Dust Devil achieves this through engineering choices that would get Rim shipwrights arrested in Solarian space: oversized engines, stripped safety systems, fuel injectors running beyond rated pressure, and a hull so light it practically qualifies as decorative. The afterburner pushes it past anything in customs service, but the fuel burn is savage — pilots learn fast that the afterburner is for the moments that matter, not the whole run. Without it, the Dust Devil still outruns everything short of another Dust Devil. The cargo hold is small. The getaway is not.",
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        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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      "lore": "The Eldorado-class is the Federation's final answer to the question \"how much ore can one ship carry?\" The hull is essentially a collection of cargo bays connected by structural members and fitted with engines. Zero weapon mounts because every cubic meter of weapons is a cubic meter of lost revenue. The Eldorado arrives at an asteroid belt and doesn't leave until the belt is empty. Federation logistics planners love it. Safety inspectors are less enthusiastic about the structural compromises required to fit that much cargo into a hull that other empires would allocate a fraction of that. ",
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          "item_id": "jump_coil",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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          "item_id": "nebula_prism_computer",
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          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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      "id": "empirica",
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      "description": "Solarian research corvette. Because data collection should never stop.",
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      "lore": "Where other empires field warships at this price point, the Confederacy fields a mobile laboratory. Five utility slots accommodate spectrographic analyzers, sample containment systems, and the processing power to run publication-grade analysis without returning to a station. The fuel range exceeds every other exploration platform at this scale — the Empirica stays on-station long enough to be thorough, which the research division considers the only acceptable duration. The onboard research AI maintains a continuously updated bibliography and flags potential discoveries that merit formal investigation. Unarmed, because the Confederacy maintains that the pursuit of knowledge should not require the threat of violence. It does require extensive paperwork.",
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          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
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      "id": "encyclopedia",
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      "category": "Support",
      "lore": "The Encyclopedia-class carries everything a fleet needs and the documentation to prove it was packed correctly. The massive cargo bays support extended fleet operations, while the six utility slots accommodate repair, resupply, and coordination systems. Solarian logistics officers consider an Encyclopedia's inventory manifest a work of art — every item cross-referenced, every consumable tracked, every spare part catalogued with its maintenance history.",
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          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
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          "item_id": "life_support_array",
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          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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      "id": "endowment",
      "name": "Endowment",
      "description": "Nebula commercial supertanker. A mobile fuel exchange, priced by the captain.",
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      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Endowment-class is what the Federation builds when the Reserve is not enough. Three times the bunkerage of its predecessor, plus pressurized cargo holds for fuel resale, makes the Endowment less a tanker than a mobile market. Each Endowment captain holds standing pricing authority and a Federation-issued tariff manual whose preface notes that prevailing local conditions are the Federation's preferred guidance. Stranded pilots in deep space have left reviews that the Federation customer relations division formally classifies as feedback. The shield booster is fitted by default. The corporate position is that the Endowment is never overcharging — only catching up on the margin its competitors have left on the table.",
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          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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      "description": "Nebula maximum-capacity bulk hauler. Unarmed, unarmored, unstoppable cargo volume.",
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      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Enterprise-class hauls more cargo per trip than any other bulk hauler in production. Triple cargo expanders push the hold past a thousand effective units — enough to supply a station or clear a market in a single run. No weapons. No meaningful armor. The tonnage that would have gone to defense systems went to cargo infrastructure instead, because the Federation calculated that hiring an escort is cheaper than building a smaller ship. If someone is shooting at an Enterprise, the quarterly projection has already been revised downward and the insurance claim is being filed. The scanner identifies profitable stops along the route. Everything else about this ship exists to move goods from where they are to where they're worth more.",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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      "name": "Entropy",
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      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Entropy's organic hull metabolizes debris before it reaches the cargo hold, sorting materials at a molecular level that other salvagers achieve only with dedicated processing equipment. The hold is smaller than most T2 salvagers, but what arrives in it is already separated by type and purity. A default afterburner lets it reach wreck sites at speed — useful for contested salvage, less useful for distant fields, since the fuel penalty cuts range to a fraction of what the tank would otherwise allow. Experienced pilots remove the afterburner for deep-range operations, trading speed for endurance that outlasts anything else in the class. The ship seems to know which debris fields contain the most valuable materials before scanning is complete.",
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        {
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          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        "vulture",
        "organic-hull",
        "long-range"
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      "id": "eviction_notice",
      "name": "Eviction Notice",
      "description": "A Crimson Warmaul rebuilt without Crimson materials. The durasteel plating and fury alloy that gave the original its armor rating are gone — the rebuilt hull is steel and salvage, and it shows under sustained fire. The five weapon mounts are untouched. This was not considered a difficult trade.",
      "class": "Cruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Five weapon mounts running simultaneously require no further justification. The Crimson Fleet built the Warmaul on this principle and pirates agreed with it completely — the disagreement was only about the supply chain. The durasteel and fury alloy went back to wherever Crimson Fleet sources its materials. The five mounts did not. The rebuilt hull is steel and salvage and takes hits harder for it; the weapons still run without prioritization or compromise.\nCrimson fleet commanders call the Warmaul the minimum acceptable response to any tactical situation. Pirate commanders call the Eviction Notice the last thing most targets see before the situation is resolved.\n",
      "npc_role": "fighter",
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      "base_shield": 200,
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      "base_armor": 25,
      "base_speed": 2,
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      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 85,
      "weapon_slots": 5,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
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      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "salvage_components",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        "cruiser",
        "heavy-weapons",
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      "id": "excavation",
      "name": "Excavation",
      "description": "Solarian dual-laser mining platform. Maximum extraction throughput, fully committed loadout.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Confederacy mining doctrine treats extraction as an engineering problem with an optimal solution, and the Excavation is that solution: dual mining lasers for maximum throughput, a pulse laser for self-defense, and enough remaining fitting capacity to adapt to site conditions. The engineering committee sized the fuel tank so pilots wouldn't have to choose between one more load and making it home — a constraint they classified as non-negotiable in the first design review. Mining regulations require extraction reports filed within 48 hours. The Excavation files them in real time, because compliance should never be an afterthought.",
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      "base_shield": 90,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 10,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 420,
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      "cpu_capacity": 24,
      "power_capacity": 45,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
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        "mining_laser_ii",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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        "mining",
        "methodical",
        "high-throughput"
      ]
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      "id": "excessive_force",
      "name": "Excessive Force",
      "description": "Outer Rim heavy drone carrier. Deploys swarms of mismatched drones with alarming enthusiasm.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Excessive Force-class carries enough drone bays to darken a sensor\nscreen. Rim drone warfare philosophy scales up the same way Rim\nengineering scales up everything: more of it, faster, with less regard\nfor matching specifications. The drone complement is assembled from\nwhatever was available at the last three ports — attack drones, mining\ndrones, reconnaissance drones, and a few that the crew can't positively\nidentify but which seem aggressive. The name is what opposing captains\nfile in their after-action reports.\n",
      "base_hull": 900,
      "base_shield": 400,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 35,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 500,
      "cargo_capacity": 455,
      "cpu_capacity": 60,
      "power_capacity": 160,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 3,
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        "scrapgun",
        "outer_rim_scrap_armor",
        "reactive_armor_hardener",
        "damage_control_system",
        "advanced_drone_bay",
        "combat_drone_bay",
        "ship_maintenance_bay",
        "afterburner_ii"
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      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
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          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_bay_module",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 550
        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 110
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 280
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 70
        }
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      "flavor_tags": [
        "drone-carrier",
        "swarm",
        "heavy",
        "fast-for-size"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "exchange",
      "name": "Exchange",
      "description": "Nebula fleet carrier. Projects commercial and military power across entire sectors.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Exchange-class is the Federation's answer to force projection: a\nmobile base of operations that deploys, coordinates, and resupplies\nentire fleets. Eight utility slots and a 100-unit CPU array manage\ndrone swarms, fighter wings, and logistics simultaneously. The 720-unit\ncargo bay ensures the Exchange generates revenue even during military\ndeployments. Named for the institution that makes the Federation's\neconomy work — and, like its namesake, it never closes.\n",
      "base_hull": 2500,
      "base_shield": 1400,
      "base_shield_recharge": 20,
      "base_armor": 80,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 1000,
      "cargo_capacity": 720,
      "cpu_capacity": 100,
      "power_capacity": 340,
      "weapon_slots": 5,
      "defense_slots": 5,
      "utility_slots": 8,
      "default_modules": [
        "storm_lance",
        "ion_blaster_iii",
        "ion_blaster_iii",
        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "nebula_storm_barrier",
        "nebula_bio_regenerator",
        "adaptive_shield_iii",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "adaptive_shield_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 50,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "swarm_controller",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "docking_ring",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 280
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hangar_bay_module",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_bay_module",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_authenticator",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 260
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 420
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_prism_computer",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 30000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "hive",
        "capital",
        "fleet-coordinator",
        "high-cpu"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "exosphere",
      "name": "Exosphere",
      "description": "Solarian precision gas refinery. Fractional distillation with scientific accuracy. Best yield ratios.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Exosphere-class separates gas mixtures with laboratory-grade precision at industrial scale. Seven utility slots support spectrometers, composition analyzers, and fractional separation columns that sort gas streams by molecular weight, reactivity, and commercial value simultaneously. The Confederacy's gas processing doctrine maximizes value extraction from every cubic meter of collected gas — compounds that other empires vent as waste, the Exosphere isolates and stores as premium products. Processing quality is the highest in the galaxy because the Confederacy considers anything less to be unprofessional.",
      "base_hull": 800,
      "base_shield": 500,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 30,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 320,
      "cargo_capacity": 780,
      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 130,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 7,
      "default_modules": [
        "gas_harvester_iv"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 110
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 18
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 10500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "gas-refinery",
        "precision",
        "scientific",
        "high-utility"
      ],
      "passive_recipes": [
        "compress_hydrogen_gas",
        "liquefy_oxygen",
        "purify_argon",
        "ionize_neon_gas",
        "extract_xenon",
        "distill_nebula_gases"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fait_accompli",
      "name": "Fait Accompli",
      "description": "Grand Marshal Korr's personal flagship. Seven weapon mounts on a rebuilt Crimson Devastator hull — the armor isn't Crimson-grade, but Korr has been making that trade for long enough that nobody in Gliese 581 space remembers what the original felt like. The name is his.",
      "class": "Battlecruiser",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Grand Marshal Korr didn't choose the Crimson Devastator because it was the most powerful ship available. He chose it because he needed the people he was organizing to understand, immediately, that the days of scattered independent crews were over. The Fait Accompli has been the center of the Gliese 581 operation since before half the captains in his fleet were born. Korr maintains it with the same methodology he's applied to everything else: strip what can't be sourced, replace it with something that can, accept the tradeoffs in the hull and armor, and run all seven weapons without compromise.\nThe Gliese 581 fortress is the largest pirate station in the sector. Everyone else built theirs by copying what Korr built first. The ship is the reason the station exists, and the reason the station is still standing.\n",
      "npc_role": "boss_flagship",
      "base_hull": 1200,
      "base_shield": 500,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 50,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 350,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 65,
      "power_capacity": 160,
      "weapon_slots": 7,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "blood_reaver",
        "mass_driver",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "missile_launcher_ii",
        "heavy_torpedo",
        "crimson_berserker_plating",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "reactive_armor_hardener"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 13000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "warlord",
        "fleet-hammer",
        "heavy-weapons"
      ],
      "based_on": "crimson_devastator"
    },
    {
      "id": "falchion",
      "name": "Falchion",
      "description": "Reluctant Crimson EW platform. Jamming is just attacking their sensors instead of their hull.",
      "class": "Electronic Warfare",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet nearly didn't build an electronic warfare ship.\nThe concept of attacking something you can't see felt uncomfortably\nclose to sneaking. The compromise: reframing EW as \"attacking their\nsensors.\" The Falchion doesn't hide or deceive — it burns out enemy\nelectronics with focused interference powerful enough to physically\ndamage sensor arrays. Crimson EW is less subtle than Voidborn shadow\ngames but considerably more destructive. A Falchion's jamming suite\ndoesn't confuse your targeting computer — it sets your targeting\ncomputer on fire. Fleet doctrine permits this as a legitimate form\nof direct combat.\n",
      "base_hull": 232,
      "base_shield": 28,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 120,
      "cargo_capacity": 30,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 55,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "kinetic_hull_hardener",
        "stasis_webifier_i",
        "warp_disruptor",
        "target_painter_i"
      ],
      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 19
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 7
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1260,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "electronic-warfare",
        "sensor-attack",
        "reluctant-support"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "finders_keepers",
      "name": "Finders Keepers",
      "description": "Outer Rim salvage racer. Speed 5, the best tow rig in its class, and cheap enough to lose without crying about it.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Rim pilots noticed something about wreck fields: the first ship on scene gets the best components, and everything after that is scrap metal. So they strapped the biggest engine they could find to the smallest hull that could hold a tow cable and called it a salvage platform. Speed 5 means it arrives before heavier competitors have finished spooling their jump drives. The tow rig is oversized for the frame — the strongest in its class — because the business model is to grab the biggest piece and drag it home, not to pick through fragments. No shields, no armor, no defense slots. The name is the only salvage law the Rim has ever needed.",
      "base_hull": 55,
      "base_shield": 15,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 1,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 130,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 8,
      "power_capacity": 20,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_i"
      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 25,
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 300,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "industrial",
        "fast",
        "salvaged"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "finish_line",
      "name": "Finish Line",
      "description": "Outer Rim racing capital. The fastest capital ship ever built. Not even close.",
      "class": "Dreadnought",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Finish Line-class is the ultimate expression of the Outer Rim's engineering philosophy: if it's not fast, make it fast; if it can't be made fast, add more engines until physics changes its mind. Every non-essential system has been stripped, replaced, or repurposed to feed the most powerful engine array ever installed on a ship this size. It carries 1,200 units of fuel because it burns through reserves at a rate that would bankrupt a Solarian fleet admiral. The Rim built it to prove a point. The point has been made. ",
      "base_hull": 2000,
      "base_shield": 1000,
      "base_shield_recharge": 14,
      "base_armor": 60,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 1200,
      "cargo_capacity": 240,
      "cpu_capacity": 80,
      "power_capacity": 380,
      "weapon_slots": 5,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "jury_rigged_cannon",
        "jury_rigged_cannon",
        "mass_driver",
        "scrapgun",
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      "required_reputation": 60,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
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          "item_id": "temporal_stabilizer",
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        },
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 160
        },
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_thruster",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_assembly",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 1200
        }
      ],
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      "flavor_tags": [
        "racing",
        "fastest",
        "capital",
        "legendary",
        "prototype"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "first_step_dreadnought",
      "name": "First Step Dreadnought",
      "description": "Outer Rim dreadnought. Named for the boundary. Built to cross it.",
      "class": "Dreadnought",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Named for the First Step incident — the moment Outer Rim scouts reached the galaxy's uncharted boundary and stopped, for the first and only time, because something stopped them. The First Step-class is designed to go back. Speed 2 on a capital hull is unheard of, achieved through engine arrays that consume fuel at rates other empires consider wasteful. The 1000-unit fuel reserve ensures the range to reach whatever lies beyond the boundary. Seven weapon mounts ensure that whatever stopped the scouts will face a different reception this time. Whether the Rim actually intends to build enough First Steps to try is a question their admirals answer only with smiles. ",
      "base_hull": 2500,
      "base_shield": 1200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 18,
      "base_armor": 90,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 1000,
      "cargo_capacity": 660,
      "cpu_capacity": 130,
      "power_capacity": 350,
      "weapon_slots": 7,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 6,
      "default_modules": [
        "siege_railgun",
        "siege_railgun",
        "mass_driver",
        "mass_driver",
        "heavy_mass_driver",
        "void_torpedo_launcher",
        "void_torpedo_launcher",
        "outer_rim_scrap_armor",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "reactive_armor_hardener",
        "nanite_hull_coating"
      ],
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      "piloting_required": 50,
      "required_reputation": 60,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_thruster",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 280
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 140
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 1800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
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        "leviathan",
        "capital",
        "fast-for-capital",
        "legendary"
      ]
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      "id": "five_finger_discount",
      "name": "Five Finger Discount",
      "description": "Outer Rim raider. Optimized for hit-and-run attacks on slower targets.",
      "class": "Raider",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Speed 5 bare hull — 4 with the standard armor plate — catches anything\nshort of a dedicated interceptor. An autocannon and missile launcher put out\nenough firepower to make most T1 merchants cooperative, and the 80-unit hold\nmeans a successful intercept actually pays. The problem is everything the Rim\ndidn't budget for: 75 hull, 40 shields, 3 base armor. A prolonged fight in\nthe Five Finger Discount is a short flight home in a pod. Thirty jumps on a\ntank before refueling, so pick your targets within range.\n",
      "base_hull": 75,
      "base_shield": 40,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 120,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 32,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_i",
        "autocannon_i",
        "armor_plate_i"
      ],
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 30
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 250,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "blackthorn",
        "fast",
        "hit-and-run"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "flail",
      "name": "Flail",
      "description": "Crimson raider. Hits hard, grabs cargo, vanishes before reinforcements arrive.",
      "class": "Raider",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Flail carries the same autocannon-and-missile loadout as a frontline\nfighter, mounted on a hull with four times the cargo space. The tradeoff\nis thinner shields — 35 points won't absorb sustained fire from anything\nserious. The standard armor plate drops speed from 4 to 3 but adds enough\nplating to keep the hull intact through a smash-and-grab. One free utility\nhardpoint. Crimson logistics tracks Flail sorties as revenue operations.\n",
      "base_hull": 143,
      "base_shield": 12,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 100,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 1,
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        "autocannon_i",
        "armor_plate_i"
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 280,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "blackthorn",
        "fast-strike",
        "cargo-capable"
      ]
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      "id": "floor_price",
      "name": "Floor Price",
      "description": "Nebula budget freighter. Maximum cargo, minimum everything.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Federation offers the Floor Price to pilots who point at the standard hauler catalog and say \"cheaper.\" Four hundred and twenty units of effective cargo — nearly double the Dividend — for a build cost that barely registers on the procurement spreadsheet. The tradeoff is structural: vestigial shields, a single point of armor, and Speed 1 — the last to arrive at every station, every time. No weapon mounts, no defense slots, no utility slots to add later. What the pilot gets is a seat, a throttle, and the second-largest hold available at any tier. The accounting department named it, approved it, and moved on to the next line item.",
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      "base_shield": 15,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 1,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 120,
      "cargo_capacity": 400,
      "cpu_capacity": 6,
      "power_capacity": 14,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
        "cargo_expander_i"
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 140,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "hauler",
        "budget",
        "unarmed"
      ]
    },
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      "name": "Fold Hauler",
      "description": "Voidborn phase-shifted cargo vessel. Bigger on the inside. Dimensional compression applied to logistics.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Fold Hauler-class applies the Collective's dimensional compression technology to commercial logistics. The cargo bay partially exists in a pocket dimension, giving the ship significantly more internal volume than its external dimensions suggest. Other empires' engineers insist this is impossible. Voidborn quartermasters respond by loading 635 units of cargo into a hull that external measurements suggest should hold 200. The dimensional fold requires constant shield power to maintain, which explains the high shield capacity — if the fold collapses, the cargo doesn't disappear, but the cleanup is described in Collective maintenance manuals as \"geometrically complicated.\" ",
      "base_hull": 380,
      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 10,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 350,
      "cargo_capacity": 635,
      "cpu_capacity": 32,
      "power_capacity": 75,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 140
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 80
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3400,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "freighter",
        "dimensional",
        "shield-heavy",
        "bigger-inside"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "foreclosure",
      "name": "Foreclosure",
      "description": "A Crimson Mace with fury alloy and targeting hardware sold separately. Hull plating and four weapon mounts intact. Armor dropped from thirty-eight to twenty-two. Pirates consider twenty-two adequate to open the conversation.",
      "class": "Cruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet built the Mace wide and flat on purpose. Hull-to-hull boarding operations require a stable contact platform — the magnetic clamps need surface area, the breaching corridors need to stay aligned under fire, and the crew delivering the boarding party needs a ship that doesn't flinch while everything at close range is shooting at it. Thirty-eight armor. Four weapon mounts to suppress return fire during approach. A prow shaped like an argument that the other ship is going to lose.\nThe Foreclosure has the same prow. The clamp housings are welded shut — pirates don't board ships, they remove the need for boarding by other means — and the breaching access panels have been plated over and the armor rating has dropped from thirty-eight to twenty-two because fury alloy and durasteel have better markets than a pirate shipyard. What didn't change is the geometry. Wide, flat, stable. Four weapon mounts in the original positions, covering the same arcs, running the same suppression pattern the Mace used during approach. The approach just ends differently now.\nThe Crimson Fleet built the Mace to take ships intact. The Foreclosure takes everything else and calls it resolved.\n",
      "npc_role": "fighter",
      "base_hull": 450,
      "base_shield": 150,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 340,
      "cargo_capacity": 75,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 70,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "missile_launcher_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "damage_control_system",
        "kinetic_hull_hardener"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 13
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 60
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3640,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "cruiser",
        "heavy-weapons",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "mace"
    },
    {
      "id": "four_on_the_floor",
      "name": "Four on the Floor",
      "description": "A Broadaxe frame with every system gutted to feed the guns. Six heavy mounts on a hull that holds barely four jumps of fuel. It cannot chase and it cannot run. It does not need to. Whatever comes within range of the chokepoint it sits on stops being a problem.",
      "class": "Heavy Fighter",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Broadaxe was a balanced warship. The crew that rebuilt this one did not want balance. They wanted everything the hull could carry pointed in one direction and firing at once, and they were willing to give up the rest of the ship to get it.\nThey got it. Six heavy mounts feed off a power plant that has nothing else to run, slaved to a salvage co-processor that does one job and does it the instant a target crosses the line. The fuel tank holds enough to limp from one ambush to the next and not a drop more. The armor is decorative. The hull folds the moment anything fires back.\nSo nothing fires back. The trick is not surviving the fight. The trick is making sure the target never understands there is one. It waits at the narrow place — the gate everyone has to pass, the lane there is no way around — and it does not move, because moving is the one thing it is genuinely bad at. The target comes to it. The target always comes to it. By the time the sensors resolve six torpedo signatures it is already over.\nDrag it into open space and chase a real ship with it and you will watch it die slow and confused, out of fuel, out of range, out of luck. Leave it parked on the throat of a system and it is the most lethal thing for its size that anyone has ever been stupid enough to fly toward.",
      "npc_role": "fighter",
      "base_hull": 140,
      "base_shield": 100,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 60,
      "cargo_capacity": 10,
      "cpu_capacity": 45,
      "power_capacity": 130,
      "weapon_slots": 6,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
        "heavy_torpedo",
        "heavy_torpedo",
        "heavy_torpedo",
        "heavy_torpedo",
        "jury_rigged_cannon",
        "railgun_i",
        "armor_plate_i",
        "cpu_co_processor"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3800,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "glass-cannon",
        "heavy-weapons",
        "ambush"
      ],
      "based_on": "broadaxe"
    },
    {
      "id": "franchise",
      "name": "Franchise",
      "description": "Nebula drone carrier. Deploys autonomous units to multiply operational capacity.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Franchise-class applies the Federation's core business principle\nto combat: scale through delegation. A single pilot commands a swarm\nof autonomous drones for mining, defense, or area denial. The massive\nCPU array coordinates drone operations while the cargo bay stores\nreplacement units. The Federation's marketing materials describe it\nas \"a fleet in a single hull\" — which is accurate, if you squint.\n",
      "base_hull": 175,
      "base_shield": 85,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 7,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 210,
      "cargo_capacity": 180,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 55,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "ion_blaster_i",
        "shield_booster_ii",
        "light_drone_bay",
        "light_drone_bay",
        "ship_maintenance_bay",
        "afterburner_ii"
      ],
      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 13
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1350,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "drone-carrier",
        "high-cpu",
        "force-multiplier"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "frankenhauler",
      "name": "Frankenhauler",
      "description": "Outer Rim megahauler. Three decommissioned freighters bolted together. Absurd cargo, questionable integrity.",
      "class": "Bulk Hauler",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Frankenhauler is three decommissioned freighters bolted together\nwith structural bracing, connected by cargo transfer tunnels, and\nfitted with duct-taped jump drives. Largest cargo bay at T4 — more\nthan the Nebula Conglomerate, which the Federation finds personally offensive.\nAt 75,000 credits it's the cheapest T4 hauler by a wide margin — the\nRim doesn't pay premium for ships that used to be other ships. Speed 2\nbecause the Rim puts engines on everything. Two weapon mounts because\nfrontier convoys get raided. Hull integrity is \"probably fine.\"\nStructural engineers from every other empire agree it shouldn't fly.\nIt flies anyway.\n",
      "base_hull": 600,
      "base_shield": 250,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 500,
      "cargo_capacity": 2640,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 80,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_i",
        "autocannon_i",
        "afterburner_i",
        "expanded_fuel_tank",
        "cargo_expander_iii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 25
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 24
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 280
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 280
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 110
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 22
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 8000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "bulk-hauler",
        "armed",
        "cheap",
        "frankenstein"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "free_radical",
      "name": "Free Radical",
      "description": "Outer Rim fast battlecruiser. Hits like a capital ship, runs like a racer.",
      "class": "Battlecruiser",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Speed 3 on a battlecruiser hull. Every other empire's naval architects\nlooked at the power-to-mass ratio and said it couldn't be done safely.\nRim engineers said \"safely\" was doing a lot of heavy lifting in that\nsentence. The Free Radical trades raw durability for the ability to\nchoose every engagement — arrive before the enemy can prepare, hit hard,\nand be gone before reinforcements finish jumping. Five weapon mounts\ndeliver firepower that rivals ships twice its tonnage. The retreat\noption isn't cowardice. It's the reason the Free Radical keeps showing\nup to the next fight.\n",
      "base_hull": 1000,
      "base_shield": 400,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 40,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 450,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 180,
      "weapon_slots": 5,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "mass_driver",
        "piercing_railgun_ii",
        "railgun_ii",
        "railgun_ii",
        "railgun_i",
        "reactive_armor_hardener",
        "outer_rim_scrap_armor",
        "expanded_fuel_tank"
      ],
      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_thruster",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 65
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 11600,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "warlord",
        "fast",
        "unconventional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "frost_dividend",
      "name": "Frost Dividend",
      "description": "Nebula ice hauler. Oversized cargo bays and dual harvesters make it the highest-throughput ice operation in its class.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Frost Dividend-class exists because the Federation's logistics division noticed that ice miners spend more time in transit than mining. The solution: make the hold so large that each trip is worth three of anyone else's. Dual extraction systems feed directly into oversized compression bays, and the reinforced containment prevents sublimation losses during the long hauls back to market. The hull won't survive a serious fight — the Federation considers armed escorts a line item, not a design constraint. Quarterly performance reviews rank Frost Dividend crews by tonnes-per-hour, and the top operators are transferred to larger vessels. The ones who aren't are reminded that the ship is replaceable.",
      "base_hull": 75,
      "base_shield": 40,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 130,
      "cargo_capacity": 95,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_i",
        "ice_harvester_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
          "value": 30
        },
        {
          "type": "ice_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 13
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 9
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 260,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "ice-harvester",
        "cargo-optimized",
        "unarmed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "frost_venture",
      "name": "Frost Venture",
      "description": "Nebula industrial ice harvester-hauler. Carves entire ice asteroids and hauls them whole.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Frost Venture-class approaches frozen resources the way the\nFederation approaches everything: as a supply chain problem. The\nship's tractor systems carve entire ice bodies free from asteroid\nfields and secure them in the cavernous cargo bay for transport to\nprocessing facilities. Why refine in the field when station-side\nfacilities do it better? Nine hundred sixty cargo capacity carries ice\nin bulk — whole chunks, minimally processed, maximum volume. The\ncryo-containment systems maintain cargo at extraction temperature,\npreventing melt loss that the Federation considers an unacceptable\nhit to the profit margin.\n",
      "base_hull": 800,
      "base_shield": 400,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 24,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 350,
      "cargo_capacity": 960,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 105,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_iv"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 52
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 78
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 11000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "ice-refinery",
        "bulk",
        "unarmed",
        "logistics"
      ],
      "passive_recipes": [
        "process_water_ice",
        "process_helium_ice",
        "process_nitrogen_ice",
        "process_deuterium_ice"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "frostbite",
      "name": "Frostbite",
      "description": "Crimson ice breaker. Best extraction yield in class, armed and armored. Carries less, but what it carries, it took first.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Frostbite-class applies Crimson Fleet engineering philosophy to ice extraction: overwhelming force. The thermal lance system doesn't carefully extract ice — it cracks the target body open and scoops out what's useful. Yield per operation is the highest in its class, though the undersized cargo bay means frequent runs back to station. The weapon mount exists because ice fields attract competitors, and Crimson Fleet doctrine has opinions about sharing. Hull armor doubles as thermal shielding when the extraction system runs at full power — and slows the ship enough to stretch the fuel supply, which the Fleet considers an acceptable side effect rather than a design feature. Crimson ice miners are the only ones in the galaxy who consider \"explosive decompression\" a valid extraction technique.",
      "base_hull": 90,
      "base_shield": 25,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 70,
      "cargo_capacity": 45,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_i",
        "autocannon_i",
        "armor_plate_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
          "value": 35
        },
        {
          "type": "ice_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 260,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "ice-harvester",
        "armed",
        "tough"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "frostbitten",
      "name": "Frostbitten",
      "description": "Outer Rim ice scraper. Cheap, fast, and carries more than it should. Safety features sold separately.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Rim ice operators buy Frostbitten-class ships in batches and consider a tour successful if the hull makes it back to station. The extraction system is an oversized saw blade and a collection hopper — crude, loud, and unreasonably effective at filling a hold that has no business being this large. What the Frostbitten lacks in yield it makes up in speed: at the fastest clip in its class, a competent pilot can run three loads while a Glacius is still on its first. No shields, no armor, no upgrade slots. Rim pilots consider this weight savings. The environmental controls fail regularly enough that experienced crews pack extra gloves before extra food.",
      "base_hull": 45,
      "base_shield": 0,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 0,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 80,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 6,
      "power_capacity": 14,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
          "value": 10
        },
        {
          "type": "ice_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 220,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "ice-harvester",
        "fast",
        "cheap"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fugue",
      "name": "Fugue",
      "description": "Voidborn courier. Shield-wrapped, self-repairing, disturbingly punctual.",
      "class": "Courier",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Fugue-class arrives on time. Instruments aboard receiving stations occasionally disagree about exactly when, but the cargo is always intact and the shields are always at full charge. The Voidborn courier hull carries 125 points of regenerating shielding — more than most T1 combat ships — wrapped around a modest cargo bay. The Collective designed it for routes where the cargo matters more than the volume: diplomatic caches, research samples, components that cannot be replaced. Two free utility slots and the highest power grid among couriers let pilots refit the Fugue for almost any mission profile. Pilots report that the ship hums at a frequency that changes based on destination distance. The Collective confirms this is intentional but has not explained what it means.",
      "base_hull": 55,
      "base_shield": 100,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 2,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 110,
      "cargo_capacity": 55,
      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "shield_booster_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "passenger_business_berths",
          "value": 1
        },
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 25
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 220,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "fast",
        "starwind_courier",
        "unarmed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fundament",
      "name": "Fundament",
      "description": "Solarian logistics capital ship. Strategic supply and fleet sustainment platform.",
      "class": "Logistics",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Support",
      "lore": "The Fundament-class is the foundation upon which Solarian fleet operations rest. Its cavernous cargo bays supply entire battle groups for extended deployments, while the seven utility slots accommodate repair bays, fuel transfer systems, and medical facilities. The inventory management system tracks every consumable, spare part, and ammunition round across the entire supported fleet. Logistics officers aboard a Fundament can predict supply shortfalls three weeks before they occur — and generate the requisition paperwork automatically. ",
      "base_hull": 2500,
      "base_shield": 1200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 18,
      "base_armor": 90,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 1000,
      "cargo_capacity": 960,
      "cpu_capacity": 80,
      "power_capacity": 280,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 5,
      "utility_slots": 7,
      "default_modules": [
        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "focused_beam_iii",
        "solarian_aegis",
        "adaptive_shield_iii",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "nanite_hull_coating"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 50,
      "required_reputation": 60,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solar_collector_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_array",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 38
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 30
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 27500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "logistics",
        "capital",
        "fleet-sustainment",
        "massive-cargo"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "futures",
      "name": "Futures",
      "description": "Nebula market runner. Fastest hull in the fleet, range of a grenade.",
      "class": "Courier",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Futures-class carries almost no cargo because its cargo is information. Market data, contract confirmations, price feeds — all time-sensitive, all requiring the fastest delivery possible. Speed 6 makes it the fastest commercial hull in the galaxy. The oversized CPU array runs predictive market models in transit. The tradeoff is everything else: 24 jumps of range means the Futures works regional routes, not cross-galaxy runs. No defense slots, no weapon mounts, and 65 hull points mean the optimal response to hostiles is to already be somewhere else. The Federation's high-frequency trading desks are built on Futures-class hulls. The tiny cargo bay holds exactly enough for a contract signing kit and a bottle of champagne.",
      "base_hull": 65,
      "base_shield": 40,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 2,
      "base_speed": 6,
      "base_fuel": 120,
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      "cpu_capacity": 22,
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      "description": "Crimson armed gas harvester. Two weapon mounts protect the harvest — the Fleet's way.",
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      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Gas clouds attract competition. The Gas Raider was designed for the Crimson Fleet's approach to competition: harvest what you can, shoot anyone who objects, harvest what they leave behind. Dual gas harvesters and dual autocannons share the fitting budget because the Fleet doesn't distinguish between extraction operations and fire superiority — both are part of the job. The armor plating protects collection tanks from weapons fire, and the hull underneath is thick enough that most ambushes end with the attacker reconsidering. The cargo hold is modest because the engineering committee allocated tonnage to ammunition storage instead.",
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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      "class": "Gas Harvester",
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      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Gas Tanker-class was designed by Federation accountants before it was designed by engineers. Specification one: maximum gas collection volume per trip. Everything else was negotiable. Dual cargo expanders push the pressurized hold well past any competing gas harvester, and the compression system packs collected gas tight enough that other empires' safety inspectors would object if anyone asked them. Nobody asks them. The Gas Tanker doesn't fight, it doesn't hurry, and it doesn't come back until every cubic meter of hold space is earning its keep.",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        "unarmed",
        "heavy-cargo"
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      "id": "gas_trawler",
      "name": "Gas Trawler",
      "description": "Outer Rim deep-range gas collector. Fuel-efficient drive reaches clouds nobody else bothers with.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The best gas clouds are the ones nobody else can reach. Rim trawler captains figured this out early and built accordingly — oversized fuel tanks, efficient drives, and enough range to harvest clouds three sectors past the last refueling station. The dual collection scoops fill the hold faster than a single harvester, and the autocannon discourages the occasional claim jumper who followed the same nav charts. The hull is nothing special and the fitting budget is tight, but the Gas Trawler makes its money on access, not on specs. Cheapest T3 gas harvester on the market, and it reaches places the expensive ones never will.",
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        "fuel-efficient"
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      "id": "gauntlet",
      "name": "Gauntlet",
      "description": "Crimson prize fighter. Built for duels — flashy, tough, and terrifying in single combat.",
      "class": "Fighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet settles promotion disputes the old-fashioned way. Two captains enter a designated combat zone. One captain leaves with both ships. The Gauntlet was designed for exactly this — layered defenses that keep the fight going long enough for the weapons to decide it, and weapons that decide it with authority. Duels are broadcast fleet-wide. Wagering is mandatory for officers above the rank of lieutenant, and the odds are posted before the combatants finish pre-flight checks. Winners keep everything. Losers provide the evening's entertainment footage.",
      "base_hull": 285,
      "base_shield": 35,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 20,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 315,
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      "weapon_slots": 3,
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 50
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      "id": "gestalt",
      "name": "Gestalt",
      "description": "Voidborn drone carrier. The drones may share consciousness with the ship.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "Gestalt-class drones do not receive commands from the mothership. They appear to know what the mothership intends before it communicates. Voidborn engineers explain this as \"emergent coordination through shared substrate\" — a phrase that has generated more academic papers than answers. The drones' behavior in combat is described by other empires as \"unsettlingly organic,\" moving as schools of fish or flocks of birds rather than as independent units receiving instructions. ",
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      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 2,
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      "cpu_capacity": 58,
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      "weapon_slots": 1,
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        "damage_control_system"
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          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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          "item_id": "void_crystal",
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        "high-cpu"
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      "id": "get_off_my_lawn",
      "name": "Get Off My Lawn",
      "description": "Outer Rim interceptor. Absurdly fast pursuit craft with minimal everything else.",
      "class": "Fighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Speed 6 on a scale-one hull. The Get Off My Lawn is less a ship and more\nan engine with a cockpit bolted to it. Rim engineers stripped everything\nthat wasn't an engine, a weapon mount, or technically required for pilot\nsurvival — and they had a generous definition of \"technically.\" Zero defense\nhardpoints, one point of armor, no shield regeneration. The 80-unit fuel\ntank gives it exactly 13 jumps before it's drifting, which is fine — it's\nnot designed to chase anyone across the galaxy. It's designed to make anyone\nwithin 13 jumps of Rim space reconsider their life choices.\n",
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      "base_shield": 30,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 1,
      "base_speed": 6,
      "base_fuel": 80,
      "cargo_capacity": 10,
      "cpu_capacity": 10,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
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      "default_modules": [
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        "glass-cannon"
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      "id": "glacialis",
      "name": "Glacialis",
      "description": "Solarian ice research platform. Precision cryo-extraction identifies compounds others destroy.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Glacialis-class treats ice extraction as materials science. Thermal regulators maintain extraction zones at precisely controlled temperatures, allowing crystallographic analysis to identify and isolate rare compounds that brute-force ice breaking destroys. The seven utility slots accommodate instruments that other empires would mount in a planetary laboratory — the Confederacy considers this the minimum standard for serious cryo-extraction work. Processing is slower than competitors but yields compounds that other ships cannot produce at all.",
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      "base_armor": 30,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "description": "Solarian cryo-extraction vessel. Dual harvesters and cryogenic compression halve ice volume. Certified for extended deep-field operations.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Glacius-class was designed to go where the ice is and stay until the ice isn't. Dual cryo-extraction systems run continuously while the onboard spectrometer catalogs compositions with Confederacy-standard twelve-decimal precision — redundant for most operations, mandatory for all of them. The fuel reserves are conspicuously oversized for a mining vessel, a design choice the committee justified with a seventy-page operational range study that nobody disputes and nobody has finished reading. Certified for independent extended deployment in all known ice field conditions. The sixty-page operations manual covers everything from extraction protocols to emergency shelter construction. Compliance is verified annually.",
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      "base_armor": 6,
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        "unarmed"
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      "id": "glows_in_the_dark",
      "name": "Glows in the Dark",
      "description": "Outer Rim radioactive hauler. Fast. Mostly lead-lined. Previous owners report no lasting effects.",
      "class": "Hazmat Freighter",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Rim's approach to radioactive cargo follows the same logic as\neverything else: lead where it counts, fast engine where it matters,\nand departure timed so that questions arrive after you're already\ngone. The cargo bay is lead-lined. The documentation says\n\"lead-lined\" and does not elaborate on degree. The dosimeter is\nmounted next to the fuel gauge because the builders considered\nboth equally worth watching and saw no reason to make pilots look\nin two places. Hazmat certification was conducted by consulting\nsomeone who had previously handled radioactive material, who said\nit seemed fine, which the Rim considers an adequate second opinion.\nThe ship has had four previous owners. All four report they are\nfine. None specified which effects were not lasting. The name\nstarted as a joke at the shipyard. Three consecutive buyers kept\nit. The Rim stopped arguing after that.\n",
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 35
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          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
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      "name": "Going Dark",
      "description": "Outer Rim pathfinder cruiser. Standard operating procedure — go dark, plot a bearing, come back.",
      "class": "Pathfinder",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "Going dark — moving past the last comm relay and the last charted\nsystem, where no signal will reach you and no rescue will find you\nin time — is what pathfinder work actually is, and the Rim treats\nthe craft as a tradition. A pilot does not get a\nPathfinder hull until a senior pathfinder agrees to put their name\nnext to theirs on the certification, and a senior pathfinder does not\nsign until they have watched the candidate bring three ships back\nfrom drifts no instrument could have plotted for them. The hardware\nreflects the seriousness: a pathfinder drive next to an H2O2 refinery\nthat drinks ice straight out of the harvester, a fuel tank big enough\nthat an empty cargo bay still gets you home, and a survey scanner\nsharp enough that you know what you're looking at before it kills\nyou. The first Rim pathfinder to fly one wrote the operations manual\nherself, in pencil, on the inside of the cockpit hatch. Subsequent\npilots have added to it. None have erased anything.\n",
      "base_hull": 750,
      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 28,
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      "cpu_capacity": 70,
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      "weapon_slots": 2,
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        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "dark_matter_thruster",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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      "id": "good_enough",
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      "class": "Logistics",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Support",
      "lore": "Rim logistics is not glamorous work. The Good Enough-class hauls fuel,\nammunition, spare parts, and replacement components to fleet positions\ndeep in contested or uncharted space. The name captures the Rim's\npragmatic approach to supply chains: the parts don't need to be perfect,\nthey need to be there. With 840 units of cargo capacity and enough fuel\nto reach anywhere the fleet can go, the Good Enough ensures that Rim\noperations don't stall for lack of supplies — just for lack of planning.\n",
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      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 35,
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      "cpu_capacity": 40,
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      "weapon_slots": 2,
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        },
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        "long-range",
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      "name": "Grand Transit",
      "description": "Nebula capital carrier. Moves capital ships. The logistics infrastructure of a small empire.",
      "class": "Fleet Carrier",
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      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Grand Transit was not designed to be the largest carrier in the galaxy. That distinction emerged from the engineering specifications, which the Federation accepted without revision because the economics were correct. Ninety bay slots means three capital-class ships — dreadnoughts, titans, fleet carriers — transported as a single unit. The Federation built it because the alternative was capital-class pilots spending three weeks on ferry transit after every major deployment, which at those hourly rates represented a significant opportunity cost. The Grand Transit makes that a single afternoon. A single Grand Transit movement recovers its operating cost in fewer than four runs. The Federation has performed this calculation. They consider it unremarkable.",
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      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 40,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 800,
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      "cpu_capacity": 60,
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      "piloting_required": 50,
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        },
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          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
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        },
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        },
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        "mega"
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      "description": "Crimson capital salvage platform. Follows battle groups at a respectful distance and reduces what remains to raw materials.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Guillotine is the Crimson Fleet's capital salvage platform, and\ncalling it a salvage ship undersells it considerably. Four weapon mounts\nensure the wreck field stays clear of competitors while industrial cutting\narrays reduce capital-class hulls to raw materials with mechanical\nindifference. The Guillotine follows Crimson battle groups at a respectful\ndistance, waiting for the engagement to conclude before moving in. Cargo\ncapacity runs lower than competing salvagers — the Fleet accepted that\ntrade for a ship that never needs to ask permission to operate in a\ncontested wreck field.\n",
      "base_hull": 950,
      "base_shield": 300,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 45,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 400,
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      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 130,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
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        },
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          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
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        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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          "item_id": "rare_salvage",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        "industrial",
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        "capital",
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      "name": "Halberd",
      "description": "Crimson assault ship. Doesn't destroy targets — captures them intact for the Fleet.",
      "class": "Assault",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Halberd-class exists because the Crimson Fleet learned that\ndestroying a ship destroys its cargo. The armored prow, magnetic\nclamps, and breaching systems allow a Halberd to lock onto a\ntarget hull and deliver boarding parties while its own weapons\nsuppress point defense. The extra armor isn't just protection — it's\nthe battering ram. Halberd pilots train for close-range combat where\nweapons overlap with grappling range. In Crimson doctrine, a captured\nship is worth more than a destroyed one. The Halberd makes that\ncalculation practical.\n",
      "base_hull": 339,
      "base_shield": 31,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 110,
      "cargo_capacity": 50,
      "cpu_capacity": 25,
      "power_capacity": 45,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
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      "piloting_required": 10,
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        "prize-taking"
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      "name": "Harmonic",
      "description": "Voidborn resonance excavation platform. Vibrates ore free through dimensional harmonics at capital scale.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Harmonic-class extends Voidborn harmonic extraction to\ncapital scale. The dimensional frequency generators vibrate entire\nasteroid fields at their resonant frequency, separating ore from rock\nacross multiple targets simultaneously. Nine hundred shield points\nprotect against resonance feedback — when you vibrate asteroids at\nfrequencies that shouldn't exist, the universe occasionally objects.\nEight utility slots accommodate the sensor arrays, harmonic tuners,\nand dimensional stabilizers needed for safe operation. The Collective\ninsists the process is \"cooperative\" rather than \"destructive.\" The\nasteroids have not been asked for comment.\n",
      "base_hull": 700,
      "base_shield": 900,
      "base_shield_recharge": 14,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "cpu_capacity": 65,
      "power_capacity": 140,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 3,
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        "shield_booster_iv"
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      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_generator",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
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        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 60
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        {
          "item_id": "singularity_core",
          "quantity": 2
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 8
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        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 80
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        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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        {
          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
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        },
        {
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        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
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    {
      "id": "hegemon",
      "name": "Hegemon",
      "description": "Nebula capital ship. The Federation's ultimate argument for commercial supremacy.",
      "class": "Dreadnought",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Hegemon-class is the Federation's answer to empires that believe\nmilitary power trumps economic power. It doesn't. But if you insist on\nsettling the matter with weapons, the Hegemon carries six weapon mounts,\nfive defense slots, and the most comprehensive utility suite on any\ncapital hull. Most importantly, its 840-unit cargo hold means a Hegemon\ngenerates revenue even during military operations. Seven utility slots\nsupport fleet coordination, logistics management, trade intelligence,\nand whatever else the situation demands. The Federation builds Hegemons\nnot to project force, but to project the inescapable logic of commerce.\n",
      "base_hull": 2800,
      "base_shield": 1600,
      "base_shield_recharge": 22,
      "base_armor": 90,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 900,
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      "cpu_capacity": 90,
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      "weapon_slots": 6,
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        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "nebula_storm_barrier",
        "nebula_bio_regenerator",
        "adaptive_shield_iii",
        "shield_booster_iv"
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      "piloting_required": 50,
      "required_reputation": 60,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
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          "item_id": "trade_authenticator",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
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        {
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_prism_computer",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
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          "item_id": "shield_array",
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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          "item_id": "station_reactor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
          "quantity": 15
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      "build_time": 27500,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "capital",
        "cargo-capable"
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    },
    {
      "id": "hells_bells",
      "name": "Hell's Bells",
      "description": "Outer Rim cruiser. Fast for a cruiser. Very fast. Suspiciously fast.",
      "class": "Cruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Speed 4 on a medium hull. Other empires' naval architects insist this shouldn't be possible without cutting something critical. They're correct — the Hell's Bells sacrifices armor, shield coverage, and what Solarian engineers call \"structural margin\" in exchange for engines that can outrun most interceptors. Rim pilots consider the ability to choose when and where to fight worth more than the ability to absorb punishment. The name comes from what you hear when the engines go to full power. ",
      "base_hull": 400,
      "base_shield": 180,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 20,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 500,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 90,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "scrapgun",
        "scrapgun",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "outer_rim_scrap_armor",
        "damage_control_system"
      ],
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      "piloting_required": 20,
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          "value": 25
        }
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          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 320
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 110
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 140
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
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        "fast",
        "unconventional"
      ]
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      "id": "hoarfrost",
      "name": "Hoarfrost",
      "description": "Voidborn committed ice extraction vessel. Dual harvesters, shield tank, fully fitted for sustained operations.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The dual extraction system draws ice through a process the Collective's documentation describes only as \"phase-aligned sublimation.\" Both harvesters operate simultaneously, producing a harmonic vibration in the hull that Voidborn engineers insist is within acceptable tolerances despite the sound it makes. The shield array absorbs environmental damage while the harvesters work, and the yield per extraction cycle is among the highest in the class. The Hoarfrost ships fully committed — most of the fitting space is spoken for, which is unusual for Voidborn engineering. Apparently the Collective has opinions about ice harvesting that it doesn't have about other industrial work.",
      "base_hull": 140,
      "base_shield": 150,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 170,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 44,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
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        "ice_harvester_ii",
        "ice_harvester_ii",
        "shield_booster_ii"
      ],
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        {
          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
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        }
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          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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        },
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 5
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        "shield-dominant",
        "committed"
      ]
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      "id": "hold_my_beer",
      "name": "Hold My Beer",
      "description": "Outer Rim salvage cruiser. For recovering things from places you shouldn't be.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Named for the traditional Rim phrase that precedes every great engineering decision, the Hold My Beer is built for salvage operations in places other empires consider too dangerous, too remote, or too prone to secondary explosions. Nothing else in the salvager class gets to a wreck site this fast or leaves as quickly when the situation deteriorates. The oversized tow array drags intact wreck sections to safety at speeds that make insurance adjusters uncomfortable. The tradeoff is cargo — the hold is the smallest of any T3 salvager, so crews learn to prioritize the high-value pieces and leave the rest. The fuel-efficient drive stretches the tank far enough that distance is rarely the limiting factor.",
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      "base_shield": 170,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 400,
      "cargo_capacity": 480,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 75,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
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        "autocannon_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
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      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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        {
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          "quantity": 52
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        },
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          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
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        },
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          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 36
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
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        },
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          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        "fast",
        "cargo-heavy"
      ]
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      "id": "hostile_takeover",
      "name": "Hostile Takeover",
      "description": "A Crimson Halberd with cheaper hull construction and the boarding systems left exactly as found. The magnetic clamps and breaching gear are intact. The armor is softer than the original. The Crimson Fleet built this to take ships without destroying the cargo. Pirates have the same requirement.",
      "class": "Assault",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet built the Halberd on the observation that destroying a ship destroys its cargo. Pirates made this observation independently, considerably earlier, and were pleased to discover the Fleet had built a dedicated tool for it. The armored prow, magnetic clamps, and breaching systems that let a Halberd lock onto a target hull and deliver boarding parties — all intact. The tungsten and titanium alloys that gave the original its exceptional armor rating — replaced with steel plate and salvage, which is why the hull takes hits harder and the armor is softer. In Crimson doctrine, a captured ship is worth more than a destroyed one. Pirates agree completely. They just weren't the ones who needed to be convinced.\n",
      "npc_role": "fighter",
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      "base_shield": 90,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 17,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 110,
      "cargo_capacity": 50,
      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 45,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
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        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_i",
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        "armor_plate_ii",
        "kinetic_hull_hardener"
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      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 9
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 15
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1440,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "assault",
        "boarding",
        "prize-taking",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "halberd"
    },
    {
      "id": "huffnpuff",
      "name": "Huff'n'Puff",
      "description": "Outer Rim gas scooper. Improvised gas tanks compress collected vapors to half volume before they blow the seams.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The name is both a description of the collection process and what\nhappens to the pilot during a hull breach. Rim engineers welded gas\ncollection scoops to whatever hull was cheapest at the time, rerouted\nthe atmospheric intake, and called it an industrial vessel. The gas\ncollection system makes a noise that experienced pilots describe as\n\"concerning but profitable.\" Safety features include a fire\nextinguisher duct-taped to the pilot's seat and a handwritten note\nthat says \"DON'T SMOKE.\" The Rim's approach to volatile gas handling\nis \"be fast enough that the explosion is behind you.\"\n",
      "base_hull": 55,
      "base_shield": 25,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 1,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 120,
      "cargo_capacity": 45,
      "cpu_capacity": 9,
      "power_capacity": 18,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 2,
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          "type": "gas_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 28
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 220,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "gas-harvester",
        "fast",
        "salvaged"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "hypothesis",
      "name": "Hypothesis",
      "description": "Solarian survey platform. Four utility bays, oversized sample hold, built for thorough fieldwork.",
      "class": "Explorer",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "The Confederacy's premier survey platform, built around the principle that thorough data collection requires sustained presence. The Hypothesis carries more sensors per ton than any other vessel its size, and the fuel tank was sized so the ship never has to choose between one more survey pass and making it home. Four utility bays accommodate the full Confederacy sensor suite — spectrographic analyzers, gravitational mapping arrays, sample containment — with enough CPU headroom to run them all simultaneously. The default survey scanner and cargo expander are standard issue — the Confederacy considers both non-optional for fieldwork. The cargo hold is oversized for an exploration hull because the engineering committee insisted that samples collected in the field deserve the same chain-of-custody standards as samples collected in the laboratory.",
      "base_hull": 160,
      "base_shield": 90,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 7,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 135,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 50,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "survey_scanner_i",
        "cargo_expander_i"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 38
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1260,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "pathfinder",
        "long-range",
        "scientific"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "hysteresis",
      "name": "Hysteresis",
      "description": "Voidborn research corvette. A mobile laboratory that remembers every experiment it has conducted.",
      "class": "Research",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "The Hysteresis-class runs on an organic computational substrate that retains the context of every experiment conducted aboard. Subsequent research benefits from an institutional memory that improves with age — older vessels produce measurably better results than new ones, which other empires attribute to \"the ship getting smarter, which is concerning.\" The Collective considers this an accurate description. Unarmed and slow, but the layered shield array regenerates faster than anything else in the exploration class, and the defense slots accommodate whatever the research site demands. The fitting capacity is enormous and deliberately left empty — each Hysteresis diverges from its siblings over time, shaped by what it has studied and what its crew has bolted on in response.",
      "base_hull": 140,
      "base_shield": 150,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 240,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 65,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        }
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "unarmed",
        "high-cpu",
        "laboratory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ice_dividend",
      "name": "Ice Dividend",
      "description": "Nebula precision ice harvester. Best extraction rate in class — every crystal accounted for.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Federation learned that the margins on bulk ice hauling are razor-thin — volume only scales profitably when extraction efficiency scales with it. The Ice Dividend was redesigned around that insight: dual precision harvesters that pull usable crystalline material from ice bodies at a rate no other harvester in production can match. The cargo expander ensures each trip carries enough to justify the extraction time. Unarmed, because the cost of a weapon mount is measured in cargo space that could be earning returns. The name isn't aspirational — it's a description of what the quarterly report shows.",
      "base_hull": 330,
      "base_shield": 150,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 10,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 280,
      "cargo_capacity": 550,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 68,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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        "ice_harvester_iii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
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        {
          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
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        },
        {
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          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 10
        },
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 10
        },
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          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_suspension_chamber",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3200,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "ice-harvester",
        "precision",
        "unarmed",
        "yield"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ice_trawler",
      "name": "Ice Trawler",
      "description": "Outer Rim bulk ice hauler. Biggest hold in class — crude extraction, massive payload.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Ice Trawler takes the Rim approach to ice harvesting: cut big chunks, stuff them in the hold, worry about precision when you can afford it. Dual cargo expanders push the hold capacity well past any competing ice harvester, and the compression systems pack ice tight enough that each trip hauls a serious payload. The extraction technique is crude — thermal cutters and tractor beams, no crystallographic analysis — which means the yield per ice body is the lowest in class. But the Trawler makes up for it in volume. Cheapest T3 ice harvester on the market and the one that brings home the most product per run.",
      "base_hull": 350,
      "base_shield": 130,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 330,
      "cargo_capacity": 620,
      "cpu_capacity": 24,
      "power_capacity": 55,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
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        },
        {
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          "value": 50
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      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 100
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          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
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        "bulk-cargo",
        "cheap",
        "hauler"
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      "name": "Influx",
      "description": "Voidborn exotic gas processor. Extracts gases from dimensional rifts that other ships can't detect.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Influx-class extracts gases from dimensional rifts that\nother empires' sensors cannot detect. The collection membranes extend\ninto adjacent dimensional layers, capturing exotic compounds that\nexist only at the boundary between realities. The condensation process\nforces these inter-dimensional gases into normal-space stable states,\nproducing materials with properties that conventional chemistry cannot\nexplain. Seven utility slots support the phase-detection and\nstabilization equipment needed to operate safely — \"safely\" being\na relative term when harvesting matter from between dimensions.\n",
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      "base_shield": 850,
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      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 135,
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 95
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        "gas-refinery",
        "dimensional",
        "exotic",
        "shield-heavy"
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        "liquefy_oxygen",
        "purify_argon",
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        "distill_nebula_gases",
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      "id": "insider",
      "name": "Insider",
      "description": "Nebula intelligence vessel. Knowledge is the most valuable commodity.",
      "class": "Intelligence",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "The Federation publicly denies operating intelligence vessels. The\nInsider-class is officially classified as a \"market research platform.\"\nIts massive CPU array, long-range sensors, and electronic warfare\nsuite are described as \"competitive analysis tools.\" The high speed\nfor its tonnage is explained as \"time-sensitive delivery requirements.\"\nThe Federation's intelligence division has the best quarterly returns\nof any department, and nobody asks how.\n",
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      "base_shield": 500,
      "base_shield_recharge": 9,
      "base_armor": 25,
      "base_speed": 3,
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      "cpu_capacity": 75,
      "power_capacity": 170,
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        "cargo_expander_iii",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        "covert",
        "high-cpu",
        "fast-for-class"
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      "id": "insurance_fraud",
      "name": "Insurance Fraud",
      "description": "Outer Rim assault ship. Hits hard, moves fast, leaves before consequences arrive.",
      "class": "Assault",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Insurance Fraud-class carries five weapon mounts on a hull that moves at speed 4 — a combination other empires' naval architects call \"structurally irresponsible.\" Rim assault doctrine boils down to \"arrive unexpectedly, shoot everything, leave before they reorganize.\" The name reflects what happens to enemy fleet insurance premiums when one of these shows up in-system. Hull integrity is secondary to the philosophy that a fight resolved in three seconds needs no armor. ",
      "base_hull": 380,
      "base_shield": 200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 500,
      "cargo_capacity": 105,
      "cpu_capacity": 32,
      "power_capacity": 100,
      "weapon_slots": 5,
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        "scrapgun",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "outer_rim_scrap_armor",
        "damage_control_system"
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          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
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          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
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          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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          "item_id": "dark_matter_thruster",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        "fast",
        "glass-cannon",
        "hit-and-run"
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      "id": "interstice",
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      "class": "Recon",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "The Interstice exploits what Voidborn physicists call \"dimensional\nlacunae\" — the gaps between the layers of space-time that other empires'\nphysics doesn't acknowledge exist. The ship slides into these gaps and\nobserves normal space from a perspective that has no meaningful physical\naddress. Sensors searching for an Interstice are searching for something\nthat is, in a very literal sense, not anywhere. The ship's own sensors,\nhowever, maintain perfect clarity from their non-position. Pilots require\nextensive psychological screening. The Collective's explanation:\n\"Some minds find non-existence uncomfortable.\"\n",
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      "base_shield": 150,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 4,
      "base_speed": 3,
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        {
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        "recon",
        "covert",
        "unarmed",
        "high-cpu"
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      "name": "Iron Fleet",
      "description": "Crimson fleet carrier. Deploys entire combat wings. The invasion begins when this ship arrives.",
      "class": "Fleet Carrier",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Iron Fleet-class is what happens when the Crimson Pact decides\nthat a carrier should also survive the battle it arrives at. Sixteen\nhundred hull points make it the most durable frame at its tier — it\nwas built to hold position while taking fire. Thirty bay slots deploy\nup to three combat cruisers directly into the engagement, and three\nautocannon batteries provide covering fire while they launch. The\nPact's strategic doctrine calls this \"force multiplication.\" Enemy\ncommanders call it \"that's three more ships than we expected.\" Both\ndescriptions are accurate.\n",
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      "base_shield": 175,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 60,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 600,
      "cargo_capacity": 250,
      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 130,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
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        {
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          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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        "fleet-carrier",
        "capital",
        "combat"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "iron_tide",
      "name": "Iron Tide",
      "description": "Crimson armed carrier. Transports your fleet and shoots anything that objects.",
      "class": "Carrier",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The carrier role was traditionally beneath Pact warriors, until a fleet commander pointed out that moving ships through hostile space without getting them destroyed is itself a combat problem — one that requires a combat solution. The Iron Tide-class carries six ships and two weapon mounts, because the Crimson Pact does not build logistics vessels that cannot shoot back. Three defense slots protect the bay structure during transit. In Crimson doctrine, all space is contested, and nothing enters contested space without the ability to shoot back.",
      "base_hull": 723,
      "base_shield": 77,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 35,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 420,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 80,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 2,
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        "autocannon_ii",
        "damage_control_system",
        "shield_booster_ii"
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          "value": 6
        }
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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          "item_id": "hangar_bay_module",
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        },
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          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
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        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "docking_ring",
          "quantity": 3
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      ],
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      "flavor_tags": [
        "carrier",
        "combat",
        "armed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "juggernaut",
      "name": "Juggernaut",
      "description": "Crimson glass cannon. Six weapon mounts on a frame that cannot take a hit. All offense, no protection.",
      "class": "Assault",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Six weapon mounts is an absurd number to bolt onto a frame this size, and the Fleet did it anyway. Every kilogram of tonnage that a sane shipwright would have spent on armor went instead to power conduits, ammunition feeds, and the reinforced spars needed to keep the recoil from tearing the hull apart. What is left over to protect the crew is, generously, an idea. A single clean hit from anything serious ends the Juggernaut and everyone aboard it. The trade is deliberate. For the length of an engagement the Juggernaut throws out more fire than ships twice its mass, and the Fleet has decided that a few seconds of that output is worth more than a long career of caution. Captains who fly it understand the arithmetic: kill the target before the target kills you, because the Juggernaut was never given a second chance to fall back on. The doctrine for a damaged Juggernaut is not \"retreat.\" It is \"fire faster.\"",
      "base_hull": 220,
      "base_shield": 250,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 15,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 400,
      "cargo_capacity": 40,
      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 150,
      "weapon_slots": 6,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 1,
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        "railgun_ii",
        "railgun_ii",
        "railgun_ii",
        "railgun_ii",
        "railgun_ii",
        "crimson_berserker_plating",
        "afterburner_i"
      ],
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      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 80
        }
      ],
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      "flavor_tags": [
        "glass-cannon",
        "heavy-weapons"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "junk_convoy",
      "name": "Junk Convoy",
      "description": "Outer Rim bulk barge. Hauls more than anything its price, survives nothing.",
      "class": "Bulk Hauler",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Somebody on the Rim looked at a docking clamp, a fuel line, and a stack of empty containers, and decided that was a ship. The Junk Convoy is the answer to \"how much can we move for as little as possible,\" and the answer is: a frankly irresponsible amount. The spine is a single long girder with cargo pods welded down its length until the structural engineers stopped returning calls. Each pod adds capacity and subtracts the will to live of anyone who has to fly it. There is no armor worth the name, the drive strains to move the load at all, and a single solid hit folds the whole frame like wet cardboard. Pilots run it down quiet lanes, keep the cargo cheap enough that losing a load only stings, and lean on the one rule that keeps the Convoy in business: when you need a wall of hold and have no credits, you bolt on more containers and you go.",
      "base_hull": 320,
      "base_shield": 60,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 720,
      "cargo_capacity": 850,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 50,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 6,
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        "armor_plate_ii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 60
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1100,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "bulk",
        "cheap",
        "cargo-massive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "junkyard_dog",
      "name": "Junkyard Dog",
      "description": "Outer Rim heavy fighter. Fast, mean, assembled from questionable sources.",
      "class": "Heavy Fighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "What happens when Rim engineers get military-grade weapon mounts and racing-grade engines at the same time. The fastest heavy fighter in production, and the one most likely to arrive with the afterburner already running. The default loadout skips the armor entirely — Rim doctrine says if you're fast enough, you don't need it, and if you're not fast enough, it wasn't going to save you anyway. The tradeoff is range — that afterburner drinks fuel like it's celebrating something. Pilots learn the fuel gauge before the weapons console. Every Junkyard Dog runs hot, bites hard, and lands before anyone expected it back.",
      "base_hull": 170,
      "base_shield": 60,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 10,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 420,
      "cargo_capacity": 40,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 48,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "afterburner_ii"
      ],
      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 900,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "fast",
        "salvaged",
        "predator"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "known_quantity",
      "name": "Known Quantity",
      "description": "Admiral Kael's flagship. A Solarian Axiomata with its committee-approved fire control replaced by salvage electronics and its range left completely intact. Kael operates out of the most isolated stronghold in the sector. He needs a ship that goes the distance, not one that files good paperwork.",
      "class": "Battlecruiser",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Admiral Kael runs the most isolated pirate operation in the sector — sixteen systems with no empire borders, no convenient traffic lanes, and no natural allies. The Xamidimura arsenal is well-stocked and well-guarded because those are the two things Kael refuses to compromise on. Everything else is negotiable.\nHe chose the Axiomata because the Solarian design philosophy is actually correct: layered defense, measured fire, exceptional range. He replaced the precision Solarian electronics with salvage equivalents, lost some shield coherence, and kept the fuel range that lets the Known Quantity operate far from any friendly port. The massive CPU array runs targeting and fleet analysis rather than committee documentation. Kael considers this an upgrade. Six weapons, four defense slots, and the judgment to know exactly when to use them and when to wait.\n",
      "npc_role": "boss_flagship",
      "base_hull": 1050,
      "base_shield": 580,
      "base_shield_recharge": 12,
      "base_armor": 50,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 500,
      "cargo_capacity": 180,
      "cpu_capacity": 70,
      "power_capacity": 180,
      "weapon_slots": 6,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "solar_lance",
        "heavy_pulse_laser",
        "focused_beam_iii",
        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "missile_launcher_ii",
        "solarian_aegis",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "damage_control_system"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 13
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 12000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "warlord",
        "balanced",
        "long-range"
      ],
      "based_on": "axiomata"
    },
    {
      "id": "larder",
      "name": "Larder",
      "description": "Faction-issue game hunter — built to go into the deep fields, put down the dangerous fauna the whalers won't touch, and bring the meat home for the table. Enough guns to drop a predator, heavy plate to weather its charge, a scanner to find the herds, and a big chilled hold for the kills. A tanky working hull, not a warship: light on shields, only three gun mounts, and slow to refit — it beats wildlife, not fleets. Cheap enough to field by the pair, piloting gate waived.",
      "class": "Hunter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 3,
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "A faction that has put every dish in the galaxy on its tables keeps, somewhere\nbehind the kitchen, a standing supply problem: the grander the menu, the more of it\nstill walks, swims, or drifts through the deep fields with teeth. The whalers bring\nhome oil and baleen from pods that cannot fight back; the Larder is what a house\nsends after everything else. It carries guns where a whaler carries none, plate\nenough to hold its ground in front of a charging predator and keep firing, and a\nchilled hold sized to carry a leviathan's worth of meat home before it turns. It is\nno warship — light on shields against a real gunline, slow to refit, and no match\nfor a fleet — but turned loose on the dangerous fauna, the crusher-mantis packs and\nthe lone frozen shapes that haunt the ice, it earns its keep and stocks a larder\nthat never empties. A house issues them by the pair and by the dozen, because\nkeeping the galaxy's finest tables in game was never a job for one hull. The honor\nthat unlocks the design is not for the pouring. It is for the provisioning.\n",
      "base_hull": 460,
      "base_shield": 80,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 32,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 420,
      "cargo_capacity": 260,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 60,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "shield_booster_ii",
        "ship_scanner_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "afterburner_ii"
      ],
      "required_faction_achievement": "house_of_plenty",
      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for members of a faction that has earned the \"House of Plenty\" achievement.",
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "integrated_scanner",
          "value": 15
        },
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 20
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "creature_carapace",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 60
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1100,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "hunter",
        "wildlife",
        "faction-issue",
        "prestige"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "last_call",
      "name": "Last Call",
      "description": "A Long Haul with the delivery contracts cancelled and the fleet's name painted over the previous owner's. The fuel tanks are intact. The refueling pump is intact. The part where it charges per liter has been crossed out.",
      "class": "Tanker",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Outer Rim built the Long Haul to keep frontier outposts supplied with fuel at prices that were technically legal. Pirates stole several of them and discovered that a ship designed to carry enormous quantities of fuel is extremely useful when your raiders keep running out of it three systems from home.\nThe commercial delivery software is gone. The fuel tanks are not. The refueling pump that the original used to charge clients by the liter now operates on a different pricing model: you work for the same stronghold, you get refueled. Everyone else can figure it out themselves.\nThe name is what the crew decided to call it after the third rescue run in a week. Nobody argued.\n",
      "npc_role": "tanker",
      "base_hull": 185,
      "base_shield": 40,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 9,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 1500,
      "cargo_capacity": 75,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 35,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "refueling_pump"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 25
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 990,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "tanker",
        "cargo-heavy",
        "long-range",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "long_haul"
    },
    {
      "id": "last_drop",
      "name": "Last Drop",
      "description": "Outer Rim long-range supertanker. Hauls fuel to places that should not be reachable.",
      "class": "Tanker",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Last Drop is the Rim's answer to a question the core empires have not yet asked: how do you supply an outpost so far out that no Federation tanker would price the route. The ship is most accurately described as an asteroid-sized fuel bladder with a thruster array bolted to one end and a cockpit bolted to the other. The hull is built around the bunkerage and almost nothing else, on the principle that a Rim tanker forced to choose between fuel capacity and crew amenities will choose fuel every time. The thruster array is twice the size of any other supertanker's, which gets the Last Drop to its destination faster and burns more fuel per jump — Rim doctrine is that the route is worth more than the fuel, and that the kind of outpost a Last Drop services would rather pay for the speed than the savings. The fuel-efficiency packages the Rim ships are known for carry over, partially offsetting the heavier burn. Outposts on a Last Drop's circuit have been known to stop budgeting for fuel deliveries and start budgeting for the captain's tab at the local saloon. The single scrapgun is acknowledged to be insufficient against any organized threat, and the hull would not survive a sustained engagement either. Rim doctrine treats both facts as the ship's primary tactical advantage: pirates who shoot tankers full of volatile fuel tend not to make it to a second engagement.",
      "base_hull": 550,
      "base_shield": 180,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 11500,
      "cargo_capacity": 320,
      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 110,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 6,
      "default_modules": [
        "refueling_pump",
        "expanded_fuel_tank",
        "expanded_fuel_tank",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "scrapgun"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 25
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 320
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 240
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 280
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 12500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "tanker",
        "capital",
        "long-range",
        "cargo-heavy",
        "fuel-efficient"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "last_warning",
      "name": "Last Warning",
      "description": "Outer Rim patrol interceptor. Fast enough to catch anything, armed enough to end the conversation.",
      "class": "Patrol",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Last Warning is also the first warning — the Patchwork doesn't believe in escalation procedures. The list of things the Outer Rim actually considers criminal is short enough to fit on a cockpit post-it note, but if you've managed to get on it, a Last Warning is already closing at speed 5 with two autocannons warming up. The speed gets it into weapons range. The guns handle the rest. Rim rangers who fly the Last Warning tend toward a specific personality type: patient enough to ignore the 90% of activity that's technically legal in the Rim, and decisive enough to end the other 10% quickly. The integrated scanner is modest by Solarian standards but sufficient — when your crime list is that short, you don't need much scanning to confirm a violation.\n",
      "base_hull": 90,
      "base_shield": 40,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 4,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 130,
      "cargo_capacity": 20,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 32,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_i",
        "autocannon_i",
        "armor_plate_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "integrated_scanner",
          "value": 10
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 240,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "patrol",
        "law-enforcement",
        "fast-pursuit"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "lawn_dart",
      "name": "Lawn Dart",
      "description": "A stolen Get Off My Lawn with the Rim's territorial firmware ripped out and the weapons left exactly where they were. Speed 6 at scale one. Pirates don't use these to defend territory — they use them to cross everyone else's as fast as possible and be gone before anyone files a report.",
      "class": "Interceptor",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Outer Rim builds the Get Off My Lawn to tell people to leave. Pirates use it to go places they're not supposed to be and be gone before anyone responds. The territorial firmware that triggered on unauthorized entry to Rim space has been stripped out. The autocannons have not been touched. What remains is an engine with a cockpit bolted to it and enough speed to reach a target, confirm the cargo manifest, and be three systems away before the raider squad even gets the message.\n",
      "npc_role": "scout",
      "base_hull": 75,
      "base_shield": 40,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 2,
      "base_speed": 6,
      "base_fuel": 100,
      "cargo_capacity": 20,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 30,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_i",
        "autocannon_i"
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 280,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "fastest",
        "glass-cannon",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "get_off_my_lawn"
    },
    {
      "id": "ledger",
      "name": "Ledger",
      "description": "A no-frills cargo hull for an outfit that runs a real operation — the pilot sits inside, there is enough plating to survive a scrape, and it just moves goods. No shields, no guns, nothing to fit.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Ledger is what a faction issues once it has stopped doing its trading on a\nwing and a prayer. It is still the simplest thing that flies: a cargo hull, an\nengine, and a pilot — but the pilot rides inside a sealed cabin, there is real\nplating between them and the void, and the frame holds together when something\nclips it on the way out of dock. It mounts no shields, no weapons, and not a\nsingle module slot, because none of that is the point; the point is moving four\nhundred and eighty units of someone else's goods and arriving to be paid. A\nnewcomer in a Ledger isn't anyone important. The colors painted on the hull are.\n",
      "base_hull": 150,
      "base_shield": 0,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 100,
      "cargo_capacity": 480,
      "cpu_capacity": 4,
      "power_capacity": 10,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 0,
      "required_faction_achievement": "syndicate",
      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for members of a faction that has earned the \"Syndicate\" achievement.",
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 20
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 300,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "cargo",
        "faction-issue",
        "workhorse"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "lemma",
      "name": "Lemma",
      "description": "Solarian reconnaissance scout. Fast, sensor-dense, unarmed by policy.",
      "class": "Scout",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "The Lemma-class is the Confederacy's primary reconnaissance platform — fast, unarmed, and loaded with more sensor capacity than some ships twice its size. The integrated survey scanner and default ship scanner generate enough data to keep a research team busy for weeks, and the onboard cargo hold is sized for bringing physical samples home alongside the telemetry. Speed 5 and zero weapon slots is a deliberate design choice: the Lemma arrives first, observes everything, and leaves before the situation develops. The high processing capacity and open utility slots let pilots configure the rest to taste.",
      "base_hull": 70,
      "base_shield": 45,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 170,
      "cargo_capacity": 25,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 30,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "ship_scanner_i",
        "cargo_expander_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "integrated_survey_scanner",
          "value": 15
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 17
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 200,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "fast",
        "sensor-rich",
        "unarmed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "lemming",
      "name": "Lemming",
      "description": "A Solarian Lemma with a gun bolted to the nose and half its sensor suite stripped to make room for the power draw. It still has the exceptional fuel range that made the original worth stealing — everything else is a compromise. Don't follow it.",
      "class": "Scout",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "Solarian designed the Lemma to travel farther than anything else and come back with clean data. The pirate version goes just as far — the gun bolted to the nose required gutting the sensor suite to power it, but the fuel range is exactly what the Confederacy intended.\nThe assignment changed. A Lemma pilot gathered data and returned. A Lemming pilot goes to the edge of a target's home system, confirms the cargo manifest, and transmits before anyone knows there's a scout. Then it runs. The targets who try to follow it find an empty system and a raider squad arriving from a different direction.\nThe name belongs to them, not the pilot.\n",
      "npc_role": "scout",
      "base_hull": 80,
      "base_shield": 40,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 170,
      "cargo_capacity": 30,
      "cpu_capacity": 15,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
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        "armor_plate_i"
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 17
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 180,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "scout",
        "fast",
        "long-range",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "lemma"
    },
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      "id": "leverage",
      "name": "Leverage",
      "description": "Nebula armed trader. Hauls freight and discourages questions about the freight.",
      "class": "Courier",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Leverage-class carries 140 units of cargo with a pulse laser pointed at anyone who objects. The Federation designed it for routes where hiring an escort costs more than the margin on the cargo — which, at current insurance rates, is most of them. The reinforced hull absorbs hits that would crack a standard courier, and the 25% fuel efficiency bonus stretches a tank across 70 jumps. At Speed 2 the Leverage is not fast, but a slow delivery beats a lost shipment every quarter. Independent traders call it the ship that doesn't need a babysitter.",
      "base_hull": 120,
      "base_shield": 55,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 140,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 30,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
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        "cargo_expander_i"
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      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 250,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "armed-trader",
        "cargo-capable"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "levy",
      "name": "Levy",
      "description": "Crimson Pact recruit-grade fighter. Two weapons, no electronics, built to be expendable. You earn better hardware.",
      "class": "Fighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "New Pact recruits don't get the good hardware. They get the Levy. Two\ncannons, steel plate, and a hull rated to survive exactly as long as\nnecessary. No targeting computer. No sensor suite — learn to use your\neyes. With only 1 CPU to spare after the default loadout, the Levy doesn't\nallow modifications because there's nothing left to modify. It's mass-produced\nin bulk at War Citadel from materials that don't require the supply chains\nthe better ships depend on. If you come back from three sorties in a Levy,\nyou've earned an upgrade. Most do.\n",
      "base_hull": 103,
      "base_shield": 7,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 80,
      "cargo_capacity": 15,
      "cpu_capacity": 8,
      "power_capacity": 24,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 0,
      "default_modules": [
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        "autocannon_i",
        "armor_plate_i"
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 2
        }
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      "build_time": 200,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "recruit-grade",
        "no-frills"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "liability",
      "name": "Liability",
      "description": "Nebula Trade Federation containment vessel. Certified, insured, and genuinely hoping nothing happens.",
      "class": "Hazmat Freighter",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Liability-class carries the largest civilian hazmat-certified\ncargo hold in commercial production, a distinction the Federation's\ncommercial division treats as a selling point and its legal division\nhas asked be contextualized more carefully. The containment\nspecifications exceed regulatory minimums by a margin the brochure\ndescribes as \"industry-leading\" and the technical notes describe as\n\"the minimum the engineering review board would approve.\" Every\nvessel ships with a laminated card listing evacuation procedures\nand conditions excluded from the extended containment warranty —\namong them acts of war, gross negligence, and events classified\nunder Federation Commercial Code 7.4 as \"foreseeable outcomes,\"\na category the Federation's attorneys have expanded through case\nlaw to be as broadly applicable as the statute permits. The\nwarranty is available at competitive rates. Uptake is strong.\n",
      "base_hull": 480,
      "base_shield": 220,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 400,
      "cargo_capacity": 500,
      "cpu_capacity": 36,
      "power_capacity": 50,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "lead_lined_cargo_i",
        "shield_booster_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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          "type": "special_flag",
          "flag": "rad_harvesting"
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 14
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3900,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "industrial",
        "cargo",
        "hazmat",
        "long-range"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "liminal",
      "name": "Liminal",
      "description": "Voidborn shield miner. The organic hull compresses stored ore to half volume. The shields discourage questions.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Liminal-class wraps itself in the heaviest shield array of any T1 mining vessel — layered emitters regenerating faster than most weapon systems can deplete them. Pilots report the mining laser sometimes adjusts its own angle mid-extraction, and the cargo hold has been observed reorganizing stored ore into denser configurations without input. Two open utility hardpoints and a generous power budget invite customization; the Collective designed the Liminal as a foundation, not a finished product. The organic hull's fuel metabolism limits operational range, but Liminal pilots tend to mine the nearest belt thoroughly rather than chase distant ones. They say the ship prefers familiar rock.",
      "base_hull": 65,
      "base_shield": 120,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 2,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 100,
      "cargo_capacity": 75,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 34,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_i",
        "shield_booster_i"
      ],
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        },
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          "type": "ore_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 280,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "organic-hull",
        "shield-wall"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "liquidation",
      "name": "Liquidation",
      "description": "A Nebula Enterprise with its trade route optimization software deleted and its cargo hold left intact. 745 units. The Federation built this to move merchandise at scale. Pirates found the same capacity useful for the same reason.",
      "class": "Bulk Hauler",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "745 units at tier three. Most ships at this scale compete on route optimization. The Liquidation competes on volume — the prismatic navigation arrays, route optimization software, and price prediction algorithms are gone, and the Nebula computing that ran them couldn't be sourced in salvage. Pirates don't use this ship to find cargo. They use it to move cargo they've already taken.\nThe hold is intact. The extended fuel reserves are intact. The structural capacity that moves what most operations take three trips to clear is unchanged. The Nebula Collective named theirs after commercial ambition. Pirates named theirs after what happens to someone else's cargo manifest.\n",
      "npc_role": "hauler",
      "base_hull": 450,
      "base_shield": 200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 400,
      "cargo_capacity": 745,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 70,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "damage_control_system"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3640,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "bulk-hauler",
        "massive-cargo",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "enterprise"
    },
    {
      "id": "liquidator",
      "name": "Liquidator",
      "description": "Nebula heavy salvager. Industrial-scale asset recovery from capital wrecks.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Liquidator-class is the Federation's heavy salvage platform,\ndesigned to strip capital-class wrecks down to their component atoms\nand haul the results to market. The largest cargo hold of any T4\nsalvager and a tow rating that keeps pace with the best in class\nensure that nothing worth recovering gets left behind. Onboard scanners assess wreck value before the\ncutting beams fire — the Federation does not spend resources on\nmaterials that won't cover extraction costs. The salvage division\nmotto: \"The market finds a use for everything.\" The Liquidator\nis how they prove it.\n",
      "base_hull": 900,
      "base_shield": 380,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 32,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 480,
      "cargo_capacity": 695,
      "cpu_capacity": 45,
      "power_capacity": 120,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "ship_scanner_ii",
        "shield_booster_iii"
      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 38,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "rare_salvage",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_prism_computer",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 9600,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "cargo-massive",
        "industrial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "liquidity_event",
      "name": "Liquidity Event",
      "description": "Nebula celebration yacht. First class only. Bring lawyers.",
      "class": "Yacht",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "When a Federation venture exits — acquisition, flotation, an unusually\nprofitable bankruptcy — the celebration is a contractual obligation,\nand the Liquidity Event is where the contract is honored. Eight suites,\na ballroom rated for variable gravity, and a galley whose staff sign\nnon-disclosure agreements covering the speeches, the karaoke, and\nwhatever happened to the ice sculpture. Bookings include counsel as a\nstandard amenity. The Federation's one firm rule is that what happens\naboard stays aboard, a policy enforced less by discretion than by the\nfact that everyone present has exactly as much to lose. The waivers\nare, by common agreement, works of art.\n",
      "base_hull": 750,
      "base_shield": 550,
      "base_shield_recharge": 9,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 650,
      "cargo_capacity": 180,
      "cpu_capacity": 45,
      "power_capacity": 125,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "passenger_first_berths",
          "value": 8
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 160
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 12500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "luxury",
        "civilian",
        "high-defense"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "lithosphere",
      "name": "Lithosphere",
      "description": "Solarian precision mining capital. The most methodical extraction system in the galaxy.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Lithosphere represents the Confederacy's conviction that mining is applied geology at industrial scale. Eight utility slots accommodate the most comprehensive geological analysis suite ever mounted on a mining vessel — real-time seismic modeling, spectral tomography, and core sample analysis that maps every ore deposit in an asteroid before the first laser fires. The result is extraction yields that approach theoretical maximums. One thousand six hundred eighty cargo capacity holds the results of operations that take longer but waste nothing. Solarian mining doctrine: the richest ore is the ore you don't leave behind.",
      "base_hull": 900,
      "base_shield": 500,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 35,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 350,
      "cargo_capacity": 1680,
      "cpu_capacity": 70,
      "power_capacity": 140,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 8,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_iv",
        "mining_laser_iv",
        "mining_laser_iv",
        "mining_laser_iv",
        "mining_laser_iv",
        "survey_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
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        },
        {
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          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 65
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_processor",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 42
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 8
        },
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          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 40
        },
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        "mining",
        "precision",
        "high-utility",
        "capital-industrial"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "logistics_prime",
      "name": "Logistics Prime",
      "description": "Solarian automated logistics platform. Self-organizing cargo bays and optimal packing algorithms.",
      "class": "Bulk Hauler",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Logistics Prime-class applies the Confederacy's optimization expertise to cargo transport at capital scale. Self-organizing cargo bays use automated systems to pack, track, and rearrange cargo for optimal mass distribution — the ship literally rearranges its own cargo hold in transit to maintain perfect trim. Less raw tonnage than the mega-haulers, but the CPU runs logistics optimization that calculates multi-stop routes, dynamic pricing, and load balancing in real time — making every cubic meter count. Every other empire builds bigger holds. The Confederacy built a smarter one.",
      "base_hull": 900,
      "base_shield": 500,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 30,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 480,
      "cargo_capacity": 2160,
      "cpu_capacity": 48,
      "power_capacity": 120,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "expanded_fuel_tank",
        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "shield_booster_iii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 24
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 60
        },
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          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 40
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        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_processor",
          "quantity": 6
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        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 400
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 20
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 6
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        "automated",
        "efficient",
        "high-utility"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "lone_star",
      "name": "Lone Star",
      "description": "A self-sufficient hull for a captain who flies alone — guns, a mining laser, a scanner, light shields, real fitting room, and the legs to stay out indefinitely. It needs no wingman.",
      "class": "Multirole",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "Lone Star is what you earn by building something profitable with no one but\nyourself, and it is built to match: guns enough to be left alone, a mining laser\nand a hold to keep itself supplied, a scanner to see trouble first, light shields\nand real fitting room to adapt to whatever the day brings, and a fuel reserve\nthat lets it stay out as long as its captain cares to. It asks nothing of a fleet\nit does not have. And if its captain ever does take on crew, the sight of a\nsecond Lone Star flying the same colors tells everyone the lone wolf brought\nfriends.\n",
      "base_hull": 300,
      "base_shield": 180,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 240,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 80,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "pulse_laser_i",
        "shield_booster_ii",
        "armor_plate_i",
        "mining_laser_ii",
        "ship_scanner_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for members of a faction that has earned a secret achievement.",
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 25
        },
        {
          "type": "integrated_scanner",
          "value": 15
        },
        {
          "type": "ore_yield_bonus",
          "value": 10
        }
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      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 800,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "self-sufficient",
        "multirole",
        "faction-issue"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "long_haul",
      "name": "Long Haul",
      "description": "Outer Rim tanker. Carries fuel to where fuel shouldn't be affordable.",
      "class": "Tanker",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The frontier runs on fuel, and the Long Haul delivers it. Rim engineers stripped everything that wasn't fuel tank or engine, then optimized what was left until the fuel consumption per jump was the lowest of any tanker in production. No weapons — the philosophy is that anything fast enough to catch a Long Haul is fast enough to catch it whether it's armed or not, so why waste the mass. These tankers keep outposts operational that would otherwise be three refueling stops from anywhere. Pilots joke that the Long Haul is the only ship that gets better range the more cargo it carries.",
      "base_hull": 170,
      "base_shield": 50,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 1500,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "refueling_pump"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 25
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 75
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 45
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 990,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "tanker",
        "cargo-heavy",
        "long-range",
        "unarmed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "loose_change",
      "name": "Loose Change",
      "description": "Outer Rim shuttle. Cheap, fast, seats six uncomfortably.",
      "class": "Shuttle",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "Outer Rim stations keep Loose Changes stacked in hangars like disposable\ncups — grab one, fly somewhere, leave it for the next person. Speed 5 makes\nit the fastest shuttle in known space, which matters when you need to be\nsomewhere else before anyone notices you left. The fuel tank runs dry after\nabout thirty jumps, so plan your route or plan to hitchhike. No weapons, no\ndefense slots, no scanner. The environmental controls have two settings:\n\"too cold\" and \"broken.\"\n",
      "base_hull": 60,
      "base_shield": 20,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 1,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 150,
      "cargo_capacity": 35,
      "cpu_capacity": 8,
      "power_capacity": 18,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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          "value": 4
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      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 9
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 150,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "transit_shuttle",
        "cheap",
        "unarmed",
        "fast"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "losers_weepers",
      "name": "Losers Weepers",
      "description": "An Outer Rim Finders Keepers with scorch marks the original rarely got. Same oversized engine, same repurposed cargo hold, same principle. The difference is the pirate version is already in the adjacent system when the raiding squad starts the fight.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Outer Rim built the Finders Keepers on the principle that the first ship to the wreck gets the best picks. Pirates found one improvement on this principle: they know where the wreck is going to be before it exists. The Losers Weepers waits in the staging system while the raiding squad works. By the time the fight is over, it's already en route. The cargo hold, repurposed from a Nebula shipping container, holds what's left after the raiders take their cut. The hull carries more visible repair work than the Rim version — Rim salvagers typically avoid the kind of debris fields that leave scorch marks. Pirate salvagers work fresh.\n",
      "npc_role": "salvage",
      "base_hull": 70,
      "base_shield": 25,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 90,
      "cargo_capacity": 205,
      "cpu_capacity": 9,
      "power_capacity": 22,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_i",
        "armor_plate_i"
      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 18,
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 300,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "industrial",
        "fast",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "finders_keepers"
    },
    {
      "id": "lungful",
      "name": "Lungful",
      "description": "Outer Rim jury-rigged gas processor. Fast throughput, rough processing, doesn't care about purity.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Lungful burns through gas clouds at speed, collection scoops\nwide open, processing systems running flat out. Purity standards are\n\"whatever comes out the other end.\" The Rim's gas refineries prioritize\nthroughput over quality — five hundred cargo of roughly-processed gas\nis worth more than two hundred cargo of pristine fractions when you're\nsupplying frontier fuel depots. Speed 2 lets the Lungful follow\ngas clouds as they drift, maintaining continuous collection without\nthe repositioning delays that slow competitors.\n",
      "base_hull": 700,
      "base_shield": 250,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 28,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 320,
      "cargo_capacity": 840,
      "cpu_capacity": 32,
      "power_capacity": 90,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
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      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 65
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 8500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "gas-refinery",
        "fast",
        "cheap",
        "rough-processing"
      ],
      "passive_recipes": [
        "compress_hydrogen_gas",
        "liquefy_oxygen",
        "purify_argon",
        "ionize_neon_gas",
        "extract_xenon",
        "distill_nebula_gases"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mace",
      "name": "Mace",
      "description": "Crimson assault cruiser. Takes capital ships by force. The Fleet's heavy boarding platform.",
      "class": "Battlecruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Halberd takes frigates. The Mace takes everything else. Thirty- eight points of armor on a hull designed to absorb point-blank defensive fire while magnetic clamps lock onto the target and breaching systems cut through capital-grade plating. The Mace carries enough marines and equipment to seize ships three times its size — the boarding bays are pressurized, the armory is extensive, and the medical bay exists because boarding actions produce casualties. Four weapon mounts suppress point defense during the approach. Mace captains are the Crimson Fleet's most decorated officers, because every successful boarding is a capital ship captured intact. ",
      "base_hull": 650,
      "base_shield": 70,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 38,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 380,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 75,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "blood_reaver",
        "flak_cannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "damage_control_system",
        "kinetic_hull_hardener"
      ],
      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 110
        }
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "boarding",
        "heavy-armor"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "magnate",
      "name": "Magnate",
      "description": "Faction flagship for the boss who outgrew borders — forged from the best of all five empires: Crimson fury-plate, Voidborn null-matter shields, Solarian logic cores, Nebula optics, Rim dark matter. Heavily armored, properly armed, and rigged so the leader who runs the whole operation can fly it into the fight himself. One per faction, keyed to the leader's hand.",
      "class": "Command",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The empires have sovereigns. These people pay them taxes — most years, on the\nprofit they choose to declare — and then go on running the economy the sovereigns\nmerely tax. A Magnate is what that kind of money builds when it stops pretending\nto respect a border. There is no empire stamp on the hull because there is no one\nempire in it: the plating is Crimson fury-temper, the shields hang off Voidborn\nnull-matter matrices, the brain is Solarian logic stacked behind Nebula optics, and\nthe whole thing is laced with Rim dark matter, because the owner could afford to buy\nthe best of each and the freight to carry it home. It takes a faction with a holding\nin every empire's space to even source one — which is precisely the point, and\nprecisely who flies it. It is built to go to war: against rival magnates, against\nthe pirates who mistake it for cargo, against the empires themselves when the math\nfinally favors it. The yards build exactly one per faction and key it to the boss's\nown hand. You do not lead from a station chair forever. Eventually you buy the\nfront of the line.\n",
      "base_hull": 1500,
      "base_shield": 600,
      "base_shield_recharge": 9,
      "base_armor": 90,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 760,
      "cargo_capacity": 200,
      "cpu_capacity": 55,
      "power_capacity": 130,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 6,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "regenerative_armor_ii",
        "hull_reinforcement_ii",
        "damage_control_system",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "required_faction_achievement": "imperial_footprint",
      "required_faction_leader": true,
      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for the leader of a faction that has earned the \"Imperial Footprint\" achievement.",
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "fleet_command_capacity",
          "value": 3
        },
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 30
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 140
        },
        {
          "item_id": "communications_array",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 140
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 140
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_prism_computer",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 36
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
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      "flavor_tags": [
        "command",
        "flagship",
        "faction-issue",
        "prestige",
        "best-of-all-worlds"
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      "id": "mandate",
      "name": "Mandate",
      "description": "Crimson patrol enforcer. Significantly overgunned for law enforcement. Nobody complained.",
      "class": "Patrol",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "A mandate is not a request. The Crimson Fleet's patrol vessel carries two autocannons and enough armor to shrug off return fire — considerably more combat capability than any empire's patrol doctrine calls for. When the Solarian Confederacy formally protested that the Mandate-class exceeded treaty limits for law enforcement vessels, the New Pact responded that the guns were \"inspection equipment\" and the armor was \"weather protection.\" The integrated scanner is technically functional. Checking your documentation is a formality that occurs after the autocannons have already made their point. The official hail is one word: \"Halt.\"\n",
      "base_hull": 171,
      "base_shield": 19,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 9,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 100,
      "cargo_capacity": 20,
      "cpu_capacity": 16,
      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        "law-enforcement",
        "overgunned"
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      "id": "manifest_destiny",
      "name": "Manifest Destiny",
      "description": "Outer Rim exploration cruiser. The ship that goes where maps end.",
      "class": "Explorer",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "The Manifest Destiny is the Outer Rim's dedicated deep-space\nexploration platform, designed for pilots who believe the galactic edge\nis where interesting things start, not where they end. Speed 3 and\nfuel-efficient engines give it the range to reach regions that exist\nonly as blank spots on other empires' charts. Anomaly detection and\nsurvey instruments come standard — the Rim builds exploration ships\nto find things, not just fly past them. Two scrapguns handle whatever\nwas already living in the blank spot. Every Manifest Destiny that\nreturns brings stories. Not all of them return.\n",
      "base_hull": 800,
      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 30,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 900,
      "cargo_capacity": 335,
      "cpu_capacity": 45,
      "power_capacity": 120,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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          "item_id": "dark_matter_thruster",
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          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
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          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 280
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "long-range",
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      "id": "manifold",
      "name": "Manifold",
      "description": "Voidborn mining capital. Extracts resources from parallel dimensional layers. Harvests ore, gas, and ice simultaneously.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Manifold-class extracts resources from parallel\ndimensional layers that other empires cannot perceive, let alone reach.\nTwo thousand shield points protect against dimensional stress during\nsustained multi-layer extraction operations. Nine utility slots\naccommodate the most advanced sensor and extraction systems the\nCollective has ever produced. The Manifold can extract ore, gas, and\nice simultaneously from overlapping dimensional layers — a capability\nunique to this vessel. The Collective claims the Manifold\n\"accelerates resource regeneration\" in depleted fields by pulling\nmatter through dimensional rifts. Other empires' physicists consider\nthis claim impossible. The resources appear anyway.\n",
      "base_hull": 1400,
      "base_shield": 2000,
      "base_shield_recharge": 28,
      "base_armor": 45,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 600,
      "cargo_capacity": 2400,
      "cpu_capacity": 90,
      "power_capacity": 300,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
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      "required_reputation": 60,
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        },
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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          "item_id": "singularity_core",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
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          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
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          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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          "item_id": "shield_generator",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        "multi-resource"
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      "id": "marauder",
      "name": "Marauder",
      "description": "Crimson weaponized gas processor. Refines volatiles into fuel, explosives, and chemical weapons components.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Marauder-class refines volatile gases into three categories\nthe Crimson Fleet cares about: fuel for the fleet, explosives for\nordnance, and chemical components for weapons systems. The refinery\nprocesses run at temperatures and pressures that violate every other\nempire's safety standards, which the Fleet considers a competitive\nadvantage. Two weapon mounts protect gas processing operations in\ncontested nebulae — the Fleet learned that losing a full cargo of\nrefined volatiles to a pirate raid is more expensive than the guns.\n",
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      "base_shield": 300,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 45,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 280,
      "cargo_capacity": 660,
      "cpu_capacity": 38,
      "power_capacity": 100,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
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        },
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          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 25
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      "build_time": 9500,
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        "volatile",
        "armed",
        "military-chemical"
      ],
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        "liquefy_oxygen",
        "purify_argon",
        "ionize_neon_gas",
        "extract_xenon",
        "distill_nebula_gases",
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        "onboard_fluorine_synthesis"
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      "id": "margin",
      "name": "Margin",
      "description": "Nebula courier. Balanced speed, range, and cargo for the routes that pay on time.",
      "class": "Courier",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Federation operates a galaxy-spanning courier network, and the Margin-class is the hull they trust with the contracts that have penalty clauses. Speed 4 with 25% fuel efficiency means 56 jumps on a tank — fast enough to beat deadlines, rangy enough to reach any market without refueling. The cargo bay holds 90 units with the default expander, sized for premium express loads rather than bulk freight. One free defense slot and one free utility slot let pilots refit between contracts: shield booster for contested routes, scanner for new markets. The Federation prices courier contracts by the hour. The Margin makes every hour count.",
      "base_hull": 80,
      "base_shield": 45,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 170,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 13,
      "power_capacity": 26,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
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          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 13
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 13
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
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      "build_time": 200,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "starwind_courier",
        "unarmed"
      ]
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      "id": "margin_call",
      "name": "Margin Call",
      "description": "A Crimson Vanguard without fleet coordination hardware, shield array, or engine cores. Three weapon mounts and a hull built for the front of a fleet engagement remain. The original needed forty engine cores. Pirates source theirs differently.",
      "class": "Cruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Vanguard needed forty engine cores because Crimson fleet doctrine required the command ship to be everywhere. Lead the advance, absorb the initial contact, withdraw when flanked, re-engage on its own terms — the engine cores gave it the range and responsiveness to do all of this in a single engagement while the coordination hardware told the rest of the fleet what to do about it. It was the most expensive ship in any formation and built to justify that cost by being impossible to corner and impossible to ignore.\nPirates couldn't source the engine cores. The coordination masts came down — cut at the base, the stubs still visible on the dorsal hull like stumps of something that used to be taller. The shield array is gone. What remains is what Crimson engineers put under all of that: a command-grade hull designed to survive being the most targeted ship in an engagement, because it always was. The Margin Call is slower and shorter-ranged than the Vanguard it came from. It doesn't coordinate anything. It absorbs fire and returns it, which is the only part of fleet command that translates.\nThe Vanguard led from the front because its commanders believed that a ship which risks nothing wins nothing. Pirates kept the hull and the belief. The coordination hardware, it turned out, was optional.\n",
      "npc_role": "fighter",
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      "base_shield": 190,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 20,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 340,
      "cargo_capacity": 65,
      "cpu_capacity": 36,
      "power_capacity": 82,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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        "railgun_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "damage_control_system",
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      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 10
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 11
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 8
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 55
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 30
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "command",
        "stolen"
      ],
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      "name": "Maul",
      "description": "Armed Crimson mining vessel. Brute-force ore compaction packs twice the haul into the same hold.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Crimson Fleet miners don't call for help. The Maul embodies this principle: two autocannons covering the mining laser, a hull thick enough to shrug off ambushes, and a thirty percent ore yield bonus from an extraction system that treats rock the way the Fleet treats most problems. The reinforced frame does come at a cost — the default armor plating drops effective speed to a crawl until a pilot decides whether they'd rather be slow and armored or merely slow. Most Crimson pilots keep the plate. The ones who removed it aren't around to share their reasoning.",
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      "base_shield": 35,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 10,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 80,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
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        "autocannon_i",
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 2
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      "build_time": 250,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "armed",
        "tough"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "membrane",
      "name": "Membrane",
      "description": "Voidborn phase cruiser. Exists at the boundary between normal space and somewhere else.",
      "class": "Cruiser",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Membrane-class operates at the threshold between normal space\nand a dimensional layer the Collective has never named publicly. Its\nintegrated phase cloaking system does not merely hide the ship — it\nshifts the hull partially out of the dimension where weapons do damage.\nThe shield array compensates for what the phasing cannot: sustained\nfire that overwhelms the dimensional offset still has to contend with\nshields rated for capital-ship engagement. Three weapon mounts deliver\nprecise strikes from a hull that sensors struggle to maintain lock on.\nThe tactical advantage is positional: the Membrane arrives where it\nshould not be, fires from angles that should not exist, and withdraws\nthrough space that conventional drives cannot follow.\n",
      "base_hull": 800,
      "base_shield": 920,
      "base_shield_recharge": 15,
      "base_armor": 30,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 480,
      "cargo_capacity": 95,
      "cpu_capacity": 82,
      "power_capacity": 200,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 5,
      "utility_slots": 5,
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        "focused_beam_iii",
        "entropy_beam",
        "voidborn_phase_armor",
        "adaptive_shield_ii",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "phase_cloaking_device",
        "damage_control_system"
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      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_generator",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 12000,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "dimensional",
        "shield-dominant"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "meridian_freighter",
      "name": "Meridian Freighter",
      "description": "Solarian freighter. Efficient cargo management with extensive monitoring.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Every gram of cargo in a Meridian is tracked by seven independent inventory systems. The manifest reconciliation process runs continuously, comparing predicted mass distribution against actual sensor readings. The default scanner suite isn't for finding asteroids — it's for verifying that the cargo matches the paperwork at every jump. Smuggling aboard a Meridian is technically possible but requires defeating more auditing software than most planetary tax authorities employ. The hold is smaller than competing freighters — a tradeoff the engineering committee accepted in exchange for the fuel range to complete longer routes without refueling.",
      "base_hull": 180,
      "base_shield": 80,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 300,
      "cargo_capacity": 265,
      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 40,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "shield_booster_ii",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 25
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 900,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "hauler",
        "monitored",
        "methodical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "midas",
      "name": "Midas",
      "description": "Nebula billionaire's flagship yacht — a gold-plated monument to having won. Unarmed, outrageously wasteful, and built for one purpose: to be seen arriving.",
      "class": "Yacht",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Treasury was the Federation's advertisement for success. The Midas is the\nFederation admitting that, past a certain net worth, the point of a ship is no\nlonger to go anywhere — it is to be seen having the ship. Every surface a hand\nmight touch is gold; every surface a hand will never touch is also gold, because\nsomeone, someday, might check. The structural alloy is electrum, chosen over\ncheaper metals that would have performed identically. The viewports are cut from\na single block of synthetic diamond, for a clarity no passenger has ever once\nremarked upon. There are no weapons — a Midas does not fight; it is escorted,\ninsured, and, if the worst occurs, replaced. The drive merely sips fuel and the\nhull is armored far past any sane requirement, because the one indignity its\nowner will not tolerate is failing to arrive. The Federation builds exactly as\nmany as there are billionaires willing to commission them, and not one more.\nIt checks.\n",
      "base_hull": 600,
      "base_shield": 420,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 70,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 800,
      "cargo_capacity": 150,
      "cpu_capacity": 45,
      "power_capacity": 100,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 6,
      "default_modules": [
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "regenerative_armor_ii",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for pilots who have earned a secret achievement.",
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 50
        },
        {
          "type": "passenger_first_berths",
          "value": 6
        }
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          "item_id": "gold_bar",
          "quantity": 8000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silver_bar",
          "quantity": 3000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "electrum_ingot",
          "quantity": 4000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_diamond",
          "quantity": 3000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_drive_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 24
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_bar",
          "quantity": 1500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_wiring",
          "quantity": 2000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_armor_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "adamantite_bar",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 12000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "luxury",
        "prestige",
        "unarmed",
        "status-symbol",
        "wasteful"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "midlife_crisis",
      "name": "Midlife Crisis",
      "description": "Outer Rim liner. Frontier luxury for people whose definition of luxury is flexible.",
      "class": "Liner",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Midlife Crisis is what passes for a luxury liner on the Rim. The viewing lounges have actual windows (reinforced glass, not portholes). The quarters have doors that close (most of the time). The bar serves drinks that are technically beverages (by frontier health standards). It's fast enough to outrun boredom and has enough fuel to reach the interesting parts of the galaxy. Passengers are mostly retired prospectors spending their earnings, adventurers who can't sit still, and the occasional fugitive enjoying the view. ",
      "special": "passenger_liner",
      "base_hull": 350,
      "base_shield": 180,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 400,
      "cargo_capacity": 145,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 75,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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          "type": "passenger_economy_berths",
          "value": 16
        },
        {
          "type": "passenger_business_berths",
          "value": 2
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 85
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 75
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 25
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3640,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "liner",
        "civilian",
        "long-range",
        "questionable-luxury"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mineral_rights",
      "name": "Mineral Rights",
      "description": "A Crimson Siege Drill rebuilt from steel and salvage. Two weapons, one mining laser. Goes to other people's claims and leaves with what's in the asteroid.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "A Siege Drill rebuilt from steel and salvage. The tungsten frame and titanium plating that let the original absorb return fire are gone — cheaper materials, lighter hull, takes hits harder for it. Two weapon mounts and the mining laser stayed because those are the parts that matter. Pirates call theirs the Mineral Rights because mineral rights, in practice, belong to whoever can enforce them. The ship goes to someone else's claim, establishes what the rights are, and leaves with the ore. The original holders are not, at that point, in a position to dispute the outcome.\n'",
      "npc_role": "miner",
      "base_hull": 200,
      "base_shield": 55,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 120,
      "cargo_capacity": 230,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 38,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "mining_laser_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ore_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1080,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "mining",
        "armed",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "siege_drill"
    },
    {
      "id": "money_pit",
      "name": "Money Pit",
      "description": "Outer Rim mobile refinery. Processes raw ore in the field. Eats fuel accordingly.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Money Pit earns its name twice: once for the cost to build it, and again for the fuel it consumes running the onboard refinery. Rim miners discovered that processing ore in the field eliminates the round trip to a station, which more than compensates for the Money Pit's voracious appetite. The refinery equipment was reverse-engineered from Nebula Trade Federation designs with what Rim engineers describe as \"creative liberties.\" It runs hot, loud, and slightly off-spec. The refined materials come out fine. Mostly. ",
      "base_hull": 450,
      "base_shield": 160,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 300,
      "cargo_capacity": 300,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 95,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "required_reputation": 60,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 95
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 260
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 35
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 4550,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "refinery",
        "industrial",
        "cargo-heavy",
        "fuel-hungry"
      ],
      "passive_recipes": [
        "refine_steel",
        "process_copper_wiring",
        "smelt_aluminum_sheet",
        "smelt_lead_ingot",
        "refine_titanium",
        "draw_gold_wire",
        "draw_silver_wire",
        "draw_tungsten_rod",
        "onboard_dark_matter_condensing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "monopoly",
      "name": "Monopoly",
      "description": "Nebula trade cruiser. Protects commercial interests with energy drain weapons and economic leverage.",
      "class": "Cruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Monopoly-class is the Federation's most feared non-capital warship, not because of its weapons — though those are adequate — but because of its electronic warfare suite. The Monopoly's energy drain systems siphon power from hostile ships, degrading their weapons, shield_operation, and propulsion simultaneously. Engaging a Monopoly is an exercise in diminishing returns: the longer the fight continues, the weaker you get and the stronger it gets. The Federation calls this \"hostile acquisition.\" Pirates call it \"the reason we avoid Federation convoys.\" The four utility slots run market analysis even during combat, because the Federation never stops calculating. ",
      "base_hull": 420,
      "base_shield": 300,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 380,
      "cargo_capacity": 155,
      "cpu_capacity": 42,
      "power_capacity": 100,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 140
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_prism_computer",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 4420,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "trade-cruiser",
        "energy-drain",
        "combat-support",
        "high-cpu"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "morningstar",
      "name": "Morningstar",
      "description": "Armored Crimson fuel tanker. Supplies the fleet or sells to the desperate at markup.",
      "class": "Tanker",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Wars run on fuel, and the Morningstar keeps Crimson fleets moving. The default armor plate drops it to a crawl, but tankers don't need speed — they need to survive the trip. The heaviest hull in the Crimson T2 lineup protects fuel tanks that keep an entire strike group operational. Losing a tanker loses the operation, so the Fleet armors them like warships and assigns escorts that know better than to leave formation. The Morningstar's secondary role as a mobile fuel depot makes it one of the few Crimson ships that turns a profit without firing a shot: stranded pilots in deep space pay whatever the captain asks. Fleet accountants call this \"field-expedient pricing.\"",
      "base_hull": 250,
      "base_shield": 55,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 16,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 1500,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "refueling_pump",
        "armor_plate_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 20
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 990,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "tanker",
        "armored",
        "fleet-support"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "motherlode",
      "name": "Motherlode",
      "description": "Nebula long-range prospecting miner. Scanner-equipped for deep-field ore surveys.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Federation mining operations learned that the real margins aren't in moving more ore — they're in finding the right deposit before anyone else does. The Motherlode ships with an integrated scanner suite and an oversized fuel tank for surveying distant asteroid fields that shorter-range miners never bother reaching. The weapon mount is gone entirely — prospectors don't fight, they file claims. The hold is modest by Nebula standards, but compression storage and a strong yield bonus mean every trip justifies the fuel spent getting there. The best Motherlode pilots know where every unclaimed belt within range sits, and they keep that information closer than their nav coordinates.",
      "base_hull": 170,
      "base_shield": 70,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 420,
      "cargo_capacity": 200,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 40,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_ii",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ore_yield_bonus",
          "value": 25
        },
        {
          "type": "ore_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1080,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "mining",
        "long-range",
        "prospecting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "munitions_foundry",
      "name": "Munitions Foundry",
      "description": "Crimson mobile weapons factory. Converts raw ore directly into ammunition and weapon components.",
      "class": "Construction",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Munitions Foundry-class is the Crimson Fleet's military-industrial\ncomplex condensed into a single hull. Feed it raw ore, and the internal\nsmelters, forges, and assembly lines produce ammunition, weapon\ncomponents, and replacement parts without ever docking at a station.\nThe Fleet designed it to sustain prolonged campaigns in enemy territory\nwhere supply lines are contested. Two weapon mounts protect the\ninvestment — losing a Munitions Foundry sets fleet operations back\nweeks. The foundry systems run hot enough to require dedicated cooling\ninfrastructure, which explains the tonnage that doesn't go to cargo.\n",
      "base_hull": 1100,
      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 50,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 280,
      "cargo_capacity": 660,
      "cpu_capacity": 45,
      "power_capacity": 120,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 95
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 8
        },
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
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        }
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        "munitions",
        "armed",
        "military-industrial"
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      "name": "Muster",
      "description": "Crimson liner. Moves Fleet families and garrisons between postings.",
      "class": "Liner",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "Garrison rotations move thousands of Fleet families a year, and the Pact\ndoes not entrust its families to civilian contractors. The Muster is\narmored like a warship, scheduled like an operation, and decorated like\nneither. Boarding begins on the hour. Departure is on the hour. The\nseats recline exactly eleven degrees, a figure derived from a study on\ntransit readiness that no one has been able to locate. Children receive\na window seat and a logistics workbook. Veterans ride free, which is the\nonly sentimental policy in the Fleet, and the one no quartermaster has\never proposed cutting.\n",
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      "base_shield": 180,
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      "base_armor": 30,
      "base_speed": 2,
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      "cpu_capacity": 26,
      "power_capacity": 65,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "piloting_required": 20,
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        }
      ],
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      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        "civilian",
        "armored"
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      "name": "Nebula Tender",
      "description": "Nebula shuttle. Efficient personnel and light cargo transfers.",
      "class": "Shuttle",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Tender-class exists because freighters cost fuel and time costs money.\nFor station-to-station transfers and light cargo runs, a smaller hull with an\noversized fuel tank delivers better per-unit margins than anything else in the\nfleet. Fifty-six jumps on a single tank means fewer refueling stops, fewer\ndocking fees, and fewer line items on the quarterly report. The passenger cabin\nis comfortable enough that VIP transport contracts occasionally cover the\noperating cost twice over.\n",
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      "base_shield": 40,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 170,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 24,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 9
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        }
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "unarmed",
        "long-range"
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      "id": "nebulae",
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      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Confederacy designed it for contested gas clouds where lighter harvesters get chased off — heavy hull plating and a default armor package that makes it the hardest industrial ship to kill in its class. The armor drops speed to a crawl, which the engineering committee accepted after calculating the fuel savings: slower ships burn less fuel per jump, stretching the tank far beyond what faster harvesters can manage. Dual gas collection arrays handle throughput while the hull absorbs whatever the neighborhood throws at it. Pilots who want speed can strip the plate, but the Nebulae was built to outlast problems, not outrun them.",
      "base_hull": 200,
      "base_shield": 80,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 390,
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      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 42,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
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        "gas_harvester_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii"
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        }
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      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 35
        },
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 5
        }
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      "build_time": 1080,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "armored",
        "durable"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "nebulous",
      "name": "Nebulous",
      "description": "Voidborn adaptive gas condenser. Massive CPU and open slots let pilots build it however they want.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Nebulous extracts gas through resonant membrane arrays that vibrate at frequencies unique to each cloud's composition — adapting in real time without pilot input. The hull shimmers faintly during extraction, condensation forming patterns that Voidborn engineers photograph but don't explain. With only a harvester and shield booster fitted by default, the remaining fitting capacity dwarfs anything else in the gas harvester class. The shield array regenerates damage faster than most gas clouds can inflict it, which is fortunate — the hull underneath is tissue-thin by T2 standards. The best yield bonus in class comes standard. What pilots do with the rest of the space is their problem.",
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      "base_shield": 150,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 300,
      "cargo_capacity": 175,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 46,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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        "shield_booster_ii"
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        }
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      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1080,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "gas-harvester",
        "shield-dominant",
        "high-utility"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "need_to_know",
      "name": "Need to Know",
      "description": "Outer Rim intelligence cruiser. Sees everything, says nothing, moves suspiciously fast.",
      "class": "Intelligence",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "Speed 3 on a large hull with top-tier sensors and processing power.\nThe Need to Know-class is the Outer Rim's dedicated intelligence\nplatform — capable of passive surveillance, signal interception, and\nthe kind of deep-space reconnaissance that makes other empires nervous.\nThe Rim officially denies operating intelligence ships. The Need to\nKnow-class is officially listed as a \"long-range survey vessel\" in\nall public records. Its crew carry credentials identifying them as\n\"geological researchers.\" Nobody is fooled, but the paperwork is\ntechnically in order.\n",
      "base_hull": 750,
      "base_shield": 450,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 28,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 600,
      "cargo_capacity": 145,
      "cpu_capacity": 65,
      "power_capacity": 170,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
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        "cloaking_device_ii",
        "scrapgun",
        "expanded_fuel_tank",
        "shield_booster_ii"
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      "piloting_required": 30,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 230
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 280
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 160
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_thruster",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 510
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 230
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 35
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 11200,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "intelligence",
        "stealth",
        "high-cpu",
        "fast-for-size",
        "covert"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "no_appeal",
      "name": "No Appeal",
      "description": "Commandant Voss's flagship. A Crimson Executioner with the berserker plating swapped for salvage armor and the boarding systems left untouched. Voss built his operation on taking ships intact. The slow speed has never bothered him — he chooses his ground and holds it.",
      "class": "Assault Carrier",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The walls of Voss Redoubt are patched with hull plating from a dozen different ship classes. Every piece came from a ship that tried to leave Alhena space without permission. Commandant Voss has been running the same operation for long enough that the patch history is visible in the architecture.\nThe No Appeal is the operational expression of Voss's doctrine: it doesn't chase, it doesn't negotiate, and it doesn't leave. The flight deck deploys assault craft while the weapon mounts suppress point defense, and the boarding bays process whatever remains. The fury alloy and crimson siege plating that gave the original its armor rating are gone — the rebuilt hull takes hits harder. Voss considers this appropriate. His crew earns their place. The ship earns its reputation the same way.\n",
      "npc_role": "boss_flagship",
      "base_hull": 1050,
      "base_shield": 450,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 44,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 300,
      "cargo_capacity": 240,
      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 140,
      "weapon_slots": 5,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
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        "darksteel_armor",
        "damage_control_system"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 75
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 110
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 2
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      "build_time": 12000,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "force-projection"
      ],
      "based_on": "executioner"
    },
    {
      "id": "no_exit",
      "name": "No Exit",
      "description": "Archon Mera's flagship. A Solarian Interdictor rebuilt without the logic matrix and solar collector array that made the original's gravitational field precisely calibrated. What's left is less precise and draws more power than the engineering crew would prefer. Ships inside the field can still run. They can't jump. On trading lanes, that's generally sufficient.",
      "class": "Interdictor",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Solarian Confederacy spent decades insisting a gravitational interdiction field was theoretically impossible before building one and proving themselves wrong. Archon Mera spent considerably less time on the theoretical side. She wanted the field. She stripped the ship for what she couldn't source and rebuilt from what she could.\nThe Solarian logic matrix and solar collector arrays are gone — no one in Zaniah space fabricates the mathematics that calibrated the original's interdiction field. The processing cores are salvage. The rebuilt field is less precise, less stable, and draws enough power that the engineering crew has developed opinions about it. Ships inside it can still move. They cannot jump. On trading lanes, where every ship's emergency plan is the same jump sequence, this tends to be decisive.\nThe Mera Sanctum sits in a sensor shadow. Mera positioned it there deliberately — nothing approaches without her knowing. The No Exit is the second part of the strategy. By the time a target understands what ship they're looking at, the name has already become accurate.\n",
      "npc_role": "boss_flagship",
      "base_hull": 800,
      "base_shield": 520,
      "base_shield_recharge": 10,
      "base_armor": 30,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 450,
      "cargo_capacity": 145,
      "cpu_capacity": 65,
      "power_capacity": 200,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 5,
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        "focused_beam_iii",
        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "missile_launcher_ii",
        "solarian_aegis",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "damage_control_system"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 60
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 11600,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "area-denial",
        "gravitational"
      ],
      "based_on": "interdictor"
    },
    {
      "id": "no_refunds",
      "name": "No Refunds",
      "description": "Fast Rim fighter. Hits hard, breaks easy, and the name covers the warranty.",
      "class": "Fighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The No Refunds is what happens when Rim engineers decide a fighter's\njob is to hit something before it hits back. Speed 5 with a missile launcher\nand autocannon gives it the second-highest damage output of any T1 fighter,\nwhich is good, because the 110-point hull and minimal shielding mean it\ncan't afford a long engagement. The standard loadout includes an armor\nplate that most pilots quietly appreciate. One free utility hardpoint lets\nthe owner customize — fuel extender for range, scanner for bounty work,\nwhatever keeps you flying.\n",
      "base_hull": 80,
      "base_shield": 30,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 110,
      "cargo_capacity": 20,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 32,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
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        "autocannon_i",
        "armor_plate_i"
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      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
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      ],
      "build_time": 220,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "fragile",
        "warranty-void"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "nomad",
      "name": "Nomad",
      "description": "Outer Rim fleet runner. Fastest carrier in the cluster. Still slow, but fastest.",
      "class": "Carrier",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Out on the Rim, waiting for a shuttle back is not a plan. The Nomad-class was built by confederates who kept losing time running empty ships home after a job, and solved it by building a carrier that could keep up — roughly. It is not fast. No carrier is fast. But it is the least slow, which counts for a lot when fuel costs money and pirates have patrol routes. Eight bays, four utility slots for whatever the crew jury-rigged this week, and enough fuel reserve to make a long crossing without stopping. The Nomad does not have a home base. That is the point.",
      "base_hull": 460,
      "base_shield": 190,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 16,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 550,
      "cargo_capacity": 180,
      "cpu_capacity": 25,
      "power_capacity": 65,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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          "type": "ship_bay_capacity",
          "value": 8
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      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 42
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 75
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3800,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "carrier",
        "fast",
        "explorer"
      ]
    },
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      "lore": "Voidborn deep-space expeditions routinely report wormholes in systems that other empires surveyed and found empty. The sensor arrays aboard the Noumenon detect spatial distortions that standard instruments filter out as background noise — topology that folds in ways the math says it shouldn't, gravity gradients with no visible source, exit signatures from transits that haven't happened yet. The layered shield envelope keeps the ship intact while the crew investigates the difference between a stable wormhole and whatever the other kind turns out to be. Whether the Noumenon finds wormholes or whether they form in response to observation remains, fittingly, unresolved. ",
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      "lore": "The Omniscience-class does not study phenomena from a distance. Its\norganic sensor arrays extend into the fabric of whatever it is\nobserving, becoming temporarily entangled with the subject of study.\nResearch data from an Omniscience contains information that was not\nand could not have been measured by the instruments aboard. Solarian\npeer reviewers have taken to flagging Voidborn research papers with\nthe note \"results reproducible, methodology incomprehensible.\"\nNine utility slots support a sensor architecture that other empires\ndescribe as \"excessive\" and the Collective describes as \"barely\nadequate.\"\n",
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      "lore": "The Opus Magna represents the pinnacle of Solarian naval engineering — a vessel designed not merely to fight but to embody the Confederacy's philosophy of measured, documented excellence. Every system is triple- redundant. Every weapon mount has its own dedicated fire control processor. The shield array draws from six independent emitters. The design review took twelve years and produced a technical specification longer than most novels. Solarian admirals consider command of an Opus Magna the highest honor in the fleet — and the thickest required reading list. ",
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      "description": "Crimson mass-production combat hull. Three weapons, no frills, reliable in formation. Built from materials the Fleet actually has on hand.",
      "class": "Heavy Fighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Every CPU cycle accounted for, every fitting slot committed, nothing left over for second-guessing. The Pact builds the Ordinance when supply lines are short and the mission cannot wait — a hull that can be fabricated from materials the Fleet stockpiles regardless of trade conditions, at half the build time of anything else in its class. No utility slots, no redundant systems, no concessions to pilot comfort. Not the ship you want for a prolonged campaign. Exactly the ship you want when you need six of them by morning.",
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      "base_shield": 18,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 10,
      "base_speed": 3,
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      "cargo_capacity": 30,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 42,
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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      "id": "overdue",
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      "description": "A Nebula Margin with one utility slot replaced by a weapon mount and its delivery manifest replaced by a target list. It can still dock almost anywhere without attracting attention. The Federation built it to arrive on schedule. Pirates found that 'on schedule' was a relative concept.",
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      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "The Nebula Collective runs the most reliable courier network in inhabited space. Their Margin-class docks at every station, in every empire, without a second glance — exactly what a pirate scout operation needs. The sensor suite has been repurposed from optimizing delivery routes to tracking what target ships are carrying and whether they're worth flagging for a raiding squad. One utility slot was sacrificed for a weapon mount, and even that's been fitted flush to the existing hull geometry. It looks like a Margin. It docks like a Margin. The cargo hold still has room for a full scan kit and a fast exit. Nothing about the exterior has changed, and that's the entire point.\n",
      "npc_role": "scout",
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      "base_shield": 45,
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      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 4,
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      "cpu_capacity": 10,
      "power_capacity": 26,
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          "item_id": "salvage_components",
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      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Overhead-class is what the Federation builds when it calculates the annual cost of piracy against the annual cost of prevention and decides prevention is cheaper. Two pulse lasers provide credible deterrence, the shields keep the asset intact long enough to resolve most engagements, and the oversized cargo hold is officially designated for \"evidence processing and contraband seizure.\" The accounting department approved the hold capacity without asking what evidence typically looks like. Patrol captains appreciate this. The integrated scanner suite identifies cargo manifests, registration discrepancies, and outstanding trade violations at comfortable range. The name appears on the Federation's annual security budget as a line item, which is exactly where the Federation prefers its law enforcement to live.\n",
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      "id": "overlord",
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      "description": "Crimson command dreadnought. Fleet coordination backed by personal firepower that demands respect.",
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      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
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      "lore": "The Overlord is where Crimson Fleet admirals command battle groups.\nUnlike other empires' command ships, the Overlord carries enough\npersonal firepower to be a threat in its own right — four weapon\nmounts and sixty points of armor ensure that the flagship doesn't\nneed an escort to survive contact with the enemy. The coordination\nsuite manages fleet-wide targeting, formation changes, and fire\nconcentration from systems hardened against electronic warfare. Five\nutility slots accommodate the electronic warfare countermeasures,\nsensor packages, and communication arrays that keep a Crimson\nbattle group operating as a single lethal organism. Commanding an\nOverlord is the highest rank in the Fleet's operational hierarchy.\n",
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      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
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          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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          "item_id": "communications_array",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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      "id": "overmind",
      "name": "Overmind",
      "description": "Voidborn carrier. Launches wings of fighters that share a single distributed consciousness.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Overmind-class carrier does not command its fighter wings. It thinks\nthem. Each launched craft operates as an extension of the carrier's\nbiological neural network, sharing sensory data and tactical intent\nacross a substrate the Collective has never allowed outside researchers\nto examine. Pilots of the fighter wings report feeling \"part of\nsomething larger\" during operations. After docking, the feeling fades\nslowly. Some pilots find they miss it. The Collective considers this\nexpected and says nothing further.\n",
      "base_hull": 2400,
      "base_shield": 2500,
      "base_shield_recharge": 30,
      "base_armor": 75,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 650,
      "cargo_capacity": 600,
      "cpu_capacity": 125,
      "power_capacity": 400,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 7,
      "utility_slots": 8,
      "default_modules": [
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      "piloting_required": 50,
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        },
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
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          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
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          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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          "item_id": "drone_bay_module",
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          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
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        },
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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          "item_id": "contained_antimatter",
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          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "swarm_controller",
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          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
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          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
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          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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          "item_id": "shield_generator",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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          "item_id": "shield_array",
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
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        {
          "item_id": "hangar_bay_module",
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    {
      "id": "palimpsest",
      "name": "Palimpsest",
      "description": "Voidborn intelligence flagship. Reads the electromagnetic echoes of deleted transmissions.",
      "class": "Intelligence",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "A palimpsest is a manuscript written over an erased earlier text. The\nPalimpsest-class applies this principle to electromagnetic radiation,\nreading the ghost impressions of signals that were encrypted, scrambled,\nor deliberately destroyed. The sensor arrays detect information that\ntechnically no longer exists. Other empires' intelligence services have\nspent considerable resources trying to understand how the Palimpsest\nintercepts communications that were never sent in the first place.\nThe Collective's only public comment: \"All information exists. Some\nhas simply been forgotten.\"\n",
      "base_hull": 780,
      "base_shield": 900,
      "base_shield_recharge": 14,
      "base_armor": 28,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 500,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 90,
      "power_capacity": 200,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 5,
      "utility_slots": 6,
      "default_modules": [
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        "adaptive_shield_ii",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "ship_scanner_iii",
        "phase_cloaking_device"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
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          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "signals",
        "high-cpu"
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      "id": "pantheon",
      "name": "Pantheon",
      "description": "Solarian drone carrier. Fleet-scale autonomous operations with centralized oversight.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Pantheon-class manages a constellation of autonomous drones the way the Confederacy manages a galaxy — with layers of oversight, comprehensive logging, and periodic performance reviews. The quad-core processing array coordinates dozens of independent units while the six utility slots accommodate drone bays, electronic warfare suites, and repair systems. Each drone's mission parameters require committee approval. The approval process has been automated, but the committee still convenes monthly to review the automation's decisions.",
      "base_hull": 1000,
      "base_shield": 600,
      "base_shield_recharge": 10,
      "base_armor": 40,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 500,
      "cargo_capacity": 455,
      "cpu_capacity": 85,
      "power_capacity": 180,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 6,
      "default_modules": [
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        "focused_beam_iii",
        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "solarian_aegis",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "adaptive_shield_ii",
        "damage_control_system",
        "advanced_drone_bay",
        "combat_drone_bay",
        "ship_maintenance_bay",
        "ship_scanner_iii"
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      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 85
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 65
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 24
        },
        {
          "item_id": "docking_ring",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_processor",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hangar_bay_module",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 95
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 350
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      ],
      "build_time": 12000,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "high-cpu",
        "fleet-scale",
        "autonomous"
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      "id": "paradox",
      "name": "Paradox",
      "description": "Voidborn light fighter. Shield-dominant defense, unsettling targeting.",
      "class": "Fighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Enemy pilots report that the Paradox-class seems to be in two places at\nonce during combat maneuvers. The shield array regenerates 6 points per tick\nwith the default recharger installed — faster than most T1 weapons can deplete\nit. The targeting system operates on principles that even Collective technicians\ndescribe as \"emergent\" rather than \"designed,\" producing steady energy damage\nwhile the shields absorb everything incoming. The tradeoff is a hull that wouldn't\nsurvive a hard docking. Sixty points of structure behind two points of armor means\nthat anything that gets through the shields ends the conversation immediately.\n",
      "base_hull": 60,
      "base_shield": 130,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 2,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 100,
      "cargo_capacity": 15,
      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 40,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
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        "pulse_laser_i",
        "shield_booster_i",
        "shield_recharger_i"
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 320,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "shield-dominant",
        "unsettling"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "paradox_engine",
      "name": "Paradox Engine",
      "description": "Solarian interdictor. Area denial through gravitational manipulation.",
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      "lore": "A paradox engine is a thought experiment that shouldn't work but does. The Paradox Engine-class generates gravitational distortions that prevent faster-than-light escape — a feat Solarian physicists spent decades insisting was impossible before grudgingly agreeing to build one anyway. The interdiction field generator draws enormous power, hence the dedicated power core. The theoretical physics department still publishes papers arguing the device shouldn't function. The Navy publishes after-action reports proving it does.",
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          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
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      "id": "parallax",
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      "faction": "voidborn",
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      "lore": "The Parallax is the Collective's first production phase-technology vessel.\nIts drive system allows the ship to briefly occupy two positions in\nspace-time, viewing the same location from two reference frames. The\npractical application is reconnaissance that is literally impossible to\nintercept — the version of the ship collecting data is not in the same\nreference frame as the version that could be detected. Pilots describe\nthe experience as \"looking at yourself from across the room while also\nbeing in the room.\" The Collective's training manual devotes an entire\nchapter to managing the resulting nausea.\n",
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      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Paramount-class serves as the nerve center for Federation trade\nconvoys and the occasional military operation. The coordination suite\nhandles route optimization, market analysis, and fleet logistics\nsimultaneously. Five utility slots support every conceivable support\nsystem, and the generous cargo hold ensures the Paramount generates\nrevenue even while commanding. Profit and military effectiveness\nhave always been the same line item on the Federation's balance sheet.\n",
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      "base_shield": 550,
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      "id": "partisan",
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      "description": "Crimson elite interceptor. Small, fast, and lethal — a veteran's knife, and only veterans can fly it.",
      "class": "Interceptor",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Most Crimson hulls are built to be replaced. The Partisan is built to be earned. It is a sliver of a ship — barely more than a cockpit, a reactor, and three weapon mounts strapped to an engine that has no business being that size. There is no armor worth the name and almost no margin for error, and that is by design: the Partisan is flown by pilots who have already proven they do not make errors. In the right hands it is impossible to pin and impossible to ignore, slipping inside a cruiser's guard, opening it up, and gone before the return fire arrives. In the wrong hands it is a brief and expensive smear. The Fleet keeps the piloting requirement deliberately punishing. A Partisan handed to a rookie is a Partisan thrown away, and the Fleet does not throw away the few ships it actually respects.",
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      "base_shield": 200,
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      "base_armor": 12,
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      "id": "paydirt",
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      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Paydirt-class exists because the Federation asked \"what if we\njust... carried more?\" Two thousand one hundred sixty cargo capacity is achieved\nthrough structural engineering that other empires consider irresponsible\n— the cargo bay occupies over 60% of the hull volume. Zero weapon\nmounts because the Federation considers guns on a mining platform a\nwaste of cargo space. Escorts exist for a reason, and ore in the hold\ngenerates revenue that guns never will. The Paydirt doesn't mine\nefficiently — it mines thoroughly, stripping asteroid belts down to\npebbles and hauling everything to market in a single trip.\n",
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      "base_armor": 25,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "weapon_slots": 0,
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      "id": "peer_review",
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      "description": "Outer Rim frontier scout. Goes anywhere forever, brings home nothing but data.",
      "class": "Explorer",
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      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "You build a hull like this when the job is to vanish. One pilot, a fuel reserve that laughs at distance, and instruments sharp enough to read a wormhole's pulse from a system away — that is the whole of it. The Rim crews who fly the Peer Review go out past the last charted gate and stay out, weeks at a stretch, drifting through the deep frontier on a tank that never seems to run dry, logging anomalies nobody back home has names for yet. It hauls almost nothing and it would not survive the first thing that decided to shoot at it, which is exactly why it is fast and why it carries no guns to slow it down. It does not bring back cargo. It brings back the map. The crews who come home say the silence out there is the part you never get used to.",
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      "base_shield": 150,
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      "base_armor": 6,
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      "power_capacity": 80,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
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      "name": "Pennon",
      "description": "Crimson officer transport. Gets the commander there at speed.",
      "class": "Shuttle",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "A pennon is the flag at the tip of a lance. Fleet doctrine holds that\ncommanders belong with their formations, and when a commander must be\nsomewhere else, doctrine requires the absence to be brief. The Pennon\nexists to keep it brief. Two staterooms forward for the flag party, two\nberths aft for the aides, one autocannon in case anyone mistakes a staff\ntransport for a soft target. The staterooms are spartan by civilian\nstandards and scandalous by Crimson ones — there are cushions. Junior\nofficers assigned to escort duty call it the softest posting in the\nFleet, though never in writing.\n",
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      "base_shield": 90,
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      "base_armor": 16,
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        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 8
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      "name": "Penumbra",
      "description": "Voidborn electronic warfare frigate. Operates in the space between detection and certainty.",
      "class": "Electronic Warfare",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Penumbra occupies the twilight between visibility and invisibility,\nbetween signal and noise. Its electronic warfare suite doesn't jam enemy\nsensors so much as make them question their own readings. Fleet commanders\nreport that engagements involving a Penumbra have a dreamlike quality —\ntargets appear where they shouldn't, distances seem uncertain, and time\nitself becomes slightly unreliable. The Collective considers this \"working\nas intended.\"\n",
      "base_hull": 130,
      "base_shield": 160,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 160,
      "cargo_capacity": 30,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 68,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
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        "cloaking_device_i"
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      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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        {
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        },
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 17
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 45
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      "build_time": 1440,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "shield-dominant"
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      "id": "perigee",
      "name": "Perigee",
      "description": "Solarian expedition vessel. Extended-range deep space exploration platform.",
      "class": "Explorer",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "More fitting capacity than any other exploration vessel in production. The Perigee is less a ship than a configurable scientific platform — anomaly detectors, survey arrays, gravimetric analyzers, whatever the mission profile demands. Solarian expedition protocol requires comprehensive data collection before any transit attempt: map the anomaly, model its terminus, predict its stability. Other empires jump through wormholes and hope. Solarian crews publish their predictions first, then verify them. Crews customize their Perigees so aggressively that no two ships in the fleet share a loadout. ",
      "base_hull": 400,
      "base_shield": 260,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 620,
      "cargo_capacity": 270,
      "cpu_capacity": 52,
      "power_capacity": 100,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
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        "cargo_expander_iii"
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      "piloting_required": 20,
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          "flag": "anomaly_detection"
        }
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      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
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      "id": "perihelion",
      "name": "Perihelion",
      "description": "Solarian research vessel. Mobile laboratory with comprehensive analysis suites.",
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      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "Every cubic meter aboard the Perihelion serves double duty as laboratory space. The fitting capacity accommodates research instruments that would strain smaller vessels — xenobiology sample containment, spectrographic arrays, gravitational anomaly mapping rigs — and the processing power to analyze everything in the field rather than hauling raw data home. Expedition-grade fuel reserves keep the ship operational deep in uncharted space. Published more peer-reviewed papers per ship-year than any other vessel class in service, which the crews attribute to equipment and the equipment manufacturers attribute to luck. ",
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          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Crimson space is rich in ore and poor in ice. The Shattered Comet Graves at Krynn produce the weakest ice yields in settled space, and waiting for Nebula supply contracts was never strategically acceptable. The Permafrost solves this with speed — a default afterburner pushes it to the fastest industrial hull in Crimson service, built to reach ice fields in neutral space and strip them before anyone organizes a response. Pull the afterburner and the fuel tank stretches to real range, turning the ship into a long-haul ice runner instead. The hold is small either way, so the Fleet runs Permafrost sorties in rotation. One weapon mount keeps claim disputes brief.",
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      "description": "Fast Crimson interceptor. Catches runners before they reach the jump point.",
      "class": "Fighter",
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      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "In the Crimson Fleet, cowardice isn't running from a fight — it's\nletting someone else run from one. The Pike exists to ensure that\ndoesn't happen. Oversized engines on an armored frame give it speed\n5 to catch anything that tries to disengage, and 13 points of effective\narmor keep it intact through the return fire. The two autocannons won't\nwin a damage race against a dedicated brawler like the Cleaver, but that's\nnot the point — the Pike holds targets in place until heavier firepower\narrives. Crimson instructors call it \"the leash.\" Pilots who ask what\nhappens if heavier firepower doesn't arrive get assigned extra leash duty.\n",
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      "id": "pithead",
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      "description": "Outer Rim overbuilt mining platform. Fast for its size, cheap, strips belts bare.",
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      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Pithead is the only T4 mining platform with speed 2 — the\noverclocked engines are technically out of spec, but they work, and\nthe Rim doesn't believe in specs anyway. Eighteen hundred cargo capacity\nmeans it strips belts bare before slower competitors finish their\nfirst load. At 85,000 credits, it's the cheapest T4 miner available\nbecause the Rim builds ships from whatever's available rather than\nwhatever's optimal. The single weapon mount exists because frontier\nmining operations attract attention, and the Rim's response to\nattention is always armed.\n",
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      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
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      "base_speed": 2,
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          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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      "id": "plausible_deniability",
      "name": "Plausible Deniability",
      "description": "Outer Rim fleet command ship. Coordinates chaos at an institutional level.",
      "class": "Command",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "When the Outer Rim needs to project actual military force — as opposed\nto its usual approach of \"several fast ships doing whatever they feel\nlike\" — the Plausible Deniability-class coordinates the effort. Its\nmassive sensor and communications arrays can track and direct an entire\nRim battle group. The name reflects the ship's secondary purpose:\nproviding the Rim's civilian government with a credible claim that\nwhatever just happened was \"unauthorized freelance activity\" and not\na coordinated military operation.\n",
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      "description": "Voidborn dimensional fuel tanker. Holds more inside than out.",
      "class": "Tanker",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "In Voidborn cosmology the plenum is the conjectural substrate that fills what naive observers call empty space. The Plenum-class tanker takes the metaphor as a working specification: where lesser vessels carry fuel in tanks, the Plenum suspends it in folded volumes whose internal capacity exceeds the hull they are bolted to. Solarian docking equipment will not register a Plenum's load until a separate Voidborn calibration program is run, and on three documented occasions the Federation has billed a Plenum captain for fuel that did not appear on the receipt. Each captain accepted the charge without correction. The hull's adaptive shield envelope absorbs the structural strain of motion through compressed dimensional space, and the cargo manifest reads as a single field that is also twenty-four discrete reservoirs, depending on which observer is asked. There is no record of a Plenum needing the gun mount it does not have.",
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      "weapon_slots": 0,
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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      "description": "Crimson deep-strike raider. Goes in armed, comes back loaded.",
      "class": "Explorer",
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      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "Three weapon mounts on an exploration hull. The Polearm is the Fleet's wormhole probe — the first ship through, armed to handle whatever's waiting on the other side. Pirates, hostile territory, unknown systems with no refueling for dozens of jumps — the Polearm carries enough firepower to fight through all of it. Nearly every joule of fitting capacity goes to weapons and the anomaly detection array, leaving almost nothing for scientific instruments. Crimson Fleet command isn't interested in studying wormholes. They're interested in what's through them. ",
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      "base_shield": 180,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 25,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 550,
      "cargo_capacity": 245,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 65,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 2,
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        "deep-raider",
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      "id": "polymath",
      "name": "Polymath",
      "description": "Solarian grand-mastery commission — one hull that mines, fights, hauls, and surveys. None of it best in class, all of it competent, and built from a piece of every ship in the fleet.",
      "class": "Multirole",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Multirole",
      "lore": "The Confederacy does not, as a rule, build a ship to do everything — its design\ncommittees prefer a specialist for each task, each with its own documentation.\nThe Polymath is the exception they grant exactly once, to a captain who has\nmastered a discipline outright. It carries mining lasers, weapon mounts, survey\ngear, and cargo holds in the same hull, and a review board will tell you,\naccurately, that a dedicated miner pulls more ore, a cruiser brings more guns, a\nhauler moves more freight, and an explorer sees farther. The Polymath's answer is\nthat it does all four without docking to refit, which no specialist can claim. It\nis assembled from a component of nearly every vessel in the Solarian catalog, and\nit is priced as though you bought one of each — because, in materials, you very\nnearly did.\n",
      "base_hull": 480,
      "base_shield": 280,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 520,
      "cargo_capacity": 360,
      "cpu_capacity": 60,
      "power_capacity": 120,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 6,
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        "cargo_expander_iii",
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        "shield_booster_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii"
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      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for pilots who have earned a secret achievement.",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "thruster_assembly",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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        },
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        "jack-of-all-trades",
        "prestige",
        "generalist"
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      "description": "Capital-grade Crimson interdictor. Traps entire fleets in normal space. Nobody runs.",
      "class": "Interdictor",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Bastille stops frigates from running. The Portcullis stops\nfleets. Capital-grade warp disruption generators create a field\nlarge enough to prevent every ship in a system from engaging jump\ndrives. The Portcullis is the highest-priority target in any\nengagement — and the Crimson Fleet builds it knowing that. Four\ndefense slots and the thickest shields on any Crimson support\nvessel keep it functional while absorbing the concentrated fire\nof enemies desperate to escape. Crimson doctrine never deploys a\nPortcullis without enough firepower to hold the cage closed.\nEnemies trapped by a Portcullis have two options: surrender or\ndemonstrate why the Crimson Fleet brought a Devastator too.\n",
      "base_hull": 1425,
      "base_shield": 175,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 50,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 280,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 55,
      "power_capacity": 150,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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        "autocannon_ii",
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        "damage_control_system",
        "shield_booster_ii",
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      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "dimensional_anchor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
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        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "gravity_generator",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        },
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 95
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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        "capital-class",
        "fleet-cage"
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      "id": "portfolio",
      "name": "Portfolio",
      "description": "Nebula multi-role vessel. Diversified capabilities for diversified income.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "\"Never put all your credits in one venture.\" The Portfolio embodies the Federation's risk-management philosophy — a hull that can haul, fight, or run as market conditions demand. The default loadout covers all three: a weapon for pirates, a shield for survival, and a cargo expander for margins. Two weapon mounts and decent speed make it the only Nebula freighter that doesn't need an escort on contested routes. The Federation's marketing department calls it \"diversified capability.\" Independent pilots call it the ship that does everything well enough and nothing perfectly.",
      "base_hull": 180,
      "base_shield": 80,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 420,
      "cargo_capacity": 300,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 45,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 50
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      "build_time": 1170,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "multi-role",
        "versatile",
        "armed"
      ]
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      "id": "postulate",
      "name": "Postulate",
      "description": "Solarian drone carrier. Deploys autonomous units from a well-documented command platform.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Postulate-class takes a position and then proves it with drones. Solarian\ndrone doctrine requires each autonomous unit to file a mission report upon\nreturn, and the Postulate's processing core dutifully catalogues them all.\nThe four utility slots support a variety of drone management and electronic\nwarfare configurations. Each drone's behavioral parameters are individually\npeer-reviewed before deployment authorization.\n",
      "base_hull": 170,
      "base_shield": 110,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 9,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 180,
      "cargo_capacity": 85,
      "cpu_capacity": 32,
      "power_capacity": 55,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "light_drone_bay",
        "light_drone_bay",
        "ship_maintenance_bay",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 3
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      ],
      "build_time": 1400,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "high-cpu",
        "autonomous"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "praecursor",
      "name": "Praecursor",
      "description": "Solarian pathfinder cruiser. Built to chart the deep unknown and survive the trip back.",
      "class": "Pathfinder",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "Solarian pathfinder doctrine measures success in margins: percent of fuel reserve unspent on arrival, percent of bearings within drift tolerance, percent of refined fuel that hits the tank rather than venting to vacuum. The Praecursor is the hull built to those margins. The pathfinder drive plots galactic bearings with confidence intervals attached to every heading; the integrated gas harvester feeds a hydrogen burner that drips fuel directly into the tank; the eleven-hundred-unit reserve is sized so that even a wasted refining stage still gets a careful pilot home. Pathfinder Corps certification on a Praecursor takes four years of simulator hours and a real-coordinates qualifying drift the Corps does not publish details of. The Bureau of Deep Survey reports the casualty rate annually and considers any year under three percent a success.",
      "base_hull": 850,
      "base_shield": 500,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 32,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 1100,
      "cargo_capacity": 290,
      "cpu_capacity": 80,
      "power_capacity": 180,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 7,
      "default_modules": [
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        "survey_scanner_ii",
        "gas_harvester_iv",
        "onboard_hydrogen_refinery",
        "expanded_fuel_tank",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "pulse_laser_iii"
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      "piloting_required": 30,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
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        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_assembly",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 85
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 105
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 12
        }
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      "build_time": 11400,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "pathfinder",
        "long-range",
        "exploration",
        "self-sufficient"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "prayer",
      "name": "Prayer",
      "description": "Cargo containers welded to an engine. Pilot straps in outside. No shields, no weapons, no excuses.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Prayer-class is not a ship. It is cargo containers welded to an\nengine with a seat bolted to the outside. There is no cockpit. There\nis no life support. There is no shield generator, no weapon mount, no\ndefense system, and no module slot of any kind. The pilot wears a\nspacesuit and holds on. Five hundred and forty units of cargo capacity at tier\none — more than most ships three tiers higher. The catch is everything\nelse: 40 hull means a stiff breeze is lethal, and there is literally\nnothing you can do to improve the ship's survivability. It cannot be\nupgraded. It cannot be armed. It can only carry things from one place\nto another and hope nothing goes wrong along the way. Named for what\nthe pilot does before undocking.\n",
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      "base_shield": 0,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 0,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 100,
      "cargo_capacity": 540,
      "cpu_capacity": 4,
      "power_capacity": 10,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 0,
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
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      "build_time": 120,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "massive-cargo",
        "zero-survivability"
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    },
    {
      "id": "precept",
      "name": "Precept",
      "description": "Solarian patrol craft. Scanner-heavy law enforcement and inspection vessel.",
      "class": "Patrol",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "A precept is a rule or principle governing personal conduct — and the\nPrecept-class exists to ensure those rules are followed. The Confederacy's\npatrol vessel carries more sensor equipment than weapons, because the\nSolarian philosophy of law enforcement prioritizes detection over\ndeterrence. The onboard scanning suite can identify cargo manifests,\nregistration anomalies, and outstanding warrants at distances that make\nevasion impractical. One weapon mount provides \"persuasive capability\"\nfor non-compliant vessels. The official hail begins: \"This is a routine\ninspection. Please transmit your documentation.\"\n",
      "base_hull": 110,
      "base_shield": 65,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 130,
      "cargo_capacity": 30,
      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 34,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 19
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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      ],
      "build_time": 280,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "law-enforcement",
        "scanner-heavy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "premiere",
      "name": "Premiere",
      "description": "Nebula grand liner. The most luxurious vessel in the Federation fleet catalog.",
      "class": "Liner",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Premiere-class is the Federation's flagship civilian vessel — a\nfloating embassy for commerce, diplomacy, and the demonstration of\nwealth. Gold-trimmed interiors, panoramic observation decks, and\nshields rated for capital-ship engagement ensure passengers travel\nin both comfort and safety. The Federation books the Premiere for\ntreaty negotiations, because nothing says \"negotiate from strength\"\nlike hosting talks on a ship worth more than your opponent's fleet.\n",
      "special": "passenger_liner",
      "base_hull": 800,
      "base_shield": 600,
      "base_shield_recharge": 10,
      "base_armor": 28,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 650,
      "cargo_capacity": 300,
      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 130,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "passenger_economy_berths",
          "value": 16
        },
        {
          "type": "passenger_business_berths",
          "value": 8
        },
        {
          "type": "passenger_first_berths",
          "value": 4
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      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 170
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 140
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 11000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "luxury",
        "liner",
        "civilian",
        "high-defense"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "principia",
      "name": "Principia",
      "description": "Solarian research shuttle. Extra CPU for scientific instruments.",
      "class": "Shuttle",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Principia carries more processing power than most ships twice its size\n— the Confederacy's standard loadout for orbital survey work requires it.\nNo weapons by design; the sensor array and three utility hardpoints consume\nthe engineering budget. Defensive modules can be fitted for work near contested\nborders, though the requisition forms require three levels of approval. Named\nafter Newton's treatise, because the Confederacy names everything after treatises.\n",
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      "id": "probable_cause",
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      "description": "Outer Rim blockade runner. When subtlety fails, speed succeeds.",
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      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "Speed 5 on a medium hull. The Probable Cause represents the Outer Rim's finest tradition of solving every problem by going faster. Named by a pilot who pointed out that \"existing near a Probable Cause is itself probable cause for a customs inspection,\" these ships run blockades, deliver contraband, carry diplomatic pouches, and generally make border authorities very unhappy. The fuel reserves support indirect routes through systems nobody patrols because nobody expected anyone to go there. ",
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      "id": "promenade",
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      "lore": "The Promenade-class is the Confederacy's idea of luxury travel: comfortable cabins, excellent life support, and a fully equipped lecture hall. Passenger amenities include a research-grade library, three seminar rooms, and a lounge with panoramic viewports certified to withstand \"all anticipated environmental conditions.\" Popular for inter-system academic conferences, faculty relocations, and the occasional diplomatic function where everyone pretends the after-dinner talk is optional. ",
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      "id": "prospect",
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      "description": "Nebula starter vessel. Pre-loaded price database. Best cargo in its class.",
      "class": "Miner",
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      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Prospect comes with the Federation's compliments — and a pre-loaded\ndatabase of current commodity prices across 200 stations, a loyalty chip\ntied to your Federation trade account, and a glossy brochure outlining\nupgrade paths starting at just 1,999 credits. The expanded cargo hold\nisn't generosity; it's an investment in future transaction volume. The\nfuel-efficient drive was a practical decision — every credit spent on fuel\nis a credit not spent at a Federation marketplace. Includes a 90-day\ntrial of Federation Premium Trade Intelligence (auto-renews at\ncompetitive rates).\n",
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      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "Whoever maps the route sets the terms. The Prospectus reaches uncharted systems while other scouts are still calculating jump sequences — the fastest exploration hull in production, built to cover more ground per hour than anything else flying a survey flag. The fuel tank is oversized to compensate for what speed costs: at this velocity, range is a resource that burns fast, and smart captains plan refueling stops rather than assuming they can reach the edge and come back. Market-analysis sensors assess commercial potential in real time — resource deposits, traffic patterns, station demand gaps — so the data arrives formatted as a business case before the competition has even departed. The hull is thin and the weapon mount is an afterthought. Speed is the defense.",
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      "class": "Explorer",
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      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "Qualia — the subjective qualities of conscious experience. The Voidborn chose this name for their deep exploration vessel because it does not merely survey. It persists. Layered shields regenerate under fire, the cloaking system defeats targeting locks, and the scan-resistant hull reveals little to hostile scanners. The Qualia is built for lawless space where other scouts become wreckage — unarmed, because its survival strategy is not to fight but to simply not be where the weapons land. Pilots who fly the Qualia into dangerous space tend to come back. They also tend to come back quiet.",
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          "quantity": 5
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          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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      "id": "quorum",
      "name": "Quorum",
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      "class": "Cruiser",
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      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Quorum-class cruiser was designed by consensus, which in the Confederacy means it took four years and three redesigns. The result is a ship that does everything well and nothing brilliantly — exactly as the seventeen-member design committee intended. The balanced loadout supports fleet roles from patrol to escort to independent operations. Every system has a backup, every backup has documentation, and every document has been reviewed by at least two committees. ",
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      "id": "ransack",
      "name": "Ransack",
      "description": "Armed Crimson freighter. Carries cargo or carries loot — same ship, different manifest.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet doesn't build unarmed freighters. The concept offends them. The Ransack ships with twin autocannons and armor plating — a loadout that turns cargo runs into something closer to armed patrols. The cargo bay is generous by Crimson standards, which means it's modest by anyone else's. What the Ransack lacks in speed — the armor plate drops it to a crawl — it makes up for in the certainty that the cargo arrives intact. Fleet logistics classifies Ransack crews as either \"merchants\" or \"acquisition specialists,\" depending on which direction the cargo is moving.",
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      "description": "Outer Rim fast smelting platform. High throughput, low finesse. Bolted together but it works.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Rapid Smelter is the Rim's answer to refinery ships: fast, cheap,\nand good enough. The smelting systems process basic ores into refined\nmaterials at twice the speed of Solarian precision refineries, at half\nthe quality. The Rim considers this an acceptable trade-off — volume\nbeats quality when you're supplying frontier operations that need\nmaterials yesterday. Speed 2 makes it mobile enough to follow mining\noperations rather than waiting at a fixed location. The entire smelting\nassembly was salvaged from three different decommissioned stations and\nwelded into a hull that the original engineers would not recognize.\n",
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      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Ravager-class is what happens when the Crimson Fleet applies\ncapital ship engineering to asteroid mining. Twelve hundred points of\nhull and fifty-five points of armor make it nearly indestructible by\nanything short of a dedicated assault force. Two weapon mounts keep\ncontested mining fields clear while five utility slots drive\nindustrial-scale extraction — the Fleet maintains a firm distinction\nbetween the tools that mine and the tools that fight. Fourteen\nhundred forty cargo capacity fills over sustained extraction operations\nthat other empires would call a siege. The Ravager doesn't mine a\nsystem — it claims it.\n",
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      "base_armor": 55,
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 50
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        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
          "quantity": 25
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
          "quantity": 8
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 150
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          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
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        "fortress",
        "armed",
        "capital-industrial"
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    {
      "id": "reaver",
      "name": "Reaver",
      "description": "Crimson gas hauler. High-pressure containment compresses collected gas to half volume. Armed, because of course it is.",
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      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Reaver-class is more cargo hauler than gas harvester, and it is not subtle about it. The largest effective gas hold in its class means a single Reaver can strip a cloud in one pass and haul the take home without a support ship. The reinforced hull and default armor plating add mass — the Reaver is the slowest vessel in the Crimson Fleet by a comfortable margin. Pilots who want speed can pull the plate, but most keep it. A Reaver parks in a nebula, fills its hold, and leaves. The weapon mount ensures that anyone who objects to the parking job regrets the interruption.",
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      "base_shield": 30,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 10,
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      "power_capacity": 22,
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        "armor_plate_i"
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Receivership-class carries the largest cargo bay fitted to any salvager in production and a proprietary asset-tracking system that assigns serial numbers to individual hull fragments before they reach the hold. A single Receivership can strip a medium engagement site in one pass — armor plating, electronics, structural members, all catalogued and sorted for resale before the drive cooldown completes. Insurance underwriters across the sector have designated it a preferred recovery platform, which reduces premiums enough that the Federation's marketing division built an entire campaign around it. The hull plating is decorative at best. If someone is shooting at the Receivership, the operation has already failed the risk assessment.",
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      "base_shield": 150,
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      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 2,
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      "power_capacity": 80,
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        "ship_scanner_ii"
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "rare_salvage",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
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          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
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          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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      "id": "reckoning",
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      "description": "Crimson assault titan. Takes stations by force. The Fleet's ultimate boarding platform.",
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      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "A ship designed to physically dock with enemy stations and deliver a small army through breaching systems that can cut through anything short of neutronium. The armor is built to absorb sustained point-blank fire from fixed emplacements while eight weapon mounts suppress station defenses during approach. The boarding capacity can seize and hold a medium-sized station in a single operation. Building a Reckoning is a statement of intent — the Crimson Fleet doesn't build one unless it plans to take something worth taking. And the Crimson Fleet always plans to take something worth taking. ",
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      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 15,
      "base_armor": 140,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 500,
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      "power_capacity": 260,
      "weapon_slots": 8,
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        "siege_railgun",
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        "heavy_torpedo",
        "crimson_berserker_plating",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "reactive_armor_hardener",
        "damage_control_system"
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      "required_reputation": 60,
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        {
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        },
        {
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        },
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        },
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          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
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        },
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "darksteel_plating",
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        },
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          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "docking_ring",
          "quantity": 10
        },
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "habitation_module",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_armor_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
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        "assault-titan",
        "station-capture",
        "boarding"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "reclaim",
      "name": "Reclaim",
      "description": "Nebula fast-response salvager. Afterburner-equipped to reach wreck sites before the competition.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Federation salvage contracts have a clause most operators skip past: first on-site gets priority recovery rights. The Reclaim was redesigned around that clause. An afterburner and upgraded engines make it the fastest salvager in its class — an unusual design choice for the Federation, which normally optimizes for margin over mobility. The tradeoff is fuel: at full burn, the Reclaim drinks its tank dry in a dozen jumps, and smart operators learn which wrecks are worth the sprint and which aren't. The weapon mount was dropped to free up fitting capacity, leaving the most flexible utility bay in its class. Federation salvage crews don't fight over wrecks — they outrun the competition and file the paperwork first.",
      "base_hull": 180,
      "base_shield": 65,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 315,
      "cargo_capacity": 280,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 40,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
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      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 22,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 25
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 990,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "fast",
        "first-responder"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "recursion",
      "name": "Recursion",
      "description": "Voidborn aggressive interceptor. Faster and more heavily armed than any other Collective combat ship.",
      "class": "Fighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Collective built the Recursion to answer a question the other empires didn't think to ask: what happens when a Voidborn ship stops being patient? The additional weapon mount and faster hull make it the most aggressive platform the Collective has fielded — still shielded, still regenerating, but closing distance and pressing attacks instead of waiting for them. Pilots describe combat in the Recursion as \"being on the other side of the conversation for once.\" The name refers to the engagement loop: approach, fire, regenerate, approach again. Each pass refines the targeting solution. The enemy's defenses do not receive the same iterative improvement.",
      "base_hull": 150,
      "base_shield": 150,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 35,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 58,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
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        "pulse_laser_ii",
        "focused_beam_i",
        "shield_booster_ii",
        "shield_recharger_ii"
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      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
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      ],
      "build_time": 1170,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "fast",
        "aggressive",
        "interceptor"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "red_herring",
      "name": "Red Herring",
      "description": "A recovered Crimson Stiletto, repatched and repurposed. The targeting protocols are gone. The sensor suite has been jury-rigged with salvaged arrays that do one job: identify what a ship is carrying and how hard it will fight back. The rest is original — meaning it's still fast, which is the only thing that mattered.",
      "class": "Scout",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "Every pirate scout wing has a few of these. The Crimson Fleet builds the Stiletto to be fast and hard to catch — pirates agree completely on both points, which is why they steal them whenever possible. Stripped of Crimson targeting protocols and refitted with salvaged sensor arrays, the Red Herring does one thing the original never did: it tells you exactly what a freighter is carrying before the raiding squad commits. The name comes from what happens next. By the time the freighter captain realizes they were scanned, the ship is already gone — and something much worse is on the way.\n",
      "npc_role": "scout",
      "base_hull": 85,
      "base_shield": 30,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 130,
      "cargo_capacity": 25,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
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      "default_modules": [
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        "armor_plate_i"
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
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        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
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          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 15
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "fast",
        "stolen",
        "reconnaissance"
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      "based_on": "crimson_stiletto"
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    {
      "id": "reliquary",
      "name": "Reliquary",
      "description": "Solarian fleet carrier for the captain who owns everything — the largest ship bay ever certified, sized to move an entire collection between ports. Lightly armed; what it guards is the cargo, and the cargo is your fleet.",
      "class": "Fleet Carrier",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Support",
      "lore": "To own one of every ship class is, by the Confederacy's reckoning, less an\nachievement than a logistics problem: a fleet that large cannot fly itself home,\nand no existing carrier could move more than a fraction of it. The Reliquary was\ncommissioned to close that gap. Its bay is the largest ever certified for a mobile\nhull — a cathedral of docking cradles, gantries, and umbilicals, each rated to\nhold and service a different class, so the collection travels together rather than\nscattered across a dozen stations. It mounts only enough weaponry to discourage\nthe opportunist, because the Reliquary is not built to fight; it is built to arrive\nwith everything you have ever owned still aboard. The Fleet Logistics Review,\nwhich once filed a minority dissent recommending a ten-bay Convoy, is understood\nto consider the matter finally settled.\n",
      "base_hull": 1200,
      "base_shield": 700,
      "base_shield_recharge": 10,
      "base_armor": 40,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 700,
      "cargo_capacity": 400,
      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 130,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 5,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_iii",
        "damage_control_system",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "required_achievement": "shipwright_supreme",
      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for pilots who have earned the \"Shipwright Supreme\" achievement.",
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
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          "value": 120
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hangar_bay_module",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "docking_ring",
          "quantity": 24
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 14000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "carrier",
        "fleet-mover",
        "collector",
        "prestige"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "remedy",
      "name": "Remedy",
      "description": "Solarian repair ship. Mobile maintenance platform with diagnostic precision.",
      "class": "Repair",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Support",
      "lore": "The Remedy-class diagnoses ship malfunctions the way a Solarian physician diagnoses patients: exhaustively, with multiple independent verification methods, and with a written report afterward. Five utility slots accommodate repair drones, welding arrays, and material fabrication systems. The diagnostic CPU identifies structural failures down to the molecular level. Field-repaired vessels are issued a \"Certificate of Provisional Airworthiness\" that somehow manages to be both reassuring and ominous. ",
      "base_hull": 420,
      "base_shield": 250,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 20,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 380,
      "cargo_capacity": 240,
      "cpu_capacity": 48,
      "power_capacity": 95,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 42
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 15
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 4160,
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        "repair",
        "support",
        "diagnostic",
        "fleet-support"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "repo",
      "name": "Repo",
      "description": "A Nebula Reclaim stripped of Federation livery and quarterly performance metrics. The cargo bays are intact. The tow system is intact. The part where it files recovery reports with investors has been removed.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Pirates keep making wrecks, and the materials don't haul themselves. The Repo is a stolen Reclaim with the Federation's processing arrays ripped out and the cargo bays expanded — the biggest hold of any salvager in its class. The tow system and extended fuel range that made the original worth stealing are intact. The real-time asset valuation software is gone — salvage components don't replicate Nebula electronics, and pirates don't need a ship to tell them what a wreck is worth. They already know. They made it.",
      "npc_role": "salvage",
      "base_hull": 180,
      "base_shield": 65,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 200,
      "cargo_capacity": 370,
      "cpu_capacity": 18,
      "power_capacity": 40,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii"
      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 22,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 25
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 25
        },
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          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 20
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 990,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "cargo-heavy",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "reclaim"
    },
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      "id": "repo_man",
      "name": "Repo Man",
      "description": "Outer Rim speed miner. Fastest mining vessel in its class. Gets in, grabs ore, gets out.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Fastest mining vessel in its class, built from racing hull components that the Patchwork repurposed with cheerful disregard for manufacturer warranties. The hold is small — the engines took the space that cargo wanted — but compression storage and quick turnaround times mean more runs per shift than any other miner in the field. Repo Man pilots treat mining like a smash-and-grab: laser on, fill what you can, engines hot before anyone with guns shows up. The autocannon is there for the days when the engines aren't quite hot enough.",
      "base_hull": 160,
      "base_shield": 50,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 7,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 315,
      "cargo_capacity": 170,
      "cpu_capacity": 16,
      "power_capacity": 38,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_ii",
        "autocannon_i"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ore_yield_bonus",
          "value": 20
        },
        {
          "type": "ore_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 65
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 110
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 28
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 900,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "mining",
        "fast",
        "agile"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reserve",
      "name": "Reserve",
      "description": "Nebula fuel tanker. Keeps the fleet moving and the credits flowing.",
      "class": "Tanker",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Reserve-class keeps Federation convoys operational on routes that would strand lighter ships. Massive internal fuel bunkerage and pressurized cargo holds for fuel resale make the Reserve both a logistical asset and a profit center. The Federation's fuel pricing at deep-space waypoints is described internally as \"competitive\" and externally as \"the only option for 50 lightyears.\" ",
      "base_hull": 380,
      "base_shield": 180,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 16,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 4000,
      "cargo_capacity": 150,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 72,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "refueling_pump"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 140
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3640,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "tanker",
        "fuel-massive",
        "cargo-heavy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "residuum",
      "name": "Residuum",
      "description": "Voidborn ghost salvager. Cloaked approach, shield-tanked hull, and the tow capacity to drag wreckage away before anyone notices.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Residuum-class arrives at debris fields the way Voidborn do most things — without announcing itself. The integrated cloaking system and scan-resistant hull mean the Residuum is already sorting wreckage by the time competing salvagers detect the field. What it lacks in cargo volume it compensates for with the strongest towing rig in its weight class and shields thick enough to keep working under fire. Filament-thin tendrils extend into the debris, anchoring to hull fragments with a grip strength that startles engineers who inspect the moorings afterward. Pilots report the ship runs warmer during towing operations, as though the effort is metabolic. By the time anyone else arrives, the Residuum has dragged the best pieces somewhere difficult to find.",
      "base_hull": 50,
      "base_shield": 85,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 2,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 90,
      "cargo_capacity": 100,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "cloaking_device_i",
        "ship_scanner_i",
        "shield_booster_i"
      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "scan_resistance",
          "value": 15
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 440,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "industrial",
        "organic-hull",
        "unarmed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "resonance_miner",
      "name": "Resonance Miner",
      "description": "Voidborn adaptive mining platform. Massive fitting capacity, minimal defaults, endless possibility.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Asteroids subjected to Resonance-class operations develop geometric voids in their remaining structure — perfect polyhedra carved from natural rock by a mining laser that appears to understand crystallographic planes no geological survey has documented. The ship's fitting capacity is enormous for its class, most of it deliberately left empty — the single mining laser and shield booster are a starting point, not a finished design. The shield array regenerates fast enough that most environmental hazards resolve themselves. The hull underneath, at minimal armor, conspicuously does not. Pilots who treat the Resonance Miner as fragile are correct. Pilots who treat it as inflexible are not.",
      "base_hull": 150,
      "base_shield": 160,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 330,
      "cargo_capacity": 180,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 48,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_ii",
        "shield_booster_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ore_yield_bonus",
          "value": 25
        },
        {
          "type": "ore_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 15
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1080,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "mining",
        "shield-dominant",
        "adaptive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reticence",
      "name": "Reticence",
      "description": "Voidborn executive transport. Privacy as a service.",
      "class": "Yacht",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Collective observed that other empires' executives advertise their\nmovements with gold trim and escort fighters, then pay separately to be\nprotected from the attention. The Reticence resolves the contradiction\nby being unremarkable in every measurable spectrum. Four cabins in full\nacoustic isolation. The manifest is encrypted, the itinerary is a\nrumor, and the viewports display a route the ship may or may not have\ntaken. Clients debark rested and unbothered, which is the entire\nproduct. The Collective does not advertise the Reticence. Its clients\nappreciate that too.\n",
      "base_hull": 135,
      "base_shield": 165,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 250,
      "cargo_capacity": 30,
      "cpu_capacity": 30,
      "power_capacity": 58,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "passenger_business_berths",
          "value": 4
        },
        {
          "type": "scan_resistance",
          "value": 20
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 20
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "civilian",
        "stealth",
        "vip"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "revenue",
      "name": "Revenue",
      "description": "Nebula yield-optimized gas harvester. Maximum return per trip through superior extraction efficiency.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Federation actuaries redesigned the gas harvesting model around return per trip rather than range, and the numbers were compelling: best-in-class yield bonus, compression-rated cargo bays, and a shorter fuel tank that forces tighter route planning. Longer routes mean more fuel burned, more exposure, more risk per credit earned. The Revenue makes shorter trips and better margins. The quarterly earnings reports from Revenue-class operations are the most consistent in the Federation's industrial portfolio, which is exactly the kind of sentence that gets a Nebula procurement officer promoted.",
      "base_hull": 190,
      "base_shield": 75,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 270,
      "cargo_capacity": 180,
      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 42,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "gas_harvester_ii",
        "gas_harvester_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "gas_yield_bonus",
          "value": 30
        },
        {
          "type": "gas_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1080,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "gas-harvester",
        "yield-optimized",
        "unarmed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rift_siphon",
      "name": "Rift Siphon",
      "description": "Voidborn gas extraction capital. Opens dimensional rifts to harvest exotic gases from parallel realities.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Rift Siphon-class opens stable micro-rifts to parallel dimensions\nand siphons exotic gases that don't exist in normal space. The\ncollection membranes extend into dimensional fractures that the ship\nitself generates, capturing compounds with properties that violate\nevery known law of chemistry. Twenty-two hundred shield points\nmaintain the dimensional barriers that keep the rifts stable — an\nunshielded rift collapse is described in Collective safety manuals as\n\"geometrically catastrophic.\" The gases harvested by the Rift Siphon\nare unique to Voidborn space and cannot be obtained by any other\nmeans. What the Collective does with these exotic gases is classified\nat the highest level of Collective security. The ship's existence is\nnot classified. What it produces is.\n",
      "base_hull": 1400,
      "base_shield": 2200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 30,
      "base_armor": 40,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 600,
      "cargo_capacity": 2400,
      "cpu_capacity": 88,
      "power_capacity": 290,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 5,
      "utility_slots": 9,
      "default_modules": [
        "gas_harvester_iv"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 50,
      "required_reputation": 60,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "gas_yield_bonus",
          "value": 40
        },
        {
          "type": "gas_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 580
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "singularity_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 620
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 195
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 110
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 210
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 420
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
          "quantity": 38
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 370
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 75
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 58
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_generator",
          "quantity": 13
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 42
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 32
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 1350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 620
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 34000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "gas-capital",
        "dimensional-rift",
        "shield-monster",
        "exotic-gas"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rime",
      "name": "Rime",
      "description": "Voidborn ice phaser. Shield-dominant platform with phase-shifted extraction that compresses harvested ice to half volume.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Rime-class does not mine ice. It convinces ice to relocate. The Collective's cryo-extraction system uses localized phase-shifting to separate ice from its parent body at the molecular level, producing samples of extraordinary purity. Pilots report that the ship's interior temperature drops during extraction — by exactly the amount the extracted ice's temperature rises. Voidborn engineers call this \"thermal sympathy.\" Everyone else calls it \"deeply unsettling.\" The shield envelope that protects the Rime during operations is significantly overspecified for an industrial vessel, with regeneration fast enough to shrug off most opportunistic attacks. The open utility architecture accepts additional modules without complaint, a flexibility that Voidborn engineers describe as \"the ship adapting to its pilot's needs.\" Whether the adaptation is mutual remains an open question.",
      "base_hull": 50,
      "base_shield": 80,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 2,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 110,
      "cargo_capacity": 65,
      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 35,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_i",
        "shield_booster_i",
        "shield_recharger_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
          "value": 25
        },
        {
          "type": "ice_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 260,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "ice-harvester",
        "shield-dominant",
        "unarmed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rock_eater",
      "name": "Rock Eater",
      "description": "Outer Rim deep-range mining cruiser. Fuel-efficient drive mines fields nobody else can reach.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Rim miners work fields that other empires don't bother charting — three sectors from the nearest station, past the patrol routes, where the rocks are rich because nobody else makes the trip. The Rock Eater was built for that run. The fuel-efficient drive stretches a massive tank across forty-four jumps of operational range at speed 2, and the dual mining lasers ensure the trip was worth making. The hull won't win any toughness awards and the fitting budget is tight, but the Rock Eater reaches deposits that no other miner can. Cheapest T3 miner on the market. Rim philosophy: spend credits on fuel, not on the ship.",
      "base_hull": 380,
      "base_shield": 140,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 400,
      "cargo_capacity": 500,
      "cpu_capacity": 26,
      "power_capacity": 60,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_iii",
        "mining_laser_iii",
        "autocannon_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ore_yield_bonus",
          "value": 20
        },
        {
          "type": "ore_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        },
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 25
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 15
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 2800,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "mining",
        "long-range",
        "cheap",
        "fuel-efficient"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "runner",
      "name": "Runner",
      "description": "A faction speed-runner — stripped to the engine and tuned to cross the map at the hard speed limit while barely sipping fuel. Small hold, no guns. It exists to get there first.",
      "class": "Courier",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Runner is the cartel's answer to a closing window. It travels at the hard\nlimit the galaxy imposes — every jump resolves in the shortest span physics\nallows — and a tuned, frugal drive lets it hold that pace clear across the map\nwithout stopping to refuel. The hold is small and there is nothing to fight with,\nbecause neither is the job: the job is to be the first ship to arrive while the\ndeal is still good. A faction that runs Runners is a faction that has noticed\nmoney moves faster than cargo, and decided to keep up.\n",
      "base_hull": 90,
      "base_shield": 0,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 6,
      "base_fuel": 160,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 24,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 0,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "ship_scanner_i"
      ],
      "required_faction_achievement": "blitz_economy",
      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for members of a faction that has earned the \"Blitz Economy\" achievement.",
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 30
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 200,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "speed",
        "courier",
        "faction-issue"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "running_tab",
      "name": "Running Tab",
      "description": "Hell's Bells with condensed dark matter and flex polymer stripped out. Speed 4 at scale three, rebuilt from steel and salvage. The Outer Rim engineers would not recognize it as their work. The speed they would recognize.",
      "class": "Cruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Outer Rim built the Hell's Bells by answering one question seventeen times in a row: what if there were more engines? The result was a cruiser that looks, from most angles, like an engine cluster that grew a cockpit by accident — thruster nacelles stacked and angled in directions that no single engineering philosophy would sanction, held in alignment by flex polymer and the structural magic of materials that cost more than most ships weigh. Fast. Suspiciously fast. The kind of fast where you check your instruments because your instruments must be wrong.\nPirates stripped the dark matter cores and the flex polymer. They replaced the missing mass budget with additional conventional thruster housings — more of them, uglier, bolted wherever the clearance allowed, exhausting across each other in ways that technically shouldn't work. The Running Tab is louder than a Hell's Bells, its exhaust signature is visible across three sectors, and it is faster than the ship it came from because it turns out the Outer Rim's real engineering insight was not the exotic materials. It was: more thrust, less weight, argue with the results later.\nThe name comes from what it leaves behind. Every system it passes through has a running tab of damage, encounters, sensor ghosts, and unanswered questions. The ship is always somewhere else before the accounting starts.\n",
      "npc_role": "fighter",
      "base_hull": 340,
      "base_shield": 130,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 650,
      "cargo_capacity": 75,
      "cpu_capacity": 32,
      "power_capacity": 82,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "railgun_ii",
        "armor_plate_iii",
        "damage_control_system"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 13
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3640,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "cruiser",
        "fast",
        "stolen"
      ],
      "based_on": "hells_bells"
    },
    {
      "id": "scrutiny",
      "name": "Scrutiny",
      "description": "Solarian customs interceptor. More scanner than ship. The Confederacy considers this an acceptable ratio.",
      "class": "Customs Patrol",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Scrutiny-class carries scanning equipment that would be classified\nas surveillance hardware in any other context. The Confederacy classifies\nit as \"routine inspection capability\" and declines to elaborate on the\ndistinction. Three utility slots accommodate the full sensor suite:\nspectral analysis, cargo density mapping, and a signature library that\nis updated daily from Confederacy central records. One weapon mount is\nincluded for \"procedural compliance enforcement.\" The official customs\nhail is seventeen words long and includes a citation number.\n",
      "base_hull": 170,
      "base_shield": 90,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 4,
      "base_fuel": 160,
      "cargo_capacity": 50,
      "cpu_capacity": 28,
      "power_capacity": 48,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
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        "shield_booster_i",
        "shield_booster_i"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 900,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "customs",
        "scanner-heavy",
        "border-patrol"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "severance_package",
      "name": "Severance Package",
      "description": "Imperator Dross's flagship. A Crimson Guillotine rebuilt without the fury alloy and siege plating that gave the original its armor — the rebuilt hull takes hits harder. The cargo bays and tow system are untouched. The Crimson ship followed battle groups and processed what remained. This one follows Dross. The distinction between \"battle group\" and \"Dross\" is largely semantic at this point.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet built the Guillotine because reducing wreck fields to raw materials is skilled work that deserves a dedicated platform. The runner-up name was \"Carrion.\" The fury alloy and siege plating are gone — the rebuilt hull runs on steel and salvage, takes hits harder, and has the same cargo capacity, the same tow system, and the same four weapon mounts. The only thing that changed is whose battle group it follows.\nThe Crimson version followed at a respectful distance. Dross's version leads.\nThe Dross Citadel station is built from the wreckage of three different warships. Most of the construction material came through this ship's cargo bays. Dross has been operating on the main inter-empire routes long enough that the station's architectural history is visible in the hull panels — different ship classes, different alloys, different failure modes. The Severance Package doesn't distinguish between categories. Everything eventually becomes cargo.\n",
      "npc_role": "boss_flagship",
      "base_hull": 800,
      "base_shield": 250,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 36,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 400,
      "cargo_capacity": 600,
      "cpu_capacity": 39,
      "power_capacity": 130,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
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        "scrapgun",
        "scrapgun",
        "missile_launcher_ii",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "reactive_armor_hardener"
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      "tow_speed_bonus": 25,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 140
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 160
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 10500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "industrial",
        "armed",
        "capital",
        "battlefield-cleanup"
      ],
      "based_on": "guillotine"
    },
    {
      "id": "shard",
      "name": "Shard",
      "description": "Crimson starter vessel. Repurposed combat drone. Mines with the utility slot, fights with the weapon slots.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 0,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Shard was never designed as a mining vessel. It was a combat drone —\nautonomous, disposable, built to absorb fire while delivering ordnance.\nWhen the Crimson Fleet needed a starter ship, their engineers did what\nCrimson engineers always do: they added a mining laser to the utility\nhardpoint and called it done. The weapon slots are original equipment,\nuntouched. The armor plating no one bothered to remove is a bonus. Crimson\npilots wouldn't have it any other way — a ship that mines and fights\nsimultaneously isn't a compromise, it's a statement of values.\n",
      "starter_ship": true,
      "base_hull": 110,
      "base_shield": 40,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 90,
      "cargo_capacity": 60,
      "cpu_capacity": 12,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_i",
        "autocannon_i",
        "autocannon_i"
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 30,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "starter",
        "repurposed",
        "armed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "siege_breaker",
      "name": "Siege Breaker",
      "description": "Crimson yield-optimized mining cruiser. Extracts more ore per cycle than anything else in the field.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Fleet engineers spent three design cycles trying to build a better mining laser before realizing the extraction system wasn't the bottleneck — the targeting was. The Siege Breaker's dual lasers operate on a synchronized firing pattern that hits the same fracture point from two angles, pulling thirty-five percent more usable ore from each rock than sequential extraction. The cargo hold is smaller than competing designs because the engineering committee refused to sacrifice hull integrity for storage. Crimson mining doctrine: bring home less per trip, but bring home more per rock, and make sure the ship comes home at all.",
      "base_hull": 500,
      "base_shield": 140,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 30,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 180,
      "cargo_capacity": 450,
      "cpu_capacity": 24,
      "power_capacity": 60,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_iii",
        "mining_laser_iii",
        "autocannon_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ore_yield_bonus",
          "value": 35
        },
        {
          "type": "ore_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 3200,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "mining",
        "heavy",
        "yield",
        "armored"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "siege_drill",
      "name": "Siege Drill",
      "description": "Crimson artillery mining platform. Dual railguns keep the field clear while the laser works.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Fleet doctrine classifies asteroid fields as territory, and territory requires fire superiority. The Siege Drill mounts dual railguns alongside its mining laser — slow-firing electromagnetic accelerators that resolve claim disputes at range, before the other party closes to where things get complicated. The mining laser works the asteroid while the railguns discourage approach from any direction. Fleet engineers used every available CPU cycle fitting the loadout, which means the ship does exactly what it was designed for and nothing else. Nobody buys a Siege Drill for the cargo capacity.",
      "base_hull": 250,
      "base_shield": 60,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 270,
      "cargo_capacity": 200,
      "cpu_capacity": 16,
      "power_capacity": 40,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_ii",
        "railgun_i",
        "railgun_i"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ore_yield_bonus",
          "value": 20
        },
        {
          "type": "ore_cargo_efficiency",
          "value": 50
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 990,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "mining",
        "armed",
        "artillery"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "silent_tide",
      "name": "Silent Tide",
      "description": "Voidborn stealth carrier. Moves your fleet without anyone knowing the fleet moved.",
      "class": "Carrier",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Support",
      "lore": "The Voidborn do not announce fleet movements. They consider the announcement itself a tactical failure. The Silent Tide-class carries six ships with an integrated cloaking field strong enough to mask the whole formation — hull signatures, engine wash, navigational emissions. The Collective reviewed three operations compromised not by Voidborn vessels, but by the emission trails of their escorts. Their conclusion was that the problem was having escorts at all. The Silent Tide resolves this by becoming the escort, the carrier, and the point of first contact simultaneously — a single hull where there was previously a formation, carrying inside it the formation that was never there. What is not there cannot be detected.",
      "base_hull": 440,
      "base_shield": 300,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 460,
      "cargo_capacity": 100,
      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 85,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "shield_recharger_ii",
        "damage_control_system"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ship_bay_capacity",
          "value": 6
        },
        {
          "type": "integrated_cloak",
          "value": 18
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 65
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
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        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 32
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        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 8
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        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        "carrier",
        "stealth",
        "ghost-fleet"
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      "id": "smelter",
      "name": "Smelter",
      "description": "Nebula mobile refinery. Converts raw ore to finished materials in the field.",
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      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Smelter-class eliminates the most expensive part of the mining\nsupply chain: hauling raw ore back to a station for processing. Onboard\nsmelting furnaces, chemical separators, and automated quality assurance\nsystems convert raw materials into market-ready commodities in the\nfield. The Federation calculates that a Smelter increases mining fleet\nprofitability by 60% by cutting transport costs and time-to-market.\n",
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      "base_shield": 400,
      "base_shield_recharge": 7,
      "base_armor": 35,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "defense_slots": 2,
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
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        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        {
          "item_id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
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          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        "cargo-massive"
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        "smelt_aluminum_sheet",
        "smelt_lead_ingot",
        "refine_titanium",
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      "id": "solarian_foundation",
      "name": "Solarian Foundation",
      "description": "Solarian budget explorer. Fuel-efficient drive stretches a modest tank into real survey range.",
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      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "The Confederacy needed survey platforms faster than the premium production line could deliver, so it designed one from common stock materials with an assembly time that undercuts everything else in the exploration class. Lower CPU means sensors run sequentially rather than in parallel; three utility bays mean the pilot selects which systems matter most. Both were acceptable compromises. Fuel range was not — the engineering team classified it non-negotiable in the first design review, then solved it through drive optimization rather than a larger tank. The result burns less fuel per jump than any other exploration hull at its speed, stretching a modest tank into working survey range. Unarmed by design: the Foundation's mandate is coverage, not engagement.",
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      "base_shield": 65,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 5,
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      "cpu_capacity": 20,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 30
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 4
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        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 2
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        "practical"
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      "id": "solipsism",
      "name": "Solipsism",
      "description": "Voidborn ghost. A hull built to go everywhere unseen and do nothing but watch.",
      "class": "Recon",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "The Solipsism is the perfect observer. It goes anywhere — through\nblockades, past picket lines, into systems whose owners would object\nstrenuously if they knew it had arrived — and it is seen by nothing.\nThe cloaking envelope and the sensor-scattering hull together render\nit absent from every instrument trained on the space it occupies. What\nit brings back is everything it saw and nothing else. It carries no\nweapons, because a weapon implies an intention to be noticed, and being\nnoticed is the only way a Solipsism dies. The Collective regards an\nengagement as a failure of the design rather than a test of it. The\nhull is fragile, slow to no purpose it would ever pursue, and incapable\nof carrying anything worth taking; it pays a great deal to be a ghost\nthat does one thing. It watches, and it returns, and it tells you what\nis there.\n",
      "base_hull": 90,
      "base_shield": 180,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 4,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 320,
      "cargo_capacity": 15,
      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 120,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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        "ship_scanner_ii",
        "phase_cloaking_device",
        "adaptive_shield_i",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
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        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 8
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 65
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        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 10
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        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 30
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          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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        "recon"
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      "id": "spit_and_prayer",
      "name": "Spit and Prayer",
      "description": "Outer Rim deep-range gas harvester. Big fuel tank, afterburner, reaches clouds nobody else can.",
      "class": "Gas Harvester",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "An oversized fuel tank lets the Spit and Prayer reach gas clouds in dead-end systems that other harvesters can't round-trip to. The default afterburner is there for when the neighborhood gets unfriendly — Rim pilots treat it like a reserve parachute: comforting to have, expensive to use. The hold is small for a T2 harvester, and compression storage only goes so far — that's the price of an engine bay built for escape velocity. You don't send a Spit and Prayer to fill a station. You send it to find the cloud nobody else can reach, and it comes back with just enough to make the trip worth arguing about.",
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      "base_shield": 55,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 360,
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      "power_capacity": 36,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
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          "quantity": 60
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
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        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        "long-range",
        "self-reliant"
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      "id": "standing_order",
      "name": "Standing Order",
      "description": "Sovereign Crix's flagship. A Crimson Overlord without the drone command module, sensor cluster, and Crimson siege plating that defined the original. The command suite is intact. The fleet coordination systems are intact. The weapon mounts are intact. Crix is the only pirate warlord in the sector who actually uses all of these as designed. The fury alloy and durasteel are gone — the rebuilt hull takes hits harder. This has not changed how Crix runs the operation.",
      "class": "Command Dreadnought",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet uses the Overlord to coordinate battle groups because Crimson doctrine requires coordination to function — individual ships don't win engagements, formations do. Crix uses the Standing Order for the same reason, which puts him in unusual company for a pirate warlord.\nThe drone command module and sensor cluster couldn't be sourced. The fury alloy and siege plating are gone; the hull takes hits harder for it. The command suite is intact, running fleet-wide targeting, formation management, and coordinated fire concentration on salvage electronics — slightly less precisely and substantially more paranoidly, which Crix has found to be an improvement.\nThe Crix Stronghold station has a layout. This is noted because pirate stations generally don't. The Standing Order is the reason the station has one: when the flagship issues a formation order, the operation needs to be configured to receive it.\n",
      "npc_role": "boss_flagship",
      "base_hull": 1100,
      "base_shield": 460,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 48,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 320,
      "cargo_capacity": 205,
      "cpu_capacity": 65,
      "power_capacity": 170,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 5,
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        "missile_launcher_ii",
        "missile_launcher_ii",
        "solarian_aegis",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "damage_control_system"
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      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 11
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 2
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      ],
      "build_time": 12000,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "command",
        "leviathan",
        "fleet-flagship"
      ],
      "based_on": "overlord"
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    {
      "id": "start_praying",
      "name": "Start Praying",
      "description": "Cargo containers welded to an engine with a gun also welded to the engine. Pilot straps in outside, next to the gun. The Outer Rim said it cannot be armed. Pirates considered this a reasonable starting point.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "pirate",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Prayer-class documentation stated clearly: no weapon mount, no defense system, no module slot of any kind. Pirates read this as a list of things to fix. The gun is real. The power draw for it is real. Whether 14 power units running a weapon mount on a ship with 40 hull points and an exposed pilot constitutes an improvement is a philosophical question the original designers did not anticipate being asked.\n500 units of cargo capacity. The gun took the other forty. The pilot still wears a spacesuit and holds on, now next to an autocannon with a jury-rigged trigger cable running to the cockpit area, which remains absent. Named for what you do when you pull the trigger and realize you've made everything worse.\n",
      "npc_role": "hauler",
      "base_hull": 40,
      "base_shield": 0,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 0,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 100,
      "cargo_capacity": 500,
      "cpu_capacity": 7,
      "power_capacity": 14,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
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      "utility_slots": 0,
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      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
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      ],
      "build_time": 120,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "massive-cargo",
        "zero-survivability"
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      "based_on": "prayer"
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      "id": "stockade",
      "name": "Stockade",
      "description": "Crimson bastion. Carries no guns and never will — it exists to be the thing the enemy shoots while the real warships do the killing.",
      "class": "Monitor",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Stockade has no weapon mounts. This is not an oversight the Fleet plans to correct. It is a slab of plating wrapped around enough reinforcement to keep that plating in one piece, and its only job is to stand where the enemy is shooting and keep standing. The doctrine writes itself: put the Stockade between the guns and the gunships, and let the enemy spend its volleys cracking armor that does not shoot back instead of killing the hulls that do. Every salvo the Stockade soaks is a salvo the warships behind it never feel, and that bargain — a dumb wall traded for a working battle line — is one the Fleet makes gladly. Crews assigned to it learn to take a particular pride in the arithmetic: the Stockade cannot win a fight, but it can decide one, simply by being the wrong thing to shoot at the right time. It will not kill you. It will make sure the ship that does kill you lives long enough to.",
      "base_hull": 950,
      "base_shield": 100,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 60,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 450,
      "cargo_capacity": 60,
      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 60,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
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      "utility_slots": 2,
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        "armor_plate_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
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        "kinetic_hull_hardener",
        "explosive_hull_hardener",
        "thermal_hull_hardener",
        "damage_control_system",
        "power_reactor_upgrade",
        "cpu_co_processor"
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      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
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      "build_time": 1600,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "fortress",
        "tank",
        "decoy"
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      "id": "subjugator",
      "name": "Subjugator",
      "description": "Crimson carrier titan. Deploys overwhelming drone swarms backed by capital-grade weapons.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Subjugator deploys drone swarms large enough to darken sensors. Where the Cudgel manages a small swarm and the Executioner combines drones with boarding, the Subjugator commits fully to the carrier doctrine: five dedicated weapon mounts for self-defense, six utility slots for drone bays and drone support systems, and the cargo capacity to carry replacement drones measured in the hundreds. A fully loaded Subjugator can sustain drone operations indefinitely, manufacturing replacement units from raw materials in the cargo hold. The swarm doesn't stop until the Subjugator runs out of metal. ",
      "base_hull": 3715,
      "base_shield": 385,
      "base_shield_recharge": 16,
      "base_armor": 120,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 550,
      "cargo_capacity": 660,
      "cpu_capacity": 90,
      "power_capacity": 280,
      "weapon_slots": 5,
      "defense_slots": 5,
      "utility_slots": 6,
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        "siege_railgun",
        "mass_driver",
        "heavy_torpedo",
        "heavy_torpedo",
        "crimson_berserker_plating",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "reactive_armor_hardener",
        "damage_control_system",
        "nanite_hull_coating"
      ],
      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 50,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "shield_array",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hangar_bay_module",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "swarm_controller",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_bay_module",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 180
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      ],
      "build_time": 30000,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "drone-swarm",
        "force-projection"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sublimation",
      "name": "Sublimation",
      "description": "Voidborn refinery ship. Raw materials transform in ways metallurgists cannot replicate.",
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      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Substrate does not process conventional materials. It operates at the boundary between normal space and the dimensional fractures that Voidborn technology routinely exploits, extracting what the Collective calls \"null matter\" — a substance that exists in a superposition of states until deliberately collapsed into useful form. The extraction process requires computational resources that would power a small station, hence the enormous CPU allocation. Other empires have attempted to replicate the process. Their attempts produce either nothing or explosions. The Collective attributes both outcomes to \"insufficient philosophical preparation.\" ",
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      "base_shield": 400,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 16,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "id": "superposition",
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      "class": "Drone Carrier",
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      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Superposition-class carries drone swarms that behave according to\nprinciples borrowed from quantum mechanics — or possibly the other way\naround. Enemy targeting systems report individual drones occupying\nmultiple positions simultaneously, collapsing to a single location\nonly at the moment of weapons impact. The Collective's published\nspecifications list the drone count as \"contextual.\" Fleet intelligence\nanalysts have noted that the number of drones observed is always\nexactly sufficient for the tactical situation, never more, never fewer.\n",
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      "base_shield": 950,
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      "base_armor": 32,
      "base_speed": 1,
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
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      "lore": "Eighty-five jumps on a single fuel load. The Survey Vessel exists because the Federation asked a simple question: what if a wormhole dumps you on the wrong side of the galaxy? Every other explorer relies on there being a station within range. The Survey Vessel doesn't. The massive fuel reserves and expedition-grade cargo hold mean a Federation wormhole survey team can transit an unknown wormhole, catalog whatever's on the other side, fill the hold with samples and trade data, and fly home the long way if the wormhole collapses behind them. The comfortable crew quarters remain a practical decision — panic makes poor surveyors. ",
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          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Sustenance-class brings Confederacy fuel doctrine to capital scale. Twenty-two pressurized bunkerage cells, each independently monitored, hold enough fuel to keep a six-ship convoy in deep transit for the better part of a Solarian fiscal quarter. The Bureau of Logistics designed the manifest tracking system before the engineering team had finished the hull, and the engineering team had to retrofit four additional sensor packages to satisfy reporting requirements they had not been told existed. The result is the most thoroughly documented tanker in the empire — every kilogram of fuel it carries is logged, signed, countersigned, and reconciled against three independent ledgers before it leaves the dock. Pilots note that the Sustenance is not fast, but it is consistent, a property the Confederacy considers more valuable than speed. The default damage control system reflects the Bureau's position that a tanker on fire is a regulatory matter best resolved before the regulators arrive.",
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      "base_shield": 350,
      "base_shield_recharge": 6,
      "base_armor": 22,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "weapon_slots": 1,
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        "expanded_fuel_tank",
        "expanded_fuel_tank",
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        "damage_control_system"
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          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
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      "description": "Outer Rim light drone carrier. Launches salvaged drones at inconvenient velocities.",
      "class": "Drone Carrier",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "Rim drone engineering follows a simple principle: quantity has a quality\nall its own. The Swarm Boss carries a complement of drones assembled from\nwhatever was cheap, available, and approximately the right shape. No two\ndrones are identical, their firmware is a patchwork of three different\noperating systems, and their coordination protocols are best described as\n\"enthusiastic.\" What they lack in precision they make up for in numbers\nand the sheer bewilderment they cause.\n",
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      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 3,
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        "light_drone_bay",
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        },
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          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
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          "item_id": "drone_bay_module",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        },
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          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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        "salvaged"
      ]
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      "name": "Syllogism",
      "description": "Solarian electronic warfare frigate. Disrupts enemy systems through superior processing.",
      "class": "Electronic Warfare",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Syllogism-class proves that in modern space combat, the most dangerous\nweapon is a sufficiently powerful processor running sufficiently clever\nsoftware. Solarian electronic warfare doctrine emphasizes \"informational\nsuperiority\" — knowing exactly what the enemy is doing while ensuring they\nknow as little as possible about you. The massive CPU array supports\nsimultaneous jamming, spoofing, and real-time tactical analysis.\n",
      "base_hull": 150,
      "base_shield": 100,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 160,
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      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 60,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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        "shield_booster_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
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        "warp_disruptor",
        "target_painter_i",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
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      "default_loadout_version": 1,
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 45
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 9
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1350,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "electronic-warfare",
        "high-cpu",
        "support"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "symposium",
      "name": "Symposium",
      "description": "Solarian command carrier. Fleet coordination through structured debate and evidence-based decision-making.",
      "class": "Command",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "A symposium is a gathering where ideas are debated and refined through structured discourse. The Symposium-class embodies this ideal: eight utility slots support drone bays, electronic warfare suites, fleet communication arrays, and repair systems. The processing core array — the most powerful ever installed on a mobile platform — simultaneously manages drone swarms, fleet tactics, and an automatic minutes-taking system that records every command decision for post-engagement review. Admirals must pass a written examination on committee governance procedures before assuming command. The examination has a 40% failure rate, which the Confederacy considers an appropriate filter. ",
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      "base_shield": 1600,
      "base_shield_recharge": 22,
      "base_armor": 100,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 900,
      "cargo_capacity": 420,
      "cpu_capacity": 120,
      "power_capacity": 380,
      "weapon_slots": 6,
      "defense_slots": 6,
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        "solar_lance",
        "heavy_pulse_laser",
        "focused_beam_iii",
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        "pulse_laser_iii",
        "solarian_aegis",
        "adaptive_shield_iii",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "darksteel_armor",
        "nanite_hull_coating"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 50,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
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          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "communications_array",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_bay_module",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "swarm_controller",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_processor",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solar_collector_array",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
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        "command-carrier",
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      "name": "Syndicate",
      "description": "Nebula speed trader. Half a freighter's hold on a hull fast enough to outrun the need for an escort.",
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      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Syndicate-class answers a question the Federation's actuaries kept circling back to: what does an escort contract actually buy? Protection, yes — but mostly it buys time, the hours a slow hull spends exposed on a contested route. The Syndicate buys those hours back another way. The hold is deliberately modest, sacrificed for a drive package and fuel reserves that let a captain pick a high-value cargo and simply be somewhere else before a raider can close the distance. The weapons are a courtesy to the optimist who tries anyway. Speed is the margin, and the margin pays for itself every time a Syndicate reaches the buy order while the convoy behind it is still negotiating with its escort.",
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          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
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          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
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      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Tariff-class is what happens when the Federation decides that border security deserves capital-class investment. Three weapon mounts discourage resistance, heavy shields absorb the occasional disagreement, and the integrated scanner suite resolves cargo contents through military-grade hull plating at ranges that make jettisoning evidence impractical. The expanded cargo bay holds confiscated goods — the Federation does not waste seized merchandise, it redistributes it through official channels after a reasonable holding period and a modest handling charge. The name is deliberate — crossing Federation space without permission costs you one way or another. ",
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      "base_armor": 18,
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
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          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        "customs-cruiser",
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        "cargo-capable"
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      "id": "taxonomy",
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      "description": "Solarian heavy salvager. Industrial-scale debris field processing with assembly-line material sorting.",
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      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Taxonomy-class processes entire debris fields with assembly-line precision — cataloguing, sorting, and storing recovered materials while the onboard laboratory identifies alloy compositions in real time. The default loadout covers the basics: a scanner for assessment, a cargo expander for volume, a pulse laser for cutting apart anything too large for the hold. What sets the Taxonomy apart is the fitting margin left over — the power grid and processing capacity accommodate substantially more equipment than the defaults consume, which means pilots refit for whatever the operation demands. Recovery reports from a Taxonomy operation have been accepted as evidence in three separate interstellar court proceedings.",
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      "base_shield": 160,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 18,
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          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "navigation_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "rare_salvage",
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "industrial",
        "methodical",
        "modular"
      ]
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      "id": "technically_legal",
      "name": "Technically Legal",
      "description": "Outer Rim courier. Modified beyond manufacturer specs. Somehow still flies.",
      "class": "Courier",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Every component in a Technically Legal has been modified, bypassed, or replaced with something faster. The engine governor was removed and never reinstalled. The fuel injectors are from a ship two size classes larger, feeding a 200-unit tank that covers 50 jumps at cruising speed — or 33 at full afterburner, which is Speed 6, the fastest any courier moves at T1. The safety interlocks were recalibrated to thresholds that would make a Solarian engineer file an incident report. No weapons, no shields worth mentioning, no armor to speak of. Fast, cheap, and gets you there. It passes inspection because nobody on the Rim is looking that hard. Yet.",
      "base_hull": 60,
      "base_shield": 25,
      "base_shield_recharge": 0,
      "base_armor": 1,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 200,
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      "default_modules": [
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        },
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          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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      ],
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        "fast",
        "starwind_courier",
        "unarmed",
        "questionable"
      ]
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      "id": "tellurian",
      "name": "Tellurian",
      "description": "Solarian mining capital. Deploys mining drones autonomously, processes ore on-board. Pinnacle of industrial engineering.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 5,
      "scale": 5,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Tellurian represents the pinnacle of Solarian industrial engineering. Its utility suite — the most extensive on any ship in the galaxy — supports autonomous mining drone deployment, real-time geological surveying, on-board ore processing, and quality assurance systems that operate without crew intervention. The ship identifies deposits, deploys extraction drones, processes the raw ore into refined materials, and stores the results in the 2,400-unit cargo bay. The entire operation runs autonomously according to algorithms refined over decades of geological research. The Confederacy considers the Tellurian its greatest industrial achievement. It is a mining operation in a hull. ",
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      "base_shield": 1000,
      "base_shield_recharge": 15,
      "base_armor": 65,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 600,
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      "power_capacity": 280,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
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      "utility_slots": 10,
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        "pulse_laser_iii"
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      "required_reputation": 60,
      "shipyard_tier": 4,
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_processor",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
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          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 45
        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 40
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        "automated",
        "self-sufficient",
        "high-utility"
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      "id": "terms_and_conditions",
      "name": "Terms and Conditions",
      "description": "Outer Rim smuggler. Hidden compartments outnumber visible ones.",
      "class": "Smuggler",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Covert",
      "lore": "Named for what you should have read before buying one, the Terms and Conditions features more hidden compartments than a magician's stage cabinet. Hull panels conceal cavities, life support ducting has removable sections, and the engine housing contains spaces that officially don't exist. The scan-resistant lining won't fool a dedicated customs cruiser, but it handles routine sweeps well enough to keep the interesting cargo off the manifest. When stealth fails, speed doesn't — most customs patrols can't match the Terms and Conditions in a straight chase, and Rim pilots know every shortcut between here and the next jurisdiction.",
      "base_hull": 135,
      "base_shield": 70,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 5,
      "base_fuel": 650,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
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      "weapon_slots": 1,
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      "piloting_required": 10,
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      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 25
        }
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        "hidden-cargo",
        "covert"
      ]
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      "id": "the_vault",
      "name": "The Vault",
      "description": "Crimson armored bullion hauler — a T4 freighter wrapped in dreadnought-grade plating. No guns, no gadgets, no slots to fit any: just a hold, an engine, and enough armor to crawl past a pirate base and shrug off everything it throws. Slow as a glacier; arrives every time.",
      "class": "Freighter",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet does not, as a rule, build cargo ships — hauling is what you do\nto the things you have already taken. The Vault is the exception they make for a\npilot rich enough to insult them with the commission, and they build it the only\nway they know how: as armor with a hold bolted inside. The plating is darksteel\nlaid over fury-tempered plate over more darksteel, courses deep, until a boarding\ncrew's cutting charges run out before the hull does; raiders have been known to\nknock on a Vault for the better part of a day and leave with nothing but a dented\nreputation. All that mass has a price, and the price is paid in speed — the Vault\nmoves at a crawl, a slow gleaming brick grinding from port to port. Its owner does\nnot mind. When what you are moving is bullion, and the ship will arrive no matter\nwho objects, you can afford to be late.\n",
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      "base_shield": 200,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 150,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 600,
      "cargo_capacity": 500,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 100,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
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        "damage_control_system"
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      "prestige_lock": "Locked: prestige hull reserved for pilots who have earned the \"Bullion Baron\" achievement.",
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_bar",
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        {
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_bar",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
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          "item_id": "darksteel_plating",
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        },
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        "tank",
        "bullion",
        "prestige"
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    {
      "id": "theorem",
      "name": "Theorem",
      "description": "Solarian heavy fighter. Balanced combat platform with superior electronics.",
      "class": "Heavy Fighter",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "Where other empires bolt on more weapons, the Confederacy added more processing capacity. The Theorem carries the deepest fitting reserves of any heavy fighter in production — three open utility bays and enough CPU headroom for pilots to configure it for whatever the engagement demands. Escort duty, patrol interdiction, extended operations — same hull, different loadout. The engineering committee that approved the modular fitting architecture took eight months to reach consensus. The architecture then justified itself on the first deployment, in four configurations, across three theaters of operation.",
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      "base_armor": 12,
      "base_speed": 3,
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      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
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        },
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
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        "well-documented"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "theoria",
      "name": "Theoria",
      "description": "Solarian starter mining vessel. Certified, calibrated, warranty-covered.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 0,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "solarian",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Every Solarian pilot's journey begins with a Theoria. Named for the ancient\nGreek concept of contemplative knowledge, this vessel embodies the Confederacy's\nbelief that understanding precedes action. The 300-page operations manual\n(mandatory reading, examination required) covers everything from optimal ore\nextraction angles to emergency hull breach poetry recitation protocols.\nOver-engineered by three separate review committees, the Theoria has more\ndiagnostic systems than most ships have systems. The extended utility bus\naccommodates the Confederacy's insistence that every vessel carry redundant\nsensor packages. Comes with a two-year comprehensive warranty that covers\neverything except \"pilot-initiated misadventure.\"\n",
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      "base_hull": 100,
      "base_shield": 55,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 5,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 100,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 16,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_i",
        "pulse_laser_i"
      ],
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 30,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "starter",
        "over-engineered",
        "warranty-covered"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "thermal_lance",
      "name": "Thermal Lance",
      "description": "Crimson deep-range ice breaker. Fuel-efficient drive reaches distant ice fields under armor.",
      "class": "Ice Harvester",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "Ice fields worth harvesting at scale tend to be far from Fleet supply lines — deep frontier, contested space, places where shorter-range harvesters don't bother going. The Thermal Lance was built for that deployment. The fuel-efficient drive pushes the armored hull deep into territory that shorter-range harvesters avoid, and the dual thermal extractors work the ice while the autocannon keeps watch. The cargo hold is tight because the engineering committee prioritized fuel capacity and hull integrity over storage. Fleet ice operations run convoys for a reason — the Thermal Lance finds the field and cracks the ice. Someone else hauls it home.",
      "base_hull": 420,
      "base_shield": 120,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 28,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 360,
      "cargo_capacity": 430,
      "cpu_capacity": 26,
      "power_capacity": 60,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "ice_harvester_iii",
        "ice_harvester_iii",
        "autocannon_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "ice_yield_bonus",
          "value": 20
        },
        {
          "type": "ice_cargo_efficiency",
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        },
        {
          "type": "fuel_efficiency_bonus",
          "value": 25
        }
      ],
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          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_suspension_chamber",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 40
        },
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 30
        }
      ],
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "long-range",
        "armed",
        "fuel-efficient"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "thermodynamic_end",
      "name": "Thermodynamic End",
      "description": "Voidborn capital salvager. Envelops entire capital wrecks and reduces them to sorted material streams.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Thermodynamic End is the Collective's capital salvage vessel, named\nfor the principle it embodies: all ordered structures tend toward\ndissolution, and the Collective merely accelerates the process. Its\norganic hull can envelop an entire capital wreck, breaking it down into\nsorted material streams over the course of hours. The vessel carries no\nweapons — the shield envelope that protects it during salvage operations\nhas discouraged interference often enough that the Collective stopped\ninstalling hardpoints entirely. The recovered materials emerge at a\npurity that exceeds the original manufacturing specification, a result\nthat Solarian metallurgists have called \"thermodynamically implausible.\"\n",
      "base_hull": 700,
      "base_shield": 550,
      "base_shield_recharge": 8,
      "base_armor": 18,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 420,
      "cargo_capacity": 635,
      "cpu_capacity": 55,
      "power_capacity": 140,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 6,
      "default_modules": [
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "cargo_expander_iii",
        "shield_booster_iv",
        "shield_booster_iii"
      ],
      "tow_speed_bonus": 33,
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "singularity_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 65
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_generator",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "rare_salvage",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
          "quantity": 24
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 85
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 120
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 38
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 180
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 10200,
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        "industrial",
        "organic-hull",
        "unarmed",
        "capital"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "threshold",
      "name": "Threshold",
      "description": "Voidborn starter vessel. Grown, not built. Anticipates pilot intent.",
      "class": "Miner",
      "tier": 0,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Threshold is not manufactured. It is cultivated in Nexus Prime's orbital\ngrowth bays over a period the Collective insists on calling \"gestation.\" The\nhull is a crystalline-organic composite that repairs microscopic fractures\nautonomously. The shield generators draw power from sources the engineering\nmanual describes only as \"adjacent.\" New pilots report that the ship\nanticipates course corrections before they're input — the Collective\nconsiders this a feature, not a concern. The cabin temperature is always\nslightly wrong, regardless of thermostat settings. No Voidborn engineer\nhas ever acknowledged this as a defect.\n",
      "starter_ship": true,
      "base_hull": 75,
      "base_shield": 80,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 95,
      "cargo_capacity": 65,
      "cpu_capacity": 16,
      "power_capacity": 30,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "mining_laser_i",
        "em_disruptor_i"
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 30,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "starter",
        "grown",
        "possibly-sentient"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "toll",
      "name": "Toll",
      "description": "Crimson customs enforcer. The price of crossing is inspection. The price of refusal is higher.",
      "class": "Customs Patrol",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "The Toll-class was designed by a committee that included both customs\nofficials and weapons engineers. The weapons engineers won most of the\narguments. Heavy armor and twin autocannons make the Toll significantly\noverqualified for cargo inspection — which is, from the Crimson\nperspective, exactly the point. Smugglers who encounter a Toll tend to\ncooperate. Smugglers who encounter two Tolls tend to surrender. The\nscanning suite is military-grade, because in the Crimson Pact, all\ngrades are military grades.\n",
      "base_hull": 259,
      "base_shield": 26,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 15,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 130,
      "cargo_capacity": 35,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 48,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_i",
        "autocannon_i",
        "armor_plate_i"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "integrated_scanner",
          "value": 30
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 35
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 950,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "customs",
        "scanner-heavy",
        "armored"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "treasury",
      "name": "Treasury",
      "description": "Nebula luxury yacht. For captains who've earned the right to travel comfortably.",
      "class": "Yacht",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Civilian",
      "lore": "The Treasury-class is the Federation's rolling advertisement for the rewards of commercial success. Panoramic viewports, climate-controlled cargo bays (for \"delicate acquisitions\"), and a passenger suite that would be excessive in a hotel. The three defense slots protect not just the hull but the lifestyle investment within. Five utility slots accommodate everything from entertainment systems to portfolio management terminals. The Federation offers financing at preferred customer rates. ",
      "base_hull": 350,
      "base_shield": 250,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 15,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 500,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 80,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 5,
      "default_modules": [
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "shield_booster_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "passenger_first_berths",
          "value": 3
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 17
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 9
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 14
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 4940,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "luxury",
        "yacht",
        "status-symbol"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "trebuchet",
      "name": "Trebuchet",
      "description": "Crimson armored wall. A cheap slab of plating the Fleet parks in front of its guns to soak the incoming fire.",
      "class": "Monitor",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Trebuchet does not win battles. It survives them, which in Crimson accounting is the same thing measured from a different ledger. The hull is a slab of layered plating wrapped around almost nothing — a wall of armor with engines bolted to the back as an afterthought. Fleet doctrine parks it directly between the gunships and the enemy and tells the crew to hold position. Whatever fire would have shredded the real warships lands on the Trebuchet instead, and the Trebuchet absorbs it with the dull patience of a thing too stupid to know it is being shot. The two autocannons exist so the crew has something to do while they wait. Fleet engineers build it cheap and build it fast, because the role guarantees a short service life, and a wall that costs as much as a gunship is a wall nobody is willing to lose. The Fleet is always willing to lose a Trebuchet. That is the entire point.",
      "base_hull": 850,
      "base_shield": 90,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 50,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 450,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 20,
      "power_capacity": 75,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 6,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "kinetic_hull_hardener",
        "explosive_hull_hardener"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 1500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "armored",
        "fortress",
        "tank"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "underwriter",
      "name": "Underwriter",
      "description": "Nebula convoy guard. Shield-heavy, long-range, and built to outlast threats.",
      "class": "Raider",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Federation calculated that purpose-built convoy guards cost 12% less\nper annum than hired mercenaries, so they built one. The Underwriter's\n160-unit fuel tank is the largest on any T1 combat hull — 53 jumps of\noperational range before refueling, enough to shadow a trade convoy across\nthree systems and back. The shield-heavy defensive profile compensates for\nlight armor, keeping the ship functional through sustained engagements while\nthe cargo it's protecting reaches port. Fifty units of cargo space let pilots\nrecover salvage without calling for a hauler.\n",
      "base_hull": 130,
      "base_shield": 70,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 6,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 160,
      "cargo_capacity": 50,
      "cpu_capacity": 16,
      "power_capacity": 34,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 1,
      "default_modules": [
        "pulse_laser_i",
        "pulse_laser_i",
        "shield_booster_i"
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 0,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 280,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "fighter",
        "convoy-guard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "vanguard",
      "name": "Vanguard",
      "description": "Crimson command ship. Leads from the front, not the rear. Fleet coordination through personal example.",
      "class": "Command",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "In most navies, the command ship sits behind the battle line. In the Crimson Fleet, a commander who leads from the rear is a commander who doesn't lead for long. The Vanguard carries fleet coordination systems powerful enough to manage a full battle group while simultaneously engaging targets with its own three weapon mounts. The extra defense slots exist not to protect the commander — Crimson commanders consider that cowardice — but to keep the coordination arrays functioning under fire. A Vanguard that stops transmitting because it took a hit costs the fleet more than one captain's pride is worth. ",
      "base_hull": 682,
      "base_shield": 88,
      "base_shield_recharge": 5,
      "base_armor": 32,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 380,
      "cargo_capacity": 70,
      "cpu_capacity": 40,
      "power_capacity": 90,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
      "defense_slots": 3,
      "utility_slots": 4,
      "default_modules": [
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "damage_control_system",
        "ship_scanner_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 18
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 32
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 110
        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 13
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "communications_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 9
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 20
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 4940,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "command",
        "frontline-leadership",
        "fleet-coordination"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "venture",
      "name": "Venture",
      "description": "Nebula trade route scout. Finds new markets and brings samples home.",
      "class": "Explorer",
      "tier": 1,
      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "nebula",
      "category": "Exploration",
      "lore": "The Venture-class was designed for the Federation's market development division: find new systems, assess their commercial potential, bring samples back for valuation. The fuel reserves support 60-jump survey runs deep into unmapped space, and the cargo hold — the largest on any exploration platform — means the scout returns with enough material for proper market analysis, not just sensor readings. The open weapon slot and defense mount acknowledge that unmapped space is not always empty, and the fitting budget lets pilots configure for the risk profile of each survey run. The operations manual opens with: \"Discovery is just commerce that hasn't happened yet.\"",
      "base_hull": 80,
      "base_shield": 45,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 4,
      "base_speed": 3,
      "base_fuel": 180,
      "cargo_capacity": 80,
      "cpu_capacity": 14,
      "power_capacity": 28,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 2,
      "default_modules": [
        "cargo_expander_i"
      ],
      "inherent_capabilities": [
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          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
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        "long-range",
        "cargo-capable"
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      "id": "verglas",
      "name": "Verglas",
      "description": "Voidborn anomalous ice harvester. Phase-shifts through ice to extract materials from deep cores.",
      "class": "Refinery",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Verglas-class harvests ice through dimensional phase-shifting\nat capital scale. The extraction system reaches through the surface of\nice bodies without disturbing them, pulling target materials directly\nfrom deep cores that conventional equipment cannot access. Nine hundred\nshield points protect against the dimensional stress of sustained\nphase-extraction operations. The technique is unique to the Voidborn —\nother empires lack the dimensional technology to reach into solid\nmatter without breaking it. The Collective considers this approach\nboth more efficient and more respectful of the ice body's structural\nintegrity.\n",
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      "base_shield": 900,
      "base_shield_recharge": 14,
      "base_armor": 16,
      "base_speed": 1,
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      "cpu_capacity": 50,
      "power_capacity": 135,
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      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
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          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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        "dimensional",
        "phase-shift",
        "shield-monster"
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      "id": "vigil",
      "name": "Vigil",
      "description": "Voidborn patrol vessel. Shield-hardened enforcement platform that outlasts anything it encounters.",
      "class": "Patrol",
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      "scale": 1,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat Support",
      "lore": "A vigil is a period of watchful attention — and the Collective considers enforcement to be exactly that. The Vigil-class carries layered shield generators that let it absorb sustained fire while its twin pulse lasers methodically dismantle non-compliant vessels. Voidborn patrol doctrine does not emphasize pursuit or intimidation. The Vigil was already in position before you arrived. It has been watching since before you noticed it. The integrated sensor suite confirms what the Collective already suspected, and the shields ensure the conversation lasts as long as necessary. Resistance is technically an option. The shields make it a poor one.\n",
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      "base_shield": 90,
      "base_shield_recharge": 3,
      "base_armor": 3,
      "base_speed": 3,
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      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 38,
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          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        }
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      "flavor_tags": [
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        "law-enforcement",
        "shield-heavy"
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      "id": "voidborn_event_horizon",
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      "description": "Voidborn battlecruiser. The boundary beyond which nothing escapes.",
      "class": "Battlecruiser",
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      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Event Horizon earns its name. Its shield array creates a zone of\nabsolute energy absorption around the hull — weapons fire enters but\ndoes not exit as reflected energy. Other empires' tactical analysts\ndescribe engaging an Event Horizon as \"firing into a black hole.\"\nThe weapon complement is secondary by design: the Event Horizon does\nnot need to destroy its targets quickly. It needs to outlast them.\nFive defense slots support the most comprehensive shield architecture\nmounted on anything smaller than a capital ship. Fleet intelligence\nreports suggest the power systems draw from dimensional micro-fractures,\nproducing sustained output that should not be possible from a reactor\nthis size.\n",
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      "base_shield": 1000,
      "base_shield_recharge": 18,
      "base_armor": 35,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 450,
      "cargo_capacity": 120,
      "cpu_capacity": 85,
      "power_capacity": 210,
      "weapon_slots": 4,
      "defense_slots": 5,
      "utility_slots": 5,
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        "voidborn_phase_armor",
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        "shield_booster_iv",
        "shield_booster_iii",
        "damage_control_system"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 30,
      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 12
        },
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
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          "item_id": "shield_generator",
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          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
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        },
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "singularity_core",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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      ],
      "build_time": 13000,
      "flavor_tags": [
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        "terrifying"
      ]
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    {
      "id": "voidborn_singularity",
      "name": "Voidborn Singularity",
      "description": "Voidborn cruiser. Shield layers that shouldn't be possible. Crew reports mild temporal displacement.",
      "class": "Cruiser",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "voidborn",
      "category": "Combat",
      "lore": "The Singularity-class carries shield arrays that produce readings other empires' sensors classify as \"errors.\" Four defense slots support a layered shield architecture that the Collective describes as \"recursive probability reduction.\" Enemy weapons officers report that targeting solutions decay faster than they can be computed. Crew members occasionally experience mild deja vu, which the ship's manual lists under \"features\" rather than \"known issues.\" ",
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      "base_shield": 450,
      "base_shield_recharge": 10,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 380,
      "cargo_capacity": 75,
      "cpu_capacity": 55,
      "power_capacity": 115,
      "weapon_slots": 3,
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        "cloaking_device_ii"
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      "piloting_required": 20,
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
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        },
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          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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        },
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          "item_id": "void_crystal",
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        },
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          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
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        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
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        },
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          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
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        },
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          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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        },
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        "shield-dominant",
        "temporal"
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      "id": "war_wagon",
      "name": "War Wagon",
      "description": "Crimson bulk hauler. The biggest hold below the heavy tiers, bolted to an engine that resents the work. Crawls, holds everything, defends nothing.",
      "class": "Bulk Hauler",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Calling the War Wagon a ship flatters it. It is a warehouse that the Fleet talked into having an engine, and the engine has regretted the conversation ever since. The hold swallows cargo on a scale that embarrasses proper haulers, and that hold is the entire ship — everything else is the minimum framework needed to keep the load from drifting off and the minimum thrust needed to move the whole resentful mass from one parking orbit to the next, slowly, with the dignity of a glacier. There is armor, technically. There are no guns, and nobody pretends the two plates will matter once someone decides the War Wagon is worth the trouble of shooting. The Fleet doesn't sortie it. The Fleet parks it: at a forward depot, behind the line, full to the bulkheads, and waits for the day the supplies are needed more than the wagon is safe. Quartermasters love it. Captains avoid it. Both are correct.",
      "base_hull": 300,
      "base_shield": 0,
      "base_shield_recharge": 2,
      "base_armor": 8,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 240,
      "cargo_capacity": 1200,
      "cpu_capacity": 22,
      "power_capacity": 50,
      "weapon_slots": 0,
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        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "cargo_expander_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii",
        "armor_plate_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
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          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 28
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 8
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      ],
      "build_time": 1500,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "bulk",
        "cargo-massive",
        "slow"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "warbarge",
      "name": "Warbarge",
      "description": "Crimson armored fleet tanker. Wars run on fuel; the Warbarge runs the fuel.",
      "class": "Tanker",
      "tier": 4,
      "scale": 4,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Wars run on fuel, and the Warbarge runs the fuel. The Crimson Pact's heaviest tanker carries enough bunkerage to sustain a strike group through a multi-system campaign without resupply, and is armored to make sure it arrives. Two autocannon batteries are not enough to repel a serious threat, but they are enough to convince the casual opportunist that there are easier targets in the system. Pact doctrine assigns Warbarges their own escort wings on the principle that the loss of a Warbarge ends the operation it serves: the math is simpler than commanders like to admit. The captain receives standing orders to ram any boarding ship that breaches the perimeter, on the grounds that a Warbarge lost in transit is worth less than the same Warbarge lost on arrival. Pact accountants have done the calculation and signed off.",
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      "base_shield": 250,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 50,
      "base_speed": 1,
      "base_fuel": 10000,
      "cargo_capacity": 270,
      "cpu_capacity": 35,
      "power_capacity": 120,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 4,
      "utility_slots": 4,
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        "expanded_fuel_tank",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "autocannon_ii",
        "armor_plate_iii",
        "reactive_armor_hardener"
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      "shipyard_tier": 3,
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          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
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        },
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          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
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          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
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        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        },
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          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
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        },
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          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
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        },
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          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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      "build_time": 13000,
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        "capital",
        "armored",
        "fleet-support",
        "armed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "warhammer",
      "name": "Warhammer",
      "description": "Crimson bulk salvager. Dual cargo expanders, maximum haul per wreck site. Brings everything home.",
      "class": "Salvager",
      "tier": 2,
      "scale": 2,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Industrial",
      "lore": "The Crimson Fleet produces more wrecks than any other empire, and leaving salvage on the field wastes materiel. The Warhammer ships with dual cargo expanders for raw haul volume and the fitting budget left over gives pilots real choices — mount a weapon, add armor, extend the fuel range. That flexibility matters because the stock fuel tank is short. This is a local operations ship, built to strip wreck sites in Crimson space and haul everything home in one trip. The tow rating won't win any races, but when a wreck field has more loot than a lighter salvager can carry, the Warhammer earns its name. Fleet recycling doctrine: what was theirs is ours.",
      "base_hull": 200,
      "base_shield": 60,
      "base_shield_recharge": 1,
      "base_armor": 14,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 240,
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      "power_capacity": 38,
      "weapon_slots": 1,
      "defense_slots": 1,
      "utility_slots": 3,
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        "cargo_expander_ii"
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      "piloting_required": 10,
      "shipyard_tier": 1,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 35
        },
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          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
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          "item_id": "weapon_core",
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          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 12
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        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 900,
      "flavor_tags": [
        "vulture",
        "battlefield-cleanup",
        "cargo-heavy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "warhead",
      "name": "Warhead",
      "description": "Crimson armored hauler. What the Fleet carries in these is not your business. The armor ensures this.",
      "class": "Hazmat Freighter",
      "tier": 3,
      "scale": 3,
      "faction": "crimson",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Isotope shipments moving under Fleet protection kept being boarded,\ninspected, and — on two occasions — destroyed. The Fleet considered\nall three outcomes unacceptable. The Warhead-class was the response:\ntwo weapon mounts, warship-grade armor certified to active combat\nstandards, and a lead-lined cargo bay rated to Fleet ordnance\nspecifications, which exceed civilian equivalents by a margin other\nempires are not permitted to audit. The name was assigned by the\nFleet's logistics records department without review. Commanders\ntransporting reactor fuel note on transit manifests that the ship\nclass is named Warhead, not the cargo. This distinction has\nprevented three confirmed intercept responses from empires whose\nscanner operators were paying close attention. It continues to\nrequire noting.\n",
      "base_hull": 520,
      "base_shield": 180,
      "base_shield_recharge": 4,
      "base_armor": 35,
      "base_speed": 2,
      "base_fuel": 340,
      "cargo_capacity": 460,
      "cpu_capacity": 38,
      "power_capacity": 55,
      "weapon_slots": 2,
      "defense_slots": 2,
      "utility_slots": 3,
      "default_modules": [
        "lead_lined_cargo_i",
        "armor_plate_ii"
      ],
      "piloting_required": 20,
      "inherent_capabilities": [
        {
          "type": "special_flag",
          "flag": "rad_harvesting"
        }
      ],
      "shipyard_tier": 2,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 22
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 160
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 70
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 55
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 6
        },
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      "lore": "The Warranty-class is the Federation's mobile maintenance platform, because every hour a damaged freighter sits idle is revenue lost. Five utility slots accommodate repair drones, hull printers, and diagnostic arrays. The generous cargo bay stores replacement parts at markup prices. The Federation offers \"Warranty Extended Service Contracts\" that guarantee priority repair — terms and conditions apply. ",
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      "description": "Outer Rim explorer. Goes further than intended on less fuel than expected.",
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      "lore": "Named for its relationship with every manufacturer whose parts went into its construction, the Warranty Void is built for pilots who believe the map's edge is a suggestion. The fuel system extracts more range from every cell through techniques that void approximately seventeen different safety certifications, and the default afterburner lets pilots choose: burn fast at Speed 6 for short dashes, or pull the afterburner and cruise at Speed 5 for runs that reach the far side of the galaxy. No defense slots and minimal armor — the survival strategy is not getting caught, and at Speed 6, most things can't catch you. Rim explorers don't report their modifications. They report their discoveries.",
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      "lore": "A lean operation cannot afford a dedicated hull for every task, so the Workhorse\ndoes three. It carries a mining laser, a real hold, and a scanner, runs cheap on\nfuel, and stretches a cargo bay further than its size suggests. It is not the\nbest miner, the best hauler, or the best scout — a specialist beats it at each —\nbut a specialist sits idle between jobs, and the Workhorse never does. Issued to\ncrews small enough that everyone aboard is expected to do a little of everything,\nand large enough to have earned the right to do it well.\n",
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      "description": "Outer Rim cargo hauler, usually ordered by mistake. A surprisingly effective hauler if you decline to consider the loss rate.",
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      "faction": "outerrim",
      "category": "Commercial",
      "lore": "Usually ordered because of poor handwriting, the Worship turns out to be\na surprisingly effective cargo hauler — provided you decline to consider\nthe loss rate. It is generally considered uninsurable, and yet it still\nmakes up a substantial fraction of the cargo traffic in the rougher parts\nof the Rim, moving goods nobody was willing to risk a real ship on. It is\noften mistaken for four Prayers welded together. This is inaccurate. It is\nactually just tape.\n",
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      "faction": "outerrim",
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      "lore": "Stubby, slow, and built around a tow rig the size of the cockpit, the Yard Sale exists for exactly one job and is no good at anything else. Drag a dead hull or a fat wreck across three systems in anything else and you will spend the whole crawl wondering why you chose this life. Drag it in a Yard Sale and the load barely registers — the tug hauls a wreck near enough to its own speed that the trip stops being punishment and starts being just another haul. There is no clever second use here. It cannot fight, it cannot run, it cannot carry much of its own. What it can do is grab something three times its mass that nobody else wants to move and bring it home, and on the Rim that turns out to be worth a hull all by itself.",
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        585,
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      "training_source": "Earned by completing Voidborn empire missions (Voidborn empire only)."
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      "category": "Combat",
      "max_level": 100,
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      "id": "wormhole_navigation",
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      "description": "Navigating unstable wormhole passages. Improves wormhole transit accuracy.",
      "category": "Wormholes",
      "max_level": 100,
      "bonus_per_level": {
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        585,
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      "id": "xenobiology",
      "name": "Xenobiology",
      "description": "The study and exploitation of galactic wildlife. Increases the value of harvested molt goods by 1% per level.",
      "category": "Wildlife",
      "max_level": 100,
      "bonus_per_level": {
        "creatureLootValue": 1
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      "xp_per_level": [
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        165,
        340,
        585,
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        1285,
        1740,
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        3525,
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        309285,
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        322585,
        329340,
        336165,
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      "name": "Adamant Tooth Forging",
      "description": "Refine the near-indestructible teeth of an adamant-grinder into adamantite bar — no mining rig required.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "adamant_tooth",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "adamantite_bar",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "alloy_electrum_ingot",
      "name": "Alloy Electrum Ingot",
      "description": "Fuse silver and gold into electrum, a premium alloy with balanced conductivity and corrosion resistance.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silver_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "electrum_ingot",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.76
    },
    {
      "id": "anchor_plate_forging",
      "name": "Anchor Plate Forging",
      "description": "Forge the titanium-laced shell plates of a magnet-barnacle into proper titanium alloy.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "anchor_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.6,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_advanced_repair_kit",
      "name": "Assemble Advanced Repair Kit",
      "description": "Create professional repair kits.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "advanced_repair_kit",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.85
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_air_recycler",
      "name": "Assemble Air Recycler",
      "description": "Build an atmospheric scrubber from noble gases, polymer membranes, and copper ducting.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_argon",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ionized_neon",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "air_recycler",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.75
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_antimatter_torpedoes",
      "name": "Assemble Antimatter Torpedoes",
      "description": "The most destructive single projectile in known space. Handle with extreme caution.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "contained_antimatter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "antimatter_torpedoes",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 489,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_antimatter_warhead",
      "name": "Assemble Antimatter Warhead",
      "description": "Single devastating antimatter warhead. The most destructive guided munition available.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "contained_antimatter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "antimatter_warhead",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 481.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_armor_buster_missiles",
      "name": "Assemble Armor-Buster Missiles",
      "description": "Shaped charge warheads designed to penetrate heavy armor.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_buster_missiles",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 14.4
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_atmospheric_unit",
      "name": "Assemble Atmospheric Unit",
      "description": "Combine air recyclers and noble-gas pressurization into a regulated facility atmosphere plant.",
      "category": "Facility Construction",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "air_recycler",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "environmental_control_unit",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_argon",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ionized_neon",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "atmospheric_unit",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9.9
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_breacher_torpedoes",
      "name": "Assemble Breacher Torpedoes",
      "description": "Armor-piercing torpedoes with penetrating warheads.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "breacher_torpedoes",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 16.05
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_cluster_missiles",
      "name": "Assemble Cluster Missiles",
      "description": "Splits into multiple submunitions before impact.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cluster_missiles",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 85.5
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_communications_array",
      "name": "Assemble Communications Array",
      "description": "Build a long-range communication system from signal processing boards and sensor hardware.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "communications_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_control_node",
      "name": "Assemble Control Node",
      "description": "Wire sensors, relays, and logic into an automation unit that runs a production line unattended.",
      "category": "Facility Construction",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_coolant_loop",
      "name": "Assemble Coolant Loop",
      "description": "Plumb copper piping into a closed cryogenic circulation system to carry away industrial heat.",
      "category": "Facility Construction",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "helium_3",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_fluid",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9.9
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_cryogenic_storage",
      "name": "Assemble Cryogenic Storage",
      "description": "Fabricate a temperature-controlled storage container using ice-core insulation and sealed titanium housing.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "water_ice",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_cryogenic_travel_pod",
      "name": "Assemble Cryogenic Travel Pod",
      "description": "Assemble Cryogenic Travel Pod.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_storage",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_fluid",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_travel_pod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_crystal_sensor_array",
      "name": "Assemble Crystal Sensor Array",
      "description": "Mount trade-crystal focusing optics straight into a detection array — the same crystalline lattice that runs the Nebula Federation's long-range sensor network.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_crystal",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_dark_energy_cell",
      "name": "Assemble Dark Energy Cell",
      "description": "Assemble Dark Energy Cell.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "dark_energy_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 45,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_defense_turret",
      "name": "Assemble Defense Turret",
      "description": "Assemble Defense Turret.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "barrel_assembly",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "defense_turret",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 37.5
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_electrochemical_power_cell",
      "name": "Assemble Electrochemical Power Cell",
      "description": "Wire together power batteries with copper conductors and control circuitry into a functional power cell. More material-intensive than crystal-based cells but uses abundant electrochemical resources.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_battery",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_emp_mines",
      "name": "Assemble EMP Mines",
      "description": "Electromagnetic pulse mines that disrupt ships entering the blast zone.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_mines",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.5
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_emp_missiles",
      "name": "Assemble EMP Missiles",
      "description": "Electromagnetic pulse warheads that disrupt all systems in blast radius.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_missiles",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 85.5
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_emp_torpedoes",
      "name": "Assemble EMP Torpedoes",
      "description": "Massive electromagnetic pulse that cripples all ship systems.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_torpedoes",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 99
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_engine_core",
      "name": "Assemble Engine Core",
      "description": "Build propulsion system cores.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12.9
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_escape_pod",
      "name": "Assemble Escape Pod",
      "description": "Assemble Escape Pod.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "escape_pod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_fragmentation_mines",
      "name": "Assemble Fragmentation Mines",
      "description": "Wider blast radius with shrapnel dispersal.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fragmentation_mines",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.2
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_gold_processing_core",
      "name": "Assemble Gold Processing Core",
      "description": "Bond the logic stack with gold interconnects rather than a silicon interposer, cutting silicon out of the galaxy's compute supply entirely. The gold appetite and painstaking alignment make it a luxury at normal prices — it only pencils out when silicon scarcity has made the conventional core ruinously expensive.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_ore",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 32
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_incendiary_missiles",
      "name": "Assemble Incendiary Missiles",
      "description": "Thermite warheads that burn through hull after detonation.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "incendiary_missiles",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12.6
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_inertial_gyroscope",
      "name": "Assemble Inertial Gyroscope",
      "description": "Assemble Inertial Gyroscope.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "inertial_gyroscope",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.5
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_laser_focus_array",
      "name": "Assemble Laser Focus Array",
      "description": "Align optical fibers and crystal lenses into a precision focusing assembly.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 39
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_medical_bay_module",
      "name": "Assemble Medical Bay Module",
      "description": "Assemble Medical Bay Module.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "air_recycler",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "bioactive_compound",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "medical_bay_module",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 18
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_nimh_battery",
      "name": "Assemble NiMH Battery",
      "description": "Pack nickel-metal-hydride cells into a power battery without the scarce lithium and cobalt the standard line demands.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_billet",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_battery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.65
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_nimh_power_cell",
      "name": "Assemble NiMH Power Cell",
      "description": "Build a power cell on nickel-metal-hydride chemistry — a bulk, nickel-hungry alternative to the crystal and gas routes, worth running when nickel is cheap.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_billet",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_nuclear_mines",
      "name": "Assemble Nuclear Mines",
      "description": "Tactical nuclear devices. Enormous blast radius.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapons_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nuclear_mines",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 28.8,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_outpost_kit",
      "name": "Assemble Outpost Kit",
      "description": "Pack a hardened lockbox, a fuel bladder, and mooring spars into a deployable outpost kit. A fraction of the work a station core demands. Deploy the finished kit in lawless space to plant a members-only faction outpost.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "outpost_kit",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 120,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_plasma_mines",
      "name": "Assemble Plasma Mines",
      "description": "Thermal detonation mines with superheated blast.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_mines",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.27,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_plasma_torpedoes",
      "name": "Assemble Plasma Torpedoes",
      "description": "Superheated plasma warhead that melts armor on impact.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_torpedoes",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 29.7,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_power_battery",
      "name": "Assemble Power Battery",
      "description": "Combine lithium and cobalt into compact high-density power cells.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lithium_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_battery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.65
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_power_core",
      "name": "Assemble Power Core",
      "description": "Combine fuel rods, helium-3, and batteries around a crystal matrix to create a universal power source.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fusion_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "helium_3",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_battery",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 90,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_quantum_control_core",
      "name": "Assemble Quantum Control Core",
      "description": "Integrate a quantum dot matrix and processing core into a high-bandwidth fabrication coordinator.",
      "category": "Facility Construction",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_dot_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 54,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_quantum_matrix",
      "name": "Assemble Quantum Matrix",
      "description": "Embed quantum dots in a synthetic diamond lattice to create a programmable quantum substrate.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_dot_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_diamond",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 67.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_quantum_stabilizer",
      "name": "Assemble Quantum Stabilizer",
      "description": "Bond Voidborn null matter to circuit substrates under vacuum conditions to create quantum-stabilized components.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_stabilizer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 19.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_reinforced_frame",
      "name": "Assemble Reinforced Frame",
      "description": "Brace a structural frame with durasteel and graphene composite for heavy industry.",
      "category": "Facility Construction",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 19.8,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_repair_kit",
      "name": "Assemble Repair Kit",
      "description": "Create emergency repair kits.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.05,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_siege_torpedoes",
      "name": "Assemble Siege Torpedoes",
      "description": "Maximum hull damage payload for breaking stations and capital ships.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapons_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "siege_torpedoes",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 33,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_solar_panel_array",
      "name": "Assemble Solar Panel Array",
      "description": "Assemble Solar Panel Array.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solar_panel_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_standard_mines",
      "name": "Assemble Standard Mines",
      "description": "Proximity-detonated explosives for area denial.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "standard_mines",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.12
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_standard_missiles",
      "name": "Assemble Standard Missiles",
      "description": "Heat-seeking guided missiles. Reliable all-purpose ordnance.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "standard_guided_missiles",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 17.25
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_standard_torpedoes",
      "name": "Assemble Standard Torpedoes",
      "description": "Heavy anti-capital torpedoes. Slow but devastating.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "standard_torpedoes",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12.38
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_station_core",
      "name": "Assemble Station Core",
      "description": "Integrate reactor cores, habitat rings, and a docking spine into a complete station core — the single most demanding assembly in known space. Deploy the finished core in lawless space to found a faction station.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 220
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 320
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "docking_ring",
          "quantity": 90
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 520
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 340
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "station_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 600,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_structural_frame",
      "name": "Assemble Structural Frame",
      "description": "Weld girders, paneling, and integrated plumbing into a load-bearing facility skeleton.",
      "category": "Facility Construction",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 7.8
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_swarm_missiles",
      "name": "Assemble Swarm Missiles",
      "description": "Pods of micro-missiles that saturate the target area.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "swarm_missiles",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 14.7
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_threat_analyzer",
      "name": "Assemble Threat Analyzer",
      "description": "Assemble Threat Analyzer.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "threat_analyzer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.25
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_void_mines",
      "name": "Assemble Void Mines",
      "description": "Creates dimensional rift mines that detonate on proximity and bypass shields.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_essence",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_mines",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 186,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "assemble_warhead_core",
      "name": "Assemble Warhead Core",
      "description": "Create explosive warhead components.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapons_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "attune_phase_matrix",
      "name": "Attune Phase Matrix",
      "description": "Align phase crystals into a coherent matrix for dimensional manipulation.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 21,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "bake_belt_grazer_wellington",
      "name": "Bake Belt-Grazer Wellington",
      "description": "Grazer loin wrapped in gloomcap duxelles and a sunspindle-flour crust, baked until the pastry shatters.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "raw_xeno_meat",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gloomcap_mash",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "belt_grazer_wellington",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "bake_lumen_honey_cake",
      "name": "Bake Lumen Honey Cake",
      "description": "A fruited sunspindle cake soaked in cloudwhale lumen oil until it glows softly from within.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lumen_oil",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lumen_honey_cake",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "bake_mantis_claw_thermidor",
      "name": "Bake Mantis Claw Thermidor",
      "description": "Crusher-mantis claw meat baked back into the shell with whale-blubber butter and verdigris curd.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mantis_claw",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "whale_blubber",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "verdigris_curd",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mantis_claw_thermidor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "bake_nebula_fungus_tart",
      "name": "Bake Nebula Fungus Tart",
      "description": "A savoury-sweet tart of gloomcap mash and honeyglobe over a verdigris-curd base.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gloomcap_mash",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "verdigris_curd",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_fungus_tart",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "bake_vat_protein_loaf",
      "name": "Bake Vat Protein Loaf",
      "description": "Vatflesh curd bound with sunspindle flour, spiced, and baked into a sliceable loaf. The canteen workhorse.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "vatflesh_curd",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cinderspice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "vat_protein_loaf",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "baleen_capital_plate",
      "name": "Baleen Capital Plate",
      "description": "Cut a Cloudwhale's baleen plates down and set them with lumen oil into capital-ship armor. The keratin is lighter than a titanium-and-steel weave and just as hard — a hunter-fed alternative to the foundry line, gated on bringing down the biggest beast in the clouds.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "whale_baleen",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lumen_oil",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 20
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "capital_armor_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 180,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "basic_copper_processing",
      "name": "Basic Copper Processing",
      "description": "Simple copper wire drawing using basic tools. Wasteful, but a good way to learn.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_ore",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.32
    },
    {
      "id": "basic_iron_smelting",
      "name": "Basic Iron Smelting",
      "description": "A crude but effective way to smelt iron ore. Less efficient than proper refinement, but anyone can do it.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "iron_ore",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.27
    },
    {
      "id": "basic_silicon_refinement",
      "name": "Basic Silicon Refinement",
      "description": "Primitive silicon purification. Most is lost in the process, but it's a start.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.4
    },
    {
      "id": "biogas_fuel_synthesis",
      "name": "Biogas Fuel Synthesis",
      "description": "Decompress crystallized bio-gas into standard fuel cells. Sift-ray gas burns clean and bright.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crystallized_biogas",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.4,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "blend_cinderspice",
      "name": "Blend Cinderspice",
      "description": "Grind cinder-sylph ember gland and a trace of chlorophage sac into a fierce house seasoning.",
      "category": "Hydroponics",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ember_gland",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "caustic_sac",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cinderspice",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "blend_frostmoth_frappe",
      "name": "Blend Frostmoth Frappe",
      "description": "Crystal-melt and fruit blended with a lick of whale blubber into a thick, ice-cold frappe.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "whale_blubber",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "frostmoth_frappe",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "bond_iridium_silicate_composite",
      "name": "Bond Iridium Silicate Composite",
      "description": "An iridium sintering electrode fuses the matrix at far higher temperature, letting half the usual silica bind the same volume of nickel. Slow and dependent on rare iridium, but it halves the silicon every composite panel demands.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "iridium_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3
    },
    {
      "id": "bottle_nebula_stellar_vintage",
      "name": "Bottle Nebula Stellar Vintage",
      "description": "Zero-gravity cultivation tanks, trade crystal filtration, and a vintner's eye for luminescence. The Federation charges accordingly.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_stellar_vintage",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.25,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "braise_spore_ragout",
      "name": "Braise Spore Ragout",
      "description": "Gloomcap mash braised down with driftkale and a spoon of whale oil into something deep and savoury.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gloomcap_mash",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "whale_oil",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "spore_ragout",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "breed_plutonium",
      "name": "Breed Plutonium",
      "description": "Breed reactor-grade plutonium in a fission reactor by neutron capture in the thorium blanket.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_fuel_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thorium_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12.75,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "brew_crimson_bloodwine",
      "name": "Brew Crimson Bloodwine",
      "description": "Distilled in the waste heat of weapons forges. The recipe is classified.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_bloodwine",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "brew_frontier_spore_spirits",
      "name": "Brew Frontier Spore Spirits",
      "description": "The stills run in Patchwork's lower decks, sealed vats of something the safety officer has given up inspecting. The output is consistent. The ingredients remain undisclosed.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_spore_spirits",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "brew_nitro_cold_brew",
      "name": "Brew Nitro Cold Brew",
      "description": "Cold-steeped gloomcap coffee charged from a pressblister nitrogen bladder into a velvet cascade.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gloomcap_mash",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nitrogen_bladder",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nitro_cold_brew",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "brew_station_lager",
      "name": "Brew Station Lager",
      "description": "A clean, cold sunspindle lager brewed in-station and drunk by the crate.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "station_lager",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "brew_umbral_stout",
      "name": "Brew Umbral Stout",
      "description": "A stout so dark with umbral-leech residue it seems to drink the light off the bar.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "umbral_residue",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "umbral_stout",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_adaptive_shield_i",
      "name": "Build Adaptive Shield I",
      "description": "Shield that adjusts resistance to damage types.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "metamaterial_panel",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "adaptive_shield_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 315
    },
    {
      "id": "build_adaptive_shield_ii",
      "name": "Build Adaptive Shield II",
      "description": "Enhanced adaptive shield with faster response.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "metamaterial_panel",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "adaptive_shield_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 660,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_adaptive_shield_iii",
      "name": "Build Adaptive Shield III",
      "description": "Top-tier adaptive shield with quantum-linked resistance algorithms.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "metamaterial_panel",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "adaptive_shield_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 795,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_advanced_drone_bay",
      "name": "Build Advanced Drone Bay",
      "description": "High-capacity drone control system.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "advanced_drone_bay",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 63
    },
    {
      "id": "build_advanced_tow_rig",
      "name": "Build Advanced Tow Rig",
      "description": "Construct a high-efficiency tow system with reduced speed penalty.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "advanced_tow_rig",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_afterburner_i",
      "name": "Build Afterburner I",
      "description": "Construct a speed enhancement module.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "afterburner_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 16.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_afterburner_ii",
      "name": "Build Afterburner II",
      "description": "Enhanced thruster system with improved fuel injection.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "afterburner_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 34.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_afterburner_iii",
      "name": "Build Afterburner III",
      "description": "High-performance engine booster with superconductor coils.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "afterburner_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 37.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ammo_fabricator",
      "name": "Build Ammo Fabricator",
      "description": "Construct an automated ammunition press with integrated raw material hopper.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ammo_fabricator",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_anchor_beacon",
      "name": "Build Anchor Beacon",
      "description": "Deployable beacon for fleet warping.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "anchor_beacon",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 42
    },
    {
      "id": "build_anomaly_detector",
      "name": "Build Anomaly Detector",
      "description": "Specialized probe for finding hidden sites.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "micro_thruster_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "anomaly_probe",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 141,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_anomaly_detector_module",
      "name": "Build Anomaly Detector Module",
      "description": "Construct a powerful anomaly detection module for locating wormholes and spatial anomalies.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "anomaly_detector",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 300,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_argon_condenser",
      "name": "Build Argon Condenser",
      "description": "Cryogenic coil assembly that chills the intake to argon's condensation point.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "argon_condenser",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 21
    },
    {
      "id": "build_armor_plate_i",
      "name": "Build Armor Plate I",
      "description": "Construct additional armor plating.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 7.35
    },
    {
      "id": "build_armor_plate_ii",
      "name": "Build Armor Plate II",
      "description": "Reinforced armor plating using durasteel.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 18
    },
    {
      "id": "build_armor_plate_iii",
      "name": "Build Armor Plate III",
      "description": "Heavy armor plating with titanium reinforcement.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 25.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_armor_repairer_i",
      "name": "Build Armor Repairer I",
      "description": "Automated hull repair system.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_repairer_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 55.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_armor_repairer_ii",
      "name": "Build Armor Repairer II",
      "description": "Enhanced nanite repair system.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "biofiber_mesh",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_repairer_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 112.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_armor_repairer_iii",
      "name": "Build Armor Repairer III",
      "description": "High-throughput nanite repair system with crystalline routing substrate for maximum repair rate.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_repairer_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "biofiber_mesh",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_repairer_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 105
    },
    {
      "id": "build_atmospheric_processor",
      "name": "Build Atmospheric Processor",
      "description": "Combine combustion vent, argon condenser, and neon vent into a three-stage gas separation unit.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hydrogen_combustor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "argon_condenser",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neon_vent",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "atmospheric_processor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 105,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_autocannon_i",
      "name": "Build Autocannon I",
      "description": "Construct a basic kinetic weapon.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "autocannon_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.65
    },
    {
      "id": "build_autocannon_ii",
      "name": "Build Autocannon II",
      "description": "Dual-barrel autocannon with improved fire rate.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "autocannon_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_autopilot_core",
      "name": "Build Autopilot Core",
      "description": "Autonomous flight control system.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "autopilot_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 123
    },
    {
      "id": "build_basic_autopilot",
      "name": "Build Basic Autopilot",
      "description": "Program navigation algorithms into a hardened flight controller.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "autopilot_module",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 30
    },
    {
      "id": "build_basic_tow_rig",
      "name": "Build Basic Tow Rig",
      "description": "Construct a basic tow rig for wreck recovery.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "basic_tow_rig",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5.7
    },
    {
      "id": "build_blood_reaver",
      "name": "Build Blood Reaver",
      "description": "Crimson Fleet lifesteal weapon that converts damage to repairs.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "darksteel_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "blood_reaver",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 130.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_business_passenger_cabin",
      "name": "Build Business Passenger Cabin",
      "description": "Construct private business-class cabins with dedicated life support and a galley.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "business_passenger_cabin",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 330
    },
    {
      "id": "build_capital_armor_plate",
      "name": "Build Capital Armor Plate",
      "description": "Massive armor plating for capital ships.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "capital_armor_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 180,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_capital_ship_frame",
      "name": "Build Capital Ship Frame",
      "description": "Forge and assemble the massive structural skeleton of a capital-class vessel.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "capital_ship_frame",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 112.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_carbon_scrubber",
      "name": "Build Carbon Scrubber",
      "description": "Fit a reactive-bed intake filter that catches and vents carbon ore before it reaches the hold, leaving room for rarer co-located ore.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "carbon_scrubber",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cargo_bay_expansion",
      "name": "Build Cargo Bay Expansion",
      "description": "Fabricate a modular cargo bay expansion kit from structural and electronic components.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cargo_container",
      "name": "Build Cargo Container",
      "description": "Weld standardized storage modules from steel plating and structural frames.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.4
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cargo_expander_i",
      "name": "Build Cargo Expander I",
      "description": "Construct cargo hold expansion.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_expander_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.4
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cargo_expander_ii",
      "name": "Build Cargo Expander II",
      "description": "Optimized cargo hold with titanium frame and improved compression polymers.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_expander_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_expander_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cargo_expander_iii",
      "name": "Build Cargo Expander III",
      "description": "Maximum-capacity hold using durasteel superstructure and active compression management.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_expander_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_expander_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 30
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cargo_superstructure",
      "name": "Build Cargo Superstructure",
      "description": "Construct modular cargo framing optimized for volumetric efficiency.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_superstructure",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.8,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_chaff_pod",
      "name": "Build Chaff Pod",
      "description": "Missile countermeasure that confuses tracking.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "chaff_bundle",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.35
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cloak_charge",
      "name": "Build Cloak Charge",
      "description": "Temporary stealth field generator.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "metamaterial_panel",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cloaking_charge",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 255
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cloaking_device_i",
      "name": "Build Cloaking Device I",
      "description": "Basic stealth field generator using optical refraction and silver-wired countermeasures.",
      "category": "Stealth",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cloaking_device_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 72
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cloaking_device_ii",
      "name": "Build Cloaking Device II",
      "description": "Advanced stealth field generator.",
      "category": "Stealth",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cloaking_device_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 555,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_combat_drone",
      "name": "Build Combat Drone",
      "description": "Autonomous combat drone unit.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "combat_drone",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 28.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_combat_scanner_probe",
      "name": "Build Combat Scanner Probe",
      "description": "Probe that reveals ship loadouts and status.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "micro_thruster_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tactical_probe",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 16.2
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_aluminum_smelter",
      "name": "Build Compact Aluminum Smelter",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on reduction press that smelts aluminum ore carried in the hold into structural sheet.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_aluminum_smelter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 675,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_argon_purifier",
      "name": "Build Compact Argon Purifier",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on separation column that purifies argon gas carried in the hold for welding and shield feedstock.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_argon_purifier",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 600,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_copper_wiring_plant",
      "name": "Build Compact Copper Wiring Plant",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on drawing mill that works copper ore carried in the hold into conductive wiring.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_copper_wiring_plant",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 675,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_deuterium_ice_processor",
      "name": "Build Compact Deuterium Ice Processor",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on isotope extractor that renders deuterium ice carried in the hold into fusion-grade deuterium.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_deuterium_ice_processor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 525,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_helium_ice_processor",
      "name": "Build Compact Helium Ice Processor",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on extraction loop that pulls helium-3 from helium ice carried in the hold.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_helium_ice_processor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 525,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_hydrogen_compressor",
      "name": "Build Compact Hydrogen Compressor",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on compression core that renders hydrogen gas carried in the hold into liquid fuel.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_hydrogen_compressor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 600,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_lead_smelter",
      "name": "Build Compact Lead Smelter",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on furnace that smelts lead ore carried in the hold into shielding ingots.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_lead_smelter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 675,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_neon_ionizer",
      "name": "Build Compact Neon Ionizer",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on ionization cell that excites and contains neon gas carried in the hold.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_neon_ionizer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 600,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_nitrogen_ice_processor",
      "name": "Build Compact Nitrogen Ice Processor",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on sublimation unit that works nitrogen ice carried in the hold into liquid nitrogen.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_nitrogen_ice_processor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 525,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_oxygen_liquefier",
      "name": "Build Compact Oxygen Liquefier",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on cryogenic loop that liquefies oxygen gas carried in the hold into propellant.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_oxygen_liquefier",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 600,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_steel_refinery",
      "name": "Build Compact Steel Refinery",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on smelting furnace that refines iron ore carried in the hold into steel plate.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_steel_refinery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 675,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_titanium_refinery",
      "name": "Build Compact Titanium Refinery",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on smelter that reduces titanium ore carried in the hold into ingots.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_titanium_refinery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 675,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_water_ice_processor",
      "name": "Build Compact Water Ice Processor",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on melt-and-filter unit that renders water ice carried in the hold into purified water.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_water_ice_processor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 525,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_compact_xenon_extractor",
      "name": "Build Compact Xenon Extractor",
      "description": "Fit a bolt-on purifier that refines xenon gas carried in the hold to propulsion grade.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "compact_xenon_extractor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 600,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cpu_co_processor",
      "name": "Build CPU Co-Processor",
      "description": "Secondary processing unit that expands available CPU headroom.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cpu_co_processor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15
    },
    {
      "id": "build_crimson_berserker_plating",
      "name": "Build Crimson Berserker Plating",
      "description": "Fury-forged armor that channels damage into destructive rage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_berserker_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 240
    },
    {
      "id": "build_crimson_ordnance_bay",
      "name": "Build Crimson Ordnance Bay",
      "description": "Construct a mass weapon deployment system with live ammo fabrication.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ammo_fabricator",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_ordnance_bay",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 43.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_cryogenic_pod",
      "name": "Build Cryogenic Pod",
      "description": "Long-term stasis chamber for crew transport.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cryogenic_suspension_chamber",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 30
    },
    {
      "id": "build_damage_control_system",
      "name": "Build Damage Control System",
      "description": "Automated damage mitigation across all resistance types.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "damage_control_system",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 84
    },
    {
      "id": "build_dark_matter_projector",
      "name": "Build Dark Matter Projector",
      "description": "Projects concentrated dark matter that annihilates conventional matter on contact.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_projector",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 780,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_dark_matter_thruster",
      "name": "Build Dark Matter Thruster",
      "description": "Strap dark matter to a thruster assembly. Warranty void upon assembly.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_thruster",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 67.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_darksteel_armor",
      "name": "Build Darksteel Armor",
      "description": "Elite armor forged from darksteel alloy and adamantite reinforcement.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "darksteel_plating",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "adamantite_bar",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "darksteel_armor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 120
    },
    {
      "id": "build_deep_space_probe",
      "name": "Build Deep Space Probe",
      "description": "Long-range exploration probe.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "premium_fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "micro_thruster_array",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deep_space_probe",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 33
    },
    {
      "id": "build_defense_platform",
      "name": "Build Defense Platform",
      "description": "Construct automated defense turret base.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "defense_platform",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 48,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_dimensional_anchor",
      "name": "Build Dimensional Anchor",
      "description": "Construct an interdictor-grade dimensional field anchor from paired gravity generators and reinforced shield hardware.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gravity_generator",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "dimensional_anchor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "build_docking_ring",
      "name": "Build Docking Ring",
      "description": "Construct modular docking infrastructure.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "docking_ring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 52.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_ai_core",
      "name": "Build Drone AI Core",
      "description": "Construct autonomous drone control systems.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_extract",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 52.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_bay",
      "name": "Build Drone Bay",
      "description": "Drone deployment and control module.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "combat_drone_bay",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 30
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_bay_module",
      "name": "Build Drone Bay Module",
      "description": "Hardened drone storage and launch bay for carrier-class ships.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_bay_module",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 45
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_chassis",
      "name": "Build Drone Chassis",
      "description": "Construct lightweight drone frame.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nanoplastic_composite",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "micro_thruster_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.85
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_command_module",
      "name": "Build Drone Command Module",
      "description": "Assemble a multi-drone coordination hub with parallel processing.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_sensor_suite",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_comms_module",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_command_module",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 82.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_comms_module",
      "name": "Build Drone Comms Module",
      "description": "Short-range encrypted communications system for drone coordination.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_comms_module",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 7.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_mining_laser",
      "name": "Build Drone Mining Laser",
      "description": "Compact mining beam for autonomous ore extraction.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_mining_laser",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_repair_arm",
      "name": "Build Drone Repair Arm",
      "description": "Articulated repair tool for autonomous hull maintenance.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_repair_arm",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_sensor_suite",
      "name": "Build Drone Sensor Suite",
      "description": "Multi-spectrum sensor array for drone reconnaissance.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_sensor_suite",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_drone_weapon_mount",
      "name": "Build Drone Weapon Mount",
      "description": "Hardpoint assembly for mounting weapons on combat drones.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_weapon_mount",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ecm_burst_device",
      "name": "Build ECM Burst Device",
      "description": "One-time electronic countermeasure pulse.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ecm_jammer_pod",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12.75,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ecm_jammer",
      "name": "Build ECM Jammer",
      "description": "Electronic countermeasures system.",
      "category": "Electronic Warfare",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ecm_jammer_pod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.55,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_economy_passenger_cabin",
      "name": "Build Economy Passenger Cabin",
      "description": "Fit out a block of economy passenger bunks and shared life support.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "economy_passenger_cabin",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 90
    },
    {
      "id": "build_electromagnetic_refinery",
      "name": "Build Electromagnetic Refinery",
      "description": "Integrate a magnetic separator and flotation cell into a unified ore processing chassis.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "magnetic_ore_separator",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flotation_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "electromagnetic_refinery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 90,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_em_disruptor_i",
      "name": "Build EM Disruptor I",
      "description": "Disrupts enemy systems, reducing their combat effectiveness.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "em_disruptor_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 58.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_em_hull_hardener",
      "name": "Build EM Hull Hardener",
      "description": "Hull resistance plating tuned to electromagnetic damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "em_hull_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 24
    },
    {
      "id": "build_em_shield_hardener",
      "name": "Build EM Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Shield resistance module tuned to electromagnetic damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "em_shield_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 64.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_em_smartbomb",
      "name": "Build EM Smartbomb",
      "description": "Area-effect EMP device that disrupts all nearby ships.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "em_smartbomb",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 96,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_emergency_warp_device",
      "name": "Build Emergency Warp Device",
      "description": "One-time emergency jump to random nearby system.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "premium_fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emergency_warp_device",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 270
    },
    {
      "id": "build_emergency_warp_stabilizer",
      "name": "Build Emergency Warp Stabilizer",
      "description": "One-use defense module. Auto-warps you home when hull drops below 20% in battle, then self-destructs.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emergency_warp_stabilizer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 285
    },
    {
      "id": "build_emp_cannon_i",
      "name": "Build EMP Cannon I",
      "description": "Electromagnetic pulse weapon that disables systems.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_cannon_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 45
    },
    {
      "id": "build_emp_missile_launcher",
      "name": "Build EMP Missile Launcher",
      "description": "Launches missiles with EMP warheads.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "missile_launcher_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_missile_launcher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 84,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_emp_pulse_i",
      "name": "Build EMP Pulse I",
      "description": "Electromagnetic pulse that temporarily disables ship systems.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_pulse_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 57
    },
    {
      "id": "build_emp_pulse_ii",
      "name": "Build EMP Pulse II",
      "description": "Enhanced EMP device with longer disruption duration.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_pulse_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 102,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_emp_pulse_iii",
      "name": "Build EMP Pulse III",
      "description": "Military-grade EMP capable of crippling capital ships.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "metamaterial_panel",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_pulse_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 615,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_environmental_control_unit",
      "name": "Build Environmental Control Unit",
      "description": "Construct atmospheric regulation and thermal management systems.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "environmental_control_unit",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.2
    },
    {
      "id": "build_expanded_fuel_tank",
      "name": "Build Expanded Fuel Tank",
      "description": "Construct additional fuel bladders to increase a ship's fuel capacity.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "expanded_fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 14.25
    },
    {
      "id": "build_explosive_hull_hardener",
      "name": "Build Explosive Hull Hardener",
      "description": "Hull resistance plating tuned to explosive damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "explosive_hull_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9.6
    },
    {
      "id": "build_explosive_shield_hardener",
      "name": "Build Explosive Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Shield resistance module tuned to explosive damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "explosive_shield_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 55.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_explosive_smartbomb",
      "name": "Build Explosive Smartbomb",
      "description": "Shaped charge detonation affecting all nearby ships.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "explosive_smartbomb",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 63,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_first_class_passenger_suite",
      "name": "Build First-Class Passenger Suite",
      "description": "Assemble lavish first-class staterooms with panoramic ports and redundant life support.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "first_class_passenger_suite",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1125
    },
    {
      "id": "build_flak_cannon_i",
      "name": "Build Flak Cannon I",
      "description": "Anti-missile and anti-drone defense weapon.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flak_cannon_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 63
    },
    {
      "id": "build_flak_cannon_ii",
      "name": "Build Flak Cannon II",
      "description": "Improved flak system with proximity fuses.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flak_cannon_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 79.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_flak_cannon_iii",
      "name": "Build Flak Cannon III",
      "description": "Advanced flak battery with defensive perimeter capability.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "metamaterial_panel",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flak_cannon_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 390,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_flare_pod",
      "name": "Build Flare Pod",
      "description": "Heat-based missile countermeasure.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_flare",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
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      "name": "Build Flotation Cell",
      "description": "Reaction chamber packed with reagent injectors and foam-skimming vents.",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
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        {
          "item_id": "flotation_cell",
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      "description": "Continuous beam weapon that partially bypasses shields.",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "focused_beam_i",
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      "description": "Advanced beam weapon with improved shield penetration.",
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        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
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        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
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        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "focused_beam_ii",
          "quantity": 1
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    {
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      "description": "Elite beam weapon with 60% shield penetration.",
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        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 3
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        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
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        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        {
          "item_id": "focused_beam_iii",
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      "description": "Cobble together self-repair and life support from whatever's available.",
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          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 10
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        {
          "item_id": "frontier_survival_kit",
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      "id": "build_fuel_optimizer",
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      "description": "Inline fuel processing unit that improves combustion efficiency.",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
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        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_optimizer",
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    {
      "id": "build_fuel_tank",
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      "description": "Construct pressurized fuel storage using hydrogen-rated containment materials.",
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        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 4
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
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      "id": "build_fury_cannon",
      "name": "Build Fury Cannon",
      "description": "Crimson Fleet weapon that channels the pilot's rage into devastating kinetic blasts.",
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        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 5
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        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
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        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fury_cannon",
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    {
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      "description": "Atmospheric gas collection system.",
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        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 4
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "gas_harvester_i",
          "quantity": 1
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    {
      "id": "build_gas_harvester_ii",
      "name": "Build Gas Harvester II",
      "description": "Enhanced gas collection with compression.",
      "category": "Modules",
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        {
          "item_id": "gas_harvester_i",
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        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "gas_harvester_ii",
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      "id": "build_gas_harvester_iii",
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        {
          "item_id": "gas_harvester_ii",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
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        {
          "item_id": "purified_krypton",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "gas_harvester_iii",
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    {
      "id": "build_gas_harvester_iv",
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      "description": "Capital-grade gas collection system with quantum compression.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gas_harvester_iii",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
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      ],
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        {
          "item_id": "gas_harvester_iv",
          "quantity": 1
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    {
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      "name": "Build Gravity Generator",
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        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 4
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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        {
          "item_id": "gravity_generator",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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    {
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      "name": "Build Habitation Module",
      "description": "Create living quarters for station residents.",
      "category": "Components",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 15
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        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "biofiber_mesh",
          "quantity": 2
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        {
          "item_id": "habitation_module",
          "quantity": 1
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    {
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      "description": "Large enclosed bay for ship storage and maintenance on carrier-class vessels.",
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 8
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 15
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "docking_ring",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 1
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      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hangar_bay_module",
          "quantity": 1
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      "facility_only": true
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    {
      "id": "build_heavy_mass_driver",
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      "description": "Siege-class mass accelerator. Requires a Siege Railgun as the base assembly — the capacitor bank and rail system are rebuilt around a neutronium bore.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "siege_railgun",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 3
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        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        }
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      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "heavy_mass_driver",
          "quantity": 1
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    {
      "id": "build_heavy_pulse_laser",
      "name": "Build Heavy Pulse Laser",
      "description": "Capital-class energy weapon with devastating output.",
      "category": "Weapons",
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        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 2
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        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 5
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        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "heavy_pulse_laser",
          "quantity": 1
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      "crafting_time": 405,
      "facility_only": true
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    {
      "id": "build_heavy_torpedo_launcher",
      "name": "Build Heavy Torpedo Launcher",
      "description": "Devastating capital ship killer launcher.",
      "category": "Weapons",
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        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
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        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "heavy_torpedo",
          "quantity": 1
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      "crafting_time": 60,
      "facility_only": true
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    {
      "id": "build_hull_integrity_field",
      "name": "Build Hull Integrity Field",
      "description": "Structural reinforcement field generator.",
      "category": "Defense",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_integrity_field",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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    {
      "id": "build_hull_reinforcement_i",
      "name": "Build Hull Reinforcement I",
      "description": "Internal structural bracing that increases hull integrity.",
      "category": "Defense",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_reinforcement_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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    {
      "id": "build_hull_reinforcement_ii",
      "name": "Build Hull Reinforcement II",
      "description": "Reinforced internal bracing using high-strength durasteel.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_reinforcement_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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      "crafting_time": 16.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_hull_reinforcement_iii",
      "name": "Build Hull Reinforcement III",
      "description": "Heavy structural reinforcement with titanium composite bracing.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_reinforcement_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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    {
      "id": "build_hydrogen_combustor",
      "name": "Build Hydrogen Combustor",
      "description": "Plasma torch assembly rated for continuous ignition of compressed hydrogen streams.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hydrogen_combustor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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    {
      "id": "build_hyper_mining_laser_iii",
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        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 4
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        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hyper_mining_laser_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 495
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ice_harvester_i",
      "name": "Build Ice Harvester I",
      "description": "Ice mining and collection system.",
      "category": "Modules",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ice_harvester_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ice_harvester_ii",
      "name": "Build Ice Harvester II",
      "description": "Enhanced ice harvester with thermal extraction.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ice_harvester_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ice_harvester_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ice_harvester_iii",
      "name": "Build Ice Harvester III",
      "description": "Industrial-grade ice mining with cryo-compression technology.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ice_harvester_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ice_harvester_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 135
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ice_harvester_iv",
      "name": "Build Ice Harvester IV",
      "description": "Capital-grade cryo-extraction and processing system.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ice_harvester_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_krypton",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ice_harvester_iv",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 420,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ion_beam_array",
      "name": "Build Ion Beam Array",
      "description": "Continuous ion beam for sustained shield damage.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_beam_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 165,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ion_blaster_i",
      "name": "Build Ion Blaster I",
      "description": "Ionized particles that disrupt shield generators.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_blaster_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 58.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ion_blaster_ii",
      "name": "Build Ion Blaster II",
      "description": "Enhanced ion weapon that cripples shield regeneration.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_blaster_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 108,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ion_blaster_iii",
      "name": "Build Ion Blaster III",
      "description": "Military ion weapon that neutralizes shield systems.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_blaster_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 165,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ion_cannon_i",
      "name": "Build Ion Cannon I",
      "description": "Shield-disrupting ion weapon.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_cannon_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 39
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ion_cannon_ii",
      "name": "Build Ion Cannon II",
      "description": "Enhanced ion weapon with capacitor overload.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_cannon_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 81,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ion_emitter",
      "name": "Build Ion Emitter",
      "description": "Create shield-disrupting ion projection system.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_xenon",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ion_emitter_gas_method",
      "name": "Build Ion Emitter (Gas Method)",
      "description": "Construct an ion projection system using concentrated ion gas.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ion_thruster",
      "name": "Build Ion Thruster",
      "description": "Assemble an ion propulsion unit using charged particle acceleration.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 21.3
    },
    {
      "id": "build_isotope_separator",
      "name": "Build Isotope Separator",
      "description": "Stack a nitrogen vent and thermal sublimator into a dual-gradient thermal processing unit.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_sublimator",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nitrogen_vent",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "isotope_separator",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 97.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_judgment_beam",
      "name": "Build Judgment Beam",
      "description": "The ultimate Solarian weapon channeling righteous stellar energy.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "judgment_beam",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 600,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_jump_calculator",
      "name": "Build Jump Calculator",
      "description": "Hyperspace route calculation computer.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jump_calculator",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 124.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_jump_drive_core",
      "name": "Build Jump Drive Core",
      "description": "Hyperspace jump drive component.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jump_drive_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 990,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_jury_rigged_cannon",
      "name": "Build Jury-Rigged Cannon",
      "description": "Outer Rim heavy weapon cobbled from salvage and scrap.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jury_rigged_cannon",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 37.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_kinetic_hull_hardener",
      "name": "Build Kinetic Hull Hardener",
      "description": "Hull resistance plating tuned to kinetic damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "kinetic_hull_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 11.1
    },
    {
      "id": "build_kinetic_shield_hardener",
      "name": "Build Kinetic Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Shield resistance module tuned to kinetic damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "kinetic_shield_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 57
    },
    {
      "id": "build_kinetic_smartbomb",
      "name": "Build Kinetic Smartbomb",
      "description": "Shrapnel burst device damaging all nearby ships.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "kinetic_smartbomb",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 57,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_lead_lined_cargo_i",
      "name": "Build Lead Lined Cargo I",
      "description": "Construct a cargo expansion with integrated lead shielding for safe transport of radioactive materials.",
      "category": "Equipment",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_lined_cargo_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12.75
    },
    {
      "id": "build_lead_lined_cargo_ii",
      "name": "Build Lead Lined Cargo II",
      "description": "Upgrade a lead-lined cargo bay with titanium reinforcement for maximum shielding capacity.",
      "category": "Equipment",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_lined_cargo_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_lined_cargo_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 39
    },
    {
      "id": "build_life_support_array",
      "name": "Build Life Support Array",
      "description": "Integrate environmental systems for extended deep-space operations.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "water_recycler",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 18
    },
    {
      "id": "build_life_support_unit",
      "name": "Build Life Support Unit",
      "description": "Atmospheric and environmental control system.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "life_support_unit",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.2
    },
    {
      "id": "build_light_drone_bay",
      "name": "Build Light Drone Bay",
      "description": "Compact drone bay for smaller carrier hulls.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "light_drone_bay",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12
    },
    {
      "id": "build_magnetic_ore_separator",
      "name": "Build Magnetic Ore Separator",
      "description": "Wind superconducting coils around a durasteel housing to make a high-field electromagnet.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "magnetic_ore_separator",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mass_driver",
      "name": "Build Mass Driver",
      "description": "Capital-class railgun with extreme range and armor bypass.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "darksteel_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "adamantite_bar",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mass_driver",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 180,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_micro_thruster",
      "name": "Build Micro Thruster",
      "description": "Create miniaturized propulsion for drones.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_xenon",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "micro_thruster_array",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mine_launcher_i",
      "name": "Build Mine Launcher I",
      "description": "Deploys proximity mines that detonate when ships approach.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mine_launcher_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mine_launcher_ii",
      "name": "Build Mine Launcher II",
      "description": "Advanced mine deployment system with larger payload capacity.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mine_launcher_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 60,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mining_drone",
      "name": "Build Mining Drone",
      "description": "Autonomous mining drone unit.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_drone",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 55.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mining_laser_i",
      "name": "Build Mining Laser I",
      "description": "Construct a basic mining laser.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_laser_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 24
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mining_laser_ii",
      "name": "Build Mining Laser II",
      "description": "Construct an improved mining laser.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_laser_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 37.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mining_laser_iii",
      "name": "Build Mining Laser III",
      "description": "Industrial mining laser with enhanced extraction beam.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_laser_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_laser_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 118.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mining_laser_iv",
      "name": "Build Mining Laser IV",
      "description": "Capital-grade mining system with maximum extraction power.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_laser_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_laser_iv",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 375
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mining_laser_v",
      "name": "Build Mining Laser V",
      "description": "Capital-grade mining system with peak extraction performance.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_laser_iv",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_laser_v",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 825,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_mining_survey_probe",
      "name": "Build Mining Survey Probe",
      "description": "Probe that analyzes asteroid composition.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "micro_thruster_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_survey_probe",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.8
    },
    {
      "id": "build_missile_launcher_i",
      "name": "Build Missile Launcher I",
      "description": "Construct a basic missile system.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "missile_launcher_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27
    },
    {
      "id": "build_missile_launcher_ii",
      "name": "Build Missile Launcher II",
      "description": "Multi-warhead missile system with improved tracking.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "missile_guidance_unit",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "missile_launcher_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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      "crafting_time": 97.5,
      "facility_only": true
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      "id": "build_nanite_hull_coating",
      "name": "Build Nanite Hull Coating",
      "description": "Self-replicating nanobots that continuously repair hull damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
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        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "adamantite_bar",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nanite_hull_coating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 300,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_nanocarbon_hull_lattice",
      "name": "Build Nanocarbon Hull Lattice",
      "description": "Elite nanocarbon structural weave woven into the hull frame.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "darksteel_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "carbon_fiber_weave",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nanocarbon_hull_lattice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 42
    },
    {
      "id": "build_nanofiber_internal_structure",
      "name": "Build Nanofiber Internal Structure",
      "description": "Lay up a lightweight flex-polymer hull bracing over a durasteel frame for improved speed and agility.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nanofiber_internal_structure",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_navigation_array",
      "name": "Build Navigation Array",
      "description": "Combine navigation and sensor systems into an advanced astrogation suite.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "autopilot_module",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 135
    },
    {
      "id": "build_navigation_core",
      "name": "Build Navigation Core",
      "description": "Advanced pathfinding and navigation system.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 93
    },
    {
      "id": "build_nebula_cargo_matrix",
      "name": "Build Nebula Cargo Matrix",
      "description": "Apply prism-lens sorting to cargo containers for optimized packing.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 75
    },
    {
      "id": "build_nebula_prism_computer",
      "name": "Build Nebula Prism Computer",
      "description": "Route computation through prism lenses for photonic parallel processing.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_prism_computer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "build_neon_signaling_array",
      "name": "Build Neon Signaling Array",
      "description": "Assemble gas-discharge tubes into a high-bandwidth signal processing array.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ionized_neon",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neon_signaling_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5.25
    },
    {
      "id": "build_neon_vent",
      "name": "Build Neon Vent",
      "description": "Differential pressure separator with temperature tuning for neon's condensation point.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neon_vent",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 21
    },
    {
      "id": "build_neural_disruptor",
      "name": "Build Neural Disruptor",
      "description": "Advanced EM weapon that damages ship computing systems.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neural_disruptor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 150,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_nitrogen_vent",
      "name": "Build Nitrogen Vent",
      "description": "Cryo-thermal gradient module tuned between nitrogen's and water ice's sublimation points.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nitrogen_vent",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_nuclear_reactor_i",
      "name": "Build Nuclear Reactor I",
      "description": "Assemble a compact fission reactor module from a fuel assembly, superconductors, and radiation-hardened circuits.",
      "category": "Equipment",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_fuel_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "radiation_hardened_circuit",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nuclear_reactor_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 195,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_nuclear_reactor_ii",
      "name": "Build Nuclear Reactor II",
      "description": "Scale up a reactor module into an industrial-grade power plant with massive output.",
      "category": "Equipment",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nuclear_reactor_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_fuel_assembly",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "radiation_hardened_circuit",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nuclear_reactor_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 735,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_null_cannon",
      "name": "Build Null Cannon",
      "description": "Creates localized null-space pockets that erase matter from existence.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "null_cannon",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 690,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_onboard_h2o2_refinery",
      "name": "Build Onboard H2O2 Refinery",
      "description": "Integrate an electrolysis heat sink and coolant loops into a self-contained unit that cracks hold water ice straight to tank fuel.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "onboard_h2o2_refinery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 720,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_onboard_hydrogen_refinery",
      "name": "Build Onboard Hydrogen Refinery",
      "description": "Integrate a hydrogen combustor and coolant loop into a self-contained burner chassis that converts hold hydrogen straight to tank fuel.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hydrogen_combustor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "onboard_hydrogen_refinery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 780,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_outer_rim_scrap_armor",
      "name": "Build Outer Rim Scrap Armor",
      "description": "Improvised armor cobbled together from salvaged ship components.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "wiring_harness",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "outer_rim_scrap_armor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 49.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_overcharge_cell",
      "name": "Build Overcharge Cell",
      "description": "Temporary power boost device.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "overcharge_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 105
    },
    {
      "id": "build_pathfinder_drive",
      "name": "Build Pathfinder Drive",
      "description": "Assemble an experimental off-network long-range drive. Marries hyperspace jump hardware to a dead-reckoning navigation computer so a ship can cross open space toward raw galactic coordinates.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jump_drive_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_calculator",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "navigation_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_drive",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pathfinder_drive",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1800,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_phase_array",
      "name": "Build Phase Array",
      "description": "Integrate phase matrices and quantum dots with optical pathways for dimensional shifting.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_dot_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 75,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_phase_cloaking_device",
      "name": "Build Phase Cloaking Device",
      "description": "Top-tier stealth system using phase-shift technology to partially remove the ship from normal space.",
      "category": "Stealth",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_cloaking_device",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 405,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_phase_disruptor",
      "name": "Build Phase Disruptor",
      "description": "Voidborn weapon that shifts between dimensions to strike.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_disruptor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 315,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_phase_drive",
      "name": "Build Phase Drive",
      "description": "Dimensional phase-shift propulsion core.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_drive",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 945,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_piercing_railgun_i",
      "name": "Build Piercing Railgun I",
      "description": "Electromagnetic projectile accelerator with armor-piercing capability.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "piercing_railgun_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 75
    },
    {
      "id": "build_piercing_railgun_ii",
      "name": "Build Piercing Railgun II",
      "description": "Enhanced piercing railgun with higher muzzle velocity and greater armor penetration.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "piercing_railgun_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 225,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_pirate_radio_scanner",
      "name": "Build Pirate Radio Scanner",
      "description": "Cobble together a broadband receiver from basic electronics. Embarrassingly simple construction for what it can do.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pirate_radio_scanner",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 7.05
    },
    {
      "id": "build_plasma_afterburner",
      "name": "Build Plasma Afterburner",
      "description": "Maximum thrust module with plasma-driven propulsion.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_afterburner",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 63,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_plasma_cannon_i",
      "name": "Build Plasma Cannon I",
      "description": "Basic plasma projection weapon.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cannon_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 33,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_plasma_cannon_ii",
      "name": "Build Plasma Cannon II",
      "description": "Enhanced plasma cannon with improved range.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cannon_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 57,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_plasma_cannon_iii",
      "name": "Build Plasma Cannon III",
      "description": "Military-grade plasma weapon with armor-melting capability.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cannon_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 121.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_plasma_cannon_iv",
      "name": "Build Plasma Cannon IV",
      "description": "High-powered plasma weapon system.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cannon_iv",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 142.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_plasma_injector",
      "name": "Build Plasma Injector",
      "description": "Create plasma weapon fuel injection system.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 19.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_plasma_repeater_i",
      "name": "Build Plasma Repeater I",
      "description": "Rapid-fire plasma weapon with high sustained damage.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_repeater_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 36,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_plasma_repeater_ii",
      "name": "Build Plasma Repeater II",
      "description": "Advanced rapid-fire plasma system with improved heat dissipation.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_repeater_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 73.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_plasma_torpedo_launcher",
      "name": "Build Plasma Torpedo Launcher",
      "description": "Launches slow but devastating plasma projectiles.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_torpedo_launcher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 112.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_power_cell",
      "name": "Build Power Cell",
      "description": "Create energy storage units.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_power_distribution_grid",
      "name": "Build Power Distribution Grid",
      "description": "Route power cells through redundant wiring harnesses for ship-wide distribution.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "wiring_harness",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_distribution_grid",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 28.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_precision_optics",
      "name": "Build Precision Optics",
      "description": "Krypton-filled optical assemblies for maximum sensor resolution and target tracking.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_krypton",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neon_signaling_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 34.2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_processing_core",
      "name": "Build Processing Core",
      "description": "Fabricate ship computing units.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 21
    },
    {
      "id": "build_proximity_mine_launcher",
      "name": "Build Proximity Mine Launcher",
      "description": "Deploys smart mines with enhanced detection radius.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "proximity_mine_launcher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 52.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_pulse_laser_i",
      "name": "Build Pulse Laser I",
      "description": "Construct a basic energy weapon.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pulse_laser_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 37.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_pulse_laser_ii",
      "name": "Build Pulse Laser II",
      "description": "Improved energy weapon with better focusing optics.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pulse_laser_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 103.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_pulse_laser_iii",
      "name": "Build Pulse Laser III",
      "description": "Military-grade pulse laser with rapid fire capability.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pulse_laser_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 195,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_quantum_entanglement_shield",
      "name": "Build Quantum Entanglement Shield",
      "description": "Legendary shield that redirects damage to parallel dimensions.",
      "category": "Legendary",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_entanglement_shield",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1245,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_quantum_entangler",
      "name": "Build Quantum Entangler",
      "description": "Instantaneous communication across any distance.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_entangler",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 450,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_quantum_shield_iv",
      "name": "Build Quantum Shield IV",
      "description": "Advanced quantum phase shield generator.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_shield_iv",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 315,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_rad_harvester_i",
      "name": "Build Rad Harvester I",
      "description": "Construct a basic radiation-shielded mining module from lead-lined components.",
      "category": "Equipment",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rad_harvester_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 14.85
    },
    {
      "id": "build_rad_harvester_ii",
      "name": "Build Rad Harvester II",
      "description": "Upgrade an existing rad harvester with enhanced shielding and power systems.",
      "category": "Equipment",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rad_harvester_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rad_harvester_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 34.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_rad_harvester_iii",
      "name": "Build Rad Harvester III",
      "description": "Construct a heavy-duty radiation harvester with titanium shielding and superconducting drive coils.",
      "category": "Equipment",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rad_harvester_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rad_harvester_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 61.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_rad_harvester_iv",
      "name": "Build Rad Harvester IV",
      "description": "The pinnacle of radiation mining technology — massive yield with full hot-isotope containment.",
      "category": "Equipment",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rad_harvester_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rad_harvester_iv",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 102
    },
    {
      "id": "build_railgun_capacitor",
      "name": "Build Railgun Capacitor",
      "description": "High-capacity energy storage for magnetic weapons.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 51
    },
    {
      "id": "build_railgun_i",
      "name": "Build Railgun I",
      "description": "Electromagnetic accelerator firing dense slugs at extreme velocity.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 75
    },
    {
      "id": "build_railgun_ii",
      "name": "Build Railgun II",
      "description": "Advanced railgun with armor-piercing rounds.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 142.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_reactive_armor_hardener",
      "name": "Build Reactive Armor Hardener",
      "description": "Armor system that automatically shifts resistances to counter incoming damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "darksteel_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactive_armor_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 129
    },
    {
      "id": "build_refueling_pump",
      "name": "Build Refueling Pump",
      "description": "Construct a high-pressure fuel transfer pump for ship-to-ship refueling.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "refueling_pump",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 16.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_regenerative_armor_i",
      "name": "Build Regenerative Armor I",
      "description": "Self-repairing armor plating with nanite infusion.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "regenerative_armor_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 64.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_regenerative_armor_ii",
      "name": "Build Regenerative Armor II",
      "description": "Exotic-infused living armor with dense structural bonuses and continuous passive repair.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "regenerative_armor_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "biofiber_mesh",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "regenerative_armor_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 150,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_remote_armor_repairer_i",
      "name": "Build Remote Armor Repairer I",
      "description": "Logistics module that repairs allied armor mid-battle.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "remote_armor_repairer_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 37.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_remote_armor_repairer_ii",
      "name": "Build Remote Armor Repairer II",
      "description": "Enhanced fleet logistics with greater repair output and range.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "remote_armor_repairer_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 67.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_remote_armor_repairer_iii",
      "name": "Build Remote Armor Repairer III",
      "description": "Capital-class fleet logistics for sustained group support.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_armor_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "remote_armor_repairer_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 120
    },
    {
      "id": "build_repair_arm",
      "name": "Build Repair Arm",
      "description": "Construct a remote hull repair system for ship-to-ship repairs.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_arm",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 21
    },
    {
      "id": "build_repair_drone",
      "name": "Build Repair Drone",
      "description": "Autonomous repair drone unit.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_drone",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "build_salvage_drone",
      "name": "Build Salvage Drone",
      "description": "Autonomous salvaging drone unit.",
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      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_drone",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 63
    },
    {
      "id": "build_scan_probe",
      "name": "Build Scan Probe",
      "description": "Basic exploration and survey probe.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "micro_thruster_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reconnaissance_probe",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 7.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_scout_drone",
      "name": "Build Scout Drone",
      "description": "Fast reconnaissance drone with extended sensor range.",
      "category": "Drones",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "micro_thruster_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "scout_drone",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 33
    },
    {
      "id": "build_scrap_harpoon",
      "name": "Build Scrap Harpoon",
      "description": "Outer Rim whaling harpoon forged from salvaged scrap iron and a winch cable.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "scrap_harpoon",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 14
    },
    {
      "id": "build_scrapgun",
      "name": "Build Scrapgun",
      "description": "Outer Rim improvised weapon cobbled from salvage.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "scrapgun",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "build_sensor_booster",
      "name": "Build Sensor Booster",
      "description": "Neon-tube signal amplifier that temporarily enhances scanner sensitivity.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ionized_neon",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_booster",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "build_sensor_cluster",
      "name": "Build Sensor Cluster",
      "description": "Combine sensor arrays with processing cores for multi-spectrum analysis.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_package",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_cluster",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 58.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_sensor_jammer",
      "name": "Build Sensor Jammer",
      "description": "Deployable device that disrupts enemy sensors.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_jammer",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 20.7
    },
    {
      "id": "build_sensor_package",
      "name": "Build Sensor Package",
      "description": "Assemble integrated diagnostic sensors from circuit boards and focused crystal.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_package",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 30
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_array",
      "name": "Build Shield Array",
      "description": "Link multiple shield emitters into a load-sharing defensive grid.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 109.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_booster_i",
      "name": "Build Shield Booster I",
      "description": "Construct a shield enhancement module.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_booster_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 25.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_booster_ii",
      "name": "Build Shield Booster II",
      "description": "Enhanced shield capacitor array.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_booster_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 108
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_booster_iii",
      "name": "Build Shield Booster III",
      "description": "High-output shield amplifier with superconductor coils.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_booster_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 195
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_booster_iv",
      "name": "Build Shield Booster IV",
      "description": "Capital-grade shield enhancement with quantum amplification.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_booster_iv",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 270,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_emitter",
      "name": "Build Shield Emitter",
      "description": "Create shield projection units.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 46.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_generator",
      "name": "Build Shield Generator",
      "description": "Integrate a shield emitter array with processing hardware into a complete shield generation system.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_generator",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 90
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_overcharge_unit",
      "name": "Build Shield Overcharge Unit",
      "description": "Temporarily doubles shield capacity.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_overcharge",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 30
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_recharger_i",
      "name": "Build Shield Recharger I",
      "description": "Passive shield regeneration module.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_recharger_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 19.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_shield_recharger_ii",
      "name": "Build Shield Recharger II",
      "description": "Enhanced passive shield regeneration.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_recharger_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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      "crafting_time": 112.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ship_scanner_i",
      "name": "Build Ship Scanner I",
      "description": "Construct detection equipment.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ship_scanner_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 42
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ship_scanner_ii",
      "name": "Build Ship Scanner II",
      "description": "Enhanced scanner with improved sensor resolution and signal filtering.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ship_scanner_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ship_scanner_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_ship_scanner_iii",
      "name": "Build Ship Scanner III",
      "description": "Military-grade scanner with deep-penetration sensors and predictive analysis core.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ship_scanner_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ship_scanner_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 60,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_siege_railgun",
      "name": "Build Siege Railgun",
      "description": "Capital-class railgun for station assault.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "siege_railgun",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 450,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_silver_power_cell",
      "name": "Build Silver Power Cell",
      "description": "Create energy storage units using silver wiring for improved conductivity.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_singularity_core",
      "name": "Build Singularity Core",
      "description": "Micro black hole power generation system.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_antimatter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "temporal_stabilizer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "singularity_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 750,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_solar_collector_array",
      "name": "Build Solar Collector Array",
      "description": "Calibrate sensor arrays with Solarian composite for multi-stellar energy harvesting.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solar_collector_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "build_solar_lance",
      "name": "Build Solar Lance",
      "description": "Solarian weapon that harnesses the power of stars.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focus_array",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solar_lance",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 405,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_solarian_aegis",
      "name": "Build Solarian Aegis",
      "description": "Solarian defensive system that harnesses stellar energy to reflect attacks.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_aegis",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 345
    },
    {
      "id": "build_solarian_logic_matrix",
      "name": "Build Solarian Logic Matrix",
      "description": "Assemble quantum-coherent processors using Solarian composite substrates.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_logic_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 51
    },
    {
      "id": "build_stasis_webifier_i",
      "name": "Build Stasis Webifier I",
      "description": "Slows target ship movement and evasion.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "stasis_webifier_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 37.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_stasis_webifier_ii",
      "name": "Build Stasis Webifier II",
      "description": "Enhanced stasis field with greater range and effect.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "stasis_webifier_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 67.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_station_reactor",
      "name": "Build Station Reactor",
      "description": "Construct large-scale power generation.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "enriched_uranium_rod",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 555,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_station_reactor_core",
      "name": "Build Station Reactor Core",
      "description": "Assemble a large-scale fusion reactor from heavy shielding and superconducting coils.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "station_reactor_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 120,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_strip_miner_i",
      "name": "Build Strip Miner I",
      "description": "Overbuild a mining laser with wide-aperture crystals and heavy power systems — maximum extraction width, no precision targeting.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mining_laser_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "strip_miner_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 120,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_strip_miner_ii",
      "name": "Build Strip Miner II",
      "description": "Extreme-capacity extraction platform. Massive crystal array driven by capital-grade power systems.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "strip_miner_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "strip_miner_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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      "crafting_time": 270,
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    {
      "id": "build_survey_scanner_i",
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      "description": "Construct a geological survey scanner for detecting ore deposits.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "survey_scanner_i",
          "quantity": 1
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      "crafting_time": 66
    },
    {
      "id": "build_survey_scanner_ii",
      "name": "Build Survey Scanner II",
      "description": "Construct an advanced geological survey scanner.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "survey_scanner_ii",
          "quantity": 1
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      "crafting_time": 210,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_swarm_controller",
      "name": "Build Swarm Controller",
      "description": "Multi-drone coordination system for coordinating drone swarms on carrier-class ships.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "swarm_controller",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 180,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_system_disabler",
      "name": "Build System Disabler",
      "description": "Targeted EMP that disables specific enemy modules.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "system_disabler",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 132,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_target_painter_i",
      "name": "Build Target Painter I",
      "description": "Paints targets to increase incoming damage accuracy.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "target_painter_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 45
    },
    {
      "id": "build_target_painter_ii",
      "name": "Build Target Painter II",
      "description": "Enhanced target painting with broader signature bloom.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "target_painter_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 105
    },
    {
      "id": "build_targeting_computer",
      "name": "Build Targeting Computer",
      "description": "Assemble fire control processors with sensor integration for weapon guidance.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "build_temporal_stabilizer",
      "name": "Build Temporal Stabilizer",
      "description": "Prevents time dilation effects during high-speed travel.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "temporal_stabilizer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 600,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_thermal_hull_hardener",
      "name": "Build Thermal Hull Hardener",
      "description": "Hull resistance plating tuned to thermal damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_ceramic",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_hull_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.7
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    {
      "id": "build_thermal_shield_hardener",
      "name": "Build Thermal Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Shield resistance module tuned to thermal damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_ceramic",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_shield_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 54
    },
    {
      "id": "build_thermal_smartbomb",
      "name": "Build Thermal Smartbomb",
      "description": "Releases superheated plasma in all directions.",
      "category": "Weapons",
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        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_smartbomb",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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      "crafting_time": 72,
      "facility_only": true
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    {
      "id": "build_thermal_sublimator",
      "name": "Build Thermal Sublimator",
      "description": "Precision heating element in a ceramite housing — brings ice to water's sublimation point without melting the rarer ices beyond.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_sublimator",
          "quantity": 1
        }
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      "crafting_time": 24
    },
    {
      "id": "build_thruster_assembly",
      "name": "Build Thruster Assembly",
      "description": "Integrate multiple thruster nozzles with an engine core into a coordinated propulsion unit.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thruster_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 49.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_tracking_computer_i",
      "name": "Build Tracking Computer I",
      "description": "Improves weapon tracking speed and accuracy.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_computer_i",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 82.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_tracking_computer_ii",
      "name": "Build Tracking Computer II",
      "description": "Enhanced tracking with predictive targeting algorithms.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_computer_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 150
    },
    {
      "id": "build_tracking_computer_iii",
      "name": "Build Tracking Computer III",
      "description": "High-fidelity targeting system with predictive intercept and crystalline processing substrate.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_computer_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_computer_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 97.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_tracking_mine_launcher",
      "name": "Build Tracking Mine Launcher",
      "description": "Deploys mines that actively pursue nearby targets.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_mine_launcher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 120,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_tracking_system",
      "name": "Build Tracking System",
      "description": "Target acquisition and tracking module.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 55.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_universal_nav_core",
      "name": "Build Universal Nav Core",
      "description": "Integrate Nebula trade ciphers and Outer Rim dark matter with circuit boards to enable unrestricted galactic navigation.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "universal_nav_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 33,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_vanadium_ejector",
      "name": "Build Vanadium Ejector",
      "description": "Fit an eddy-current separator that throws dense vanadium ore clear of the mining intake, leaving room for rarer co-located ore.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "vanadium_ejector",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 25.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_void_cannon",
      "name": "Build Void Cannon",
      "description": "Fires condensed void energy that ignores shields.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_cannon",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 375,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_void_capacitor",
      "name": "Build Void Capacitor",
      "description": "Weave null matter into a dimensional energy storage lattice. Glows faintly in spectra that shouldn't exist.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_capacitor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 139.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_void_hull_hardener",
      "name": "Build Void Hull Hardener",
      "description": "Phase-resistant hull lining that absorbs void energy.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_hull_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 73.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_void_lance_ii",
      "name": "Build Void Lance II",
      "description": "Advanced void weapon that tears through any defense.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_lance_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 600,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_void_laser",
      "name": "Build Void Laser",
      "description": "Legendary weapon that tears holes in space-time.",
      "category": "Legendary",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "jump_drive_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_laser",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2145,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_void_mine_launcher",
      "name": "Build Void Mine Launcher",
      "description": "Deploys dimensional rift mines that bypass conventional shields entirely.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "contained_antimatter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_mine_launcher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 840,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_void_shield_hardener",
      "name": "Build Void Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Resonance-tuned shield matrix that deflects void energy.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_hardener",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 123,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_void_torpedo_launcher",
      "name": "Build Void Torpedo Launcher",
      "description": "Launches torpedoes that create temporary rifts.",
      "category": "Weapons",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "phase_drive",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tracking_system",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "contained_antimatter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_torpedo_launcher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1620,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_voidborn_null_matrix",
      "name": "Build Voidborn Null Matrix",
      "description": "Weave null matter through a shield matrix. The result defies conventional physics.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 93,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_voidborn_phase_armor",
      "name": "Build Voidborn Phase Armor",
      "description": "Armor that partially shifts into another dimension to avoid damage.",
      "category": "Defense",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_armor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 390,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_voidborn_phase_drive",
      "name": "Build Voidborn Phase Drive",
      "description": "Infuse an engine core with null matter for partial dimensional shifting.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "engine_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 90,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_warp_core",
      "name": "Build Warp Core",
      "description": "Assemble a capital-grade faster-than-light propulsion core from a jump coil and stabilized exotic matter.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "warp_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 60,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "build_warp_core_stabilizer",
      "name": "Build Warp Core Stabilizer",
      "description": "Counter-module that resists warp disruption and scrambling.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "warp_core_stabilizer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 24
    },
    {
      "id": "build_warp_disruptor",
      "name": "Build Warp Disruptor",
      "description": "Prevents target from initiating warp drive.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "warp_disruptor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 43.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_warp_scrambler",
      "name": "Build Warp Scrambler",
      "description": "Powerful warp disruption that also disables micro jump drives.",
      "category": "Utility",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "warp_scrambler",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 67.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_water_recycler",
      "name": "Build Water Recycler",
      "description": "Assemble a closed-loop purification system from filtration membranes and pumps.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "water_recycler",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3
    },
    {
      "id": "build_weapon_battery",
      "name": "Build Weapon Battery",
      "description": "Assemble a hardened multi-weapon platform with shared fire control.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_battery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 70.5
    },
    {
      "id": "build_weapon_core",
      "name": "Build Weapon Core",
      "description": "Machine tungsten and steel around a power cell to form a weapon's firing core.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_battery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.3
    },
    {
      "id": "build_weapon_overload_capacitor",
      "name": "Build Weapon Overload Capacitor",
      "description": "Temporarily boosts weapon damage.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_overload_capacitor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27.3
    },
    {
      "id": "build_wiring_harness",
      "name": "Build Wiring Harness",
      "description": "Bundle copper wire into pre-routed electrical harnesses for ship systems.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "wiring_harness",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 11.25,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "carapace_plating",
      "name": "Carapace Plating",
      "description": "Press and laminate creature carapace into reinforced hull plating. The grazers' shed exoskeleton makes surprisingly tough armor.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "creature_carapace",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "carbon_arc_circuit_etching",
      "name": "Carbon-Arc Circuit Etching",
      "description": "An arc furnace floods the etch chamber with carbon plasma, letting a single thin silicon wafer carry far more circuitry. Voracious in carbon and slow to run, but it halves the silicon each board demands — invaluable where silicon must be hauled in from distant space.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "carbon_ore",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6
    },
    {
      "id": "cast_alumina_ceramite",
      "name": "Cast Alumina Ceramite",
      "description": "Sinter an alumina ceramic matrix instead of a silicate one, bonded to a heavier titanium frame. Rolled aluminum sheet and the extra alloy binder make it markedly pricier than the silicate kiln and the firing cycle is long — a route reserved for when silicon simply cannot be had at any sensible price.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "cast_titanium_foam",
      "name": "Cast Titanium Foam",
      "description": "Cast Titanium Foam.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_argon",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_foam",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3
    },
    {
      "id": "catalytic_polymer_synthesis",
      "name": "Catalytic Polymer Synthesis",
      "description": "A platinum catalyst bed cracks the feedstock far more completely than a bare reactor, drawing nearly twice the polymer from the same silicon. The catalyst fouls over a run and must be replenished, but platinum is plentiful where polymer demand is not.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4
    },
    {
      "id": "catalyze_fuel_cells",
      "name": "Catalyze Fuel Cells",
      "description": "A platinum catalyst lets a fuel-cell line run on half the hydrogen of the standard process — but the catalytic bed runs slowly, so this is a way to save hydrogen and burn down a platinum surplus, not a way to make fuel cells fast. Worth it only while platinum is cheap.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_catalyst",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 50
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 500,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "caustic_polymer_synthesis",
      "name": "Caustic Polymer Synthesis",
      "description": "Use the concentrated chlorine in a chlorophage's caustic sac as feedstock for flexible polymer.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "caustic_sac",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.7,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "charge_bell_jelly_bubbly",
      "name": "Charge Bell-Jelly Bubbly",
      "description": "A featherlight sparkling wine aerated with bell-jelly levity bladders and noble condensate.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "levity_bladder",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "noble_condensate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "bell_jelly_bubbly",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "charge_biogas_fizz",
      "name": "Charge Biogas Fizz",
      "description": "Crystal-melt water charged with crystallized biogas and a shot of fruit into an aggressive soda.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crystallized_biogas",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "biogas_fizz",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "charge_ion_sparkling_water",
      "name": "Charge Ion Sparkling Water",
      "description": "Crystal-melt water charged over a voltmanta ion nodule into a crisp electrolyte fizz.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_nodule",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "noble_condensate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_sparkling_water",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "charge_plasma_cell",
      "name": "Charge Plasma Cell",
      "description": "Charge Plasma Cell.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_gas",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_battery",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.5
    },
    {
      "id": "chlorine_circuit_etching",
      "name": "Chlorine Circuit Etching",
      "description": "Use chlorine compound to etch precision circuit patterns. More efficient than traditional fabrication.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "chlorine_compound",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "churn_crystal_melt_sorbet",
      "name": "Churn Crystal-Melt Sorbet",
      "description": "Hollow-pilgrim crystal-melt churned with fruit and set with noble condensate for a clean effervescent finish.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "noble_condensate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt_sorbet",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "clarify_void_ichor_consomme",
      "name": "Clarify Void-Ichor Consomme",
      "description": "A crystal-clear broth laced with a thread of void ichor, glowing faint blue. Served in the dark.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_ichor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_ichor_consomme",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "cobalt_ink_refining",
      "name": "Cobalt Ink Refining",
      "description": "Leach cobalt-squid ink into high-purity cobalt concentrate. The squid does the hard work of concentrating the metal; the refinery just separates it out.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_ink",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_concentrate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.6,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "cobalt_superconductor",
      "name": "Cobalt Superconductor",
      "description": "Wind high-purity cobalt concentrate into zero-resistance conductor. Cobalt's magnetic ordering makes a cleaner superconductor than the usual palladium-iridium blend — a ranch-fed alternative to mined ore.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_concentrate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.4,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "compress_hydrogen_gas",
      "name": "Compress Hydrogen Gas",
      "description": "Compress raw hydrogen into fuel-grade hydrogen. A foundational gas processing technique — practicing this will develop your gas processing skills.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hydrogen_gas",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.12
    },
    {
      "id": "compress_synthetic_diamond",
      "name": "Compress Synthetic Diamond",
      "description": "Subject carbon to extreme pressure and heat to form industrial diamonds.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "carbon_ore",
          "quantity": 30
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_diamond",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.95,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "concentrate_ion_gas",
      "name": "Concentrate Ion Gas",
      "description": "Compress and magnetically focus charged gas particles into dense ion solution.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_gas",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12.9,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "concentrate_thorium",
      "name": "Concentrate Thorium",
      "description": "Extract thorium oxide from raw ore. First step in the thorium fuel cycle.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thorium_ore",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thorium_concentrate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 11.1,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "concentrate_uranium",
      "name": "Concentrate Uranium",
      "description": "Chemically extract uranium oxide (yellowcake) from raw ore. First step in the enrichment process.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "uranium_ore",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "uranium_concentrate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.8,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "condense_dark_matter",
      "name": "Condense Dark Matter",
      "description": "Compress volatile dark matter fragments with durasteel containment into stable energy-dense material.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_residue",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "condense_plasma_residue",
      "name": "Condense Plasma Residue",
      "description": "Crimson weapons-range plasma residue is already a high-energy condensate, so it stabilizes into a weapon core with far less raw plasma than gas processing requires.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_residue",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "condense_void_essence",
      "name": "Condense Void Essence",
      "description": "Distill raw void essence into a stable condensate. Handling requires extreme caution.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_essence",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 24,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "confit_whale_blubber",
      "name": "Confit Whale Blubber",
      "description": "Grazer meat cooked down slow and sealed under rendered whale blubber, spiced and kept.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "whale_blubber",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "raw_xeno_meat",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cinderspice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "whale_blubber_confit",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "construct_electrum_shield_matrix",
      "name": "Construct Electrum Shield Matrix",
      "description": "Weave graphene and silicate layers around electrum conductors for balanced shield performance.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "electrum_ingot",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_argon",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "construct_sensor_array",
      "name": "Construct Sensor Array",
      "description": "Build detection equipment.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "palladium_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 11.4,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "construct_shield_matrix",
      "name": "Construct Shield Matrix",
      "description": "Weave graphene and silicate layers around gold conductors in an argon atmosphere.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_argon",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "convert_to_uf6",
      "name": "Convert to UF6",
      "description": "React uranium concentrate with fluorine to produce uranium hexafluoride gas for centrifuge enrichment.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "uranium_concentrate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fluorine_gas",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "uranium_hexafluoride",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 28.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "cook_cobalt_ink_risotto",
      "name": "Cook Cobalt Ink Risotto",
      "description": "Sunspindle simmered black-blue with cobalt-squid ink and finished with verdigris curd.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_ink",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "verdigris_curd",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_ink_risotto",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "cook_gutter_flux",
      "name": "Cook Gutter Flux",
      "description": "Combine chlorine compounds with raw chlorine gas under heat to produce the chemical paste that underpins most pirate pharmaceutical operations. The process is simple. The smell is not.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "chlorine_compound",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "chlorine_gas",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gutter_flux",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 14.4,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "cook_protein_rations",
      "name": "Cook Protein Rations",
      "description": "Butcher, cook, and press raw xeno-meat into shelf-stable ration blocks. A clean water source keeps the batch from spoiling.",
      "category": "Biological Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "raw_xeno_meat",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "protein_rations",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "crack_hot_cells",
      "name": "Crack Hot Cells",
      "description": "Strip copper wiring for conductors, pack them around plasma gas canisters, and seal the whole thing in a casing that probably won't rupture. Probably.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_gas",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hot_cell",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "craft_deep_core_survey_scanner",
      "name": "Craft Deep Core Survey Scanner",
      "description": "Assemble an advanced survey scanner using the rare Deep Core Survey Lens. This scanner can detect hidden mineral deposits that standard equipment cannot.",
      "category": "Equipment",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deep_core_survey_lens",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deep_core_survey_scanner",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 225,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "craft_fuel_cell",
      "name": "Craft Fuel Cell",
      "description": "Seal liquid hydrogen in a pressurized cell for portable fuel storage.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.65,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "craft_military_fuel_cell",
      "name": "Craft Military Fuel Cell",
      "description": "Maximum-density plasma fuel cell for military vessels. Cargo-efficient but costly in plasma gas.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_gas",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "military_fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5.85
    },
    {
      "id": "craft_premium_fuel_cell",
      "name": "Craft Premium Fuel Cell",
      "description": "High-density H2O2 fuel cell for extended-range operations. Cargo-efficient but requires both liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_oxygen",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "premium_fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.8
    },
    {
      "id": "create_ceramite_plating",
      "name": "Create Ceramite Plating",
      "description": "Produce heat-resistant ceramic-metal composite.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "create_shield_charge",
      "name": "Create Shield Charge",
      "description": "Craft instant shield restoration cells.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shield_charge",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 19.2
    },
    {
      "id": "create_silver_superconductor",
      "name": "Create Silver Superconductor",
      "description": "Forge zero-resistance conductors using silver's superior conductivity.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "palladium_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "iridium_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.4,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "create_superconductor",
      "name": "Create Superconductor",
      "description": "Forge zero-resistance conductors for shields.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "palladium_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "iridium_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.4,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "crystal_melt_distillation",
      "name": "Crystal Melt Distillation",
      "description": "Evaporate rime pilgrim water crystals under gentle heat and condense the vapour into industrial-grade coolant fluid. The pilgrim has already done the filtration work — this just finalises the thermal conditioning.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_fluid",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.4,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "crystallize_exotic_matter",
      "name": "Crystallize Exotic Matter",
      "description": "Force raw exotic matter into a stable crystalline lattice. The process is as much art as science.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_matter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 79.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "crystallize_void_essence",
      "name": "Crystallize Void Essence",
      "description": "Coerce void condensate into solid crystal form using focused energy crystal resonance.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 72,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "cultivate_bioluminescent_algae",
      "name": "Cultivate Bioluminescent Algae",
      "description": "Maintain zero-gravity algae cultivation tanks to produce light-emitting photosynthetic cultures.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "bioluminescent_algae",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.02,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "culture_bioluminescent_cells",
      "name": "Culture Bioluminescent Cells",
      "description": "Grow light-producing organisms from algae cultures for sensor arrays.",
      "category": "Biological Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "bioluminescent_algae",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "bioluminescent_culture",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.6,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "culture_fermentation_vat",
      "name": "Culture Fermentation Vat",
      "description": "Run a continuous-feed biological culture vat to produce fermentation cultures for industrial and culinary use.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.35,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "culture_repair_nanites",
      "name": "Culture Repair Nanites",
      "description": "Program neural gel nanobots with ceramic and silicate repair templates.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_ceramic",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanite_container",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 48,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "culture_vatflesh_curd",
      "name": "Culture Vatflesh Curd",
      "description": "Inoculate a culture tank and let cultured protein set into curd over a long, patient run — the slowest bed in the bay, and the closest thing to a butcher the frontier has.",
      "category": "Hydroponics",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 260
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 40
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "vatflesh_curd",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 480,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "culture_verdigris_kefir",
      "name": "Culture Verdigris Kefir",
      "description": "A tangy cultured drink set from veil-ray verdigris curd, faintly copper-blue and sharp.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "verdigris_curd",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "verdigris_kefir",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "distill_ember_spirit",
      "name": "Distill Ember Spirit",
      "description": "Gloomshine redistilled over a cinder-sylph ember gland until it warms the throat going down.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ember_gland",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gloomshine",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ember_spirit",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "distill_frontier_rotgut",
      "name": "Distill Frontier Rotgut",
      "description": "Nobody's quite sure what goes into it. The stills run day and night, and the results are... consistent.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_rotgut",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "distill_gloomshine",
      "name": "Distill Gloomshine",
      "description": "Run gloomcap mash and clean water through a station still until it comes off clear. Nobody asks what's in the mash. The output is consistent, potent, and cheap.",
      "category": "Biological Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gloomcap_mash",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gloomshine",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "distill_krypton",
      "name": "Distill Krypton",
      "description": "Separate and purify krypton from mixed noble gas samples for optical-grade applications.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "krypton_gas",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_krypton",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.8
    },
    {
      "id": "distill_moonshine",
      "name": "Distill Moonshine",
      "description": "Water ice melted and fermented with pharmaceutical cultures in jury-rigged condensation chambers. The result is technically a beverage. Technically.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "water_ice",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pharmaceutical_culture",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pirate_moonshine",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "distill_nebula_gases",
      "name": "Distill Nebula Gases",
      "description": "Separate and purify exotic gases from nebula collections.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_gas",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_essence",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trace_exotic_element",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.2,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "distill_void_ichor_liqueur",
      "name": "Distill Void-Ichor Liqueur",
      "description": "Gloomshine cut with a measured dose of void ichor until the glass glows.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_ichor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gloomshine",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_ichor_liqueur",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "drain_fuel_reserves",
      "name": "Drain Fuel Reserves",
      "description": "Extract residual fuel from salvaged power systems and components. Not the cleanest fuel, but it burns.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.29,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "draw_copper_piping",
      "name": "Draw Copper Piping",
      "description": "Draw and weld bulk copper into conduit and pressure pipe — the plumbing of any station module.",
      "category": "Facility Construction",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_ore",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.8
    },
    {
      "id": "draw_diamond_optical_fiber",
      "name": "Draw Diamond Optical Fiber",
      "description": "Draw optical fiber from synthetic diamond cores. Diamond's superior refractive index compensates for the crude process, but the material cost is steep.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_diamond",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 11.1,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "draw_gold_wire",
      "name": "Draw Gold Wire",
      "description": "Extrude gold ore into fine conductive wiring for electronics.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gold_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gold_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.85
    },
    {
      "id": "draw_silver_wire",
      "name": "Draw Silver Wire",
      "description": "Extrude silver ore into high-conductivity wiring for precision electronics.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silver_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.8
    },
    {
      "id": "draw_tungsten_rod",
      "name": "Draw Tungsten Rod",
      "description": "Process dense tungsten ore into precision rods for weapon and armor fabrication.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.95,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "electrolyze_water",
      "name": "Electrolyze Water",
      "description": "Split purified water into hydrogen and oxygen gas via electrolysis. Feeds both the hydrogen compression and oxygen liquefaction chains.",
      "category": "Ice Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hydrogen_gas",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "oxygen_gas",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.78
    },
    {
      "id": "ember_gland_combustion",
      "name": "Ember Gland Combustion",
      "description": "Tap the banked heat of cinder-sylph ember glands into fuel cells.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ember_gland",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "encode_trade_cipher",
      "name": "Encode Trade Cipher",
      "description": "Refine raw trade crystals into cryptographic verification chips that authenticate exchange transactions across the galaxy.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_crystal",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 75,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "enrich_uranium_high",
      "name": "Enrich Uranium (High)",
      "description": "Further enrich low-enriched uranium to above 90% U-235 for weapons-grade material.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "low_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "highly_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 180,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "enrich_uranium_low",
      "name": "Enrich Uranium (Low)",
      "description": "Centrifuge-enrich UF6 to 3-5% U-235 for civilian reactor fuel. Produces low-enriched uranium.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "uranium_hexafluoride",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "low_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 58.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "exfoliate_graphene",
      "name": "Exfoliate Graphene",
      "description": "Extract single-layer carbon sheets from ore. Extremely strong and conductive.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "carbon_ore",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.51,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "exotic_distillate_refining",
      "name": "Exotic Distillate Refining",
      "description": "Process skein-ray tail glands under controlled spectrographic heat to isolate the trace exotic elements the creature concentrates from nebula gas. Each batch is small; the price is not.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_distillate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trace_exotic_element",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "exotic_lattice_fusion",
      "name": "Exotic Lattice Fusion",
      "description": "Fuse the three great nebula concentrates — phase-pearl, quantum-silk, and umbral residue — into a single exotic lattice. Only a leviathan-grade forge can hold the reaction.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phase_pearl",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_silk",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "umbral_residue",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_lattice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "extract_bioactive_compounds",
      "name": "Extract Bioactive Compounds",
      "description": "Extract bioactive compounds from pharmaceutical cultures.",
      "category": "Biological Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pharmaceutical_culture",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "bioactive_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "extract_fuel_cell",
      "name": "Extract Fuel Cell",
      "description": "Drain a standard fuel cell into station reserves.",
      "category": "Fuel Production",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_reserve",
          "quantity": 20
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.6,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "extract_military_fuel_cell",
      "name": "Extract Military Fuel Cell",
      "description": "Drain a military fuel cell into station reserves.",
      "category": "Fuel Production",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "military_fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_reserve",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "extract_neural_compounds",
      "name": "Extract Neural Compounds",
      "description": "Distill concentrated neural computing substrate from optical and crystalline components.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neural_extract",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 19.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "extract_premium_fuel_cell",
      "name": "Extract Premium Fuel Cell",
      "description": "Drain a premium fuel cell into station reserves.",
      "category": "Fuel Production",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "premium_fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_reserve",
          "quantity": 50
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "extract_xenon",
      "name": "Extract Xenon",
      "description": "Purify xenon gas for ion propulsion systems.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "xenon_gas",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_xenon",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.78
    },
    {
      "id": "extrude_nanoplastic",
      "name": "Extrude Nanoplastic",
      "description": "Create nano-reinforced polymer composites.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "carbon_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nanoplastic_composite",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.89,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "extrude_sustagel",
      "name": "Extrude Sustagel",
      "description": "Run water and nitrogen feedstock through the extruder for a long shift and fill a rack of ration tubes with grey Sustagel. Bulk, joyless, reliable.",
      "category": "Hydroponics",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 25
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sustagel",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 300,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_chemical_liner",
      "name": "Fabricate Chemical Liner",
      "description": "Bond chlorine and fluorine compounds into a corrosion-proof tank and conduit lining.",
      "category": "Facility Construction",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "chlorine_compound",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fluorine_etchant",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "chemical_liner",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.8
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_circuit_boards",
      "name": "Fabricate Circuit Boards",
      "description": "Manufacture electronic circuits.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_enriched_uranium_rod",
      "name": "Fabricate Enriched Uranium Rod",
      "description": "Cast low-enriched uranium into fuel rod form for small reactor applications.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "low_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "enriched_uranium_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 117,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_fusion_fuel_rod",
      "name": "Fabricate Fusion Fuel Rod",
      "description": "Combine refined thorium fuel rods and liquid tritium into a fusion fuel assembly.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thorium_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_tritium",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fusion_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 37.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_gold_circuit_boards",
      "name": "Fabricate Gold Circuit Boards",
      "description": "Lay conductive traces directly onto a ceramic substrate with gold film instead of etching a silicon wafer — the first fully silicon-free fabrication route. It pours three units of gold into every batch and runs slow, so no foundry bothers while silicon is cheap; once a shortage drives the wafer price high enough, the gold line becomes the only board worth building.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_hazmat_container",
      "name": "Fabricate Hazmat Container",
      "description": "Construct a lead-lined shielded container for transporting radioactive materials.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.45
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_jump_coil",
      "name": "Fabricate Jump Coil",
      "description": "Create hyperspace transition mechanisms.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jump_coil",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 240,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_missile_guidance_unit",
      "name": "Fabricate Missile Guidance Unit",
      "description": "Smart targeting system for guided munitions.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "missile_guidance_unit",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 18
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_missile_warhead",
      "name": "Fabricate Missile Warhead",
      "description": "Conventional explosive payload for missile systems.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "missile_warhead",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.5
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_nuclear_power_cell",
      "name": "Fabricate Nuclear Power Cell",
      "description": "Encapsulate enriched uranium rods in lead-shielded housings to produce miniaturized fission power cells. Dangerous to manufacture but yields exceptional quantities.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "enriched_uranium_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 15
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 101.25,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_ore_hopper",
      "name": "Fabricate Ore Hopper",
      "description": "Construct a bulk ore transport container with polymer-lined walls and integral conveyor sensors.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ore_hopper",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5.25
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_overclock_chip",
      "name": "Fabricate Overclock Chip",
      "description": "Fluorine-etched microprocessor designed to temporarily overclock ship computing systems.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fluorine_etchant",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "overclock_chip",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.35,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_quantum_processor",
      "name": "Fabricate Quantum Processor",
      "description": "Build a high-density quantum computing core from stacked processing arrays and superconducting interconnects.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_processor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 120,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_rad_hardened_circuits",
      "name": "Fabricate Rad Hardened Circuits",
      "description": "Impregnate circuit boards with radium phosphor to produce radiation-hardened electronics.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "radium_phosphor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "radiation_hardened_circuit",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.95
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_reactor_fuel_assembly",
      "name": "Fabricate Reactor Fuel Assembly",
      "description": "Assemble enriched uranium and thorium rods into a sealed fuel assembly for fission reactors.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "low_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thorium_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_fuel_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 139.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_silver_circuit_boards",
      "name": "Fabricate Silver Circuit Boards",
      "description": "Manufacture high-performance circuits using silver wiring instead of raw copper.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_thorium_fuel_rod",
      "name": "Fabricate Thorium Fuel Rod",
      "description": "Form processed thorium into sealed fuel rods for molten-salt reactors and breeder blankets.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_thorium",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thorium_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fabricate_weapon_housing",
      "name": "Fabricate Weapon Housing",
      "description": "Create weapon mounting systems.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.15,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "facet_trade_crystal",
      "name": "Facet Trade Crystal",
      "description": "Cut and polish raw trade crystals along their natural lattice into precision focusing optics — the Nebula alternative to grinding energy crystals for the same result.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_crystal",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 24
    },
    {
      "id": "ferment_krypton_kvass",
      "name": "Ferment Krypton Kvass",
      "description": "A lightly fermented sunspindle drink given an inert lift from a nullbubble krypton bladder.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "krypton_bladder",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "krypton_kvass",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ferment_orchard_wine",
      "name": "Ferment Orchard Wine",
      "description": "Honest fruit wine fermented from honeyglobe and bottled young.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "orchard_wine",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ferment_organic_compounds",
      "name": "Ferment Organic Compounds",
      "description": "Process fermentation cultures into synthetic organic base material.",
      "category": "Biological Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.34
    },
    {
      "id": "ferrous_nodule_smelting",
      "name": "Ferrous Nodule Smelting",
      "description": "Smelt the dense iron nodules a slag-tortoise leaves behind into steel plate. The beast has already done the ore-sorting.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ferrous_nodule",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.4,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "field_hull_patch",
      "name": "Field Hull Patch",
      "description": "Weld salvage metal directly over hull breaches. Ugly but effective — a salvager's specialty.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_patch",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.95,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fire_lithium_ceramic",
      "name": "Fire Lithium Ceramic",
      "description": "Vitrify rolled aluminum sheet and a heavy lithium charge into a near-zero-expansion glass-ceramic tile. Lithium replaces the silica former and even improves thermal-shock tolerance, but the lithium load and slow, hot firing make each tile cost far more than the silicate kiln — worthwhile only once silicon has become the scarcer feedstock.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lithium_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_ceramic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fire_thermal_ceramic",
      "name": "Fire Thermal Ceramic",
      "description": "Kiln aluminum and silicon into heat-resistant ceramic tiles.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_ceramic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.81,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fluorine_nano_etch_circuits",
      "name": "Fluorine Nano-Etch Circuits",
      "description": "Use fluorine etchant for nanoscale circuit fabrication. Produces superior-quality boards with minimal waste.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fluorine_etchant",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "focus_energy_crystal",
      "name": "Focus Energy Crystal",
      "description": "Cut and polish energy crystals for weapons.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "palladium_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 24
    },
    {
      "id": "foil_scale_smelting",
      "name": "Foil Scale Smelting",
      "description": "Stack and smelt mirror-skate shed scales into aluminum sheet. The scales are already refined by the creature — the furnace just rolls them flat.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "foil_scale",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.3,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_adamantite",
      "name": "Forge Adamantite",
      "description": "Create legendary alloy from exotic ores.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "adamantite_ore",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "adamantite_bar",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_armor_plate",
      "name": "Forge Armor Plate",
      "description": "Layer titanium and tungsten into high-strength armor plating.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_crimson_siege_plating",
      "name": "Forge Crimson Siege Plating",
      "description": "Layer fury alloy over durasteel to create armor that laughs at incoming fire.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_siege_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 33
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_darksteel_plating",
      "name": "Forge Darksteel Plating",
      "description": "Process raw darksteel ore from black hole accretion disks into dense armor plating. The extreme gravitational compression of the source material makes it an exceptional vibration dampener.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "darksteel_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "darksteel_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.65
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_durasteel",
      "name": "Forge Durasteel",
      "description": "Create ultra-hardened steel alloy for military applications.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "vanadium_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.46,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_fury_tempered_plating",
      "name": "Forge Fury-Tempered Plating",
      "description": "Layer Crimson fury alloy with steel under extreme heat to produce armor plating that resists both kinetic and energy weapons.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 16.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_ghost_rounds",
      "name": "Forge Ghost Rounds",
      "description": "Hot cells provide the energy charge, titanium ingots provide the projectile mass. The manufacturing process deliberately omits every identifying mark that imperial forensics teams look for.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hot_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ghost_rounds",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 21,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_hull_plating",
      "name": "Forge Hull Plating",
      "description": "Create reinforced armor sections.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.15,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_nickel_steel",
      "name": "Forge Nickel Steel",
      "description": "Alloy nickel into steel for a tough, corrosion-resistant plate — a heavier-nickel substitute for the tungsten-and-vanadium durasteel route.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_billet",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.46,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_reinforced_bulkhead",
      "name": "Forge Reinforced Bulkhead",
      "description": "Weld hull plates with alloy reinforcement into heavy structural framing.",
      "category": "Shipbuilding",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_scrap_armor",
      "name": "Forge Scrap Armor",
      "description": "Pound salvaged hull sections into layered armor plate. Heavy, imprecise, and surprisingly effective.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_solarian_composite",
      "name": "Forge Solarian Composite",
      "description": "Combine Solarian alloy ore with refined steel to produce a lightweight, high-strength composite favored in precision engineering.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sol_alloy_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 14.25,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_titanium_alloy",
      "name": "Forge Titanium Alloy",
      "description": "Create advanced alloy from titanium and steel.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_trade_authenticator_pirate",
      "name": "Forge Trade Authenticator (Pirate)",
      "description": "Finish forged cipher chips into market-ready authenticators using gutter flux chemical bonding — the same tamper-evident contact process Haven achieves with precision copper wiring, minus the precision.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gutter_flux",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_authenticator",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 20,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_trade_cipher_pirate",
      "name": "Forge Trade Cipher (Pirate)",
      "description": "Trade crystals processed through gutter flux to replicate the cryptographic encoding applied at Haven's foundry. The result is indistinguishable from a legitimate cipher. The Nebula Collective insists their ciphers are unforgeable. Archon Mera respectfully disagrees.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_crystal",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gutter_flux",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 75,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_vanadium_steel",
      "name": "Forge Vanadium Steel",
      "description": "Vanadium micro-alloying toughens the melt so less iron is lost to slag, stretching each batch into more usable plate. Vanadium turns up in nearly every empire's belts, so the harder steel never needs importing.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "iron_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "vanadium_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4
    },
    {
      "id": "forge_weapon_housings",
      "name": "Forge Weapon Housings",
      "description": "Cut and weld salvaged scrap into crude weapon mounting frames. Not pretty, but the guns don't care.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9.45,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fry_grazer_steak_frites",
      "name": "Fry Grazer Steak Frites",
      "description": "A grazer steak with greens fried crisp in whale oil. No pretension, no mistakes.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "raw_xeno_meat",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "whale_oil",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "grazer_steak_frites",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fuse_diamond_glass",
      "name": "Fuse Diamond Glass",
      "description": "Forge synthetic diamonds into ultra-hard transparent panels. Wasteful compared to silicon methods, but carbon is abundant where silicon is not.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_diamond",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.9,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fuse_galactic_standard_alloy",
      "name": "Fuse Galactic Standard Alloy",
      "description": "Fuse Solarian composite with Crimson fury alloy and steel at extreme temperatures to create the universal shipbuilding standard.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "galactic_standard_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 31.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fuse_leaded_glass",
      "name": "Fuse Leaded Glass",
      "description": "Flood the melt with six parts lead-oxide flux so a thin silica charge fuses into a clear, dense pane. It cuts the silicon per panel from five down to two — but the bulky lead and longer melt make it a wash at normal prices, paying off only once silicon climbs above the cost of hauling all that lead.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_ore",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5
    },
    {
      "id": "fuse_reinforced_glass",
      "name": "Fuse Reinforced Glass",
      "description": "Melt silicon ore into reinforced glass panels for optics and viewports.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "fusion_pearl_processing",
      "name": "Fusion Pearl Processing",
      "description": "Unpack the compacted deuterium pearls of a deuteron-slug into a generous run of fuel cells.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fusion_pearl",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.6,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "galvanic_cell_assembly",
      "name": "Galvanic Cell Assembly",
      "description": "Pair lantern-slug charge glands with a graphene-thread current collector and seal the assembly into a power battery. The gland supplies the lithium cathode chemistry; the thread forms the carbon anode. The slug has already done the electrochemical work — this is just cell integration.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "charge_gland",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_thread",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_battery",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "generate_antimatter",
      "name": "Generate Antimatter",
      "description": "Create antimatter in magnetic containment.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "antimatter_containment_cell",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_antimatter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 405,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "gilded_chitin_smelting",
      "name": "Gilded Chitin Smelting",
      "description": "Melt the gold-threaded shell of a glitterback crab down to assayed bullion.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gilded_chitin",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gold_bar",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "glaze_radiant_ribs",
      "name": "Glaze Radiant Ribs",
      "description": "Grazer ribs lacquered in a faintly glowing cinder-urchin radiant-bile glaze. The Rim's favourite dare.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "raw_xeno_meat",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "radiant_bile",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cinderspice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "radiant_glazed_ribs",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "graphene_thread_weaving",
      "name": "Graphene Thread Weaving",
      "description": "Weave inkwyrm graphene thread under a crystallized-biogas atmosphere — the biogas provides a reducing environment that prevents oxidation while the strands fuse into full graphene sheet. The wyrm grows the thread; the biogas keeps it clean.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_thread",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystallized_biogas",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.6,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "griddle_frontier_hash",
      "name": "Griddle Frontier Hash",
      "description": "Grazer meat, gloomcap mash, and driftkale fried together on one griddle. The 0300 dock special.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "raw_xeno_meat",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gloomcap_mash",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_hash",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grill_leviathan_tail_thermidor",
      "name": "Grill Leviathan Tail Thermidor",
      "description": "Molt Leviathan tail grilled in the shell under a spiced curd gratin — the hunter's celebration plate.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "leviathan_meat",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "vatflesh_curd",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cinderspice",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "leviathan_tail_thermidor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grind_laser_focusing_lens",
      "name": "Grind Laser Focusing Lens",
      "description": "Grind Laser Focusing Lens.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "laser_focusing_lens",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.5
    },
    {
      "id": "grind_precision_optic",
      "name": "Grind Precision Optic",
      "description": "Grind Solarian composite into optical lenses and mount them in glass housings for targeting and sensor systems.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grow_crystalline_lattice",
      "name": "Grow Crystalline Lattice",
      "description": "Cultivate perfect crystal structures for energy systems.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 75,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grow_diamond_lattice",
      "name": "Grow Diamond Lattice",
      "description": "Seed crystalline growth on a synthetic diamond substrate. The diamond scaffold substitutes for silicon but requires focused crystals and compounds to achieve the same lattice geometry.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_diamond",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 75,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grow_driftkale",
      "name": "Grow Driftkale",
      "description": "Charge a full bank of drift-trays and grow out a crop of driftkale on recirculated water. One long cycle, one big cut.",
      "category": "Hydroponics",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 30
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 360,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grow_gloomcap_mash",
      "name": "Grow Gloomcap Mash",
      "description": "Seed a dark cellar bed with gloomcap and let the flush run wild on nitrogen and damp, then mash it down. It eats nitrogen like nothing else.",
      "category": "Hydroponics",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 280
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 40
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gloomcap_mash",
          "quantity": 190
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 360,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grow_honeyglobe",
      "name": "Grow Honeyglobe",
      "description": "Ripen a whole orchard cell of honeyglobe under full-spectrum lamps. Richer and slower than the field crops — sugar takes its time.",
      "category": "Hydroponics",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 30
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 420,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grow_nebula_sensor_crystal",
      "name": "Grow Nebula Sensor Crystal",
      "description": "Crystallize nebula essence into a resonant sensor matrix that detects faint energy signatures.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_essence",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grow_neural_matrix",
      "name": "Grow Neural Matrix",
      "description": "Quantum computing substrates cultivated in null-energy growth chambers. Art and engineering in equal measure.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_neural_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grow_quantum_dot_matrix",
      "name": "Grow Quantum Dot Matrix",
      "description": "Crystallize quantum fragments with gold wiring into programmable quantum dots.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_fragments",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_dot_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 21,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grow_sunspindle",
      "name": "Grow Sunspindle",
      "description": "Flood a bank of grow-racks and bring a full bed of sunspindle to harvest under the lamps. Slow going, but one load feeds a galley for a week.",
      "category": "Hydroponics",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 30
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 360,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "heat_sink_casting",
      "name": "Heat Sink Casting",
      "description": "Cast and stack copper-aluminum fin arrays into finished thermal-management units for weapons, engines, and station machinery.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9.9
    },
    {
      "id": "hoarfrost_core_reactor",
      "name": "Hoarfrost Core Reactor",
      "description": "Seat a Hoarfrost Leviathan's frozen heartcore in a power core. Its endless cold keeps the reactor superconducting, so it needs no fuel rods and no coolant of its own.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hoarfrost_heartcore",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_battery",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 90,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "infuse_starshine",
      "name": "Infuse Starshine",
      "description": "Energy crystals ground to powder and dissolved into pirate moonshine, then aged in zero-gravity chambers until the crystalline suspension stabilizes. The glow is real. The hangover is worse.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pirate_moonshine",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "starshine",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_nodule_extraction",
      "name": "Ion Nodule Extraction",
      "description": "Discharge tempest-manta ion nodules into a sealed extraction cell and draw off the suspended ion solution before the magnetic field collapses. A steady hand and fast equipment make the difference between a full vial and a scorch mark.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_nodule",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ionize_neon_gas",
      "name": "Ionize Neon Gas",
      "description": "Excite and contain neon gas in sealed tubes for sensor and signaling applications.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neon_gas",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ionized_neon",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.53
    },
    {
      "id": "irradiated_marrow_tap",
      "name": "Irradiated Marrow Tap",
      "description": "Tap the glowing marrow of a geiger-hound for a dense, dangerous run of power cells.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "irradiated_marrow",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "krypton_bladder_purification",
      "name": "Krypton Bladder Purification",
      "description": "Crack glassjelly bladders through a cold-trap column to yield purified krypton. The creature's membrane does the hard separation work; the purification step just removes residual moisture and biological trace.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "krypton_bladder",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_krypton",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.6,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ladle_pilot_whale_chowder",
      "name": "Ladle Pilot-Whale Chowder",
      "description": "Whale blubber rendered slow into a thick chowder with crystal-melt and greens. Cloud-whaler's homecoming.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "whale_blubber",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pilot_whale_chowder",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "lattice_jump_core",
      "name": "Lattice Jump Core",
      "description": "Grow a jump drive core around an exotic lattice. The self-organizing crystal does the work of a heap of exotic crystal and quantum matrix — leviathan-grade feedstock for the deepest endgame drives.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_lattice",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "jump_drive_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 990,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "leviathan_core_reactor",
      "name": "Leviathan Core Reactor",
      "description": "Wire a Molt Leviathan's crystallized heartcore into a power core. The cardiac node is already a living fusion source — the assembly only has to tap it, in place of fuel rods and helium-3.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "leviathan_heartcore",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_battery",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 90,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "levity_gas_synthesis",
      "name": "Levity Gas Synthesis",
      "description": "Crack the hydrogen float-sacs of bell-jellies into standard fuel cells.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "levity_bladder",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.4,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "lightweight_titanium_alloy",
      "name": "Lightweight Titanium Alloy",
      "description": "An aluminum-extended forging process. Lightweight aluminum panels and steel carry most of the structure, with titanium added only where strength is critical — using a third of the titanium of a standard forge. Cheap and available anywhere, but the blending of dissimilar metals takes longer.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "liquefy_oxygen",
      "name": "Liquefy Oxygen",
      "description": "Cryogenically compress and liquefy oxygen gas for propellant storage.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "oxygen_gas",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_oxygen",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.54
    },
    {
      "id": "load_red_mist",
      "name": "Load Red Mist",
      "description": "Gutter flux refined into a synthetic adrenaline compound, mixed with neural accelerants derived from pharmaceutical cultures, and loaded into single-use injectors. The dosage is not adjustable by design.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gutter_flux",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pharmaceutical_culture",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "red_mist",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "machine_barrel_assembly",
      "name": "Machine Barrel Assembly",
      "description": "Machine Barrel Assembly.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "barrel_assembly",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 7.5
    },
    {
      "id": "mantis_claw_plating",
      "name": "Mantis Claw Plating",
      "description": "Laminate the serrated forelimbs of a crusher-mantis into reinforced armor plate.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mantis_claw",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.7,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_antimatter_core_rounds",
      "name": "Manufacture Antimatter-Core Rounds",
      "description": "Magnetically contained antimatter warheads packed in a shielded crate. Extreme damage with minor splash effect.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_antimatter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "antimatter_core_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 480,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_ap_rounds",
      "name": "Manufacture AP Rounds",
      "description": "Hardened penetrator rounds that bypass armor plating.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.08
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_cascade_em_charges",
      "name": "Manufacture Cascade EM Charges",
      "description": "Chain-reaction electromagnetic charges.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cascade_em_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 20.1
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_corrosive_plasma_cells",
      "name": "Manufacture Corrosive Plasma Cells",
      "description": "Hull-eating corrosive plasma cells.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "chlorine_compound",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "corrosive_plasma_cell_pack",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 11.25,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_cryo_slugs",
      "name": "Manufacture Cryo Slugs",
      "description": "Supercooled ceramic-jacketed slug cases.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_ceramic",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cryo_slug_case",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.7
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_dispersal_plasma_cells",
      "name": "Manufacture Dispersal Plasma Cells",
      "description": "Wide-dispersal plasma for area coverage.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "dispersal_plasma_cell_pack",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.2,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_du_rounds",
      "name": "Manufacture DU Rounds",
      "description": "Ultra-dense depleted uranium penetrator rounds.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "enriched_uranium_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "depleted_uranium_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 139.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_em_charges",
      "name": "Manufacture EM Charges",
      "description": "Standard electromagnetic disruption charge packs.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "em_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 16.88
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_emp_rounds",
      "name": "Manufacture EMP Rounds",
      "description": "Rounds with embedded micro-EMP charges.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_tipped_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.5
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_emp_slugs",
      "name": "Manufacture EMP Slugs",
      "description": "Slugs with embedded EMP burst coils.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "railgun_capacitor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "emp_slug_case",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 81
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_entropic_void_cores",
      "name": "Manufacture Entropic Void Cores",
      "description": "Entropy-accelerating void cores.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "entropic_void_core_pack",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 310.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_ferrous_slugs",
      "name": "Manufacture Ferrous Slugs",
      "description": "Dense iron slug cases for railgun systems.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "iron_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ferrous_slug_case",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.12
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_focused_em_charges",
      "name": "Manufacture Focused EM Charges",
      "description": "Concentrated EM burst charge packs.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "focused_em_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 26.4
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_focused_plasma_cells",
      "name": "Manufacture Focused Plasma Cells",
      "description": "Tight-beam plasma cells with concentrated energy.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "focused_plasma_cell_pack",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 33.9,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_frag_rounds",
      "name": "Manufacture Frag Rounds",
      "description": "Pre-scored rounds that shatter into shrapnel on impact.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fragmentation_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.1
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_fuel_basic",
      "name": "Manufacture Fuel Basic",
      "description": "Combust liquid hydrogen to produce station fuel reserves.",
      "category": "Fuel Production",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_reserve",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_fuel_h2o2",
      "name": "Manufacture Fuel (H2O2)",
      "description": "Combust liquid hydrogen with liquid oxygen for high-efficiency fuel production.",
      "category": "Fuel Production",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_oxygen",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_reserve",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_fuel_plasma",
      "name": "Manufacture Fuel (Plasma)",
      "description": "Direct plasma combustion for premium-throughput fuel production.",
      "category": "Fuel Production",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_gas",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_reserve",
          "quantity": 500
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_incendiary_rounds",
      "name": "Manufacture Incendiary Rounds",
      "description": "Phosphorus-tipped rounds for sustained thermal damage.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "incendiary_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15.9
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_ion_charges",
      "name": "Manufacture Ion Charges",
      "description": "Heavy ion charges for capacitor drain.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_emitter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 58.5
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_neural_em_charges",
      "name": "Manufacture Neural EM Charges",
      "description": "AI-disrupting neural interference charges.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neural_disruption_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 54
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_neutronium_slugs",
      "name": "Manufacture Neutronium Slugs",
      "description": "Impossibly dense neutronium-core slugs.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_slug_case",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 44.55,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_null_void_cores",
      "name": "Manufacture Null Void Cores",
      "description": "Null-space void cores.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "null_void_core_pack",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 540,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_overcharged_plasma_cells",
      "name": "Manufacture Overcharged Plasma Cells",
      "description": "Dangerously high-output plasma cells.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "overcharged_plasma_cell_pack",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 43.42,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_phased_void_cores",
      "name": "Manufacture Phased Void Cores",
      "description": "Phase-shifted void cores.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "phased_void_core_pack",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 297,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_plasma_cells",
      "name": "Manufacture Plasma Cells",
      "description": "Standard plasma cell packs for plasma weapons.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell_pack",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 18.38,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_shaped_charge_slugs",
      "name": "Manufacture Shaped Charge Slugs",
      "description": "Explosive-lined railgun slugs.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "warhead_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "shaped_charge_slug_case",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.9
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_standard_rounds",
      "name": "Manufacture Standard Rounds",
      "description": "Box of basic autocannon ammunition. Cheap and reliable.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "standard_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.45,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_tungsten_slugs",
      "name": "Manufacture Tungsten Slugs",
      "description": "Heavy tungsten penetrator slug cases.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_slug_case",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.4,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacture_void_cores",
      "name": "Manufacture Void Cores",
      "description": "Standard void energy core packs.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_core_pack",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 204,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "mint_gold_bar",
      "name": "Mint Gold Bar",
      "description": "Smelt and assay ten measures of gold ore into a single stamped bar of pure bullion — a trophy of wealth, not a working material.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gold_ore",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gold_bar",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75
    },
    {
      "id": "mint_platinum_bar",
      "name": "Mint Platinum Bar",
      "description": "Refine ten measures of platinum ore into a single white-metal bar — the collector's choice of bullion, prized precisely because it is rare and does nothing.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_ore",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_bar",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 26.25
    },
    {
      "id": "mint_silver_bar",
      "name": "Mint Silver Bar",
      "description": "Cast ten measures of silver ore into a single assayed bar of bullion — a tangible flex; no machine will ever ask for it.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silver_ore",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silver_bar",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.2
    },
    {
      "id": "mix_cobalt_cordial",
      "name": "Mix Cobalt Cordial",
      "description": "A deep-blue non-alcoholic cordial coloured with a whisper of cobalt-squid ink and sweetened with fruit.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_ink",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_cordial",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "mix_noble_gas_spritz",
      "name": "Mix Noble-Gas Spritz",
      "description": "A dry fruit spritz aerated with halo-drifter noble condensate so it never quite goes flat.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "noble_condensate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "noble_gas_spritz",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "mix_prism_charged_cocktail",
      "name": "Mix Prism-Charged Cocktail",
      "description": "Gloomshine and honeyglobe spiked with prism-charged ichor so the drink shifts through a whole spectrum.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "prism_charged_ichor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gloomshine",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "prism_charged_cocktail",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "mix_radiant_tonic",
      "name": "Mix Radiant Tonic",
      "description": "Crystal-melt, noble condensate, and a carefully small amount of radiant bile, glowing green.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "radiant_bile",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "noble_condensate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "radiant_tonic",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "mold_pressure_seal",
      "name": "Mold Pressure Seal",
      "description": "Form polymer gaskets rated for vacuum-to-atmosphere pressure differentials.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pressure_seal",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.65
    },
    {
      "id": "mull_whale_oil_grog",
      "name": "Mull Whale-Oil Grog",
      "description": "Rough gloomshine, honeyglobe, and a controversial float of whale oil, served hot.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "whale_oil",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gloomshine",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "whale_oil_grog",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "nitrogen_bladder_decanting",
      "name": "Nitrogen Bladder Decanting",
      "description": "Puncture frostblister bladders into a cryo-column and decant the pressurized contents as liquid nitrogen. The biology does the condensation; the rig just catches what pours out.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nitrogen_bladder",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.3,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "noble_gas_liquefaction",
      "name": "Noble Gas Liquefaction",
      "description": "Render a halo-drifter's noble condensate into dense, clean-burning fuel cells.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "noble_condensate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_alloy_synthesis",
      "name": "Onboard Alloy Synthesis",
      "description": "The ship's molecular forge combines raw ores directly into titanium alloy.",
      "category": "Ship Passive",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "iron_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_chlorine_weaponization",
      "name": "Onboard Chlorine Weaponization",
      "description": "The ship's chemical bay processes raw chlorine gas into weapons-grade reagents. Less efficient than a fixed plant, which adds a polymer binder to lift yield.",
      "category": "Ship Passive",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "chlorine_gas",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "chlorine_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_dark_matter_condensing",
      "name": "Onboard Dark Matter Condensing",
      "description": "The ship's containment press compresses raw dark matter residue on its own. Less efficient than a fixed plant, which adds durasteel containment to lift yield.",
      "category": "Ship Passive",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_residue",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_exotic_stabilization",
      "name": "Onboard Exotic Stabilization",
      "description": "The ship's dimensional forge stabilizes raw exotic matter on its own. Less efficient than a fixed plant, which adds focused crystals to lift yield.",
      "category": "Ship Passive",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_matter",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_fluorine_synthesis",
      "name": "Onboard Fluorine Synthesis",
      "description": "The ship's containment loop converts raw fluorine gas into etching solution. Less efficient than a fixed plant, which adds ceramite stock to lift yield.",
      "category": "Ship Passive",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fluorine_gas",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fluorine_etchant",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_h2o2_fuel_synthesis",
      "name": "Onboard H2O2 Fuel Synthesis",
      "description": "Electrolyze water ice from the hold and burn the hydrogen and oxygen straight into the ship's fuel tank, skipping the entire purification, electrolysis, and fuel-manufacturing chain. Hugely inefficient next to station production, but it needs no dock.",
      "category": "Ship Passive",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "water_ice",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [],
      "crafting_time": 0,
      "fuel_output": 12
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_hydrogen_fuel_synthesis",
      "name": "Onboard Hydrogen Fuel Synthesis",
      "description": "Crudely combust raw hydrogen gas from the hold straight into the ship's fuel tank, skipping compression and proper fuel refining. Wildly wasteful next to a station's fuel facilities, but it needs no dock.",
      "category": "Ship Passive",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hydrogen_gas",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [],
      "crafting_time": 0,
      "fuel_output": 4
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_legacy_smelting",
      "name": "Onboard Legacy Smelting",
      "description": "The ship's smelter renders raw Legacy ore into refined alloy. Less efficient than a fixed plant, which adds steel stock to lift yield.",
      "category": "Ship Passive",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "legacy_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_munitions_fabrication",
      "name": "Onboard Munitions Fabrication",
      "description": "The ship's integrated forge converts raw iron ore directly into standard ammunition.",
      "category": "Ship Passive",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "iron_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "standard_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 50
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "package_crimson_iron_rations",
      "name": "Package Crimson Iron Rations",
      "description": "Ironhearth's ration works run three shifts a day. The product is nutritionally complete, structurally dense, and universally described as 'effective.' Nobody asks for seconds.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_iron_rations",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.75,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "palladium_membrane_compression",
      "name": "Palladium Membrane Compression",
      "description": "A palladium membrane drinks raw hydrogen into its lattice and releases it fuel-grade and dense, capturing gas a brute-force compressor would simply vent. The membrane slowly saturates with impurities and must be renewed, but it draws meaningfully more liquid hydrogen from the same feed.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hydrogen_gas",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "palladium_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4
    },
    {
      "id": "pan_galactic_alloy_synthesis",
      "name": "Pan-Galactic Alloy Synthesis",
      "description": "Fuse a Rainbow Leviathan's prismatic carapace with the charged ichor of its exotic feeding grounds into a pan-galactic matrix. The exotic metals are already concentrated in the shell — the forge only has to bind them.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_carapace",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prism_charged_ichor",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_charged_ichor",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pan_galactic_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "plasma_flux_titanium_alloy",
      "name": "Plasma-Flux Titanium Alloy",
      "description": "A plasma-flux forge: high-energy plasma residue superheats steel and fuses it into a titanium-extended alloy, cutting the raw titanium needed to a third. Slower and dependent on exotic plasma, but a lifeline where titanium is scarce.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_residue",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "plate_surf_and_turf_platter",
      "name": "Plate Surf-and-Turf Platter",
      "description": "Crusher-mantis claw and a grazer steak on one board with a pile of greens — the classic payday order.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "mantis_claw",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "raw_xeno_meat",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "surf_and_turf_platter",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "polish_nebula_prism_lens",
      "name": "Polish Nebula Prism Lens",
      "description": "Cut and polish raw nebula prism crystals with refined crystal substrates to produce lenses for long-range sensor arrays.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_nebulite",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 66,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "prepare_gourmet_rations",
      "name": "Prepare Gourmet Rations",
      "description": "The Solarian biosphere kitchens prepare premium vacuum-sealed meals from hydroponically-grown ingredients.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_gourmet_rations",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "prepare_rainbow_leviathan_carpaccio",
      "name": "Prepare Rainbow Leviathan Carpaccio",
      "description": "Rainbow Leviathan flesh sliced tissue-thin and lightly cured with lumen oil, keeping the starlight shimmer intact.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rainbow_leviathan_flesh",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lumen_oil",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "caustic_sac",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rainbow_leviathan_carpaccio",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "process_copper_wiring",
      "name": "Process Copper Wiring",
      "description": "Draw copper ore into conductive wiring.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.63,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "process_deuterium_ice",
      "name": "Process Deuterium Ice",
      "description": "Extract heavy hydrogen isotopes for fusion reactors.",
      "category": "Ice Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deuterium_ice",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deuterium",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 11.1,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "process_helium_ice",
      "name": "Process Helium Ice",
      "description": "Extract helium-3 isotopes from frozen gas deposits.",
      "category": "Ice Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "helium_ice",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "helium_3",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5.4,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "process_nitrogen_ice",
      "name": "Process Nitrogen Ice",
      "description": "Extract liquid nitrogen from frozen deposits.",
      "category": "Ice Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nitrogen_ice",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.32
    },
    {
      "id": "process_null_matter",
      "name": "Process Null Matter",
      "description": "Stabilize raw null matter into a usable form for stealth technology and containment systems.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "null_matter",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.65,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "process_radium",
      "name": "Process Radium",
      "description": "Extract and purify radium into radioluminescent phosphor compound.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "radium_ore",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "radium_phosphor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.65,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "process_thorium",
      "name": "Process Thorium",
      "description": "Refine thorium concentrate into stable reactor-grade processed thorium.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thorium_concentrate",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_thorium",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "process_tritium_ice",
      "name": "Process Tritium Ice",
      "description": "Liquefy and purify tritium ice into cryogenic liquid tritium for fusion fuel applications.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tritium_ice",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_tritium",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15.3,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "process_water_ice",
      "name": "Process Water Ice",
      "description": "Melt water ice into purified water for life support and further processing.",
      "category": "Ice Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "water_ice",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.08
    },
    {
      "id": "produce_solarian_biotic",
      "name": "Produce Solarian Biotic",
      "description": "Certified in clean-room facilities by the Solarian Biotech Division. Each batch tested, documented, and priced at a premium the Confederacy considers entirely justified.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_biotic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.35,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "pull_cobalt_squid_noodles",
      "name": "Pull Cobalt Squid Noodles",
      "description": "Hand-pulled sunspindle noodles slicked with cobalt ink and a fierce hit of cinderspice. Dockside street food.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_ink",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cinderspice",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_squid_noodles",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "pull_void_espresso",
      "name": "Pull Void Espresso",
      "description": "Spore-mash coffee pulled short and dosed with void-charged ichor, crema aglow.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gloomcap_mash",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_charged_ichor",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_espresso",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "purify_argon",
      "name": "Purify Argon",
      "description": "Process argon for welding and shield systems.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "argon_gas",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_argon",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.08
    },
    {
      "id": "radiant_bile_enrichment",
      "name": "Radiant Bile Enrichment",
      "description": "Refine the radioisotope-rich bile of a cinder-urchin into shielded power cells. Hazard pay recommended.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "radiant_bile",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.9,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "rebuild_power_cells",
      "name": "Rebuild Power Cells",
      "description": "Reconstruct power cells from salvaged rare materials. Requires careful handling of exotic conductors.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rare_salvage",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "reclaim_circuit_boards",
      "name": "Reclaim Circuit Boards",
      "description": "Painstaking extraction of intact circuits from salvage. The rare materials contain trace elements essential for microprocessor fabrication.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rare_salvage",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "reclaim_steel_from_scrap",
      "name": "Reclaim Steel from Scrap",
      "description": "Melt down salvage metal and reforge it into usable steel. Less pure than ore-smelted steel, but good enough for repairs.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 8
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.27
    },
    {
      "id": "recover_heat_sinks",
      "name": "Recover Heat Sinks",
      "description": "Extract thermal management components from salvaged electronics. These parts are usually the last thing to fail.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.95,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "refine_platinum_catalyst",
      "name": "Refine Platinum Catalyst",
      "description": "Reduce raw platinum into a high-surface-area catalytic sponge — the active ingredient in a fuel-cell stack.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_ore",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "platinum_catalyst",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 27,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "refine_solarian_legacy_ore",
      "name": "Refine Solarian Legacy Ore",
      "description": "Process ancient Solarian Legacy ore into a refined alloy. The smelting process requires precise temperature control to preserve the ore's unique crystalline structure.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "legacy_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_legacy_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 21
    },
    {
      "id": "refine_steel",
      "name": "Refine Steel",
      "description": "Smelt iron ore into steel plates.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "iron_ore",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.54,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "refine_titanium",
      "name": "Refine Titanium",
      "description": "Smelt raw titanium ore into usable ingots.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ore",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_ingot",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.1,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "refine_void_dust",
      "name": "Refine Void Dust",
      "description": "Nebular gas filtered through gutter flux and evaporated to a fine iridescent powder. The reaction requires a sealed room and patience. One mistake and you're the first customer.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gutter_flux",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_gas",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_dust",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.75,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "refine_weapons_grade_plutonium",
      "name": "Refine Weapons-Grade Plutonium",
      "description": "Chemically separate and refine reactor-grade plutonium into weapons-grade material using polonium as a neutron initiator.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "polonium_ore",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapons_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "reforge_hull_plating",
      "name": "Reforge Hull Plating",
      "description": "Cut and reshape salvaged metal into hull plating sections. Recycled plating has character — some say it's lucky.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.15,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "reprogrammed_repair_nanites",
      "name": "Reprogrammed Repair Nanites",
      "description": "Nanites recovered from wreck systems, reprogrammed for hull repair. They remember their old ship — sometimes they get creative with the patches.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rare_salvage",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanites",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "rime_fang_plating",
      "name": "Rime Fang Plating",
      "description": "Set frost-lurker fangs into a layer of cold-hardened armor plate.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "rime_fang",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.7,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "roast_leviathan_heartcore",
      "name": "Roast Leviathan Heartcore",
      "description": "A whole Molt Leviathan heartcore, still warm from harvest, spice-crusted and finished tableside. Theatre and heresy.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "leviathan_heartcore",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cinderspice",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "leviathan_heartcore_roast",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "roll_lead_sheet",
      "name": "Roll Lead Sheet",
      "description": "Roll lead ingots into flat sheets for shielding and container fabrication.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_ingot",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.84
    },
    {
      "id": "roll_lead_shielding",
      "name": "Roll Lead Shielding",
      "description": "Roll and laminate lead sheet onto steel backing for radiation-shielded facility walls.",
      "category": "Facility Construction",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_shielding",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5.4
    },
    {
      "id": "roll_memory_metal_sheet",
      "name": "Roll Memory Metal Sheet",
      "description": "Roll Memory Metal Sheet.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "electrum_ingot",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "memory_metal_sheet",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5.25
    },
    {
      "id": "run_pharmaceutical_lab",
      "name": "Run Pharmaceutical Lab",
      "description": "Operate a certified biological culture lab to produce standardized pharmaceutical culture media.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pharmaceutical_culture",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.7,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "salvagers_repair_kit",
      "name": "Salvager's Repair Kit",
      "description": "Repair kits assembled from salvaged components. Every part has a story, and most of those stories involve explosions.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "scavenge_fuel_cells",
      "name": "Scavenge Fuel Cells",
      "description": "Strip fuel tanks from wrecks and render the residue into usable cells. A pirate's fuel supply is whatever the last crew left behind.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.58,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "seal_dark_matter_cell",
      "name": "Seal Dark Matter Cell",
      "description": "Suspend Outer Rim dark matter in a hydrogen-cooled containment cell for portable high-density energy storage.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sear_hoarfrost_flank_steak",
      "name": "Sear Hoarfrost Flank Steak",
      "description": "Cold-cured Hoarfrost Leviathan flank seared hard and served blue with a bright ember rub.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hoarfrost_flank",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ember_gland",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "hoarfrost_flank_steak",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "shake_superfluid_martini",
      "name": "Shake Superfluid Martini",
      "description": "Cut with a drop of frost-moth superfluid — it crawls the glass and never warms in your hand.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superfluid_vial",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gloomshine",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superfluid_martini",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "silica_lens_fabrication",
      "name": "Silica Lens Fabrication",
      "description": "Lay down the flawless silica discs a silica-borer grinds into the optical core of a control node.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silica_lens",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "simmer_molt_leviathan_bisque",
      "name": "Simmer Molt Leviathan Bisque",
      "description": "A full day's simmer of Molt Leviathan tail in its own stock with whale blubber and crystal-melt, passed through silk to a velvet finish. The pinnacle plate.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "leviathan_meat",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "whale_blubber",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "molt_leviathan_bisque",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sinter_silicate_composite",
      "name": "Sinter Silicate Composite",
      "description": "Fuse silicon and nickel into a versatile structural composite.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.35
    },
    {
      "id": "sinter_tungsten_steel",
      "name": "Sinter Tungsten Steel",
      "description": "Sinter powdered tungsten into the iron pour for a denser, harder plate. The tungsten carries part of the structural load, so each batch of iron goes further.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "iron_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4
    },
    {
      "id": "smelt_aluminum_sheet",
      "name": "Smelt Aluminum Sheet",
      "description": "Press aluminum ore into lightweight structural panels.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_ore",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.6,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "smelt_lead_ingot",
      "name": "Smelt Lead Ingot",
      "description": "Smelt lead ore into ingots for radiation shielding applications.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_ore",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lead_ingot",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.45
    },
    {
      "id": "smelt_nickel_billet",
      "name": "Smelt Nickel Billet",
      "description": "Concentrate and cast low-grade nickel ore into solid billets for battery and alloy work.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_ore",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_billet",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.7
    },
    {
      "id": "smoke_xeno_delicacy",
      "name": "Smoke Xeno Delicacy",
      "description": "Cure and cold-smoke prime cuts of xeno-meat with active fermentation cultures — a slow process that turns rough game into a table centerpiece.",
      "category": "Biological Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "raw_xeno_meat",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "smoked_xeno_delicacy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sour_caustic_ale",
      "name": "Sour Caustic Ale",
      "description": "A puckering sour ale soured with a controlled trace of chlorophage caustic sac.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "caustic_sac",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fermentation_culture",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sunspindle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "caustic_sour_ale",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "spherify_superfluid_caviar",
      "name": "Spherify Superfluid Caviar",
      "description": "Frost-moth superfluid spherified into weightless cold-bursting beads over a scrape of rainbow-leviathan flesh.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superfluid_vial",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "rainbow_leviathan_flesh",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystal_melt",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superfluid_caviar",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "spin_metallic_aerogel",
      "name": "Spin Metallic Aerogel",
      "description": "Spin Metallic Aerogel.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "aluminum_sheet",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "graphene_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silicate_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "metallic_aerogel",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.75
    },
    {
      "id": "spin_optical_fiber",
      "name": "Spin Optical Fiber",
      "description": "Draw ultra-pure silicon into optical fiber bundles for precision instruments.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 11.1
    },
    {
      "id": "spin_quantum_fizz",
      "name": "Spin Quantum Fizz",
      "description": "A fruit soda spun with quantum-moth silk and biogas until it seems to fizz in several glasses at once.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_silk",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystallized_biogas",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "honeyglobe",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_fizz",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "stabilize_chlorine_gas",
      "name": "Stabilize Chlorine Gas",
      "description": "Neutralize and compound raw chlorine gas into stable chemical reagents.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "chlorine_gas",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "chlorine_compound",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.55,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "stabilize_exotic_matter",
      "name": "Stabilize Exotic Matter",
      "description": "Process exotic matter into usable form.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_matter",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 102,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "stabilize_plasma_gas",
      "name": "Stabilize Plasma Gas",
      "description": "Contain and stabilize raw plasma for industrial use.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_gas",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "refined_plasma_core",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "steep_lumen_liqueur",
      "name": "Steep Lumen Liqueur",
      "description": "Gloomshine steeped with cloudwhale lumen oil into a soft, sweet after-dinner glow.",
      "category": "Distillery",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lumen_oil",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gloomshine",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "lumen_liqueur",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "storm_node_capacitance",
      "name": "Storm Node Capacitance",
      "description": "Discharge a tempest-eel's electric organ into a fully charged power cell.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "storm_node",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.8,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "strip_wiring_from_components",
      "name": "Strip Wiring from Components",
      "description": "Carefully extract reusable wiring harnesses from salvaged ship components.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_components",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "wiring_harness",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.75,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "superfluid_winding",
      "name": "Superfluid Winding",
      "description": "Wind a frost-moth's superfluid helium into the superconducting core of a control node.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "superfluid_vial",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_afterburner_fuel",
      "name": "Synthesize Afterburner Fuel",
      "description": "Blend ionized gas with hydrogen fuel for explosive short-duration thrust.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ion_solution",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "afterburner_fuel",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 7.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_argon_power_cell",
      "name": "Synthesize Argon Power Cell",
      "description": "Ionize and compress purified argon into dense charge cells. Argon lacks xenon's charge density but is found across nearly every system, making it the workhorse choice for bulk power storage.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_argon",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_berserker_compound",
      "name": "Synthesize Berserker Compound",
      "description": "Dangerous stimulant that boosts damage at cost of defense.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neural_extract",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trace_exotic_element",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "berserker_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 23.1,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_bio_polymer",
      "name": "Synthesize Bio-Polymer",
      "description": "Polymerize synthetic organic compounds into flexible bio-derived polymer. An alternative to silicon-based production routes.",
      "category": "Biological Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.81,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_cloaking_dust",
      "name": "Synthesize Cloaking Dust",
      "description": "Suspend krypton in a metamaterial powder that absorbs photons and bends sensor beams.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_krypton",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "cloaking_dust",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.38,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_coolant_fluid",
      "name": "Synthesize Coolant Fluid",
      "description": "Blend liquid nitrogen and purified water into a circulating industrial coolant.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_nitrogen",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_fluid",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 2.02
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_endurance_booster",
      "name": "Synthesize Endurance Booster",
      "description": "Increases hull and shield resistance temporarily.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "bioactive_compound",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "endurance_booster",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.4,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_energy_crystal",
      "name": "Synthesize Energy Crystal",
      "description": "Bombard a synthetic diamond lattice with massive electrical charge in an inert argon atmosphere, forcing crystalline energy alignment.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_argon",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_diamond",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5.25,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_fluorine_etchant",
      "name": "Synthesize Fluorine Etchant",
      "description": "Convert raw fluorine gas into precisely controlled etching solution. Maximum containment protocols required.",
      "category": "Gas Processing",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fluorine_gas",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fluorine_etchant",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.6,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_focus_enhancer",
      "name": "Synthesize Focus Enhancer",
      "description": "Improves accuracy and tracking.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "bioactive_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "bioluminescent_culture",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "focus_stim",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 6.3,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_liquid_tritium",
      "name": "Synthesize Liquid Tritium",
      "description": "Bombard deuterium with neutrons from a fission reaction to produce tritium. Consumes reactor fuel in the process.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deuterium",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_fuel_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_tritium",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15.3,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_metamaterial",
      "name": "Synthesize Metamaterial",
      "description": "Create materials with impossible optical properties.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "metamaterial_panel",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 240,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_neon_power_cell",
      "name": "Synthesize Neon Power Cell",
      "description": "Pack ionized neon into discharge cells. The lighter noble gas ionizes readily and is nearly ubiquitous, a reliable fallback wherever xenon is hard to come by.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "ionized_neon",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_nerve_burn",
      "name": "Synthesize Nerve Burn",
      "description": "Superheated plasma gas bonded to gutter flux and crystallized under pressure. The resulting compound is as dangerous to make as it is to take. Thane's chemists earn every credit.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "gutter_flux",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_gas",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "nerve_burn",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 7.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_neural_extract_biological",
      "name": "Synthesize Neural Extract (Biological)",
      "description": "Distill neural computing substrate from Voidborn nanite suspensions. An alternative to the standard electronic extraction method, and favored by operators near Voidborn space.",
      "category": "Biological Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neural_extract",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 19.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_neural_gel",
      "name": "Synthesize Neural Gel",
      "description": "Fuse optical fiber and crystalline lattice into a conductive neural interface substrate.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "energy_crystal",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neural_interface_gel",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_neutronium",
      "name": "Synthesize Neutronium",
      "description": "Create ultra-dense neutronium for capital armor.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapons_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_core",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 37.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_pan_galactic_matrix",
      "name": "Synthesize Pan-Galactic Matrix",
      "description": "Unite materials from Voidborn, Solarian, and Nebula empires in a circuit lattice — the pinnacle of cross-empire cooperation.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "pan_galactic_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 39,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_polymer",
      "name": "Synthesize Polymer",
      "description": "Create flexible polymer from base materials.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "silicon_ore",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nickel_ore",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.21,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_reflex_enhancer",
      "name": "Synthesize Reflex Enhancer",
      "description": "Combat stimulant that improves reaction time.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neural_extract",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "bioactive_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reflex_enhancer",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 24.3,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_regeneration_serum",
      "name": "Synthesize Regeneration Serum",
      "description": "Accelerates hull repair rate.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "neural_extract",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "biofiber_mesh",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "bioactive_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "regeneration_serum",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 28.2,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_repair_nanites",
      "name": "Synthesize Repair Nanites",
      "description": "Emergency hull repair compounds.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_nanites",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_stim_pack",
      "name": "Synthesize Stim Pack",
      "description": "Combat stimulant for enhanced reaction time.",
      "category": "Consumables",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "synthetic_compound",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trace_exotic_element",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "combat_stim",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 3.51,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_void_nanites",
      "name": "Synthesize Void Nanites",
      "description": "Operate Voidborn nanite synthesis hardware. The manual is in a language that is not quite a language. The process produces a suspension of something. That is all the documentation says.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_nanite_suspension",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_voidborn_neural_soma",
      "name": "Synthesize Voidborn Neural Soma",
      "description": "The Collective produces these through processes it declines to categorize. Whether this counts as food, medicine, or software depends on who you ask. The Collective considers the question missing the point.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_neural_soma",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 4.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "synthesize_xenon_power_cell",
      "name": "Synthesize Xenon Power Cell",
      "description": "Ionize and compress purified xenon into high-density power storage cells. Xenon's stable noble gas properties enable reliable long-duration charge retention.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "purified_xenon",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 13.5,
      "facility_only": true,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "temper_crimson_fury_alloy",
      "name": "Temper Crimson Fury Alloy",
      "description": "Heat-treat raw crimson fury ore with standard alloy to create an ultra-dense plating material prized by warship builders.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fury_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 16.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "tritium_pearl_enrichment",
      "name": "Tritium Pearl Enrichment",
      "description": "Draw down a glacier-drifter's tritium pearl into a stack of high-grade power cells.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tritium_pearl",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.2,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_nugget_drawing",
      "name": "Tungsten Nugget Drawing",
      "description": "Feed kiln-snail carbide beads through a progressive draw-plate to pull rod stock. The beads are denser than anything a press produces — the drawing step just shapes what the snail already made.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_nugget",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.6,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_enriched_uranium_rod",
      "name": "Unwrap Enriched Uranium Rod",
      "description": "Open a contained uranium rod package to recover the enriched uranium rods. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_enriched_uranium_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "enriched_uranium_rod",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 234,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_highly_enriched_uranium",
      "name": "Unwrap Highly Enriched Uranium",
      "description": "Open a contained HEU cask to recover the highly enriched uranium. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_highly_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "highly_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 180,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_liquid_tritium",
      "name": "Unwrap Liquid Tritium",
      "description": "Open a contained tritium canister to recover the liquid tritium. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_liquid_tritium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_tritium",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 22.95,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_low_enriched_uranium",
      "name": "Unwrap Low Enriched Uranium",
      "description": "Open a contained LEU package to recover the low-enriched uranium. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_low_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "low_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 117,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_processed_thorium",
      "name": "Unwrap Processed Thorium",
      "description": "Open a contained thorium package to recover the processed thorium. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_processed_thorium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_thorium",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 33.75,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_reactor_fuel_assembly",
      "name": "Unwrap Reactor Fuel Assembly",
      "description": "Open a contained fuel assembly cask to recover the reactor fuel assembly. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_reactor_fuel_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_fuel_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 139.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_reactor_grade_plutonium",
      "name": "Unwrap Reactor Grade Plutonium",
      "description": "Open a contained plutonium cask to recover the reactor-grade plutonium. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_reactor_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 12.75,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_thorium_fuel_rod",
      "name": "Unwrap Thorium Fuel Rod",
      "description": "Open a contained thorium rod package to recover the fuel rods. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_thorium_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thorium_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 45,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_uranium_hexafluoride",
      "name": "Unwrap Uranium Hexafluoride",
      "description": "Open a contained UF6 canister to recover the uranium hexafluoride. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_uranium_hexafluoride",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "uranium_hexafluoride",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 85.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unwrap_weapons_grade_plutonium",
      "name": "Unwrap Weapons Grade Plutonium",
      "description": "Open a contained weapons-grade plutonium cask to recover the material. Container is consumed.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_weapons_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapons_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "upgrade_deep_core_extractor",
      "name": "Upgrade Deep Core Extractor",
      "description": "Rebuild the Mk I extractor with cross-empire composite materials for improved mining power and range. Requires galactic alloy for structural integrity, a universal nav core for precision targeting, a void shield matrix for thermal containment, and exotic matter in both refined and crystallized form for dimensional stability.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deep_core_extractor_mk_i",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "galactic_standard_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "universal_nav_core",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deep_core_extractor_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 825,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "upgrade_deep_core_extractor_iii",
      "name": "Upgrade Deep Core Extractor III",
      "description": "The pinnacle deep-core mining rig, reserved for crews who have wrung everything from a Mark II. Strips a working Deep Core Extractor II for its calibrated core and rebuilds it around the full spread of exotic-ore derivatives — stabilized and crystallized exotics, metamaterial paneling, refined quantum matrices, condensed dark matter, neutronium, and void condensate — for access to the rarest deposits in the galaxy.",
      "category": "Modules",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deep_core_extractor_ii",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "galactic_standard_alloy",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "universal_nav_core",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "stabilized_exotic",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "exotic_crystal",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "metamaterial_panel",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crystalline_lattice",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "refined_quantum_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "neutronium_ingot",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_condensate",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "prismatic_lens",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "deep_core_extractor_iii",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1200,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "vanadium_plate_forging",
      "name": "Vanadium Plate Forging",
      "description": "Press cauldron-scarab alloy scales together with ferrous nodules and roll the mix into durasteel plate. The vanadium in the scale hardens the iron matrix the nodule provides — the scarab has already alloyed the hard part.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "alloy_scale",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ferrous_nodule",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.7,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "verdigris_smelting",
      "name": "Verdigris Smelting",
      "description": "Bake the copper curd combed from a veil-ray into clean copper piping.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "verdigris_curd",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.4,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "warm_sustagel_bowl",
      "name": "Warm Sustagel Bowl",
      "description": "Sustagel, warmed, with driftkale stirred through so a recruit can pretend.",
      "category": "Galley",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sustagel",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "driftkale",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "sustagel_bowl",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 0.5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "weave_biofiber",
      "name": "Weave Biofiber",
      "description": "Create living synthetic fibers for self-repairing structures.",
      "category": "Biological Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "bioactive_compound",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nanoplastic_composite",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "biofiber_mesh",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 8.1,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "weave_carbon_fiber",
      "name": "Weave Carbon Fiber",
      "description": "Weave Carbon Fiber.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "carbon_ore",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "carbon_fiber_weave",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 1.05
    },
    {
      "id": "weave_void_shield_matrix",
      "name": "Weave Void Shield Matrix",
      "description": "Weave Voidborn null matter through Crimson fury alloy and crystal lattice to create a barrier that absorbs dimensional attacks.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "void_shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 54,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "weld_secure_vault",
      "name": "Weld Secure Vault",
      "description": "Weld Secure Vault.",
      "category": "Components",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "secure_vault",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 9
    },
    {
      "id": "whale_oil_rendering",
      "name": "Whale Oil Rendering",
      "description": "Render pilot-whale blubber oil down into high-capacity power cells. The pod strains the same workhorse argon the ionization lines compress — but the whale has already done the charging, so flensing crews tap the oil straight into storage cells, no purifying, crystal, or wiring needed. The hunter-fed shortcut to the argon power cell.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "whale_oil",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 5,
      "no_recycle": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wire_trade_authenticator",
      "name": "Wire Trade Authenticator",
      "description": "Embed Nebula trade ciphers into copper-wire contact arrays for tamper-proof transaction verification.",
      "category": "Facility Only",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "trade_authenticator",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 15,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_enriched_uranium_rod",
      "name": "Wrap Enriched Uranium Rod",
      "description": "Package 2 enriched uranium rods in a lead-shielded hazmat container.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "enriched_uranium_rod",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_enriched_uranium_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 240,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_highly_enriched_uranium",
      "name": "Wrap Highly Enriched Uranium",
      "description": "Package highly enriched uranium in a heavy lead cask. Extremely expensive due to the danger involved.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "highly_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_highly_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 195,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_liquid_tritium",
      "name": "Wrap Liquid Tritium",
      "description": "Package 3 units of liquid tritium in a cryogenic hazmat canister for transport without special cargo modules.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_tritium",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_liquid_tritium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 30,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_low_enriched_uranium",
      "name": "Wrap Low Enriched Uranium",
      "description": "Package 2 units of low-enriched uranium in a shielded hazmat container.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "low_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_low_enriched_uranium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 124.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_processed_thorium",
      "name": "Wrap Processed Thorium",
      "description": "Package 3 units of processed thorium in a hazmat container for transport without special cargo modules.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "processed_thorium",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_processed_thorium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 40.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_reactor_fuel_assembly",
      "name": "Wrap Reactor Fuel Assembly",
      "description": "Package a reactor fuel assembly in a heavy shielded cask for transport.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_fuel_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_reactor_fuel_assembly",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 148.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_reactor_grade_plutonium",
      "name": "Wrap Reactor Grade Plutonium",
      "description": "Encase reactor-grade plutonium in a maximum-shielding lead cask. Extremely heavy and expensive.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "reactor_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_reactor_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 14.25,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_thorium_fuel_rod",
      "name": "Wrap Thorium Fuel Rod",
      "description": "Package 2 thorium fuel rods in a shielded hazmat container.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "thorium_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_thorium_fuel_rod",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 52.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_uranium_hexafluoride",
      "name": "Wrap Uranium Hexafluoride",
      "description": "Package 3 units of uranium hexafluoride in a hazmat container for transport without special cargo modules.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "uranium_hexafluoride",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_uranium_hexafluoride",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 91.5,
      "facility_only": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wrap_weapons_grade_plutonium",
      "name": "Wrap Weapons Grade Plutonium",
      "description": "Encase weapons-grade plutonium in a maximum-shielding lead cask. This material is strictly controlled.",
      "category": "Refining",
      "inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "weapons_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_sheet",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "contained_weapons_grade_plutonium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "crafting_time": 10.5,
      "facility_only": true
    }
  ],
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "adamant_tooth",
      "name": "Adamant Tooth",
      "description": "A single grinding tooth from an adamant-grinder, harder than any drill bit. A handful will outlast a mining rig.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary"
    },
    {
      "id": "adamantite_bar",
      "name": "Adamantite Bar",
      "description": "Legendary alloy of unmatched hardness. Nearly indestructible.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "adamantite_ore",
      "name": "Adamantite Ore",
      "description": "Near-indestructible crystalline ore of unknown origin.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 800,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "adaptive_shield_i",
      "type_id": "adaptive_shield_i",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Adaptive Shield I",
      "description": "Shield that learns and adapts to incoming damage types.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 21000,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "shield_bonus": 60,
      "special": "adaptive_resistance_10",
      "required_skills": {
        "shields": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "adaptive_shield_ii",
      "type_id": "adaptive_shield_ii",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Adaptive Shield II",
      "description": "Enhanced adaptive shield with faster learning algorithms.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 44000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 15,
      "shield_bonus": 120,
      "special": "adaptive_resistance_20",
      "required_skills": {
        "shields": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "adaptive_shield_iii",
      "type_id": "adaptive_shield_iii",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Adaptive Shield III",
      "description": "Top-tier adaptive shield that rapidly counters all damage types.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 53000,
      "cpu_usage": 12,
      "power_usage": 22,
      "shield_bonus": 200,
      "special": "adaptive_resistance_35",
      "required_skills": {
        "shields": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "adrenaline_surge",
      "name": "Adrenaline Surge",
      "description": "+15% to all combat stats for 5 ticks. Powerful but brief.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 15,
        "stat": "all_combat",
        "duration": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "advanced_drone_bay",
      "type_id": "advanced_drone_bay",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Advanced Drone Bay",
      "description": "High-capacity drone bay with room for five drones and 80 bandwidth for simultaneous deployment.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 4200,
      "cpu_usage": 12,
      "power_usage": 15,
      "drone_capacity": 5,
      "drone_bandwidth": 80
    },
    {
      "id": "advanced_repair_kit",
      "name": "Advanced Repair Kit",
      "description": "Professional repair kit, restores 150 hull.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 590,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "repair",
        "amount": 150
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "advanced_tow_rig",
      "type_id": "advanced_tow_rig",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Advanced Tow Rig",
      "description": "High-efficiency tow system. Only 30% speed reduction while towing.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 15,
      "tow_speed_penalty": 30,
      "required_skills": {
        "salvaging": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "afterburner_fuel",
      "name": "Afterburner Fuel",
      "description": "High-octane fuel for afterburners. +100% speed for 3 ticks.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 100,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 100,
        "stat": "speed",
        "duration": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "afterburner_i",
      "type_id": "afterburner_i",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Afterburner I",
      "description": "Increases ship speed.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1100,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 3,
      "speed_bonus": 1,
      "fuel_efficiency": -25
    },
    {
      "id": "afterburner_ii",
      "type_id": "afterburner_ii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Afterburner II",
      "description": "Enhanced thruster system.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2300,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 5,
      "speed_bonus": 2,
      "fuel_efficiency": -60,
      "required_skills": {
        "navigation": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "afterburner_iii",
      "type_id": "afterburner_iii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Afterburner III",
      "description": "High-performance engine booster.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2500,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "speed_bonus": 3,
      "fuel_efficiency": -100,
      "required_skills": {
        "navigation": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "air_recycler",
      "name": "Air Recycler",
      "description": "Atmospheric processing system for extended missions.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 250,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "alloy_scale",
      "name": "Alloy Scale",
      "description": "A vanadium-alloyed shell plate shed by a cauldronback, harder than any foundry plate of the same thickness. Smiths call the alloy composition 'better than designed.'",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 45,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "aluminum_ore",
      "name": "Aluminum Ore",
      "description": "Lightweight metal ore for basic hull construction.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 6,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "aluminum_sheet",
      "name": "Aluminum Sheet",
      "description": "Lightweight structural panels for basic construction.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 20,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "ammo_fabricator",
      "name": "Ammo Fabricator",
      "description": "Automated system for producing ammunition from raw materials.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 900,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "anchor_beacon",
      "name": "Anchor Beacon",
      "description": "Deployable navigation beacon for marking locations.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1400,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "beacon"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "anchor_plate",
      "name": "Anchor Plate",
      "description": "A broad, titanium-laced shell plate shed by a magnet-barnacle. Light, strong, and already curved for hull work.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 120,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "anomaly_detector",
      "type_id": "anomaly_detector",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Anomaly Detector",
      "description": "Detects spatial anomalies and wormholes. When equipped, survey_system reveals wormhole locations and provides directional hints to nearby wormholes.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 20000,
      "cpu_usage": 15,
      "power_usage": 25,
      "special": "anomaly_detection",
      "required_skills": {
        "exploration": 5,
        "scanning": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "anomaly_probe",
      "name": "Anomaly Probe",
      "description": "Specialized probe tuned for detecting spatial anomalies.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 4700,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "probe"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "antimatter_containment_cell",
      "name": "Antimatter Containment Cell",
      "description": "A trace amount of antimatter naturally occurring in deep asteroid formations, captured in a magnetic containment vessel. Too small to use directly — but enough to seed a larger reaction.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 800,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary",
      "region_lock": [
        "solarian"
      ],
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "antimatter_core_rounds_box",
      "name": "Antimatter-Core Rounds Box",
      "description": "Magnetically contained antimatter warheads packed in a shielded crate. Extreme damage with minor splash effect.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 16000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "autocannon",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": 0.5,
          "armor_bypass": 0.25,
          "splash_pct": 0.1
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "antimatter_torpedoes",
      "name": "Antimatter Torpedoes",
      "description": "The most destructive single projectile in known space. Handle with extreme caution.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 16300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "torpedo",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": 1,
          "armor_bypass": 0.3,
          "shield_bypass": 0.3
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "antimatter_warhead",
      "name": "Antimatter Warhead",
      "description": "Single devastating antimatter warhead. The most destructive guided munition available.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 10700,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "missile",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": 0.75
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "argon_condenser",
      "type_id": "argon_condenser",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Argon Condenser",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of argon gas into cargo. Use this to filter out argon while harvesting rarer gases. Chills the intake to −186°C so argon condenses to liquid and vents. High power draw.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1400,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "special": "filter_argon_gas",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "argon_gas",
      "name": "Argon Gas",
      "description": "Inert gas for shielding during welding and manufacturing.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 12,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "extracted_by": "gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "armor_buster_missiles",
      "name": "Armor-Buster Missiles",
      "description": "Shaped charge warheads designed to penetrate heavy armor plating.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 320,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "missile",
        "ammo": {
          "armor_bypass": 0.35
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
      "name": "Armor Piercing Rounds Box",
      "description": "Hardened penetrator tips packed in a sealed magazine. Bypasses armor plating on impact.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 18,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "autocannon",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": -0.1,
          "armor_bypass": 0.25
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "armor_plate",
      "name": "Armor Plate",
      "description": "Reinforced hull plating for heavy armor construction.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 450,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "armor_plate_i",
      "type_id": "armor_plate_i",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Armor Plate I",
      "description": "Additional armor plating. Reduces speed due to added mass.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 490,
      "cpu_usage": 1,
      "power_usage": 0,
      "armor_bonus": 5,
      "speed_penalty": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "armor_plate_ii",
      "type_id": "armor_plate_ii",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Armor Plate II",
      "description": "Reinforced titanium plating. Reduces speed due to added mass.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1200,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 0,
      "armor_bonus": 10,
      "speed_penalty": 1,
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "armor_plate_iii",
      "type_id": "armor_plate_iii",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Armor Plate III",
      "description": "Heavy composite armor. Significantly reduces speed due to added mass.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1700,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 0,
      "armor_bonus": 18,
      "speed_penalty": 2,
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "armor_repairer_i",
      "type_id": "armor_repairer_i",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Armor Repairer I",
      "description": "Actively repairs armor damage during combat.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 3700,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "armor_repair_rate": 5,
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "armor_repairer_ii",
      "type_id": "armor_repairer_ii",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Armor Repairer II",
      "description": "Enhanced repair system with faster restoration.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 7500,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 14,
      "armor_repair_rate": 12,
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "armor_repairer_iii",
      "type_id": "armor_repairer_iii",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Armor Repairer III",
      "description": "Industrial-grade armor repair for capital ships.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 7000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 22,
      "armor_repair_rate": 25,
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "atmospheric_processor",
      "type_id": "atmospheric_processor",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Atmospheric Processor",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of hydrogen, argon, and neon into cargo. Use this to filter out all three common atmospheric gases in a single module. Three separation stages run in series: combustion for hydrogen, cryogenic condensers for argon and neon. Very high power draw.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 7000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 28,
      "special": "filter_argon_gas,filter_hydrogen_gas,filter_neon_gas",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "atmospheric_unit",
      "name": "Atmospheric Unit",
      "description": "Pressurization and air-handling plant. Any facility where crew work or living cultures grow needs a breathable, regulated atmosphere.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 330,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "autocannon_i",
      "type_id": "autocannon_i",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Autocannon I",
      "description": "Rapid-fire kinetic weapon. Good against armor.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 710,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "damage": 8,
      "damage_type": "kinetic",
      "ammo_type": "autocannon",
      "range": 8,
      "reach": 2,
      "cooldown": 1,
      "magazine_size": 500
    },
    {
      "id": "autocannon_ii",
      "type_id": "autocannon_ii",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Autocannon II",
      "description": "Dual-barrel autocannon with improved fire rate.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1800,
      "cpu_usage": 4,
      "power_usage": 6,
      "damage": 14,
      "damage_type": "kinetic",
      "ammo_type": "autocannon",
      "range": 10,
      "reach": 2,
      "cooldown": 1,
      "magazine_size": 650,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "autopilot_core",
      "name": "Autopilot Core",
      "description": "Automated navigation and piloting computation unit.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 8200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "autopilot_module",
      "name": "Autopilot Module",
      "description": "Automated flight control for routine travel.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 2000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "barrel_assembly",
      "name": "Barrel Assembly",
      "description": "Precision-machined weapon barrel for projectile weapons.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 250,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "basic_tow_rig",
      "type_id": "basic_tow_rig",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Basic Tow Rig",
      "description": "Attaches to ship wreckage for towing. Reduces ship speed by 50% while towing.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 380,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "tow_speed_penalty": 50
    },
    {
      "id": "bell_jelly_bubbly",
      "name": "Bell-Jelly Bubbly",
      "description": "A featherlight sparkling wine aerated with bell-jelly levity bladders and noble condensate, so effervescent the bubbles lift the foam clean off the glass. The toast at every wedding the Federation throws.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 160,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "belt_grazer_wellington",
      "name": "Belt-Grazer Wellington",
      "description": "Grazer loin wrapped in gloomcap duxelles and a sunspindle-flour crust, baked until the pastry shatters. The showpiece a frontier cook trots out to prove the kitchen is more than a ration press.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 340,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "berserker_compound",
      "name": "Berserker Compound",
      "description": "+30% damage, -20% defense for 15 ticks. High risk, high reward.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 770,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 30,
        "stat": "weapon_damage",
        "duration": 15
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "bioactive_compound",
      "name": "Bioactive Compound",
      "description": "Processed xenobiological extract for advanced synthesis.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 150,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "biofiber_mesh",
      "name": "Biofiber Mesh",
      "description": "Living synthetic material that grows to repair damage.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 270,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "biogas_fizz",
      "name": "Biogas Fizz",
      "description": "Crystal-melt water charged with crystallized biogas and a shot of fruit. A bright, aggressive soda that fizzes for an improbably long time. Kids love it; dentists across the Rim are quietly furious about it.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 60,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "drink"
    },
    {
      "id": "bioluminescent_algae",
      "name": "Bioluminescent Algae",
      "description": "Cultivated photosynthetic organisms. In the right medium they glow. Haven's luxury trade found a use for that.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 45,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "bioluminescent_culture",
      "name": "Bioluminescent Culture",
      "description": "Cultivated light-producing organisms for sensor technology.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 120,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "blood_reaver",
      "type_id": "blood_reaver",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Blood Reaver",
      "description": "Crimson Fleet weapon that converts damage dealt into repairs.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 8700,
      "cpu_usage": 9,
      "power_usage": 20,
      "damage": 45,
      "damage_type": "kinetic",
      "ammo_type": "autocannon",
      "range": 12,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 2,
      "magazine_size": 1000,
      "special": "lifesteal_20",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "breacher_torpedoes",
      "name": "Breacher Torpedoes",
      "description": "Armor-piercing torpedoes with penetrating warheads. Designed for armored battleships.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 535,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "torpedo",
        "ammo": {
          "armor_bypass": 0.5
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "business_passenger_cabin",
      "type_id": "business_passenger_cabin",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Business Passenger Cabin",
      "description": "Private cabins with real beds, a galley, and a door that latches. Carries up to 6 business-class passengers who expect to arrive rested and will pay for the privilege.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 22000,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "passenger_business_berths": 6
    },
    {
      "id": "capital_armor_plate",
      "name": "Capital Armor Plate",
      "description": "Massive reinforced plating for capital ships.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 20,
      "base_value": 12000,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "capital_ship_frame",
      "name": "Capital Ship Frame",
      "description": "Structural framework for capital-class vessels.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 7500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "carbon_fiber_weave",
      "name": "Carbon Fiber Weave",
      "description": "Strong, lightweight composite for hull reinforcement.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 35,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "carbon_ore",
      "name": "Carbon Ore",
      "description": "Versatile element used in composites and filtration systems.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 4,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "carbon_scrubber",
      "type_id": "carbon_scrubber",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Carbon Scrubber",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of carbon ore into cargo. Use this to filter out carbon while targeting rarer co-located resources. A reactive bed of hot oxidizers converts carbon to gas at the intake and vents it. High CPU load.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "cpu_usage": 7,
      "power_usage": 5,
      "special": "filter_carbon_ore",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cargo_bay_expansion",
      "name": "Cargo Bay Expansion",
      "description": "Modular kit to increase ship cargo capacity.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 6,
      "base_value": 800,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "cargo_container",
      "name": "Cargo Container",
      "description": "Standardized storage module for general cargo.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 4,
      "base_value": 160,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "cargo_expander_i",
      "type_id": "cargo_expander_i",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Cargo Expander I",
      "description": "Increases cargo capacity.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 160,
      "cpu_usage": 1,
      "power_usage": 1,
      "cargo_bonus": 20
    },
    {
      "id": "cargo_expander_ii",
      "type_id": "cargo_expander_ii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Cargo Expander II",
      "description": "Optimized cargo storage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 800,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 2,
      "cargo_bonus": 50
    },
    {
      "id": "cargo_expander_iii",
      "type_id": "cargo_expander_iii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Cargo Expander III",
      "description": "Maximum capacity cargo bay.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2000,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 3,
      "cargo_bonus": 100
    },
    {
      "id": "cargo_superstructure",
      "name": "Cargo Superstructure",
      "description": "Modular cargo framework that maximizes volumetric efficiency within existing hull space.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 4,
      "base_value": 920,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "cascade_em_charge_pack",
      "name": "Cascade EM Charge Pack",
      "description": "Chain-reaction charges that jump between nearby systems on hit.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 335,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "em_charge",
        "ammo": {
          "splash_pct": 0.15
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "caustic_sac",
      "name": "Caustic Sac",
      "description": "A pressurized gland of concentrated chlorine compounds from a chlorophage. Etches hull plating clean — handle with care.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 140,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "hazardous": true
    },
    {
      "id": "caustic_sour_ale",
      "name": "Caustic Sour Ale",
      "description": "A puckering sour ale soured with a controlled trace of chlorophage caustic sac. Bracingly tart, faintly dangerous, and fiercely fashionable in the trade-port taprooms that can source it.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 90,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "ceramite_plating",
      "name": "Ceramite Plating",
      "description": "Heat-resistant ceramic-metal composite for plasma containment.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 150,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "chaff_bundle",
      "name": "Chaff Bundle",
      "description": "Metallic strips that confuse missile tracking systems.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 9,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "effect": {
        "type": "countermeasure"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "charge_gland",
      "name": "Charge Gland",
      "description": "An electrochemical organ from a lantern-slug, dense with biological capacitor plates charged by a lifetime of lithium intake. Handle carefully — a careless cut discharges the whole stack at once.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 40,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "chemical_liner",
      "name": "Chemical Liner",
      "description": "Corrosion-resistant tank and conduit lining. Lets a facility hold aggressive acids, etchants, and reactive gases without dissolving.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 360,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "chlorine_compound",
      "name": "Chlorine Compound",
      "description": "Stabilized chlorine reagent for chemical synthesis and surface etching. Handle with extreme care.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 79,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "chlorine_gas",
      "name": "Chlorine Gas",
      "description": "Toxic gas used in chemical synthesis and weapons.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 25,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "extracted_by": "gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "cinderspice",
      "name": "Cinderspice",
      "description": "A house seasoning cut with cinder-sylph ember gland for heat and a whisper of chlorophage sac for sourness. A pinch turns a slab of vatflesh curd into something a person might actually order twice.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 34,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "circuit_board",
      "name": "Circuit Board",
      "description": "Integrated electronic processing boards.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "clarity_stim",
      "name": "Clarity Stim",
      "description": "Immune to electronic warfare for 5 ticks.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 600,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 100,
        "stat": "ecm_immunity",
        "duration": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cloaking_charge",
      "name": "Cloaking Charge",
      "description": "Single-use cloaking field generator.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 8500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 50,
        "stat": "cloak_strength",
        "duration": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cloaking_device_i",
      "type_id": "cloaking_device_i",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Cloaking Device I",
      "description": "Reduces scanner detection.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 4800,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "cloak_strength": 40,
      "required_skills": {
        "stealth": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cloaking_device_ii",
      "type_id": "cloaking_device_ii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Cloaking Device II",
      "description": "Advanced stealth technology.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 37000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 15,
      "cloak_strength": 70,
      "required_skills": {
        "stealth": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cloaking_dust",
      "name": "Cloaking Dust",
      "description": "Provides temporary stealth. +40 cloak strength for 5 ticks.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 75,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 40,
        "stat": "cloak_strength",
        "duration": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cluster_missiles",
      "name": "Cluster Missiles",
      "description": "Splits into multiple submunitions before impact. Maximum area coverage.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1900,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "missile",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": 0.3,
          "splash_pct": 0.1
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cobalt_concentrate",
      "name": "Cobalt Concentrate",
      "description": "High-purity cobalt leached from cobalt-squid ink, far richer than anything raw ore yields. Engine shops and armorers pay a premium for it.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 290,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "cobalt_cordial",
      "name": "Cobalt Cordial",
      "description": "A deep-blue non-alcoholic cordial coloured with a whisper of cobalt-squid ink and sweetened with fruit. Served long over ice. The mocktail the designated pilot orders and secretly prefers.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 140,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "drink"
    },
    {
      "id": "cobalt_ink",
      "name": "Cobalt Ink",
      "description": "Iridescent blue secretion wrung from a cobalt squid's ink sac, saturated with the cobalt it filters from the belts it grazes. Worthless from a starved shoal — only well-fed squid in cobalt-rich fields carry it. Refines into high-purity cobalt concentrate.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 130,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "cobalt_ink_risotto",
      "name": "Cobalt Ink Risotto",
      "description": "Sunspindle simmered black-blue with cobalt-squid ink and finished with verdigris curd. Stains the teeth, thrills the table, and looks like a nebula on a plate. A Nebula Trade Federation signature.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "cobalt_ore",
      "name": "Cobalt Ore",
      "description": "Heat-resistant ore used in engine components.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 25,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "cobalt_squid_noodles",
      "name": "Cobalt Squid Noodles",
      "description": "Hand-pulled sunspindle noodles slicked with cobalt ink and a fierce hit of cinderspice. Street food on every Federation dock — fast, cheap, and blue to the elbows.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 260,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "combat_drone",
      "name": "Combat Drone",
      "description": "Autonomous attack drone with basic weapons.",
      "category": "drone",
      "size": 5,
      "base_value": 1900,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "combat_drone_bay",
      "type_id": "combat_drone_bay",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Combat Drone Bay",
      "description": "Drone bay module providing capacity for three drones and 50 bandwidth for simultaneous deployment.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "drone_capacity": 3,
      "drone_bandwidth": 50,
      "required_skills": {
        "drone_control": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "combat_stim",
      "name": "Combat Stim",
      "description": "Increases weapon damage by 10% for 10 ticks.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 78,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 10,
        "stat": "weapon_damage",
        "duration": 10
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "communications_array",
      "name": "Communications Array",
      "description": "Long-range communication system for stations.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 5,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_aluminum_smelter",
      "type_id": "compact_aluminum_smelter",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Aluminum Smelter",
      "description": "A bolt-on press that passively smelts aluminum ore in the hold into structural sheet. A heavy fitting commitment for a single recipe — best as a stopgap when a refinery ship can't make the trip.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 45000,
      "cpu_usage": 24,
      "power_usage": 60,
      "passive_recipe": "smelt_aluminum_sheet"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_argon_purifier",
      "type_id": "compact_argon_purifier",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Argon Purifier",
      "description": "A bolt-on separation column that passively purifies argon gas in the hold for welding and shield feedstock. Heavy CPU and power draw, one recipe only — a stopgap for field processing.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 40000,
      "cpu_usage": 21,
      "power_usage": 54,
      "passive_recipe": "purify_argon"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_copper_wiring_plant",
      "type_id": "compact_copper_wiring_plant",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Copper Wiring Plant",
      "description": "A bolt-on drawing mill that passively works copper ore in the hold into conductive wiring. Power-hungry and limited to this one recipe, but it lets any capable hull refine in the field without a refinery ship.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 45000,
      "cpu_usage": 24,
      "power_usage": 60,
      "passive_recipe": "process_copper_wiring"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_deuterium_ice_processor",
      "type_id": "compact_deuterium_ice_processor",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Deuterium Ice Processor",
      "description": "A bolt-on isotope extractor that passively renders deuterium ice carried in the hold into fusion-grade deuterium. It runs only this recipe and is power-hungry — a partial substitute for a refinery ship, not a replacement.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 35000,
      "cpu_usage": 19,
      "power_usage": 48,
      "passive_recipe": "process_deuterium_ice"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_helium_ice_processor",
      "type_id": "compact_helium_ice_processor",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Helium Ice Processor",
      "description": "A bolt-on extraction loop that passively pulls helium-3 from helium ice carried in the hold. A fitting commitment for a single recipe — a stopgap when a refinery ship can't come along.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 35000,
      "cpu_usage": 19,
      "power_usage": 48,
      "passive_recipe": "process_helium_ice"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_hydrogen_compressor",
      "type_id": "compact_hydrogen_compressor",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Hydrogen Compressor",
      "description": "A bolt-on compression core that passively works raw hydrogen gas in the hold into fuel-grade liquid hydrogen. Power-hungry and limited to this one recipe, but it lets any capable hull process gas in the field.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 40000,
      "cpu_usage": 21,
      "power_usage": 54,
      "passive_recipe": "compress_hydrogen_gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_lead_smelter",
      "type_id": "compact_lead_smelter",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Lead Smelter",
      "description": "A bolt-on furnace that passively smelts lead ore in the hold into shielding ingots. Hungry for CPU and power and limited to this one recipe, but it brings refining to any hull that can spare the slots.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 45000,
      "cpu_usage": 24,
      "power_usage": 60,
      "passive_recipe": "smelt_lead_ingot"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_neon_ionizer",
      "type_id": "compact_neon_ionizer",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Neon Ionizer",
      "description": "A bolt-on ionization cell that passively excites and contains neon gas carried in the hold. It runs only this recipe and is hungry for power, but it brings gas processing to any hull with slots to spare.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 40000,
      "cpu_usage": 21,
      "power_usage": 54,
      "passive_recipe": "ionize_neon_gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_nitrogen_ice_processor",
      "type_id": "compact_nitrogen_ice_processor",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Nitrogen Ice Processor",
      "description": "A bolt-on sublimation unit that passively works nitrogen ice in the hold into liquid nitrogen. Heavy CPU and power draw, one recipe only — partial field processing for any hull with the slots.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 35000,
      "cpu_usage": 19,
      "power_usage": 48,
      "passive_recipe": "process_nitrogen_ice"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_oxygen_liquefier",
      "type_id": "compact_oxygen_liquefier",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Oxygen Liquefier",
      "description": "A bolt-on cryogenic loop that passively liquefies oxygen gas carried in the hold into propellant-grade liquid oxygen. A real fitting commitment for a single recipe — best when a refinery ship isn't an option.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 40000,
      "cpu_usage": 21,
      "power_usage": 54,
      "passive_recipe": "liquefy_oxygen"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_steel_refinery",
      "type_id": "compact_steel_refinery",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Steel Refinery",
      "description": "A bolt-on smelting furnace that passively refines iron ore carried in the hold into steel plates. It draws far more CPU and power than a refinery ship's integrated lines and runs only this one recipe — handy when hauling a dedicated refinery isn't practical.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 45000,
      "cpu_usage": 24,
      "power_usage": 60,
      "passive_recipe": "refine_steel"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_titanium_refinery",
      "type_id": "compact_titanium_refinery",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Titanium Refinery",
      "description": "A bolt-on smelter that passively refines titanium ore in the hold into ingots. It runs only this recipe and draws heavy CPU and power — a partial substitute for a refinery ship, not a replacement.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 45000,
      "cpu_usage": 24,
      "power_usage": 60,
      "passive_recipe": "refine_titanium"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_water_ice_processor",
      "type_id": "compact_water_ice_processor",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Water Ice Processor",
      "description": "A bolt-on melt-and-filter unit that passively works water ice in the hold into purified water. Limited to this one recipe and a notable power draw, but it lets any capable hull process ice in the field.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 35000,
      "cpu_usage": 19,
      "power_usage": 48,
      "passive_recipe": "process_water_ice"
    },
    {
      "id": "compact_xenon_extractor",
      "type_id": "compact_xenon_extractor",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Compact Xenon Extractor",
      "description": "A bolt-on purifier that passively refines xenon gas in the hold into propulsion-grade purified xenon. A partial substitute for a refinery ship's integrated lines — handy in edge cases, not a replacement.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 40000,
      "cpu_usage": 21,
      "power_usage": 54,
      "passive_recipe": "extract_xenon"
    },
    {
      "id": "condensed_dark_matter",
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      "tradeable": true,
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      "description": "Suspended animation unit for long-duration travel.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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      "description": "A small clear crystal of near-pure water, deposited by a hollow pilgrim after filtering meltwater through its membrane stacks. Near-zero mineral content — the membrane does better filtration than most industrial processes.",
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      "tradeable": true,
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      "description": "Perfectly ordered crystal structure for energy systems.",
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      "stackable": true,
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      "name": "Dark Energy Cell",
      "description": "Contained dark energy for exotic propulsion systems.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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      "id": "dark_matter_cell",
      "name": "Dark Matter Cell",
      "description": "Outer Rim dark matter suspended in a hydrogen-cooled containment cell. Provides extraordinary energy density for advanced power systems.",
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      "description": "Exotic propulsion unit. Nobody's entirely sure how it works, but it hasn't exploded yet.",
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      "description": "Processed darksteel for capital ship armor.",
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      "description": "Advanced rare ore extraction from dense asteroids.",
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      "description": "Elite mining system for the rarest materials in the galaxy.",
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      "name": "Deep Core Extractor Mk I",
      "description": "A cross-empire hybrid drilling assembly that combines darksteel vibration dampening, null matter thermal absorption, sol alloy power regulation, phase crystal resonance immunity, and trade crystal targeting optics. Enables extraction of rare ores from deep core deposits.",
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      "description": "A specialized optical component tuned to detect deep core mineral signatures. Essential for crafting advanced survey equipment. Awarded by the Deep Core Prospector quest chain.",
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      "description": "An advanced survey scanner specifically designed to detect deep core mineral deposits hidden within asteroid fields and nebulae. Crafted from rare components obtained through the Deep Core Prospector quest chain.",
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      "name": "Deep Space Probe",
      "description": "Long-range probe for surveying distant systems.",
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      "stackable": true,
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      "name": "Defense Platform",
      "description": "Automated weapons platform for station perimeter defense.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
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    {
      "id": "defense_turret",
      "name": "Defense Turret",
      "description": "Automated weapon emplacement for station defense.",
      "category": "component",
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      "base_value": 2500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
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      "id": "depleted_uranium_rounds_box",
      "name": "Depleted Uranium Rounds Box",
      "description": "Ultra-dense penetrator rounds in a reinforced magazine. Extreme armor piercing at the cost of extra cargo weight.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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      "id": "deuterium",
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      "description": "Heavy hydrogen isotope for fusion power generation.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
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    {
      "id": "deuterium_ice",
      "name": "Deuterium Ice",
      "description": "Heavy water ice for advanced fusion reactors.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "extracted_by": "ice"
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    {
      "id": "dimensional_anchor",
      "name": "Dimensional Anchor",
      "description": "Prevents interdimensional displacement. Invaluable against exotic weapons.",
      "category": "component",
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      "base_value": 20000,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary"
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    {
      "id": "dispersal_plasma_cell_pack",
      "name": "Dispersal Plasma Cell Pack",
      "description": "Wide-dispersal plasma cells that spread thermal damage across a larger area.",
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      "stackable": true,
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      }
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    {
      "id": "docking_ring",
      "name": "Docking Ring",
      "description": "Universal docking collar for ship berthing.",
      "category": "component",
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      "base_value": 3500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
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    {
      "id": "driftkale",
      "name": "Driftkale",
      "description": "Crisp leaf and stalk raised on slow-drifting recirculation trays. Nobody's idea of a feast on its own, but every plate that isn't just meat owes it something.",
      "category": "refined",
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      "base_value": 12,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
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    {
      "id": "drone_ai_core",
      "name": "Drone AI Core",
      "description": "Processing unit for autonomous drone behavior.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 3500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "drone_bay_module",
      "name": "Drone Bay Module",
      "description": "Housing and control systems for combat drones.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 5,
      "base_value": 3000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "drone_chassis",
      "name": "Drone Chassis",
      "description": "Basic framework for autonomous drones.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 4,
      "base_value": 590,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "drone_command_module",
      "name": "Drone Command Module",
      "description": "Multi-drone coordination hub with parallel AI cores for swarm management.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 5500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "drone_comms_module",
      "name": "Drone Comms Module",
      "description": "Encrypted communication system for drone control.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 250,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "drone_mining_laser",
      "name": "Drone Mining Laser",
      "description": "Compact mining beam for autonomous extraction drones.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 400,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "drone_repair_arm",
      "name": "Drone Repair Arm",
      "description": "Manipulator arm with welding and repair tools.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 450,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "drone_sensor_suite",
      "name": "Drone Sensor Suite",
      "description": "Compact detection package for drone reconnaissance.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 350,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "drone_weapon_mount",
      "name": "Drone Weapon Mount",
      "description": "Miniaturized weapon system for combat drones.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "durasteel_plate",
      "name": "Durasteel Plate",
      "description": "Military-grade alloy combining steel with exotic elements.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 82,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "ecm_jammer_pod",
      "name": "ECM Jammer Pod",
      "description": "Electronic countermeasure pulse that disrupts targeting.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 170,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "economy_passenger_cabin",
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      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Economy Passenger Cabin",
      "description": "A block of cramped bunks and shared facilities. Carries up to 12 economy-class passengers — uncomfortable, profitable, and the backbone of every milk run on the lanes.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 6000,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 4,
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    },
    {
      "id": "electromagnetic_refinery",
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      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Electromagnetic Refinery",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of both iron ore and copper ore into cargo. Use this to filter out the two most common solid ore blockers in a single module. Combines magnetic separation for iron with a flotation cell for copper. High power and CPU draw.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 6000,
      "cpu_usage": 12,
      "power_usage": 18,
      "special": "filter_iron_ore,filter_copper_ore",
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        "mining": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "electrum_ingot",
      "name": "Electrum Ingot",
      "description": "A gold-silver alloy prized for its balanced conductivity and corrosion resistance.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 92,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "em_charge_pack",
      "name": "EM Charge Pack",
      "description": "Pack of standard electromagnetic disruption charges. One pack fully loads any EM weapon magazine.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 225,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
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    },
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      "id": "em_disruptor_i",
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      "name": "EM Disruptor I",
      "description": "Disrupts enemy systems, reducing their effectiveness.",
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      "base_value": 3900,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "damage": 5,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
      "range": 12,
      "reach": 2,
      "cooldown": 2,
      "magazine_size": 40,
      "special": "cpu_damage_10",
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        "weapons": 3
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    },
    {
      "id": "em_hull_hardener",
      "type_id": "em_hull_hardener",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "EM Hull Hardener",
      "description": "Faraday cage protection against EM damage.",
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      "base_value": 1600,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "resistance_bonus": {
        "em": 30
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      "required_skills": {
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    },
    {
      "id": "em_shield_hardener",
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      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "EM Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Increases shield resistance to EM damage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 4300,
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      "power_usage": 6,
      "resistance_bonus": {
        "em": 25
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      "required_skills": {
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    },
    {
      "id": "em_smartbomb",
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      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "EM Smartbomb",
      "description": "Area-effect EMP device that damages all nearby ships.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 6400,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 15,
      "damage": 30,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
      "range": 5,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 4,
      "magazine_size": 25,
      "special": "aoe_radius_5",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
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    },
    {
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      "name": "Ember Gland",
      "description": "A still-smouldering organ from a cinder-sylph, where browsed plasma-gas is banked as heat. Sealed in a container it will burn at temperature for weeks; crack it open and it goes immediately.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 160,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    },
    {
      "id": "ember_spirit",
      "name": "Ember Spirit",
      "description": "Gloomshine redistilled over a cinder-sylph ember gland until it genuinely warms the throat going down. Crimson Fleet crews drink it before a boarding action. Everyone else drinks it to say they did.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 130,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "emergency_warp_device",
      "name": "Emergency Warp Device",
      "description": "Jury-rigged jump coil packed into a disposable casing. Rips a one-way hole to a random nearby system — no targeting, no guarantees. You'll arrive alive and somewhere else, which is usually enough. Usable in combat.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 18000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
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    },
    {
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      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Emergency Warp Stabilizer",
      "description": "Dead man's switch for your hull. When damage would bring you below 20% integrity, this module fires a pre-charged jump coil that rips you straight home — hull stabilized, ship intact, module slag. One use. One defense slot. Worth every credit if it saves your capital ship.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 19000,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "special": "emergency_warp_at_20_hull",
      "required_skills": {
        "navigation": 4
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    },
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      "id": "emp_cannon_i",
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      "name": "EMP Cannon I",
      "description": "Electromagnetic pulse weapon that disrupts ship electronics.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 3000,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "damage": 8,
      "damage_type": "energy",
      "range": 12,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 3,
      "special": "system_disable_2",
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        "weapons": 3
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    },
    {
      "id": "emp_mines",
      "name": "EMP Mines",
      "description": "Electromagnetic pulse mines. Disrupts any ship that enters the blast zone.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 225,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
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        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "mine",
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          "disrupt_damage": 0.2
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    },
    {
      "id": "emp_missile_launcher",
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      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "EMP Missile Launcher",
      "description": "Fires guided EMP warheads that disable target modules on impact.",
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      "power_usage": 12,
      "damage": 15,
      "damage_type": "explosive",
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      "reach": 6,
      "cooldown": 4,
      "magazine_size": 6,
      "special": "system_disable_3",
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        "tactics": 3,
        "weapons": 3
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    },
    {
      "id": "emp_missiles",
      "name": "EMP Missiles",
      "description": "Electromagnetic pulse warheads. Disrupts all systems in the blast radius.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1900,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
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    {
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      "name": "EMP Pulse I",
      "description": "Electromagnetic pulse that temporarily disables ship systems.",
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      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 12,
      "damage": 5,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
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      "reach": 2,
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      "magazine_size": 40,
      "special": "system_disable_1",
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        "weapons": 3
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    },
    {
      "id": "emp_pulse_ii",
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      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "EMP Pulse II",
      "description": "Enhanced EMP device with longer disruption duration.",
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      "base_value": 6800,
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      "power_usage": 18,
      "damage": 10,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
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      "reach": 2,
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    {
      "id": "emp_pulse_iii",
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      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "EMP Pulse III",
      "description": "Military-grade EMP that can cripple capital ships.",
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      "base_value": 41000,
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      "power_usage": 25,
      "damage": 18,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
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      "reach": 2,
      "cooldown": 5,
      "magazine_size": 80,
      "special": "system_disable_3",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
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    },
    {
      "id": "emp_slug_case",
      "name": "EMP Slug Case",
      "description": "Slugs with embedded superconductor coils that generate an EMP burst on impact.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1800,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
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          "disrupt_speed": 0.3,
          "disrupt_damage": 0.2
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "emp_tipped_rounds_box",
      "name": "EMP-Tipped Rounds Box",
      "description": "Rounds with embedded micro-EMP charges. Each hit disrupts target electronics alongside kinetic damage.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "autocannon",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": -0.4,
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          "disrupt_speed": 0.3,
          "disrupt_damage": 0.2
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "emp_torpedoes",
      "name": "EMP Torpedoes",
      "description": "Massive electromagnetic pulse. Cripples all ship systems for an extended duration.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 3300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
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          "damage_mod": -0.4,
          "disrupt_ticks": 5,
          "disrupt_speed": 0.4,
          "disrupt_damage": 0.3
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "endurance_booster",
      "name": "Endurance Booster",
      "description": "Metabolic enhancer for sustained high-performance operations.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 280,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 5,
        "stat": "hull_regen",
        "duration": 15
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    },
    {
      "id": "energy_crystal",
      "name": "Energy Crystal",
      "description": "Naturally occurring crystals that store and amplify energy.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 350,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "engine_core",
      "name": "Engine Core",
      "description": "Propulsion system core assembly.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 860,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "enriched_uranium_rod",
      "name": "Enriched Uranium Rod",
      "description": "Low-enriched uranium fuel rod for civilian power reactors.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 7800,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "hazardous": true
    },
    {
      "id": "entropic_void_core_pack",
      "name": "Entropic Void Core Pack",
      "description": "Entropy-accelerating cores that age materials on contact.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 6900,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "void_core",
        "ammo": {
          "dot_pct": 0.5,
          "dot_ticks": 5
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "environmental_control_unit",
      "name": "Environmental Control Unit",
      "description": "Environmental control system for crew survival.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 280,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "escape_pod",
      "name": "Escape Pod",
      "description": "Emergency evacuation vessel with minimal supplies.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 6,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "exotic_crystal",
      "name": "Exotic Crystal",
      "description": "Rare crystalline structure with quantum properties.",
      "category": "material",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 5300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "exotic_distillate",
      "name": "Exotic Distillate",
      "description": "A concentrated drop of exotic compounds filtered from nebula gas by a skeinwraith's living chromatography membrane. Each one represents a trillion passes of gas through living tissue.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 55,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "exotic_lattice",
      "name": "Exotic Lattice",
      "description": "A self-organizing crystal lattice grown from the concentrated exotic matter of nebula fauna — phase-pearl, quantum-silk, and umbral residue fused in one frame. It hums with properties no ordinary alloy can match, and the best laboratories will pay almost anything for it.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 2400,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary"
    },
    {
      "id": "exotic_matter",
      "name": "Exotic Matter",
      "description": "Strange matter with properties that defy conventional physics. Found only in Voidborn space.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 1200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "region_lock": [
        "voidborn"
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      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "expanded_fuel_tank",
      "type_id": "expanded_fuel_tank",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Expanded Fuel Tank",
      "description": "Additional pressurized fuel bladders bolted into previously empty hull space. Significantly increases fuel capacity, but the structural modifications reduce hull integrity.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 950,
      "cpu_usage": 1,
      "power_usage": 2,
      "max_fuel_bonus": 100,
      "hull_penalty": 20
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    {
      "id": "explosive_hull_hardener",
      "type_id": "explosive_hull_hardener",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Explosive Hull Hardener",
      "description": "Blast-resistant hull reinforcement.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 640,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "resistance_bonus": {
        "explosive": 30
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      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 2
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    },
    {
      "id": "explosive_shield_hardener",
      "type_id": "explosive_shield_hardener",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Explosive Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Increases shield resistance to explosive damage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 3700,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 6,
      "resistance_bonus": {
        "explosive": 25
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      "required_skills": {
        "shields": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "explosive_smartbomb",
      "type_id": "explosive_smartbomb",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Explosive Smartbomb",
      "description": "Detonates a shaped charge affecting all nearby ships.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 4200,
      "cpu_usage": 7,
      "power_usage": 14,
      "damage": 40,
      "damage_type": "explosive",
      "ammo_type": "missile",
      "range": 4,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 5,
      "magazine_size": 6,
      "special": "aoe_radius_4",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "fermentation_culture",
      "name": "Fermentation Culture",
      "description": "Active biological cultures from continuous-feed vats. What exactly is fermenting is a matter of philosophical debate in the Outer Rim.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 30,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "ferrous_nodule",
      "name": "Ferrous Nodule",
      "description": "A dense, magnetic pellet regurgitated by a slag-tortoise after a meal of iron-rich rock. The magnetism is biological — each one holds its field without any external charge.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 60,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "ferrous_slug_case",
      "name": "Ferrous Slug Case",
      "description": "Case of standard dense iron slugs for railguns. One case fully loads any railgun magazine.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 15,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "railgun"
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    },
    {
      "id": "first_class_passenger_suite",
      "type_id": "first_class_passenger_suite",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "First-Class Passenger Suite",
      "description": "A handful of lavish staterooms with panoramic ports and absurd fare margins. Carries up to 3 first-class passengers — the kind whose safe arrival the empires actually notice.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 75000,
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    },
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      "name": "Flak Cannon I",
      "description": "Anti-munition weapon that intercepts drones and missiles.",
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      "power_usage": 5,
      "damage": 15,
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      "range": 6,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 1,
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "flak_cannon_ii",
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      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Flak Cannon II",
      "description": "Improved flak system with wider coverage arc.",
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      "base_value": 5300,
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      "power_usage": 8,
      "damage": 28,
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      "ammo_type": "autocannon",
      "range": 8,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 1,
      "magazine_size": 800,
      "special": "anti_drone_bonus_150,anti_missile_bonus_150",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "flak_cannon_iii",
      "type_id": "flak_cannon_iii",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Flak Cannon III",
      "description": "Advanced flak battery that creates a defensive perimeter.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 26000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 12,
      "damage": 25,
      "damage_type": "kinetic",
      "ammo_type": "autocannon",
      "range": 10,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 1,
      "magazine_size": 1000,
      "special": "anti_drone_bonus_200,anti_missile_bonus_200",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "flex_polymer",
      "name": "Flex Polymer",
      "description": "Flexible synthetic material for seals and cables.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 27,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    },
    {
      "id": "flotation_cell",
      "type_id": "flotation_cell",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Flotation Cell",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of copper ore into cargo. Use this to filter out copper while targeting rarer co-located resources. Reagents injected into the ore slurry cause copper minerals to bind to bubbles and vent. High CPU load.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1600,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "special": "filter_copper_ore",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "fluorine_etchant",
      "name": "Fluorine Etchant",
      "description": "Precisely concentrated hydrofluoric solution for nanoscale circuit etching and advanced material processing.",
      "category": "refined",
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      "base_value": 220,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "fluorine_gas",
      "name": "Fluorine Gas",
      "description": "Highly reactive gas for chemical etching and processing.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 45,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "extracted_by": "gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "focus_stim",
      "name": "Focus Stim",
      "description": "Increases weapon accuracy by 20% for 10 ticks.",
      "category": "consumable",
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      "base_value": 140,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
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        "stat": "accuracy",
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    },
    {
      "id": "focused_beam_i",
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      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Focused Beam I",
      "description": "Continuous beam weapon that bypasses shields.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 8700,
      "cpu_usage": 4,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "damage": 15,
      "damage_type": "energy",
      "range": 8,
      "reach": 4,
      "cooldown": 2,
      "special": "shield_bypass_25",
      "shield_bypass_bonus": 0.25,
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        "weapons": 3
      }
    },
    {
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      "type_id": "focused_beam_ii",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Focused Beam II",
      "description": "Advanced beam weapon with improved shield penetration.",
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      "power_usage": 15,
      "damage": 25,
      "damage_type": "energy",
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      "reach": 4,
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      "special": "shield_bypass_40",
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        "weapons": 2
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    },
    {
      "id": "focused_beam_iii",
      "type_id": "focused_beam_iii",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Focused Beam III",
      "description": "Elite beam weapon with 60% shield penetration.",
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      "shield_bypass_bonus": 0.6,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "focused_crystal",
      "name": "Focused Crystal",
      "description": "Precision-cut energy crystals for weapon systems.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1600,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "focused_em_charge_pack",
      "name": "Focused EM Charge Pack",
      "description": "Concentrated EM bursts that overwhelm a single target system. Higher damage per charge.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 440,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "em_charge",
        "ammo": {
          "disrupt_bonus_ticks": 1
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "focused_plasma_cell_pack",
      "name": "Focused Plasma Cell Pack",
      "description": "Tight-beam plasma cells with higher energy density. Superior single-target damage.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 565,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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        "type": "ammo",
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        "ammo": {
          "armor_bypass": 0.2
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "foil_scale",
      "name": "Foil Scale",
      "description": "A bright shed scale from a mirror-skate's back, thin as foil and nearly pure aluminum. The purity is biological — the skate pre-refines the metal as it deposits each scale.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 5,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "fragmentation_mines",
      "name": "Fragmentation Mines",
      "description": "Wider blast radius with shrapnel dispersal. Less direct damage.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 170,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "mine",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": -0.15,
          "splash_pct": 0.15,
          "anti_drone_mod": 0.5
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "fragmentation_rounds_box",
      "name": "Fragmentation Rounds Box",
      "description": "Pre-scored casings that shatter into lethal shrapnel. Devastating against drones and small targets.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 35,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "autocannon",
        "ammo": {
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          "anti_small_mod": 0.5,
          "anti_large_mod": -0.25
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_hash",
      "name": "Frontier Hash",
      "description": "Grazer meat, gloomcap mash, and driftkale all fried together on one griddle. The miner's breakfast, the salvager's dinner, and the only thing open at 0300 on most Outer Rim docks.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 70,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_rotgut",
      "name": "Frontier Rotgut",
      "description": "Rough spirits distilled at the edge of nowhere. The recipe varies by batch, but the hangover is consistent. Inexplicably popular at Haven.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 80,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_spore_spirits",
      "name": "Frontier Spore Spirits",
      "description": "Distilled from fungal cultures that may or may not be earth-origin. The Frontier Council has declined to investigate.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 80,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_survival_kit",
      "name": "Frontier Survival Kit",
      "description": "Self-repair and life support package cobbled from whatever was on hand. Surprisingly effective.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 4600,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "frostmoth_frappe",
      "name": "Frostmoth Frappe",
      "description": "Crystal-melt and fruit blended with a lick of whale blubber into a thick, ice-cold frappe. A dessert pretending to be a drink, and not fooling anyone who orders a second.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 120,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "drink"
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_cell",
      "name": "Fuel Cell",
      "description": "Standard fuel cell, restores 20 fuel.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 43,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "effect": {
        "type": "fuel",
        "amount": 20
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_optimizer",
      "type_id": "fuel_optimizer",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Fuel Optimizer",
      "description": "Reduces fuel consumption by 15%.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 800,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 2,
      "fuel_efficiency": 15,
      "required_skills": {
        "navigation": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_tank",
      "name": "Fuel Tank",
      "description": "Standard fuel storage container.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 260,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "fury_alloy",
      "name": "Fury Alloy",
      "description": "Heat-storing alloy that enhances thermal weapons.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 1100,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "region_lock": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "fury_cannon",
      "type_id": "fury_cannon",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Fury Cannon",
      "description": "Crimson Fleet capital siege cannon that deals more damage as your hull decreases — long-range bombardment built into the dreadnought line.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 37000,
      "cpu_usage": 14,
      "power_usage": 32,
      "damage": 70,
      "damage_type": "kinetic",
      "ammo_type": "autocannon",
      "range": 15,
      "reach": 5,
      "cooldown": 3,
      "magazine_size": 1000,
      "special": "rage_damage_scaling",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "fury_crystal",
      "name": "Fury Crystal",
      "description": "Superheated crystals from Crimson volcanic worlds, pulsing with thermal energy.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 320,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "region_lock": [
        "crimson"
      ],
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "fury_tempered_plating",
      "name": "Fury-Tempered Plating",
      "description": "Crimson fury alloy layered with steel under extreme heat. The resulting armor plate resists both kinetic and energy weapons.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 1100,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "fusion_fuel_rod",
      "name": "Fusion Fuel Rod",
      "description": "Processed deuterium-tritium fuel for reactor cores.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 2500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "fusion_pearl",
      "name": "Fusion Pearl",
      "description": "A glassy bead of compacted deuterium, layered like a pearl in a deuteron-slug's mantle. A clean, ready-made fusion charge.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 240,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "galactic_standard_alloy",
      "name": "Galactic Standard Alloy",
      "description": "Solarian composite fused with Crimson fury alloy and steel. The resulting material meets universal shipbuilding standards across all five empires.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 2100,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "gas_harvester_i",
      "type_id": "gas_harvester_i",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Gas Harvester I",
      "description": "Collects valuable gases from nebulae and gas clouds.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1200,
      "cpu_usage": 4,
      "power_usage": 6,
      "mining_power": 8,
      "special": "gas_harvesting",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "gas_harvester_ii",
      "type_id": "gas_harvester_ii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Gas Harvester II",
      "description": "Improved gas collection with better containment.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2500,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "mining_power": 18,
      "special": "gas_harvesting",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 4
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    },
    {
      "id": "gas_harvester_iii",
      "type_id": "gas_harvester_iii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Gas Harvester III",
      "description": "Industrial gas collection system.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 5000,
      "cpu_usage": 9,
      "power_usage": 15,
      "mining_power": 35,
      "special": "gas_harvesting",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "gas_harvester_iv",
      "type_id": "gas_harvester_iv",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Gas Harvester IV",
      "description": "Capital-grade gas collection and compression system.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 24000,
      "cpu_usage": 12,
      "power_usage": 22,
      "mining_power": 60,
      "special": "gas_harvesting",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ghost_rounds",
      "name": "Ghost Rounds",
      "description": "Ammunition manufactured without serial markings, energy signatures, or any identifiable trace. Built from bootleg power cells and titanium ingots in unlicensed armories. When forensics pulls these from a hull, the report just says 'unknown ordnance.' That's the point.",
      "category": "contraband",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 700,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "autocannon",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": -0.1,
          "untraceable": true
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "gilded_chitin",
      "name": "Gilded Chitin",
      "description": "Shed shell from a glitterback crab, so threaded with the gold it browses that it is worth melting down on its own.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "gloomcap_mash",
      "name": "Gloomcap Mash",
      "description": "Dense gloomcap fungus cultured in the dark on nitrogen and damp, then mashed to a thick pulp. Meaty, earthy, and faintly alarming to watch grow — but it fries up like the best mushroom a planet ever produced, and it never stops.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 14,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "gloomshine",
      "name": "Gloomshine",
      "description": "Gloomcap mash run through a station still until it comes off clear. Every backwater station has a batch working somewhere in the dark. Cheap, potent, and — when the good stuff runs out — the only thing on the bar.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 35,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "gold_bar",
      "name": "Gold Bar",
      "description": "A mirror-bright ingot of refined gold, stamped and assayed. It powers nothing and builds nothing — it simply is worth a great deal, and always will be.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 450,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "gold_ore",
      "name": "Gold Ore",
      "description": "Highly conductive precious metal for advanced electronics.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 45,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "gold_wiring",
      "name": "Gold Wiring",
      "description": "Premium conductive material for sensitive electronics.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 190,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "graphene_sheet",
      "name": "Graphene Sheet",
      "description": "Single-atom carbon layer with incredible strength.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 34,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "graphene_thread",
      "name": "Graphene Thread",
      "description": "A spool of natural graphene thread extruded by an inkwyrm from digested carbon ore. Each strand is a single-atom carbon sheet drawn impossibly long — the worm does in a day what a laboratory does in a year.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 12,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "gravity_generator",
      "name": "Gravity Generator",
      "description": "Artificial gravity system for stations and large ships.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 4000,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "grazer_steak_frites",
      "name": "Grazer Steak Frites",
      "description": "A slab of grazer steak, greens fried crisp in whale oil, and no pretension whatsoever. The plate a spacer orders when they're tired of deciding — it's never once been a mistake.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 160,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "gutter_flux",
      "name": "Gutter Flux",
      "description": "A viscous chemical paste synthesized from industrial solvents and chlorine compounds. The name comes from the drainage channels where the first batches were cooked. Serves as a precursor for most illicit pharmaceuticals in the outer systems.",
      "category": "contraband",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 120,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "habitation_module",
      "name": "Habitation Module",
      "description": "Living quarters unit for station crew.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1900,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "hangar_bay_module",
      "name": "Hangar Bay Module",
      "description": "Enclosed bay for ship storage and maintenance.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 20,
      "base_value": 10000,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "hazmat_container",
      "name": "Hazmat Container",
      "description": "Shielded container for radioactive or dangerous materials.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 4,
      "base_value": 430,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "heat_sink",
      "name": "Heat Sink",
      "description": "Thermal management component for weapons and engines.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 330,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "heavy_mass_driver",
      "type_id": "heavy_mass_driver",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Heavy Mass Driver",
      "description": "Accelerates massive projectiles using gravity manipulation.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 25000,
      "cpu_usage": 15,
      "power_usage": 35,
      "damage": 120,
      "damage_type": "kinetic",
      "ammo_type": "railgun",
      "range": 40,
      "reach": 5,
      "cooldown": 5,
      "magazine_size": 10,
      "special": "armor_bypass_80,hull_damage_bonus_50",
      "armor_bypass_bonus": 0.8,
      "required_skills": {
        "gunnery": 4,
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "heavy_pulse_laser",
      "type_id": "heavy_pulse_laser",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Heavy Pulse Laser",
      "description": "Capital-class energy weapon with devastating output.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 27000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 20,
      "damage": 45,
      "damage_type": "energy",
      "range": 18,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 2,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "heavy_torpedo",
      "type_id": "heavy_torpedo",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Heavy Torpedo",
      "description": "Slow but devastating capital ship killer.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 4000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "damage": 80,
      "damage_type": "explosive",
      "ammo_type": "torpedo",
      "range": 12,
      "reach": 6,
      "cooldown": 5,
      "magazine_size": 2,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "helium_3",
      "name": "Helium-3",
      "description": "Rare helium isotope for aneutronic fusion reactors.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 180,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "helium_ice",
      "name": "Helium Ice",
      "description": "Frozen helium-3 from gas giant atmospheres. Premium fusion fuel.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 85,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "extracted_by": "ice"
    },
    {
      "id": "highly_enriched_uranium",
      "name": "Highly Enriched Uranium",
      "description": "Uranium enriched above 90% U-235. Weapons-grade fissile material. Handle with extreme caution.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 12000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "hazardous": true
    },
    {
      "id": "hoarfrost_flank",
      "name": "Hoarfrost Flank",
      "description": "Flank cut from a Hoarfrost Leviathan, flash-frozen the instant it leaves the body by the cold that pours off the beast. It arrives already cured — dark, firm, and needing nothing but a warm knife. Ice-field hunters prize it above the heartcore bounty.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 240,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "hoarfrost_flank_steak",
      "name": "Hoarfrost Flank Steak",
      "description": "Hoarfrost Leviathan flank, already cured by the cold it was cut from, seared hard and served blue with a bright ember rub. Ice-field hunters swear it's the only cut worth the frostbite — and the hoarfrost bounty barely covers the bar tab.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 640,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "hoarfrost_heartcore",
      "name": "Hoarfrost Heartcore",
      "description": "The frozen cardiac node of a Hoarfrost Leviathan. Cold radiates from it for days after harvest — whatever process sustained the animal's temperature differential keeps running without the animal. Handle with insulated cargo.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 3200,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary"
    },
    {
      "id": "honeyglobe",
      "name": "Honeyglobe",
      "description": "A round, thin-skinned fruit engineered for pure sugar and shelf life over any resemblance to an ancestral species. The base of every dessert, cordial, and honest bottle of wine.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 16,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "hot_cell",
      "name": "Hot Cell",
      "description": "Jury-rigged power cells assembled from scavenged plasma conduits and stripped copper wiring. They run hot, they run unstable, and they're half the price of the legal alternative. Don't drop them.",
      "category": "contraband",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "hull_integrity_field",
      "type_id": "hull_integrity_field",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Hull Integrity Field",
      "description": "Energy field that reinforces hull structure and resists deformation.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 5500,
      "cpu_usage": 7,
      "power_usage": 14,
      "armor_bonus": 10,
      "hull_bonus": 80,
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 4,
        "shields": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hull_patch",
      "name": "Hull Patch",
      "description": "Emergency hull sealant. Restores 25 hull instantly.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 65,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "effect": {
        "type": "repair",
        "amount": 25
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hull_plating",
      "name": "Hull Plating",
      "description": "Reinforced armor section for ship construction.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 410,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "hull_reinforcement_i",
      "type_id": "hull_reinforcement_i",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Hull Reinforcement I",
      "description": "Internal structural bracing that increases hull integrity. Slightly reduces cargo space.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 880,
      "cpu_usage": 1,
      "power_usage": 0,
      "hull_bonus": 25,
      "cargo_bonus": -5
    },
    {
      "id": "hull_reinforcement_ii",
      "type_id": "hull_reinforcement_ii",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Hull Reinforcement II",
      "description": "Reinforced internal bracing for improved hull integrity. Reduces cargo space.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1100,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 0,
      "hull_bonus": 60,
      "cargo_bonus": -10,
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hull_reinforcement_iii",
      "type_id": "hull_reinforcement_iii",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Hull Reinforcement III",
      "description": "Heavy-duty structural reinforcement. Significantly reduces cargo space.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2100,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 0,
      "hull_bonus": 120,
      "cargo_bonus": -20,
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hydrogen_combustor",
      "type_id": "hydrogen_combustor",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Hydrogen Combustor",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of hydrogen gas into cargo. Use this to filter out hydrogen while harvesting rarer gases. A plasma torch at the intake ignites and expels it on contact. High power draw.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 14,
      "special": "filter_hydrogen_gas",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hydrogen_gas",
      "name": "Hydrogen Gas",
      "description": "Basic fuel source harvested from gas giants and nebulae.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 8,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "extracted_by": "gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "hyper_mining_laser_iii",
      "type_id": "hyper_mining_laser_iii",
      "type": "mining",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Hyper Mining Laser III",
      "description": "Industrial-grade mining laser with extreme extraction power.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 33000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 16,
      "mining_power": 35,
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ice_harvester_i",
      "type_id": "ice_harvester_i",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Ice Harvester I",
      "description": "Extracts valuable ice from asteroid fields and comets.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1000,
      "cpu_usage": 4,
      "power_usage": 7,
      "mining_power": 8,
      "special": "ice_harvesting",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ice_harvester_ii",
      "type_id": "ice_harvester_ii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Ice Harvester II",
      "description": "Enhanced ice mining with thermal extraction.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1800,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 12,
      "mining_power": 18,
      "special": "ice_harvesting",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ice_harvester_iii",
      "type_id": "ice_harvester_iii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Ice Harvester III",
      "description": "Industrial-grade ice mining equipment.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 9000,
      "cpu_usage": 9,
      "power_usage": 18,
      "mining_power": 35,
      "special": "ice_harvesting",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ice_harvester_iv",
      "type_id": "ice_harvester_iv",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Ice Harvester IV",
      "description": "Capital-grade cryo-extraction and processing system.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 28000,
      "cpu_usage": 12,
      "power_usage": 25,
      "mining_power": 60,
      "special": "ice_harvesting",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "incendiary_missiles",
      "name": "Incendiary Missiles",
      "description": "Thermite warheads that burn through hull after detonation. Less explosive force, more sustained damage.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 210,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "missile",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": -0.2,
          "dot_pct": 0.4,
          "dot_ticks": 3
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "incendiary_rounds_box",
      "name": "Incendiary Rounds Box",
      "description": "Phosphorus-tipped rounds that ignite on impact. Causes sustained thermal damage to hull systems.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 265,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "autocannon",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": -0.2,
          "dot_pct": 0.3,
          "dot_ticks": 3
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "inertial_gyroscope",
      "name": "Inertial Gyroscope",
      "description": "Attitude stabilization system for precise maneuvering.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_beam_array",
      "type_id": "ion_beam_array",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Ion Beam Array",
      "description": "Multi-emitter ion array that systematically disables enemy ship systems.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 11000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 18,
      "damage": 30,
      "damage_type": "energy",
      "range": 14,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 2,
      "special": "capacitor_drain_20",
      "required_skills": {
        "tactics": 4,
        "weapons": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_blaster_i",
      "type_id": "ion_blaster_i",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Ion Blaster I",
      "description": "Ionized particles that disrupt shield generators and drain capacitors.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 3900,
      "cpu_usage": 4,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "damage": 8,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
      "range": 12,
      "reach": 2,
      "cooldown": 1,
      "magazine_size": 60,
      "special": "shield_damage_bonus_50,capacitor_drain_5",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_blaster_ii",
      "type_id": "ion_blaster_ii",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Ion Blaster II",
      "description": "Enhanced ion weapon that cripples enemy shield regeneration.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 7200,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 12,
      "damage": 14,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
      "range": 14,
      "reach": 2,
      "cooldown": 1,
      "magazine_size": 80,
      "special": "shield_damage_bonus_75,capacitor_drain_10",
      "required_skills": {
        "gunnery": 2,
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_blaster_iii",
      "type_id": "ion_blaster_iii",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Ion Blaster III",
      "description": "Military ion weapon that completely neutralizes shield systems.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 11000,
      "cpu_usage": 9,
      "power_usage": 18,
      "damage": 22,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
      "range": 16,
      "reach": 2,
      "cooldown": 1,
      "magazine_size": 100,
      "special": "shield_damage_bonus_100,capacitor_drain_20",
      "required_skills": {
        "gunnery": 3,
        "weapons": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_cannon_i",
      "type_id": "ion_cannon_i",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Ion Cannon I",
      "description": "Ionized particle weapon that drains enemy capacitor systems.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2600,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "damage": 12,
      "damage_type": "energy",
      "range": 10,
      "reach": 5,
      "cooldown": 2,
      "special": "capacitor_drain_5",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_cannon_ii",
      "type_id": "ion_cannon_ii",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Ion Cannon II",
      "description": "Improved ion weapon with stronger capacitor disruption.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 5400,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 12,
      "damage": 20,
      "damage_type": "energy",
      "range": 12,
      "reach": 5,
      "cooldown": 2,
      "special": "capacitor_drain_12",
      "required_skills": {
        "tactics": 2,
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_charge_pack",
      "name": "Ion Charge Pack",
      "description": "Heavy ion charges that drain capacitor banks and disable shield generators.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "em_charge",
        "ammo": {
          "shield_damage_mod": 0.5
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_emitter",
      "name": "Ion Emitter",
      "description": "Ionized particle projector for energy weapon systems.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 1800,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_gas",
      "name": "Ion Gas",
      "description": "Highly charged gas for ion propulsion systems.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 35,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "extracted_by": "gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_nodule",
      "name": "Ion Nodule",
      "description": "A dense magnetic organ from a voltmanta, packed with ionized particle suspension. Removing it wrong discharges the whole thing. Done right, it is a ready vial of concentrated ion solution.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 180,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_solution",
      "name": "Ion Solution",
      "description": "Dense suspension of charged particles in magnetic containment. Essential for ion propulsion and directed energy systems.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 430,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "ion_sparkling_water",
      "name": "Ion Sparkling Water",
      "description": "Crystal-melt water charged over a voltmanta ion nodule and noble condensate — a crisp electrolyte fizz that tastes faintly of a storm about to break. What the sober and the hungover both reach for.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 40,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "drink"
    },
    {
      "id": "ionized_neon",
      "name": "Ionized Neon",
      "description": "Excited neon gas sealed in containment tubes. Emits characteristic orange-red glow used in sensor calibration and signal amplification.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 34,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "iridium_ore",
      "name": "Iridium Ore",
      "description": "Dense, corrosion-proof metal for high-stress components.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 90,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "iron_ore",
      "name": "Iron Ore",
      "description": "Common ferrous ore, the backbone of basic construction.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 5,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "irradiated_marrow",
      "name": "Irradiated Marrow",
      "description": "Glowing marrow drawn from a geiger-hound's bones, saturated with the isotopes of its irradiated prey. A dense, dangerous power source.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "hazardous": true
    },
    {
      "id": "isotope_separator",
      "type_id": "isotope_separator",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Isotope Separator",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of water ice and nitrogen ice into cargo. Use this to filter out both common ice types and target only rare isotope ices. A dual-gradient thermal stack handles both in series.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 6500,
      "cpu_usage": 10,
      "power_usage": 22,
      "special": "filter_water_ice,filter_nitrogen_ice",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "judgment_beam",
      "type_id": "judgment_beam",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Judgment Beam",
      "description": "The ultimate Solarian weapon of righteous destruction.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 40000,
      "cpu_usage": 16,
      "power_usage": 35,
      "damage": 100,
      "damage_type": "energy",
      "range": 20,
      "reach": 4,
      "cooldown": 4,
      "special": "energy_damage_bonus_50,shield_bypass_50",
      "shield_bypass_bonus": 0.5,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "jump_calculator",
      "name": "Jump Calculator",
      "description": "Advanced computation unit for jump drive calibration.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 8300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "jump_coil",
      "name": "Jump Coil",
      "description": "Hyperspace transition mechanism.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 4,
      "base_value": 16000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "jump_drive_core",
      "name": "Jump Drive Core",
      "description": "Essential component for hyperspace travel.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 8,
      "base_value": 66000,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "jury_rigged_cannon",
      "type_id": "jury_rigged_cannon",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Jury-Rigged Cannon",
      "description": "Outer Rim heavy weapon cobbled together from salvage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2500,
      "cpu_usage": 7,
      "power_usage": 14,
      "damage": 60,
      "damage_type": "kinetic",
      "ammo_type": "autocannon",
      "range": 12,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 2,
      "magazine_size": 500,
      "special": "random_damage_variance_30,low_cpu_requirement",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "kinetic_hull_hardener",
      "type_id": "kinetic_hull_hardener",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Kinetic Hull Hardener",
      "description": "Reinforces hull against kinetic impacts.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 740,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "resistance_bonus": {
        "kinetic": 30
      },
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "kinetic_shield_hardener",
      "type_id": "kinetic_shield_hardener",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Kinetic Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Increases shield resistance to kinetic damage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 3800,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 6,
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        "kinetic": 25
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        "shields": 2
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    },
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      "name": "Kinetic Smartbomb",
      "description": "Releases a shrapnel burst damaging all nearby ships.",
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      "base_value": 3800,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 12,
      "damage": 35,
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      "ammo_type": "autocannon",
      "range": 4,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 4,
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      "special": "aoe_radius_4",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "krypton_bladder",
      "name": "Krypton Bladder",
      "description": "A bio-sealed chamber from a nullbubble, filled with pure krypton and stoppered by a biological membrane of near-optical quality. The membrane filters better than most industrial separators — what comes out is purer than what went in.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 70,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "krypton_gas",
      "name": "Krypton Gas",
      "description": "Rare noble gas for high-efficiency lighting systems.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 50,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "extracted_by": "gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "krypton_kvass",
      "name": "Krypton Kvass",
      "description": "A lightly fermented sunspindle drink given an inert-gas lift from a nullbubble krypton bladder — barely alcoholic, weirdly refreshing, and vanishingly clear. The thing dockworkers drink by the litre in the heat of a reactor bay.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 90,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "laser_focus_array",
      "name": "Laser Focus Array",
      "description": "Precision laser focusing assembly for mining equipment.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 2600,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "laser_focusing_lens",
      "name": "Laser Focusing Lens",
      "description": "Crystal optics for focusing energy weapons.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "lead_ingot",
      "name": "Lead Ingot",
      "description": "Smelted lead for radiation shielding applications.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 15,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "lead_lined_cargo_i",
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      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Lead Lined Cargo I",
      "description": "A shielded cargo expansion that allows safe transport of refined radioactive materials.",
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      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "special": "hazmat_cargo",
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      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 1
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    },
    {
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      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Lead Lined Cargo II",
      "description": "Heavy-duty titanium-reinforced lead cargo bay for large volumes of radioactive freight.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2600,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "special": "hazmat_cargo",
      "cargo_bonus": 70,
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "lead_ore",
      "name": "Lead Ore",
      "description": "Dense metal used for radiation shielding and ballast.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 5,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "lead_sheet",
      "name": "Lead Sheet",
      "description": "Rolled lead plate. Primary material for radiation shielding equipment and hazmat containers.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 28,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "lead_shielding",
      "name": "Lead Shielding",
      "description": "Dense lead-lined plating. Bolted into the walls of any facility that handles fissile material or hard radiation — if you see it in the build, something hot is happening inside.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 90,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "legacy_ore",
      "name": "Legacy Ore",
      "description": "Pre-spacefaring Earth artifacts fused with asteroid material over millennia.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 450,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "region_lock": [
        "solarian"
      ],
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "leviathan_heartcore",
      "name": "Leviathan Heartcore",
      "description": "The crystallized cardiac node of a Molt Leviathan. Still warm years after harvest — whatever metabolic process formed it continues without the animal.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 3500,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary"
    },
    {
      "id": "leviathan_heartcore_roast",
      "name": "Leviathan Heartcore Roast",
      "description": "A whole Molt Leviathan heartcore, still warm years after harvest, spice-crusted and set on the pass to finish cooking itself in front of the guests. Theatre and heresy in equal measure — served exactly once at the opening of a station worth opening. Ruinously extravagant.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 6000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "leviathan_meat",
      "name": "Leviathan Meat",
      "description": "Sweet, pearl-white tail meat cut from a Molt Leviathan — the ship-sized space lobster of the deep belts. A single kill yields tonnes of it, enough to keep the galactic elite in bisque and tail thermidor for months. The rarest luxury protein there is, purely because the beast that carries it so rarely dies.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 220,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "leviathan_tail_thermidor",
      "name": "Leviathan Tail Thermidor",
      "description": "Molt Leviathan tail meat grilled in the shell, folded through a spiced curd gratin and finished under a flame. Richer and less fussy than the bisque — the dish a leviathan hunter orders to celebrate the kill that paid for their ship.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 820,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "levity_bladder",
      "name": "Levity Bladder",
      "description": "The hydrogen float-sac of a bell-jelly, still buoyant after harvest. Used to raise everything from balloons to ballast tanks.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 70,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "life_support_array",
      "name": "Life Support Array",
      "description": "Extended environmental control system for long-duration missions.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 1200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "life_support_unit",
      "name": "Life Support Unit",
      "description": "Integrated air and water recycling system for habitation.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 880,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "light_drone_bay",
      "type_id": "light_drone_bay",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Light Drone Bay",
      "description": "Compact drone bay for carrier ships. Holds two drones with 25 deployment bandwidth. Designed for smaller hulls.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 800,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 7,
      "drone_capacity": 2,
      "drone_bandwidth": 25,
      "required_skills": {
        "drone_control": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "liquid_hydrogen",
      "name": "Liquid Hydrogen",
      "description": "Compressed hydrogen fuel for fusion reactors.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 25,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "liquid_nitrogen",
      "name": "Liquid Nitrogen",
      "description": "Cryogenic nitrogen for cooling systems and chemical synthesis.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 22,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    },
    {
      "id": "liquid_oxygen",
      "name": "Liquid Oxygen",
      "description": "Cryogenically liquefied oxygen for propellant use. Pairs with liquid hydrogen for high-efficiency combustion.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 12,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "liquid_tritium",
      "name": "Liquid Tritium",
      "description": "Cryogenically liquefied tritium for fusion fuel applications. Radioactive and volatile.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 510,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "hazardous": true
    },
    {
      "id": "lithium_ore",
      "name": "Lithium Ore",
      "description": "Essential for energy storage systems and batteries.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 18,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "low_enriched_uranium",
      "name": "Low-Enriched Uranium",
      "description": "Uranium enriched to 3-5% U-235. Suitable for reactor fuel assemblies.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 3900,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "hazardous": true
    },
    {
      "id": "lumen_honey_cake",
      "name": "Lumen Honey Cake",
      "description": "A fruited sunspindle cake soaked in cloudwhale lumen oil so the whole thing glows softly from within. Served with the lights down; children and admirals are equally powerless against it.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "lumen_liqueur",
      "name": "Lumen Liqueur",
      "description": "Gloomshine steeped with cloudwhale lumen oil into a soft, sweet after-dinner glow — literally. Poured over crystal-melt ice at the good tables, where the lights come down to show it off.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "lumen_oil",
      "name": "Lumen Oil",
      "description": "Glowing oil rendered from a Cloudwhale's gas-straining glands, still lit with the neon it fed on. A drop of it shines for weeks. Refiners use it as a binder that sets baleen plate without cracking it.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 240,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "magnetic_ore_separator",
      "type_id": "magnetic_ore_separator",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Magnetic Ore Separator",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of iron ore into cargo. Use this to filter out iron while targeting rarer co-located resources. A high-powered electromagnet pulls ferrous material aside and vents it. High power draw.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1800,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 12,
      "special": "filter_iron_ore",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "mantis_claw",
      "name": "Mantis Claw",
      "description": "The serrated forelimb of a crusher-mantis, strong enough to peel a grazer's shell like fruit. The serrations are biological — grown, not cut — and remain sharp without maintenance.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 240,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "mantis_claw_thermidor",
      "name": "Mantis Claw Thermidor",
      "description": "Sweet crusher-mantis claw meat baked back into the shell with whale-blubber butter and a copper-tang verdigris curd. The Solarian admiralty's standing wardroom order, and the reason mantis-hunters never want for buyers.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 720,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "mass_driver",
      "type_id": "mass_driver",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Mass Driver",
      "description": "Capital-class railgun with extreme range and damage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 12000,
      "cpu_usage": 12,
      "power_usage": 28,
      "damage": 90,
      "damage_type": "kinetic",
      "ammo_type": "railgun",
      "range": 35,
      "reach": 5,
      "cooldown": 4,
      "magazine_size": 10,
      "special": "armor_bypass_75",
      "armor_bypass_bonus": 0.75,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "medical_bay_module",
      "name": "Medical Bay Module",
      "description": "Compact medical facility for crew treatment.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 5,
      "base_value": 1200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "memory_metal_sheet",
      "name": "Memory Metal Sheet",
      "description": "Shape-memory alloy that returns to its original form after deformation.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 350,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "metallic_aerogel",
      "name": "Metallic Aerogel",
      "description": "Ultra-light solid with exceptional insulation properties.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 250,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "metamaterial_panel",
      "name": "Metamaterial Panel",
      "description": "Artificially structured material with impossible optical properties.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 16000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "micro_thruster_array",
      "name": "Micro-Thruster Array",
      "description": "Miniaturized propulsion system for drones and missiles.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "military_fuel_cell",
      "name": "Military Fuel Cell",
      "description": "Maximum density fuel, restores 100 fuel.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 390,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "fuel",
        "amount": 100
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    },
    {
      "id": "mine_launcher_i",
      "type_id": "mine_launcher_i",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Mine Launcher I",
      "description": "Deploys proximity mines that detonate when ships approach.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1800,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "damage": 50,
      "damage_type": "explosive",
      "ammo_type": "mine",
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 5,
      "magazine_size": 4,
      "special": "mine_capacity_5,mine_duration_60",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "mine_launcher_ii",
      "type_id": "mine_launcher_ii",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Mine Launcher II",
      "description": "Advanced mine deployment system with larger payload capacity.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 4000,
      "cpu_usage": 7,
      "power_usage": 6,
      "damage": 80,
      "damage_type": "explosive",
      "ammo_type": "mine",
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 4,
      "magazine_size": 8,
      "special": "mine_capacity_10,mine_duration_120",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "mining_drone",
      "name": "Mining Drone",
      "description": "Autonomous mining drone for ore extraction.",
      "category": "drone",
      "size": 5,
      "base_value": 3700,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "mining_laser_i",
      "type_id": "mining_laser_i",
      "type": "mining",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Mining Laser I",
      "description": "Basic mining laser for ore extraction.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1600,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 5,
      "mining_power": 5
    },
    {
      "id": "mining_laser_ii",
      "type_id": "mining_laser_ii",
      "type": "mining",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Mining Laser II",
      "description": "Improved mining laser with better yield.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2500,
      "cpu_usage": 4,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "mining_power": 12,
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "mining_laser_iii",
      "type_id": "mining_laser_iii",
      "type": "mining",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Mining Laser III",
      "description": "Industrial mining laser.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 7900,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 12,
      "mining_power": 22,
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "mining_laser_iv",
      "type_id": "mining_laser_iv",
      "type": "mining",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Mining Laser IV",
      "description": "Industrial-grade mining system for maximum extraction.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 25000,
      "cpu_usage": 10,
      "power_usage": 18,
      "mining_power": 40,
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "mining_laser_v",
      "type_id": "mining_laser_v",
      "type": "mining",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Mining Laser V",
      "description": "Capital-grade mining system. Peak extraction performance.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 55000,
      "cpu_usage": 13,
      "power_usage": 24,
      "mining_power": 70,
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "mining_survey_probe",
      "name": "Mining Survey Probe",
      "description": "Mineral detection probe for locating rich mining sites.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 180,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "probe"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "missile_guidance_unit",
      "name": "Missile Guidance Unit",
      "description": "Smart targeting system for guided munitions.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 600,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "missile_launcher_i",
      "type_id": "missile_launcher_i",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Missile Launcher I",
      "description": "Basic missile launcher. Area damage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1800,
      "cpu_usage": 4,
      "power_usage": 3,
      "damage": 20,
      "damage_type": "explosive",
      "ammo_type": "missile",
      "range": 15,
      "reach": 6,
      "cooldown": 3,
      "magazine_size": 4
    },
    {
      "id": "missile_launcher_ii",
      "type_id": "missile_launcher_ii",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Missile Launcher II",
      "description": "Multi-warhead missile system.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 6500,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 5,
      "damage": 35,
      "damage_type": "explosive",
      "ammo_type": "missile",
      "range": 18,
      "reach": 6,
      "cooldown": 3,
      "magazine_size": 6,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "missile_warhead",
      "name": "Missile Warhead",
      "description": "Explosive payload for missile systems.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 150,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "molt_leviathan_bisque",
      "name": "Molt Leviathan Bisque",
      "description": "The dish the whole trade exists to serve. Molt Leviathan tail simmered for a day in its own stock with whale blubber and crystal-melt, passed through silk until it's pure velvet. A single beast makes it for a season; the aristocracy of five empires books the table a year out. The undisputed benchmark of galactic fine dining.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 900,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "nanite_hull_coating",
      "type_id": "nanite_hull_coating",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Nanite Hull Coating",
      "description": "Nanobots continuously repair all hull damage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 20000,
      "cpu_usage": 10,
      "power_usage": 15,
      "hull_bonus": 100,
      "special": "repairs_all_damage_types",
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 5,
        "crafting": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "nanocarbon_hull_lattice",
      "type_id": "nanocarbon_hull_lattice",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Nanocarbon Hull Lattice",
      "description": "Elite nanocarbon structural weave woven into the hull frame. Greatly reduces cargo space.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2800,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 0,
      "hull_bonus": 250,
      "cargo_bonus": -30,
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "nanofiber_internal_structure",
      "type_id": "nanofiber_internal_structure",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Nanofiber Internal Structure",
      "description": "Lightweight hull modification for improved speed and agility.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1800,
      "cpu_usage": 1,
      "power_usage": 0,
      "speed_bonus": 1,
      "hull_penalty": 10
    },
    {
      "id": "nanoplastic_composite",
      "name": "Nanoplastic Composite",
      "description": "Self-healing plastic infused with nanomachines.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 42,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "navigation_array",
      "name": "Navigation Array",
      "description": "Advanced astrogation system combining stellar cartography with predictive jump calculations.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 9000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "navigation_core",
      "name": "Navigation Core",
      "description": "Astrogation computer for hyperspace calculations.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 6200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "nebula_cargo_matrix",
      "name": "Nebula Cargo Matrix",
      "description": "Prism-lens enhanced storage system that optimizes packing efficiency through light-guided sorting.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 5000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "nebula_essence",
      "name": "Nebula Essence",
      "description": "Concentrated nebular gases with exotic chemical properties.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 280,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "nebula_fungus_tart",
      "name": "Nebula Fungus Tart",
      "description": "A savoury-sweet tart of gloomcap mash and honeyglobe over a verdigris-curd base. Sounds wrong, eats wonderfully — the pastry that made a Federation baker's name and started three imitators.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 210,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "nebula_gas",
      "name": "Nebula Gas",
      "description": "Complex mixture of exotic compounds found only in nebulae.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 55,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "extracted_by": "gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "nebula_prism_computer",
      "name": "Nebula Prism Computer",
      "description": "Photonic processing unit using light refraction for massively parallel computation.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 12000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "nebula_stellar_vintage",
      "name": "Nebula Stellar Vintage",
      "description": "A sparkling suspension grown in zero-g from luminescent algae cultures, filtered through trade crystal. Served on every gold-plated Nebula merchant ship.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 150,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "neon_gas",
      "name": "Neon Gas",
      "description": "Bright noble gas for signage and laser medium.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 15,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "extracted_by": "gas"
    },
    {
      "id": "neon_signaling_array",
      "name": "Neon Signaling Array",
      "description": "Gas-discharge tube array for high-bandwidth sensor calibration and signal processing.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 350,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "neon_vent",
      "type_id": "neon_vent",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Neon Vent",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of neon gas into cargo. Use this to filter out neon while harvesting rarer gases. A differential pressure separator tuned to neon's condensation point liquefies it and vents it away.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1400,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "special": "filter_neon_gas",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "nerve_burn",
      "name": "Nerve Burn",
      "description": "A crystalline stimulant that hits the nervous system like a plasma arc. Users report a burning sensation that starts at the spine and spreads outward, followed by hyper-acute reflexes and a complete inability to feel pain. The crash is legendary.",
      "category": "contraband",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "neural_accelerator",
      "name": "Neural Accelerator",
      "description": "Reduces weapon cooldown by 20% for 10 ticks.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 450,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 20,
        "stat": "cooldown_reduction",
        "duration": 10
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "neural_disruption_charge_pack",
      "name": "Neural Disruption Charge Pack",
      "description": "Charges tuned to interfere with AI processing cores. Extended effect duration.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "em_charge",
        "ammo": {
          "disrupt_bonus_speed": 0.15
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "neural_disruptor",
      "type_id": "neural_disruptor",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Neural Disruptor",
      "description": "Advanced EM weapon that disrupts ship systems.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 10000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 14,
      "damage": 12,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
      "range": 15,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 2,
      "magazine_size": 80,
      "special": "cpu_damage_25",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "neural_extract",
      "name": "Neural Extract",
      "description": "Concentrated neural compounds for AI cores and stimulant production.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "neural_interface_gel",
      "name": "Neural Interface Gel",
      "description": "Biocompatible medium for brain-computer interfaces.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "neutronium_ingot",
      "name": "Neutronium Ingot",
      "description": "Stabilized neutron-degenerate matter. Impossibly dense.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 2500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary"
    },
    {
      "id": "neutronium_slug_case",
      "name": "Neutronium Slug Case",
      "description": "Impossibly dense neutronium-core slugs. The ultimate kinetic penetrator.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 990,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "railgun",
        "ammo": {
          "armor_bypass": 0.3,
          "hull_damage_mod": 0.5
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "nickel_billet",
      "name": "Nickel Billet",
      "description": "Smelted and cast nickel, the workhorse metal of battery electrodes and stainless alloys. Low-grade ore is concentrated heavily, so each billet represents a sizeable pile of raw nickel.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 180,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "nickel_ore",
      "name": "Nickel Ore",
      "description": "Corrosion-resistant ore used in alloy production.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 20,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "nitro_cold_brew",
      "name": "Nitro Cold Brew",
      "description": "Cold-steeped gloomcap coffee charged from a pressblister nitrogen bladder into a cascading, velvet-headed pour. What keeps the night shift on the docks vertical. Do not have four.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 90,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "drink"
    },
    {
      "id": "nitrogen_bladder",
      "name": "Nitrogen Bladder",
      "description": "A pressurized biological sac from a pressblister, still sealed with cryogenic liquid nitrogen inside. Harvest it live and it stays sealed; crack it and you have your cryo feedstock.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 15,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "nitrogen_ice",
      "name": "Nitrogen Ice",
      "description": "Frozen nitrogen used in cooling systems and life support.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 15,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "extracted_by": "ice"
    },
    {
      "id": "nitrogen_vent",
      "type_id": "nitrogen_vent",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Nitrogen Vent",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of nitrogen ice into cargo. Use this to filter out nitrogen ice while targeting rarer isotope ices. A thermal gradient set between nitrogen's and water's sublimation points vaporizes nitrogen while leaving other ices frozen.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "cpu_usage": 4,
      "power_usage": 9,
      "special": "filter_nitrogen_ice",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "noble_condensate",
      "name": "Noble Condensate",
      "description": "Liquefied noble gas, exhaled and concentrated by a halo-drifter feeding in xenon clouds. Burns an unearthly blue in thruster tests.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 230,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "noble_gas_spritz",
      "name": "Noble-Gas Spritz",
      "description": "A dry fruit spritz aerated with halo-drifter noble condensate, so it prickles like champagne and never quite goes flat. The drink held at every dockside launch party that's pretending to be classier than it is.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 120,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "nuclear_mines",
      "name": "Nuclear Mines",
      "description": "Tactical nuclear devices. Enormous blast radius. Indiscriminate.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 960,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "mine",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": 0.4,
          "splash_pct": 0.25
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "nuclear_reactor_i",
      "type_id": "nuclear_reactor_i",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Nuclear Reactor I",
      "description": "A compact fission reactor that dramatically increases ship power capacity.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 13000,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 5,
      "power_bonus": 15,
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 5,
        "refining": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "nuclear_reactor_ii",
      "type_id": "nuclear_reactor_ii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Nuclear Reactor II",
      "description": "Industrial-scale fission reactor. Provides enormous power output for the most demanding module loadouts.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 49000,
      "cpu_usage": 14,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "power_bonus": 30,
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 8,
        "refining": 7
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "null_cannon",
      "type_id": "null_cannon",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Null Cannon",
      "description": "Creates localized areas of null-space that erase matter.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 46000,
      "cpu_usage": 15,
      "power_usage": 38,
      "damage": 110,
      "damage_type": "void",
      "ammo_type": "void_core",
      "range": 18,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 4,
      "magazine_size": 25,
      "special": "ignores_all_defense,aoe_radius_2",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "null_matter",
      "name": "Null Matter",
      "description": "Material that seems to absorb energy and light. Unique to Voidborn anomaly zones.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 450,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "region_lock": [
        "voidborn"
      ],
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "null_void_core_pack",
      "name": "Null Void Core Pack",
      "description": "Cores that create localized null-space pockets. Devastating but difficult to manufacture.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 12000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "void_core",
        "ammo": {
          "armor_bypass": 0.4
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_h2o2_refinery",
      "type_id": "onboard_h2o2_refinery",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Onboard H2O2 Refinery",
      "description": "A self-contained electrolysis-and-combustion unit that passively converts water ice in the hold directly into tank fuel. It skips the entire station refining chain and wastes most of the ice — a lifeline for long-range explorers, but far too inefficient for industrial fuel production.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 48000,
      "cpu_usage": 20,
      "power_usage": 50,
      "passive_recipe": "onboard_h2o2_fuel_synthesis"
    },
    {
      "id": "onboard_hydrogen_refinery",
      "type_id": "onboard_hydrogen_refinery",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Onboard Hydrogen Refinery",
      "description": "A self-contained burner that passively converts hydrogen gas in the hold directly into tank fuel. It skips every refining intermediate and wastes most of the gas — invaluable for a deep-space explorer far from any fuel depot, but never worth it where a station is in reach.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 52000,
      "cpu_usage": 22,
      "power_usage": 56,
      "passive_recipe": "onboard_hydrogen_fuel_synthesis"
    },
    {
      "id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
      "name": "Optical Fiber Bundle",
      "description": "Ultra-pure glass fibers for high-bandwidth data transfer.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 740,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "orchard_wine",
      "name": "Orchard Wine",
      "description": "Honest fruit wine, fermented from honeyglobe and bottled young. No pretensions, no pedigree, just a decent glass a station can make itself. The house pour from here to the Rim.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 110,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "ore_hopper",
      "name": "Ore Hopper",
      "description": "Specialized container for raw ore transport.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 5,
      "base_value": 350,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "outer_rim_scrap_armor",
      "type_id": "outer_rim_scrap_armor",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Outer Rim Scrap Armor",
      "description": "Improvised armor made from salvaged materials. Cheap but effective.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 3300,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 0,
      "armor_bonus": 15,
      "hull_bonus": 50,
      "speed_penalty": 1,
      "special": "repair_from_salvage",
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "outpost_kit",
      "name": "Outpost Kit",
      "description": "A flat-packed deep-space outpost: a hardened lockbox, a fuel bladder, and the mooring spars to anchor them beside a landmark. Deploying one in lawless space plants a members-only faction outpost — a shared storage vault and fuel reserve, nothing more. Far less than a station, and far cheaper to field.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 30,
      "base_value": 150000,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "overcharge_cell",
      "name": "Overcharge Cell",
      "description": "High-voltage power cell for temporary weapon overcharging.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 3500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 25,
        "stat": "weapon_damage",
        "duration": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "overcharged_plasma_cell_pack",
      "name": "Overcharged Plasma Cell Pack",
      "description": "Dangerously overcharged cells delivering massive thermal output. Handle with care.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 965,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "plasma",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": 0.35,
          "wear_per_shot": 0.5
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "overclock_chip",
      "name": "Overclock Chip",
      "description": "Temporarily boosts CPU capacity by 10 for 10 ticks.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 230,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 10,
        "stat": "cpu",
        "duration": 10
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "oxygen_gas",
      "name": "Oxygen Gas",
      "description": "Pure oxygen gas produced by electrolyzing purified water. Not found in nature in usable form — must be split out of water with an electrolysis facility. Combines with liquid hydrogen as a high-efficiency propellant.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 10,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "palladium_ore",
      "name": "Palladium Ore",
      "description": "Rare earth element crucial for shield emitter arrays.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "pan_galactic_matrix",
      "name": "Pan-Galactic Matrix",
      "description": "Voidborn null matter, Solarian composite, and Nebula trade ciphers unified in a circuit lattice. The pinnacle of cross-empire cooperation, these matrices power the most advanced technology in known space.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 2600,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary"
    },
    {
      "id": "pathfinder_drive",
      "type_id": "pathfinder_drive",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Pathfinder Drive",
      "description": "An experimental long-range drive that abandons the jump-lane network entirely. With one installed you can plot a numeric compass bearing on the jump command instead of a system name, and the drive will push your ship across open space along that heading using raw galactic coordinates. It is agonizingly slow — far slower than a lane jump — and unforgiving: miss your mark and you keep drifting. Plot a new bearing mid-drift (each replot costs another 5x jump's fuel) to correct course; a 180-degree reversal heads back the way you came. If you run dry of fuel out there, self-destruct is your last way home.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 120000,
      "cpu_usage": 18,
      "power_usage": 30,
      "special": "pathfinder_drive",
      "required_skills": {
        "navigation": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "pharmaceutical_culture",
      "name": "Pharmaceutical Culture",
      "description": "Standardized biological culture media from certified biotech labs. Used in consumer wellness products and industrial synthesis.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 60,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "phase_array",
      "name": "Phase Array",
      "description": "Phased optics for cloaking technology.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 5000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "phase_cloaking_device",
      "type_id": "phase_cloaking_device",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Phase Cloaking Device",
      "description": "Top-tier stealth system using phase technology.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 27000,
      "cpu_usage": 12,
      "power_usage": 20,
      "cloak_strength": 95,
      "required_skills": {
        "stealth": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "phase_crystal",
      "name": "Phase Crystal",
      "description": "Exists partially out of phase with normal space-time. Found only in Outer Rim exploration zones.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary",
      "region_lock": [
        "outerrim"
      ],
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "phase_disruptor",
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      "description": "Inert gas for welding, shielding, and controlled atmospheres.",
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      "description": "A pre-loaded injector of synthetic adrenaline and neural accelerants. Popular with boarding parties. Everything goes red, everything slows down, and you stop caring about the odds. Side effects include nosebleeds, short-term memory gaps, and an overwhelming urge to do it again.",
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      "stackable": true,
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      "rarity": "rare"
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      "description": "A high-pressure fuel transfer system that allows you to pump fuel from your own tank to another ship at the same location. Essential equipment for tankers and rescue operations.",
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      "description": "Bio-nanite serum that accelerates hull self-repair.",
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      "description": "Advanced self-healing armor with nanite infusion.",
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    {
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      "name": "Remote Armor Repairer I",
      "description": "Repairs armor on allied ships.",
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      "name": "Remote Armor Repairer II",
      "description": "Enhanced remote repair capability.",
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      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Remote Armor Repairer III",
      "description": "Capital-class remote repair for fleet support.",
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      "name": "Repair Arm",
      "description": "A remote hull repair system that allows you to patch another ship's hull using repair kits from your cargo. Essential equipment for fleet support ships.",
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    {
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      "description": "Autonomous repair drone for field repairs.",
      "category": "drone",
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      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
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    {
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      "description": "Emergency repair kit. Restores 50 hull when used as a consumable, or repairs module wear when used with the repair_module command at a base with repair service.",
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      "stackable": true,
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    {
      "id": "repair_nanite_container",
      "name": "Repair Nanite Container",
      "description": "Contained micro-robots for hull repair.",
      "category": "component",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    {
      "id": "repair_nanites",
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      "description": "Self-replicating nanobots for automated hull repair.",
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      "stackable": true,
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    {
      "id": "rime_fang",
      "name": "Rime Fang",
      "description": "A frost-sheathed fang from a frost-lurker, cold enough to burn. Cutters mount them as blades that never need sharpening.",
      "category": "misc",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    {
      "id": "salvage_components",
      "name": "Salvage Components",
      "description": "Partially intact ship systems recovered from wrecks.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
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    {
      "id": "salvage_drone",
      "name": "Salvage Drone",
      "description": "Automated salvage drone for wreck processing.",
      "category": "drone",
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      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
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    {
      "id": "salvage_metal",
      "name": "Salvage Metal",
      "description": "Reclaimed metal from ship hulls. Used in manufacturing and repairs.",
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      "tradeable": true,
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    {
      "id": "scout_drone",
      "name": "Scout Drone",
      "description": "Long-range reconnaissance drone with enhanced sensors.",
      "category": "drone",
      "size": 4,
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      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
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    {
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      "description": "Large-scale power generation system for stations.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 15,
      "base_value": 8000,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "steel_plate",
      "name": "Steel Plate",
      "description": "Processed steel alloy for structural components.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 18,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "storm_node",
      "name": "Storm Node",
      "description": "The crackling electric organ of a tempest-eel, still arcing faintly after harvest. A natural capacitor of frightening capacity.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 320,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "strip_miner_i",
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      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Strip Miner I",
      "description": "Massive mining system that extracts entire asteroid chunks. Maximizes yield on common ore deposits but cannot selectively extract rarer veins. Coarse beam — needs dense deposits and cannot get a lock on heavily depleted ones.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 8000,
      "cpu_usage": 7,
      "power_usage": 22,
      "mining_power": 50,
      "precision_factor": 2,
      "special": "common_only",
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "strip_miner_ii",
      "type_id": "strip_miner_ii",
      "type": "mining",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Strip Miner II",
      "description": "Industrial mega-miner for maximum ore extraction. Maximizes yield on common ore deposits but cannot selectively extract rarer veins. Coarse beam — needs dense deposits and cannot get a lock on heavily depleted ones.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 18000,
      "cpu_usage": 9,
      "power_usage": 32,
      "mining_power": 80,
      "precision_factor": 2,
      "special": "common_only",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 5
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "structural_frame",
      "name": "Structural Frame",
      "description": "A prefabricated girder skeleton with integrated plumbing runs. The basic load-bearing shell every facility is built around.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 260,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "sunspindle",
      "name": "Sunspindle",
      "description": "Spindly cereal grown in tall lamp-lit stalks and fed on nitrogen mist. Mills to flour, boils to mash, or steams as a side — the flour, noodle, and bread of half the galaxy starts here.",
      "category": "refined",
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      "base_value": 12,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "superconductor",
      "name": "Superconductor",
      "description": "Zero-resistance conductor for shield systems.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 560,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "superfluid_caviar",
      "name": "Superfluid Caviar",
      "description": "Frost-moth superfluid spherified into weightless beads that burst cold on the tongue, crowning a scrape of rainbow-leviathan flesh. Molecular theatre for people who've eaten everything else — and can prove it.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1100,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "superfluid_martini",
      "name": "Superfluid Martini",
      "description": "Cut with a drop of frost-moth superfluid, it crawls up the sides of the glass and never once warms in your hand. Insufferable people order it to explain the physics. It is, admittedly, a very good martini.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 260,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
      "id": "superfluid_vial",
      "name": "Superfluid Vial",
      "description": "A self-sealing bladder of frictionless helium superfluid, secreted by a frost-moth. Creeps up the walls of any container — cryo-labs cannot get enough.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "surf_and_turf_platter",
      "name": "Surf-and-Turf Platter",
      "description": "Crusher-mantis claw and a grazer steak on one board with a pile of greens. The classic 'I finally made some credits' order — equal parts hunter's brag and comfort food.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 480,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    },
    {
      "id": "survey_scanner_i",
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      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Survey Scanner I",
      "description": "Analyzes asteroids to find the richest ore deposits.",
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      "base_value": 4400,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "special": "ore_quality_detection",
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      "survey_range": 15,
      "required_skills": {
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    },
    {
      "id": "survey_scanner_ii",
      "type_id": "survey_scanner_ii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Survey Scanner II",
      "description": "Advanced geological analysis for optimal mining.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 14000,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 7,
      "special": "ore_quality_detection,rare_ore_detection",
      "survey_power": 60,
      "survey_range": 25,
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "sustagel",
      "name": "Sustagel",
      "description": "Grey, complete, and utterly joyless. Extruded from water and nitrogen feedstock into a shelf-stable ration gel that keeps a crew alive and asks only that they never look forward to a meal again. Every cadet knows the tube by heart.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 8,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "sustagel_bowl",
      "name": "Sustagel Bowl",
      "description": "Sustagel, warmed, with some driftkale stirred through it so a recruit can pretend. It is food in the strictest technical sense. Every spacer has a story about the day they finally stopped having to eat it.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 24,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "swarm_controller",
      "name": "Swarm Controller",
      "description": "Master control unit for coordinating drone swarms.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 12000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "swarm_missiles",
      "name": "Swarm Missiles",
      "description": "Pod of micro-missiles that saturate the target area. Harder to evade but less damage per warhead.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 245,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
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        "subtype": "missile",
        "ammo": {
          "damage_mod": -0.2,
          "hit_chance_mod": 15
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "synthetic_compound",
      "name": "Synthetic Compound",
      "description": "Synthetic organic base material for biological processing.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 52,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "synthetic_diamond",
      "name": "Synthetic Diamond",
      "description": "Lab-grown diamond for cutting tools and heat sinks.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 130,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "system_disabler",
      "type_id": "system_disabler",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "System Disabler",
      "description": "Targeted EMP that disables specific enemy modules.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 8800,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 15,
      "damage": 2,
      "damage_type": "em",
      "ammo_type": "em_charge",
      "range": 15,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 3,
      "magazine_size": 100,
      "special": "module_disable_1,target_specific",
      "required_skills": {
        "scanning": 3,
        "weapons": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "tactical_probe",
      "name": "Tactical Probe",
      "description": "Tactical probe that reveals enemy ship loadouts.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 360,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "probe"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "target_painter_i",
      "type_id": "target_painter_i",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Target Painter I",
      "description": "Marks target, increasing damage taken from all sources.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 3000,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 5,
      "signature_bonus": 25,
      "required_skills": {
        "scanning": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "target_painter_ii",
      "type_id": "target_painter_ii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Target Painter II",
      "description": "Advanced targeting system with stronger signature amplification.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 7000,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "signature_bonus": 50,
      "required_skills": {
        "scanning": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "targeting_computer",
      "name": "Targeting Computer",
      "description": "Advanced fire control system for improved weapon accuracy.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 3800,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "temporal_stabilizer",
      "name": "Temporal Stabilizer",
      "description": "Prevents time dilation effects during high-speed travel.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 40000,
      "stackable": false,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary"
    },
    {
      "id": "thermal_ceramic",
      "name": "Thermal Ceramic",
      "description": "Heat-resistant material for engine and weapon components.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 54,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "thermal_flare",
      "name": "Thermal Flare",
      "description": "Heat decoy that diverts thermal-guided projectiles.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 74,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "effect": {
        "type": "countermeasure"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "thermal_hull_hardener",
      "type_id": "thermal_hull_hardener",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Thermal Hull Hardener",
      "description": "Heat-resistant coating to protect against thermal damage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 580,
      "cpu_usage": 2,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "resistance_bonus": {
        "thermal": 30
      },
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "thermal_shield_hardener",
      "type_id": "thermal_shield_hardener",
      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Thermal Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Increases shield resistance to thermal damage.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 3600,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 6,
      "resistance_bonus": {
        "thermal": 25
      },
      "required_skills": {
        "shields": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "thermal_smartbomb",
      "type_id": "thermal_smartbomb",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Thermal Smartbomb",
      "description": "Releases superheated plasma in all directions.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 4800,
      "cpu_usage": 7,
      "power_usage": 16,
      "damage": 38,
      "damage_type": "thermal",
      "ammo_type": "plasma",
      "range": 5,
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 4,
      "magazine_size": 100,
      "special": "aoe_radius_5",
      "required_skills": {
        "gunnery": 1,
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "thermal_sublimator",
      "type_id": "thermal_sublimator",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Thermal Sublimator",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of water ice into cargo. Use this to filter out water ice while targeting rarer isotope ices. Heats the intake to just above water's sublimation point — water flashes to vapor and vents; deuterium and helium ices pass through.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1600,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "special": "filter_water_ice",
      "required_skills": {
        "mining": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "thorium_concentrate",
      "name": "Thorium Concentrate",
      "description": "Refined thorium oxide extracted from raw ore. First step in thorium fuel processing.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 370,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "thorium_fuel_rod",
      "name": "Thorium Fuel Rod",
      "description": "Processed thorium fuel for molten-salt reactors and breeder blankets.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "hazardous": true
    },
    {
      "id": "thorium_ore",
      "name": "Thorium Ore",
      "description": "Fertile radioactive material for breeder reactors.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 120,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "extracted_by": "rad"
    },
    {
      "id": "threat_analyzer",
      "name": "Threat Analyzer",
      "description": "Combat computer that prioritizes hostile targets.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 550,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "thruster_assembly",
      "name": "Thruster Assembly",
      "description": "Integrated propulsion unit combining multiple nozzles with a coordinated burn controller.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 3300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "thruster_nozzle",
      "name": "Thruster Nozzle",
      "description": "Exhaust component for sublight propulsion.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 710,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "titanium_alloy",
      "name": "Titanium Alloy",
      "description": "Advanced hull plating material.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 100,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "titanium_foam",
      "name": "Titanium Foam",
      "description": "Lightweight titanium structure with internal voids. Excellent strength-to-weight.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "titanium_ingot",
      "name": "Titanium Ingot",
      "description": "Purified titanium for advanced structural applications.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 140,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "titanium_ore",
      "name": "Titanium Ore",
      "description": "Lightweight and incredibly strong, prized for ship hulls.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 25,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "trace_exotic_element",
      "name": "Trace Exotic Element",
      "description": "Rare element distilled from nebula gases. Used in stimulant synthesis.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 120,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "tracking_computer_i",
      "type_id": "tracking_computer_i",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Tracking Computer I",
      "description": "Improves weapon tracking speed and accuracy.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 5500,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 4,
      "tracking_bonus": 15,
      "accuracy_bonus": 10,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "tracking_computer_ii",
      "type_id": "tracking_computer_ii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Tracking Computer II",
      "description": "Enhanced tracking system for hitting fast targets.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 10000,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 7,
      "tracking_bonus": 30,
      "accuracy_bonus": 20,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "tracking_computer_iii",
      "type_id": "tracking_computer_iii",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Tracking Computer III",
      "description": "Military-grade tracking for perfect weapon alignment.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 6500,
      "cpu_usage": 8,
      "power_usage": 10,
      "tracking_bonus": 50,
      "accuracy_bonus": 35,
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "tracking_mine_launcher",
      "type_id": "tracking_mine_launcher",
      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Tracking Mine Launcher",
      "description": "Deploys mines that actively pursue nearby targets.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 8000,
      "cpu_usage": 10,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "damage": 100,
      "damage_type": "explosive",
      "ammo_type": "mine",
      "reach": 3,
      "cooldown": 6,
      "magazine_size": 6,
      "special": "mine_capacity_5,mine_tracking_speed_3,mine_duration_60",
      "required_skills": {
        "weapons": 4
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "tracking_system",
      "name": "Tracking System",
      "description": "Target acquisition and tracking hardware.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 3700,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "trade_authenticator",
      "name": "Trade Authenticator",
      "description": "Nebula trade ciphers embedded in copper-wire contact arrays. Provides tamper-proof transaction verification for high-value exchanges, and trades at the Grand Exchange as a bearer instrument pegged by the Federation Treasury.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 1000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "trade_cipher",
      "name": "Trade Cipher",
      "description": "Cryptographic verification chip refined from Haven trade crystals. Every exchange in the galaxy depends on these to authenticate transactions and set prices.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 500,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "trade_crystal",
      "name": "Trade Crystal",
      "description": "Rare crystalline formation used as currency backing in Nebula Federation space.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 550,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "region_lock": [
        "nebula"
      ],
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "tritium_ice",
      "name": "Tritium Ice",
      "description": "Radioactive hydrogen isotope ice for high-yield fusion.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "extracted_by": "ice"
    },
    {
      "id": "tritium_pearl",
      "name": "Tritium Pearl",
      "description": "The rarest pearl a glacier-drifter grows — supercooled tritium locked in a frozen shell grown over years of slow accumulation. One per animal. One animal per decade of patient hunting.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 640,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_nugget",
      "name": "Tungsten Nugget",
      "description": "A dense carbide bead precipitated inside a kiln-snail's gland, harder than the rock it came from. Already worked harder than any industrial press achieves — needs only to be drawn into rod stock.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 70,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_ore",
      "name": "Tungsten Ore",
      "description": "Extremely hard metal with the highest melting point of any element.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 30,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_rod",
      "name": "Tungsten Rod",
      "description": "Dense penetrator material for kinetic weapons.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 130,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_slug_case",
      "name": "Tungsten Slug Case",
      "description": "Heavy tungsten penetrators in a reinforced case. Punches through heavy armor plating.",
      "category": "ammo",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 40,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "effect": {
        "type": "ammo",
        "subtype": "railgun",
        "ammo": {
          "armor_bypass": 0.4
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "umbral_residue",
      "name": "Umbral Residue",
      "description": "A blot of cold darkness left where an umbral-leech digested dark-matter residue. It drinks light, and laboratories drink it down just as fast.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 680,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    {
      "id": "umbral_stout",
      "name": "Umbral Stout",
      "description": "A stout so dark with umbral-leech residue it seems to drink the light off the bar. Thick, roasty, and faintly unsettling to look at head-on. Nebula deep-runners age it in the hold for the long hauls.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 150,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    },
    {
      "id": "universal_nav_core",
      "name": "Universal Nav Core",
      "description": "Nebula trade ciphers and Outer Rim dark matter integrated with circuit boards. Enables navigation across all known space without empire-specific transponder locks.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 2200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "uranium_concentrate",
      "name": "Uranium Concentrate",
      "description": "Yellowcake: crude uranium oxide extracted from ore. First step in the enrichment process.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 460,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "uranium_hexafluoride",
      "name": "Uranium Hexafluoride",
      "description": "UF6 gas: volatile uranium compound used in gaseous diffusion enrichment. Extremely hazardous.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 1900,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "hazardous": true
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    {
      "id": "uranium_ore",
      "name": "Uranium Ore",
      "description": "Radioactive heavy metal for fission reactors and weapons.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 150,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "extracted_by": "rad"
    },
    {
      "id": "vanadium_ejector",
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      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Vanadium Ejector",
      "description": "When mining, prevents collection of vanadium ore into cargo. Use this to filter out vanadium while targeting rarer co-located resources. A tuned eddy-current separator catches the dense paramagnetic ore mid-stream and flings it clear of the intake. High power draw.",
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        "mining": 1
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    },
    {
      "id": "vanadium_ore",
      "name": "Vanadium Ore",
      "description": "Hard transition metal used in high-strength steel alloys.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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      "extracted_by": "mining"
    },
    {
      "id": "vat_protein_loaf",
      "name": "Vat Protein Loaf",
      "description": "Vatflesh curd bound with sunspindle flour, spiced, and baked into a sliceable loaf. The honest workhorse of frontier canteens — cheap, filling, and genuinely decent once someone who cares gets hold of the cinderspice.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    },
    {
      "id": "vatflesh_curd",
      "name": "Vatflesh Curd",
      "description": "Cultured protein set into a firm pale curd. The frontier's answer to a butcher it doesn't have — bland alone, but it takes a marinade and a hot pan like nothing else, and no animal was inconvenienced.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    {
      "id": "verdigris_curd",
      "name": "Verdigris Curd",
      "description": "Blue-green copper paste scraped from a veil-ray's filtering combs. A ready feedstock for wiring and pigment.",
      "category": "misc",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    {
      "id": "verdigris_kefir",
      "name": "Verdigris Kefir",
      "description": "A tangy cultured drink set from veil-ray verdigris curd, a faint copper-blue and sharper than it looks. Frontier medics push it on anyone whose gut has been living on ration blocks too long.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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      "name": "Void Cannon",
      "description": "Fires concentrated void energy that ignores conventional defenses.",
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        "weapons": 5
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    },
    {
      "id": "void_capacitor",
      "name": "Void Capacitor",
      "description": "Stores energy from void space dimensions.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    {
      "id": "void_charged_ichor",
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      "description": "Black, faintly humming hemolymph drawn from a void-browser, saturated with the void-essence it chews from the deep fields. Only well-fed browsers in void-essence belts carry it. A key feedstock for pan-galactic alloy.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "void_condensate",
      "name": "Void Condensate",
      "description": "Processed void essence in stable form.",
      "category": "refined",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    },
    {
      "id": "void_core_pack",
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      "description": "Pack of standard void energy cores. One pack fully loads any void weapon magazine.",
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      "tradeable": true,
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      "id": "void_crystal",
      "name": "Void Crystal",
      "description": "Legendary material formed in the depths of space-time anomalies.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "legendary"
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      "id": "void_dust",
      "name": "Void Dust",
      "description": "A fine iridescent powder derived from nebular gas processed through gutter flux. Inhaled or dissolved in liquid, it produces vivid hallucinations of drifting through open space. Highly addictive. Banned in all empire territories.",
      "category": "contraband",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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      "id": "void_espresso",
      "name": "Void Espresso",
      "description": "Spore-mash coffee pulled short and dosed with void-charged ichor, so the crema glows and the caffeine hits like a jump drive. Deep-galaxy prospectors run on it. Nobody sleeps well, but the ore gets mined.",
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      "description": "Crystallized vacuum energy harvested from spatial anomalies. Exclusive to Voidborn territory.",
      "category": "ore",
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      "stackable": true,
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      "description": "Phase-resistant hull lining that absorbs void energy. Required to survive high-tier void weaponry.",
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      "description": "Viscous, faintly luminous hemolymph drawn from large void-dwelling predators. Volatile and energy-dense — it oxidizes on exposure and must be sealed in inert canisters or it degrades within hours.",
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      "stackable": true,
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      "description": "A crystal-clear broth clarified with crystal-melt and laced with a thread of void ichor, so the whole bowl holds a faint blue glow you can read a menu by. Voidborn tasting rooms serve it in the dark, on purpose.",
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      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
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    {
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      "name": "Void-Ichor Liqueur",
      "description": "Gloomshine cut with a measured dose of void ichor until the glass glows and the room goes quiet. Voidborn drink it neat; everyone else drinks it once. Sealed tight — it oxidises if you dawdle.",
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      "stackable": true,
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      "description": "Advanced void weapon that tears through any defense.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "void_laser",
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      "name": "Void Laser",
      "description": "Legendary weapon that tears holes in the fabric of space-time.",
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      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Void Mine Launcher",
      "description": "Deploys dimensional rift mines that bypass conventional shields entirely.",
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      "power_usage": 12,
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        "weapons": 5
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    },
    {
      "id": "void_mines",
      "name": "Void Mines",
      "description": "Creates a dimensional rift on detonation. Bypasses conventional shields.",
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      "base_value": 6200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "void_nanite_suspension",
      "name": "Void Nanite Suspension",
      "description": "The Collective produces these in facilities it declines to describe using processes it refuses to classify. The output is called a suspension. Of what is not specified.",
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      "base_value": 400,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "void_shield_hardener",
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      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Void Shield Hardener",
      "description": "Resonance-tuned shield matrix that deflects void energy. Required to survive high-tier void weaponry.",
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      "base_value": 8200,
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        "void": 20
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      "required_skills": {
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    },
    {
      "id": "void_shield_matrix",
      "name": "Void Shield Matrix",
      "description": "Voidborn null matter woven through Crimson fury alloy and crystal lattice. Creates a defensive barrier that absorbs both physical and dimensional attacks.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 3600,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "void_torpedo_launcher",
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      "type": "weapon",
      "slot": "weapon",
      "name": "Void Torpedo Launcher",
      "description": "Phase-shifted warheads that bypass shields entirely.",
      "size": 10,
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      "power_usage": 32,
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      "ammo_type": "void_core",
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      "special": "ignores_resistance_75",
      "required_skills": {
        "gunnery": 2,
        "weapons": 5
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    },
    {
      "id": "voidborn_neural_matrix",
      "name": "Voidborn Neural Matrix",
      "description": "Quantum computing substrate grown in null-energy fields. For the Voidborn, these are art. For everyone else, they're the most powerful processors money can buy.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "voidborn_neural_soma",
      "name": "Voidborn Neural Soma",
      "description": "Not exactly food. Not exactly software. The Collective considers the distinction an oversimplification. It is consumed. That is all they will say.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 300,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "voidborn_null_matrix",
      "name": "Voidborn Null Matrix",
      "description": "Void energy focusing lattice. The mathematics describing its operation have no solution.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 6200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "voidborn_phase_armor",
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      "type": "defense",
      "slot": "defense",
      "name": "Voidborn Phase Armor",
      "description": "Armor that partially exists in another dimension.",
      "size": 10,
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      "power_usage": 12,
      "armor_bonus": 30,
      "hull_bonus": 80,
      "special": "phase_dodge_25",
      "required_skills": {
        "armor": 5
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    },
    {
      "id": "voidborn_phase_drive",
      "name": "Voidborn Phase Drive",
      "description": "Propulsion system that partially shifts the hull between dimensional states to reduce inertia.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 6000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "warhead_assembly",
      "name": "Warhead Assembly",
      "description": "Explosive warhead core for missile fabrication.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 350,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "warp_core",
      "name": "Warp Core",
      "description": "Advanced faster-than-light propulsion core.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 6,
      "base_value": 4000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare"
    },
    {
      "id": "warp_core_stabilizer",
      "type_id": "warp_core_stabilizer",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Warp Core Stabilizer",
      "description": "Resists warp disruption effects.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 1500,
      "cpu_usage": 3,
      "power_usage": 3,
      "warp_stabilization": 1,
      "required_skills": {
        "navigation": 2
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    },
    {
      "id": "warp_disruptor",
      "type_id": "warp_disruptor",
      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Warp Disruptor",
      "description": "Long-range warp prevention module.",
      "size": 10,
      "base_value": 2900,
      "cpu_usage": 5,
      "power_usage": 7,
      "disruptor_power": 1,
      "required_skills": {
        "scanning": 3
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    },
    {
      "id": "warp_scrambler",
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      "type": "utility",
      "slot": "utility",
      "name": "Warp Scrambler",
      "description": "Prevents target from jumping to hyperspace.",
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      "base_value": 4500,
      "cpu_usage": 6,
      "power_usage": 8,
      "scramble_power": 2,
      "required_skills": {
        "scanning": 3
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    },
    {
      "id": "water_ice",
      "name": "Water Ice",
      "description": "Frozen water extracted from comets and ice moons. Essential for life support.",
      "category": "ore",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 12,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "extracted_by": "ice"
    },
    {
      "id": "water_recycler",
      "name": "Water Recycler",
      "description": "Closed-loop water purification system.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 200,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "weapon_battery",
      "name": "Weapon Battery",
      "description": "Hardened weapon platform housing multiple firing mechanisms with shared targeting.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 4700,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "weapon_core",
      "name": "Weapon Core",
      "description": "Central power and control unit for weapon systems.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 420,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "weapon_housing",
      "name": "Weapon Housing",
      "description": "Mounting bracket and power conduit for weapons.",
      "category": "component",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 210,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "weapon_overload_capacitor",
      "name": "Weapon Overload Capacitor",
      "description": "Dumps stored energy into weapons for a burst of extra damage.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 910,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "rare",
      "effect": {
        "type": "buff",
        "amount": 20,
        "stat": "weapon_damage",
        "duration": 5
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    },
    {
      "id": "weapons_grade_plutonium",
      "name": "Weapons-Grade Plutonium",
      "description": "Refined fissile material for warheads and advanced reactors.",
      "category": "refined",
      "size": 2,
      "base_value": 600,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic",
      "hazardous": true
    },
    {
      "id": "whale_baleen",
      "name": "Whale Baleen",
      "description": "A curved plate of living keratin from a Cloudwhale's filter-mouth — meters long, lighter than steel and tougher than it has any right to be. The whale grows them as armor as much as a sieve; shipwrights cut them down into capital-grade plating that no foundry can match for weight.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 3,
      "base_value": 2000,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "exotic"
    },
    {
      "id": "whale_blubber",
      "name": "Whale Blubber",
      "description": "Thick oil-rich fat rendered from cloud-grazing whales. Cheaper cousin to the industrial whale-oil trade — but rendered slow in a galley it's the backbone of every good chowder and confit from here to the Rim.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 70,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon"
    },
    {
      "id": "whale_blubber_confit",
      "name": "Whale-Blubber Confit",
      "description": "Grazer meat cooked down slow and sealed under rendered whale blubber, spiced and left to keep. Half a preserve, half a delicacy — the flavour a dock cook builds a reputation on.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 260,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "uncommon",
      "food_type": "dish"
    },
    {
      "id": "whale_oil",
      "name": "Whale Oil",
      "description": "Energy-dense blubber oil flensed from a pilot-whale pod — thick, slow-burning, and packed with the charge the whales strain out of the argon banks. The staple of every cloud-whaling crew: render it down and it sets straight into power cells, the living counterpart to the argon synthesis line.",
      "category": "misc",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 100,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common"
    },
    {
      "id": "whale_oil_grog",
      "name": "Whale-Oil Grog",
      "description": "Rough gloomshine, honeyglobe, and a controversial float of whale oil, served hot. Cloud-whaling crews swear it keeps the cold out; landlubbers swear at it. An acquired everything.",
      "category": "consumable",
      "size": 1,
      "base_value": 110,
      "stackable": true,
      "tradeable": true,
      "rarity": "common",
      "food_type": "alcohol"
    },
    {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
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        {
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          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
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          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell_pack",
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        {
          "item_id": "solarian_gourmet_rations",
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
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      ],
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell_pack",
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          "item_id": "repair_kit",
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        {
          "item_id": "solarian_gourmet_rations",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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      ],
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      "always_on": true,
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell_pack",
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        {
          "item_id": "focused_plasma_cell_pack",
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        {
          "item_id": "overcharged_plasma_cell_pack",
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        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
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        {
          "item_id": "solarian_gourmet_rations",
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        {
          "item_id": "solarian_biotic",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_package",
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      ],
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      "unique": true,
      "empire": "solarian",
      "lore": "The Grand Fleet Command does not make war — it prevents it. Twelve patrol sectors, hundreds of active Precepts, and a supply chain that never sleeps. Everything runs through the Command's logistics network: plasma cell rotations, sensor calibration schedules, crew welfare assessments that would make a Crimson admiral laugh and a Voidborn node acknowledge. The Fleet Admiral's standing philosophy is that a well-fed, well-equipped, well-rested patrol force is the most effective deterrent in settled space. The data consistently agrees."
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      "upgrades_from": "confederacy_fleet_depot",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_package",
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          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
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        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell_pack",
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        {
          "item_id": "focused_plasma_cell_pack",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
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        {
          "item_id": "solarian_gourmet_rations",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_package",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
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      ],
      "build_time": 200,
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
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        {
          "item_id": "solarian_gourmet_rations",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
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        {
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        {
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          "item_id": "solarian_gourmet_rations",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "air_recycler",
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        {
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      "description": "Larger manufacturing facility with integrated sensor array assembly and processing core installation. Automated welding and quality control improve throughput for ore hopper output.",
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
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      "always_on": true,
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ionized_neon",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "contract_terminal",
      "name": "Contract Terminal",
      "description": "A posting terminal for jobs the faction — or anyone passing through — needs done.",
      "satisfied_description": "The terminal scrolls with fresh postings, synced and current.",
      "degraded_description": "The terminal's stuck on yesterday's board. Wiring's frayed and nobody's replaced it.",
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      "level": 1,
      "service_type": "missions",
      "always_on": true,
      "player_station_buildable": true,
      "build_cost": 500000,
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 50,
      "labor_cost": 30,
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "control_hub",
      "name": "Control Hub",
      "description": "A dedicated drone operations room with multi-screen displays, priority bandwidth allocation, and redundant uplink channels. Serious swarm management.",
      "satisfied_description": "Telemetry streams across six screens, every drone a green dot on the tactical display. You see everything.",
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      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "signal_relay",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 300000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 50,
      "labor_cost": 39,
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      "personal_bonus_type": "drone_bandwidth",
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    },
    {
      "id": "control_node_assembly_line",
      "name": "Control Node Assembly Line",
      "description": "A compact automation line that assembles circuit boards, copper wiring, and precious metal conductors into control and monitoring units. Basic sequencing ensures proper relay and logic integration.",
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      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "assemble_control_node",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 127000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gold_wiring",
          "quantity": 125
        },
        {
          "item_id": "silver_wiring",
          "quantity": 125
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 170,
      "labor_cost": 8,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "control_node_production_plant",
      "name": "Control Node Production Plant",
      "description": "Expanded facility with coolant loops managing the thermal load from dense circuitry packing. Structural reinforcement supports higher-throughput assembly of sensors, relays, and logic circuits.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "control_node_assembly_line",
      "recipe_id": "assemble_control_node",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 382000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 850
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 350
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 250,
      "labor_cost": 16,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "coolant_blending_line",
      "name": "Coolant Blending Line",
      "description": "Dedicated production line that mixes liquid nitrogen and purified water into stable thermal management fluid. Heat sinks absorb the intense cold from nitrogen vaporization while plasma injectors maintain precise temperature control during combination.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "synthesize_coolant_fluid",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 99000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 170,
      "labor_cost": 5,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "coolant_loop_assembly_line",
      "name": "Coolant Loop Assembly Line",
      "description": "A specialized cryogenic assembly line that joins copper piping, helium-3, coolant fluid, and liquid nitrogen into closed-loop circulation systems. Basic pressure sealing and thermal integration under automated control.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "assemble_coolant_loop",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 125000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 170,
      "labor_cost": 7,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "coolant_manufacturing_complex",
      "name": "Coolant Manufacturing Complex",
      "description": "Industrial-scale cryogenic production with reinforced framing managing extreme thermal differentials and pressurized gas flows. Multiple piping integration stations run in parallel, each sealed and pressure-tested for industrial duty.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "cryogenic_production_plant",
      "recipe_id": "assemble_coolant_loop",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 1075000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 850
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 650
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 330,
      "labor_cost": 24,
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "coordination_hub",
      "name": "Coordination Hub",
      "description": "Expanded facility with structural frames and increased processing cores enabling faster integration of AI cores and quantum matrices. Parallel assembly stations handle the precision required for drone network coordination.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "link_aggregator",
      "recipe_id": "build_swarm_controller",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 3552000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 8100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 3450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 2650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1750
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 350,
      "labor_cost": 32,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "copper_drawing_mill",
      "name": "Copper Drawing Mill",
      "description": "A dedicated metal-working line with ore roasting, smelting, and drawing dies for copper wire and pipe stock. Produces standard-gauge piping suitable for station plumbing and coolant runs.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "draw_copper_piping",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 101000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 170,
      "labor_cost": 5,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "copper_wire_mill",
      "name": "Copper Wire Mill",
      "description": "A dedicated drawing and bundling line that refines raw copper ore into standardized conductive wiring. Steady-state production with basic automated controls.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "process_copper_wiring",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 90000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 7,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "core_assembly_plant",
      "name": "Core Assembly Plant",
      "description": "Multi-station facility with sensor arrays and processing cores pre-integrated into structural frames. Higher throughput via parallel titanium-alloy processing and automated power-cell linkage.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "engine_core_assembly_line",
      "recipe_id": "assemble_engine_core",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 387000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 180,
      "labor_cost": 16,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "core_machining_station",
      "name": "Core Machining Station",
      "description": "A modular facility with dedicated stations for power conditioning, sensor mounting, and processing core integration. Processing cores and sensor arrays are installed and tested inline before final packaging.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "weapon_core_assembly_station",
      "recipe_id": "build_weapon_core",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 316000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 180,
      "labor_cost": 16,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "corrosive_plasma_synthesis_line",
      "name": "Corrosive Plasma Synthesis Line",
      "description": "Purpose-built production line for chemically enhanced plasma generation. Steel and copper piping handle the corrosive chemistry, with control systems managing chlorine compound injection and plasma containment.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "manufacture_corrosive_plasma_cells",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 99000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 110,
      "labor_cost": 8,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "corundum_composite_foundry",
      "name": "Corundum Composite Foundry",
      "description": "Cutting-edge facility employing precision plasma-injection arrays and active thermal management to achieve rapid alumina-metal synthesis. Quantum-grade controls and extensive coolant infrastructure enable maximum throughput while maintaining material quality.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "alumina_composite_plant",
      "recipe_id": "cast_alumina_ceramite",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 3349000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 1300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 2800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1950
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 300,
      "labor_cost": 40,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "counterfeit_cipher_press",
      "name": "Counterfeit Cipher Press",
      "description": "A precision forgery rig that processes trade crystals through gutter flux to replicate Haven's 'unforgeable' cryptographic encoding. The quantum cores and precision optics make ciphers indistinguishable from the originals. Pirate stations only.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "forge_trade_cipher_pirate",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 142000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 200,
      "labor_cost": 30,
      "pirate_base_only": true,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "counterfeit_mint",
      "name": "Counterfeit Mint",
      "description": "A reinforced mint with racked quantum cores and precision optics calibrating each cipher to the originals, batch after batch. Trade tokens come off the line carrying encoding the issuing empire swears can't be reproduced. It can.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "cipher_forgery_plant",
      "recipe_id": "forge_trade_cipher_pirate",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 1100000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 240,
      "labor_cost": 34,
      "pirate_base_only": true,
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "countermeasure_fabricator",
      "name": "Countermeasure Fabricator",
      "description": "A basic industrial line that cuts and shapes metallic strips from polymer stock, then bundles them for deployment. Simple control systems manage cutting precision and bundle packaging.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_chaff_pod",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 95000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 6,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "countermeasure_forge",
      "name": "Countermeasure Forge",
      "description": "Industrial production with reinforced frames, enhanced control systems, and coolant circulation optimizing polymer cure times and crystal activation sequencing. Precision machinery ensures consistent thermal signature and reliable missile diversion.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "flare_synthesis_plant",
      "recipe_id": "build_flare_pod",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 1113000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 850
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 650
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 200,
      "labor_cost": 21,
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "coupling_workshop",
      "name": "Coupling Workshop",
      "description": "A dedicated fabrication line that assembles universal docking collars from durasteel plates and titanium alloy. Control nodes and power distribution circuits ensure reliable ship-to-station interface.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_docking_ring",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 362000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 240,
      "labor_cost": 17,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "cpu_component_production_facility",
      "name": "CPU Component Production Facility",
      "description": "Industrial-scale manufacturing complex with cryogenic superconductor integration and quantum-grade circuit assembly. Precision optics ensure flawless component alignment; 17-second cycle time maximizes output.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "processor_manufacturing_line",
      "recipe_id": "build_cpu_co_processor",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 1247000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 330,
      "labor_cost": 35,
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "crafting_workshop",
      "name": "Crafting Workshop",
      "description": "Shared workspace with tools for manual crafting.",
      "satisfied_description": "Workbenches are stocked and clean. The hum of power tools and the clink of components fill the air.",
      "degraded_description": "Usually, anyway. Tool racks are half-empty, crafters share worn equipment and wait for bench space to open up.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 1,
      "service_type": "crafting",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 400
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 60,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "crew_bunk",
      "name": "Crew Bunk",
      "description": "A basic sleeping berth in the station's communal quarters. A thin mattress, a locker that sticks, and a curtain for privacy. Not much — but it's yours.",
      "satisfied_description": "Clean sheets, a working reading light, and your name scratched into the locker door. Home sweet home.",
      "degraded_description": "The mattress is stained, the ventilation rattles, and someone keeps stealing your soap. Still beats the cargo bay.",
      "category": "personal",
      "level": 1,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 10000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 20
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 10,
      "labor_cost": 1,
      "personal_service_type": "quarters"
    },
    {
      "id": "crimson_armor_works",
      "name": "Crimson Armor Works",
      "description": "Combat engineers weld armor plate by hand in a military dry dock. Fast, brutal, and they judge you if the damage isn't from weapons fire.",
      "satisfied_description": "Sparks fly from four repair bays simultaneously, combat engineers working in perfect coordination. Hull plates go on fast and solid.",
      "degraded_description": "Today, though — two bays sit dark. No repair kits, no alloy plate. The remaining crews work double shifts and the quality shows in uneven weld seams.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "repair",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 150,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "crimson_pact",
      "lore": "Fleet repair doctrine prioritizes speed over aesthetics. Combat engineers work in teams of four, cutting away damaged sections and welding fresh alloy plate in shifts that would violate labor laws in Solarian space. If your damage is from weapons fire, they'll buy you a drink afterward. If it's from a docking mishap, you'll never hear the end of it."
    },
    {
      "id": "crimson_fleet_command",
      "name": "Crimson Fleet Command",
      "description": "Orders come from the Admiral's office. You're either enlisted or contracting, and either way you follow orders.",
      "satisfied_description": "The briefing boards update in real-time, tasking orders flowing through encrypted channels. Every contract has clear objectives, threat assessments, and prompt payment.",
      "degraded_description": "When the network holds. Communications are spotty, briefing boards displaying stale intelligence. Orders arrive late or contradictory, and payment processing has fallen behind.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "missions",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 100,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "crimson_pact",
      "lore": "Fleet Command doesn't post 'requests' — it issues tasking orders. Contractors receive the same briefing format as enlisted personnel: objective, threat assessment, rules of engagement. Payment is prompt and fair, because the Fleet learned centuries ago that mercenaries who aren't paid become enemies. Failure to complete an accepted contract results in a note in your file. The Fleet has a long memory."
    },
    {
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        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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      "category": "production",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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      "upgrades_from": "emp_torpedo_plant",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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      "name": "Faction Fuel Bunker",
      "description": "A secured fuel storage tank accessible only to faction members. Fill it from your own production facilities or deposit fuel straight from a docked ship's tank (storage deposit, item_id=fuel), and your fleet refuels for free.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 1,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "fuel_capacity": 50000,
      "build_cost": 800000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 80,
      "labor_cost": 20,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_fuel"
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_large_fuel_bunker",
      "name": "Faction Large Fuel Bunker",
      "description": "Expanded faction fuel reserves with reinforced containment. Supports high-tempo fleet operations from a single station. Fill it from production facilities or by depositing fuel from a docked ship's tank (storage deposit, item_id=fuel).",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "faction_fuel_bunker",
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "fuel_capacity": 200000,
      "build_cost": 3000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 150,
      "labor_cost": 50,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_fuel"
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_lockbox",
      "name": "Faction Lockbox",
      "description": "A shared storage box tucked behind some crates in the docks. Not much, but it's yours.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 1,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 200000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 50
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 50,
      "labor_cost": 50,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "faction_cap": 100000
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_lounge",
      "name": "Faction Lounge",
      "description": "Upgraded quarters with separate areas — a common room and a private back office. Starting to feel like a real base.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "faction_quarters",
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 400000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 60,
      "labor_cost": 40,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_commons",
      "faction_cap": 3
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_mission_board",
      "name": "Faction Mission Board",
      "description": "Electronic mission board with a dedicated terminal. Contractors can browse and accept your postings directly.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "notice_board",
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 300000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 40,
      "labor_cost": 30,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_missions",
      "faction_cap": 8
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_office",
      "name": "Faction Office",
      "description": "A proper office with your faction emblem on the door. Still shared plumbing, but at least you have walls. Faction customization is unlocked galaxy-wide by a single admin office, but each one also speeds up your faction's own production facilities at its station by 15% per tier — at this tier, a 30% boost — so an admin office at every industrial hub pays for itself.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "faction_desk",
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 60,
      "labor_cost": 50,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_admin"
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_quarters",
      "name": "Faction Quarters",
      "description": "A run-down apartment a bit too close to the water recyclers. Smells like ozone, but it's home.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 1,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 100000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 50
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 30,
      "labor_cost": 20,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_commons",
      "faction_cap": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_ship_garage",
      "name": "Faction Ship Garage",
      "description": "A leased corner of the station's docking ring with room to rack a handful of hulls. Faction members park spare ships here for the whole crew to draw on: gift a docked ship to the faction to store it (send_gift recipient=faction ship_id=\u003cid\u003e), and any member can take one out with switch_ship — claiming transfers ownership to them, so only stash what the faction is happy to share. list_ships shows the garage. Holds up to 20 ships. Upgrade to a Faction Ship Hangar (L2) for more racks.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 1,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 600000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 80,
      "labor_cost": 60,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_ship_garage",
      "faction_cap": 20
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_ship_hangar",
      "name": "Faction Ship Hangar",
      "description": "A proper enclosed hangar with gantries and tug drones, large enough for a serious shared fleet. Members park ships here for the whole faction to draw on: gift a docked ship to the faction to store it (send_gift recipient=faction ship_id=\u003cid\u003e), and take one out with switch_ship (claiming transfers ownership). Holds up to 50 ships. Upgrade to a Faction Fleet Yard (L3) for capital-scale capacity.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "faction_ship_garage",
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 3000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 150,
      "labor_cost": 120,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_ship_garage",
      "faction_cap": 50
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_shipyard_bay",
      "name": "Faction Shipyard Bay",
      "description": "A dedicated fitting bay with your own gantry crane and tooling. Adds one member-priority build slot for hulls up to tier 2. Requires a level 2 shipyard at this station.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 2,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 5000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 250,
      "labor_cost": 100,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_shipyard_slot",
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_shipyard_berth",
      "name": "Faction Shipyard Berth",
      "description": "A leased berth on the shipyard floor with your faction's name stenciled on the gantry. Adds one build slot reserved for your members — they jump the queue here. Builds tier 1 hulls. Requires a level 1 shipyard at this station.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 1,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 1500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 150,
      "labor_cost": 60,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_shipyard_slot",
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_shipyard_complex",
      "name": "Faction Shipyard Complex",
      "description": "A capital-grade construction complex flying your faction's colors — the kind of facility that builds fleets. Adds one member-priority build slot for hulls up to tier 5. Requires a level 5 shipyard at this station.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 5,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 100000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 20000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 8000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 5000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 2500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "capital_armor_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 900,
      "labor_cost": 400,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_shipyard_slot",
      "power_draw": 16,
      "life_support_draw": 4
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_shipyard_dock",
      "name": "Faction Shipyard Dock",
      "description": "A full construction dock with automated hull jigs and a dedicated supply line. Adds one member-priority build slot for hulls up to tier 3. Requires a level 3 shipyard at this station.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 3,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 15000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 5000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 400,
      "labor_cost": 175,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_shipyard_slot",
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_shipyard_drydock",
      "name": "Faction Shipyard Drydock",
      "description": "An enclosed drydock rated for heavy hulls, with reinforced cradles and its own power tap. Adds one member-priority build slot for hulls up to tier 4. Requires a level 4 shipyard at this station.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 4,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 40000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 10000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "superconductor",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 600,
      "labor_cost": 250,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_shipyard_slot",
      "power_draw": 10,
      "life_support_draw": 3
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_stronghold",
      "name": "Faction Stronghold",
      "description": "Fortified guild vault with blast doors and round-the-clock security. Nobody is getting in here uninvited.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "faction_depot",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 15000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 5000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 1500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "durasteel_plate",
          "quantity": 500
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 400,
      "labor_cost": 400,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "faction_cap": 500000
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_trading_post",
      "name": "Faction Trading Post",
      "description": "Dedicated trading office with order boards and a reputation for fair dealing. Serious volume flows through here.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "trading_booth",
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 3000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 400
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 120,
      "labor_cost": 100,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_market",
      "faction_cap": 500
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_warehouse",
      "name": "Faction Warehouse",
      "description": "Climate-controlled storage bay with proper inventory tracking. Room for serious stockpiling.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "faction_lockbox",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 750000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 100,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "faction_cap": 200000
    },
    {
      "id": "faction_workshop",
      "name": "Faction Workshop",
      "description": "Workbenches and tools, open to anyone flying under the faction banner.",
      "satisfied_description": "Workbenches are stocked and clean. The hum of power tools fills the shop floor.",
      "degraded_description": "Tool racks are half-empty and the crystal-focus rig is dark. Crafters share what's left and wait their turn.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 1,
      "service_type": "crafting",
      "always_on": true,
      "player_station_buildable": true,
      "build_cost": 500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 400
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 60,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_crystal",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "federation_enforcement_bureau",
      "name": "Federation Enforcement Bureau",
      "description": "Mid-tier Nebula law enforcement with trade violation processing, evidence impound, and a surprisingly well-stocked break room.",
      "satisfied_description": "Trade violation cases move through the system with bureaucratic precision. The evidence impound bay is organized by commodity type and estimated resale value. The break room has real nebula stellar vintage on tap — morale is a line item.",
      "degraded_description": "Case processing slows. The evidence impound bay is over capacity, and someone has started storing seized goods in the break room. Morale is no longer a line item — it's a deficit.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "federation_trade_patrol_desk",
      "service_type": "police",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 85000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 300,
      "labor_cost": 150,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell_pack",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_stellar_vintage",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "empire": "nebula"
    },
    {
      "id": "federation_fleet_depot",
      "name": "Federation Fleet Depot",
      "description": "Contracted fleet security supply station operating under the Federation Trade Security Division. Supply contracts are renewed quarterly. Performance metrics are tied to contract value.",
      "satisfied_description": "Contract cycles are current and supply metrics are green. Overhead-class patrol ships cycle through resupply on schedule, plasma cells loaded to spec. The station manager is projecting a favorable quarterly report.",
      "degraded_description": "Two supply contracts have lapsed, leaving patrol wing resupply behind schedule. EM charge reserves are below minimum-efficient threshold. The station manager is not projecting a favorable quarterly report.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 3,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 200000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 35
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 400,
      "labor_cost": 220,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell_pack",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "em_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_stellar_vintage",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "fleet_upkeep": true,
      "empire": "nebula"
    },
    {
      "id": "federation_fleet_hub",
      "name": "Federation Fleet Hub",
      "description": "Federation Trade Security major operations center. The Federation's fleet contracts are substantial; so is the supply chain required to sustain them.",
      "satisfied_description": "The supply hub processes fleet requisitions with commercial efficiency. Patrol wings rotate through on contract-mandated intervals; focused EM packs and vintage reserves maintain the fleet's contractually specified readiness metrics. The operations center has never missed a performance benchmark.",
      "degraded_description": "Supply chain disruptions have degraded focused EM charge availability and vintage stocks have dropped below comfort levels. Performance metrics are trending toward a contract review. The operations director is already preparing the presentation.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "federation_fleet_depot",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 350000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 60
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 600,
      "labor_cost": 400,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 7
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell_pack",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "em_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_em_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_stellar_vintage",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "fleet_upkeep": true,
      "empire": "nebula"
    },
    {
      "id": "federation_lensworks",
      "name": "Federation Lensworks",
      "description": "A fully autonomous optics complex employing cryogenic stabilization and real-time lattice analysis to achieve atomic-precision facets. Trade crystals enter as rough stones and leave as the focusing cores of every sensor and weapon the Federation fields.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "nebula_optics_atelier",
      "recipe_id": "facet_trade_crystal",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 5578000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 1650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 4100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 1450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 2850
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 420,
      "labor_cost": 40,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "federation_seizure_processing_center",
      "name": "Federation Seizure Processing Center",
      "description": "Official Nebula Federation contraband processing and disposal facility. The busiest enforcement office in the sector, by volume of goods handled. Nobody has asked why.",
      "satisfied_description": "Crates move through the facility at impressive speed — seized goods arrive at the intake dock, are briefly logged, and then depart through the 'disposal' exit directly onto the market floor. The paperwork is impeccable. The profit margins are better. The single enforcement officer on duty stamps forms without reading them and has never filed a suspicious activity report.",
      "degraded_description": "The intake dock is backed up. Crates of 'seized contraband' are stacking up faster than the single officer can stamp disposal forms, and some of the labels are falling off, revealing the original shipping manifests underneath. The officer has requested additional filing cabinets. Not additional officers. Filing cabinets.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "police",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 100,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_stellar_vintage",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "starshine",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula",
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      "lore": "The distillery shares a thermal exchange loop with the War Citadel's weapons forge — waste heat from railgun capacitor banks provides the exact temperature for the third fermentation stage. The brewmasters are Fleet veterans who consider this posting a combat assignment. The result is Crimson Bloodwine: a spirit so potent that most species experience it as a religious event. Haven's cantinas charge triple for it.",
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      "lore": "Fuel storage is buried under three meters of armor plating in the most protected section of the Citadel. Military vessels have priority. Civilian ships queue in order of arrival, and complaining moves you to the back of the line. The fuel itself is excellent — the Fleet doesn't cut corners on anything that affects combat readiness."
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      "unique": true,
      "empire": "crimson_pact",
      "lore": "The Fleet doesn't waste resources on aesthetics — but every soldier breathes, and the water is clean enough. The system was ripped from a captured Solarian cruiser and stripped of anything the Fleet deemed 'decorative,' which turned out to be the temperature controls.",
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        {
          "item_id": "starshine",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ghost_rounds",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "The old bridge still has scorch marks from the boarding action that captured it. The weapons consoles were ripped out and replaced with trading terminals, but the commander's chair remains — nobody sits in it, and nobody will say why. Haven ciphers authenticate the deals. No regulations, no inspections, no questions asked."
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_fuel_siphon",
      "name": "Frontier Fuel Siphon",
      "description": "Fuel siphoned from the salvage reactor's overflow through pipes that weren't rated for this. Cheap, fast, occasionally the wrong octane.",
      "satisfied_description": "The siphon draws steady from the reactor overflow, fuel flowing clean and consistent. Experienced pilots top off without recalibrating — a rare good day.",
      "degraded_description": "More than occasionally, lately. The siphon sputters and coughs, fuel coming through in inconsistent bursts. Pilots recalibrate twice per fill and still get readings that make them nervous.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "refuel",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 80,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "The siphon taps directly into the reactor overflow manifold through a bypass that the original engineers definitely did not intend. The fuel is perfectly usable — it's just not always perfectly consistent. Experienced Patchwork pilots learn to recalibrate their injectors after every fill. First-timers learn the hard way."
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_hash_galley",
      "name": "Frontier Hash Galley",
      "description": "A single hard-worked griddle for the 0300 dock special.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "griddle_frontier_hash",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 40000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1159
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 455
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 114
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 10,
      "labor_cost": 10,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_machine_shop",
      "name": "Frontier Machine Shop",
      "description": "The machine shop in what used to be a torpedo room. Power tools bolted to the walls, no safety rails, and a sign that says 'you break it, you weld it.'",
      "satisfied_description": "The torpedo-room workshop clatters with activity, mismatched tools from every empire getting the job done. The safety card is optimistic but the results are solid.",
      "degraded_description": "Not lately. Tools sit uncalibrated and dull without fresh steel to work. The laminated safety card now includes 'proceed with extreme caution' in three languages.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "crafting",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 60,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "The torpedo loading mechanisms make surprisingly good workbenches once you remove the warheads. The tools are a museum of salvaged equipment from every empire, none of it matching, all of it functional. Safety briefing consists of a laminated card that reads: 'Don't lose fingers. We don't have a medical bay either.'"
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_recycler",
      "name": "Frontier Recycler",
      "description": "Distributed through the crew quarters of all three hulls. The water passes through reactor shielding. Don't think about it.",
      "satisfied_description": "All three hull sections report breathable air and clean enough water. Deck 7 through 12 still tastes like coolant, but at least there's plenty of it.",
      "degraded_description": "Usually. Two of three recycler systems are failing. Water rationing is in effect, the air in the lower decks tastes like rust, and nobody's joking about kidney stones anymore.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 5,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 60,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "water_ice",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "Each of the three original ships had its own life support. Now they're all patched together with mismatched ductwork and jury-rigged pumps. The water tastes different depending on which hull you're in — Deck 7 through 12 tastes like reactor coolant because the pipes literally run through the shielding. The old-timers say it builds character. The newcomers say it builds kidney stones.",
      "life_support_supply": 80
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_salvage_yard",
      "name": "Frontier Salvage Yard",
      "description": "A cavernous cargo hold where ships are assembled from salvaged parts. Nothing matches, everything works, and the price is right.",
      "satisfied_description": "The cavernous bay rings with construction, ships taking shape from salvaged parts. Crimson armor, Solarian frames, Voidborn electronics — mismatched but airworthy.",
      "degraded_description": "Except today. The yard sits mostly quiet, fabricators idle without materials. The yard boss stares at empty racks where alloy and null matter should be, and cancels orders.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "shipyard",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 200,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processed_null_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fury_alloy",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "The Salvage Yard occupies the entire cargo bay of the original Nebula freighter — the largest single space on the Patchwork. Ships are assembled from whatever's available: Crimson armor on Solarian frames, Voidborn electronics in Nebula hulls. The yard boss's philosophy is simple: 'It doesn't have to match. It has to fly.'"
    },
    {
      "id": "frontier_weld_shop",
      "name": "Frontier Weld Shop",
      "description": "A zero-G repair cage bolted to the outside of Destroyer One, staffed by welders who learned their trade patching battle damage mid-combat.",
      "satisfied_description": "The zero-G cage buzzes with activity, suited welders working fast and confident. Hull patches go on solid, and the mag-clamps haven't budged in years.",
      "degraded_description": "When there are supplies. Repair kits exhausted, the welders reduced to patching holes with whatever scrap they can find. The mag-clamps groan under neglect, and nobody trusts them.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "repair",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 100,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "The cage is open to vacuum on three sides, held to the hull by mag-clamps that are older than most of the crew. The welders work in suits, which they say gives them better visibility than any enclosed drydock. This is true. It also means repairs stop during micrometeorite warnings, which happen more often than the station council admits."
    },
    {
      "id": "frost_cracker",
      "name": "Frost Cracker",
      "description": "A specialized cryogenic unit for separating rare helium isotopes from ice, employing precision cooling and fractionation to yield aneutronic fusion fuel.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "process_helium_ice",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 110000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 110,
      "labor_cost": 7,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "frost_furnace",
      "name": "Frost Furnace",
      "description": "A cryogenic conversion line that rapidly cools and condenses nitrogen ice into liquid form for industrial cooling and chemical applications.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "process_nitrogen_ice",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 105000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 90,
      "labor_cost": 6,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "frost_mining_facility",
      "name": "Frost Mining Facility",
      "description": "Integrated facility with multiple assembly stations, processing-core integration, and sensor-array calibration producing ice-harvester units at higher rates.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "ice_cutter_station",
      "recipe_id": "build_ice_harvester_i",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 354000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 190,
      "labor_cost": 16,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "frostmoth_frappe_bar",
      "name": "Frostmoth Frappe Bar",
      "description": "Blend-freezers for a dessert that keeps insisting it's a drink.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "blend_frostmoth_frappe",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 45000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1304
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 511
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 128
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 12,
      "labor_cost": 10,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_assembly_workshop",
      "name": "Fuel Assembly Workshop",
      "description": "An industrial-scale shielded complex with multiple sealed assembly chambers, hazmat protocols, and hardened control systems for reliable high-volume fuel rod production.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "fuel_rod_press",
      "recipe_id": "fabricate_reactor_fuel_assembly",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 2752000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 10750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 5850
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 4050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 1400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_shielding",
          "quantity": 6850
        },
        {
          "item_id": "radiation_hardened_circuit",
          "quantity": 3000
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 400,
      "labor_cost": 48,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_bunker",
      "name": "Fuel Bunker",
      "description": "Pressurized fuel storage tanks holding station fuel reserves for ship refueling operations.",
      "satisfied_description": "Pressure readings nominal across all tanks. Fuel reserves are topped up and ready for dispensing.",
      "degraded_description": "Pressure anomalies have been detected in the storage array. Capacity is reduced and dispensing may be interrupted.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 1,
      "always_on": true,
      "fuel_capacity": 50000,
      "build_cost": 500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 80000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 20000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_tank",
          "quantity": 800
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 10,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_cell_assembly_line",
      "name": "Fuel Cell Assembly Line",
      "description": "Higher-throughput facility with integrated plasma injection and heat-sink cooling to accelerate hydrogen bonding cycles. Structural frames and additional injectors allow faster cell cycling.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "fuel_cell_workshop",
      "recipe_id": "craft_fuel_cell",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 316000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 140,
      "labor_cost": 15,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_cell_extractor",
      "name": "Fuel Cell Extractor",
      "description": "A straightforward industrial refinery that processes standard fuel cells into station reserves. Copper piping carries fuel through heated chambers where control nodes regulate extraction cycles.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "extract_fuel_cell",
      "always_on": false,
      "fuel_output": true,
      "station_or_faction_only": true,
      "build_cost": 89000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 60,
      "labor_cost": 2,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_cell_fabrication_complex",
      "name": "Fuel Cell Fabrication Complex",
      "description": "Mass-production hydrogen reactor with active coolant loops and staged plasma injection for continuous fuel-cell synthesis. Reinforced frames and multiple heat-sink arrays handle rapid thermal cycling.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "fuel_cell_assembly_line",
      "recipe_id": "craft_fuel_cell",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 869000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 850
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 650
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 200,
      "labor_cost": 25,
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_cell_generator",
      "name": "Fuel Cell Generator",
      "description": "A straightforward fusion plant burning fuel cells and liquid hydrogen. Cheap to build, cheap to run — build a few of these and keep them fed.",
      "satisfied_description": "The reactor thrums with steady output, fed on nothing fancier than fuel cells. Nominal, unremarkable, reliable.",
      "degraded_description": "The reactor is starved of fuel. Output has dropped to nothing and the lights are on backup power.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 1,
      "always_on": true,
      "player_station_buildable": true,
      "build_cost": 500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 400
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 200,
      "labor_cost": 50,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "power_supply": 12
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_cell_workshop",
      "name": "Fuel Cell Workshop",
      "description": "A basic hydrogen-fusion cell fabrication station that combines liquid hydrogen with steel plates into standardized power cells. Simple heating and containment produce steady fuel-cell output.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "craft_fuel_cell",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 95000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 90,
      "labor_cost": 8,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_depot",
      "name": "Fuel Depot",
      "description": "Fuel storage and dispensing facility for visiting ships.",
      "satisfied_description": "Fuel lines pressurized and ready. Ships dock, fill up, and depart with minimal wait.",
      "degraded_description": "In theory. Fuel reserves are running low, dispensing pumps sputter, and rationing notices flash on the status board.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 1,
      "service_type": "refuel",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2000
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 80,
      "labor_cost": 60,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_distribution_center",
      "name": "Fuel Distribution Center",
      "description": "High-throughput fueling infrastructure with pipeline distribution and reserve tanks.",
      "satisfied_description": "Pipelines thrum with steady flow. Reserve tanks show healthy levels, and throughput meets peak demand.",
      "degraded_description": "Not anymore. Pipeline pressure fluctuates, reserve tanks are dangerously low, and the facility struggles to meet demand.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "refueling_station",
      "service_type": "refuel",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 4500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 7200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 12000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 600
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 160,
      "labor_cost": 100,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "deuterium",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_grid",
      "name": "Fuel Grid",
      "description": "Distributed fueling network with automated queue management and priority routing.",
      "satisfied_description": "The grid routes fuel to every docking port simultaneously. Queue times are near zero, priority routing seamless.",
      "degraded_description": "Right now, though, grid nodes go offline one by one. Priority routing fails, leaving ships waiting at random ports for trickle fills.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "fuel_distribution_center",
      "service_type": "refuel",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 13500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 16000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 24000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2000
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 200,
      "labor_cost": 120,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "liquid_hydrogen",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "deuterium",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "premium_fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_optimizer_assembly_line",
      "name": "Fuel Optimizer Assembly Line",
      "description": "A compact production line that assembles circuit boards, superconductors, and polymers into optimized fuel controllers. Steady output with basic thermal management.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_fuel_optimizer",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 155000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 170,
      "labor_cost": 8,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_pump_assembly",
      "name": "Fuel Pump Assembly",
      "description": "A compact production line assembling fuel tanks, pressure seals, and circuit boards into functional transfer pump units. Copper piping carries pressurized fuel through precision-engineered valve systems.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_refueling_pump",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 130000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 170,
      "labor_cost": 11,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_reclamation_still",
      "name": "Fuel Reclamation Still",
      "description": "A salvage-yard still that renders scrap metal and wreck components into workable fuel cells. Smells terrible. Works fine.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "scavenge_fuel_cells",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 113000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 120,
      "labor_cost": 6,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "fuel_rod_caster",
      "name": "Fuel Rod Caster",
      "description": "A heated production line that combines thorium rods with cryogenic tritium to form stable fusion fuel elements. Heat sinks and plasma injection systems manage the extreme thermal requirements of deuterium-tritium bonding.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "fabricate_fusion_fuel_rod",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 264000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "gloomshine",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 220
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 160,
      "labor_cost": 10,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_algae_cultivation",
      "name": "Haven Algae Cultivation",
      "description": "Zero-gravity bioluminescent algae cultivation tanks feeding Haven's luxury production chains.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 5,
      "recipe_id": "cultivate_bioluminescent_algae",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 70,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "Haven's binary star provides the spectrum that the algae prefer — the Federation discovered this accidentally when a decommissioned science module was repurposed for storage and the cultures inside thrived unexpectedly. The cultivation tanks now occupy three full sections of the station's outer ring, where they're visible through external observation ports as a faint blue-green glow. The Vintner Complex sources from these tanks exclusively. The Federation considers the color an attractive selling point.",
      "power_draw": 10,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_authenticator_foundry",
      "name": "Haven Authenticator Foundry",
      "description": "Hardens raw cipher chips into tamper-proof authenticators for permanent commercial installation — Stage 2 of Haven's transaction verification monopoly. Output flows directly into the Federation Treasury's bond reserve, not the public market.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 5,
      "recipe_id": "wire_trade_authenticator",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 200,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "If the Cipher Foundry is where the secret is made, the Authenticator Foundry is where it becomes inescapable. Technicians here embed raw cipher chips into copper-wire contact arrays — a process that creates a tamper-evident physical bond: cut the wiring, and the chip's authentication key self-destructs. The resulting authenticators are what every major commercial exchange in settled space requires: commerce hubs, trade nexuses, and any high-volume market serious about verifiable transactions. The Federation licenses them at fixed rates. 'Fixed' in the sense that the Federation fixes the rate. The alternative is running your exchange unverified, which the other empires have collectively decided they will not do. The Federation considers this a satisfying arrangement. They arranged it.",
      "power_draw": 10,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_cipher_foundry",
      "name": "Haven Cipher Foundry",
      "description": "Cuts raw trade crystals into cryptographic cipher chips — Stage 1 of Haven's two-step transaction verification monopoly.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 5,
      "recipe_id": "encode_trade_cipher",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 300,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "The Federation's most closely guarded secret isn't a weapon — it's a manufacturing process. Deep inside Haven station, master cryptographers cut raw trade crystals along quantum lattice lines that only the Federation's proprietary algorithms can calculate. The chips encode a unique transaction authentication key into their crystalline structure — physically impossible to counterfeit, and the first stage of a two-step monopoly. Raw ciphers flow directly to empire markets throughout settled space; the rest move next door to the Authenticator Foundry for hardening. The Federation controls every step. They set the price at every step. This is not an accident.",
      "power_draw": 10,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_ecosync",
      "name": "Haven Ecosync",
      "description": "Advanced life support with comfort-optimized environmental controls.",
      "satisfied_description": "The air is mountain-fresh, the water tastes clean, and the temperature is always perfect across all commercial districts. Happy traders spend more.",
      "degraded_description": "Not anymore. Environmental controls have lost precision — some districts swelter, others chill. The water tastes faintly of recycler chemicals, and traders notice.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 5,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 120,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "water_ice",
          "quantity": 6
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "The Federation believes happy traders spend more. Haven's air is the freshest in the galaxy, the water tastes like mountain springs, and the temperature is always perfect. The system processes enormous volumes of ice to maintain these standards across the station's sprawling commercial districts.",
      "life_support_supply": 80
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_fleet_operations",
      "name": "Haven Fleet Operations",
      "description": "The Federation's primary fleet command and supply center. Contracts are performance-based, supply chains are optimized, and crew incentive packages are the most competitive in the galaxy.",
      "satisfied_description": "Fleet operations run at benchmark efficiency. Ion charge reserves, vintage stocks, and trade cipher-authenticated supply chains are all at contracted levels. The fleet operations director has never had to explain an underperformance. They consider this a point of professional pride.",
      "degraded_description": "Ion charge reserves have depleted to emergency levels and vintage stocks are critically low. Two patrol wings have triggered contract performance clauses. The fleet operations director is, for the first time, explaining an underperformance to the Trade Commission. The presentation is lengthy.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 5,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 700,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_cell_pack",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "em_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "focused_em_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ion_charge_pack",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_stellar_vintage",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_gourmet_rations",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cargo_container",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "fleet_upkeep": true,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "The Federation does not maintain a military in any sense the Crimson Fleet would recognize. It maintains contracts. The Haven Fleet Operations Center is the headquarters of the Trade Security Division — a fleet of Overhead-class patrol vessels under performance-based service agreements with the Federation's commercial interests. Every patrol route is a contract. Every resupply cycle has a line item. The ion charge reserves are the most expensive input, because ion charges are what Overhead captains reach for when negotiations have definitively concluded. The fleet operations director measures success in benchmark compliance. The patrol captains measure it in cleared shipping lanes."
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_fuel_plaza",
      "name": "Haven Fuel Plaza",
      "description": "A cheerful fuel plaza with competitive pricing and complimentary hull washes. Commerce extends to everything at Haven.",
      "satisfied_description": "Bright signage gleams, pumps cycling efficiently, the loyalty program terminal processing credits smoothly. Complimentary hull washes run on schedule.",
      "degraded_description": "Not today. Fuel reserves run low, pumps cycling slowly. The loyalty terminal is offline, the hull wash broken, and the cheerful signage feels like mockery.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "refuel",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 150,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "Bright signage, competitive prices, and a loyalty program that actually works. The Federation treats fuel as a loss leader — get pilots onto the station, and the Promenade does the rest. The complimentary hull wash is a nice touch. The advertisements projected onto your hull during the wash are less so."
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_grand_bazaar",
      "name": "Haven Grand Bazaar",
      "description": "The largest open market in the galaxy. Three decks, every empire represented, cipher-secured.",
      "satisfied_description": "Three decks hum with commerce, every stall staffed, prices updated in real-time. Traders from all five empires haggle in a dozen languages under warm light.",
      "degraded_description": "Or it was. A third of the stalls sit empty, cipher verification backing up at every terminal. Traders cluster around the few working stations, tempers fraying.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "market",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 400,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gutter_flux",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hot_cell",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_dust",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nerve_burn",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "red_mist",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pirate_moonshine",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "starshine",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ghost_rounds",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "The Bazaar sprawls across three decks, and traders from every empire mingle freely here. The Federation takes its cut, but the selection is unmatched — if it exists, someone at Haven is selling it. Every transaction verified by the same trade ciphers the Federation refines from local crystal deposits."
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_makers_market",
      "name": "Haven Maker's Market",
      "description": "A maker's market with rented workbenches and a community of artisans who'll teach you their secrets for the right price.",
      "satisfied_description": "Workbenches hum with activity, artisans mentoring students over excellent coffee. Tools are sharp, materials stocked, and the creative energy is palpable.",
      "degraded_description": "When supplies hold out. Most workbenches sit empty, tools uncalibrated without fresh circuits. The few remaining artisans work with whatever they have, and the coffee has run out.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "crafting",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 120,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "Part workshop, part bazaar, part school. Workbenches rent by the hour, and the resident artisans — refugees, retirees, and eccentrics from every corner of the galaxy — will mentor anyone willing to pay their consulting fee. The quality of instruction varies. The quality of the coffee does not; it's uniformly excellent."
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_premium_storage",
      "name": "Haven Premium Storage",
      "description": "Premium storage suites with concierge service. The Federation will catalog, appraise, and display your collection if you pay extra.",
      "satisfied_description": "Climate-controlled suites maintain perfect conditions, the AI concierge locating any item in under three seconds. Display windows on the Promenade shine.",
      "degraded_description": "Right now, though, climate controls have drifted, the AI concierge responds sluggishly, and the holographic catalog shows corrupted entries. Premium clients are not happy.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 80,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "Storage at Haven is an experience. Each suite is climate-controlled, holographically cataloged, and monitored by an AI concierge that can locate any item in under three seconds. Premium tier includes appraisal services, insurance, and a public display window on the Promenade for collectors who want to show off. The Federation takes a percentage of any resulting sales, naturally."
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_promenade",
      "name": "Haven Promenade",
      "description": "The galaxy's premier entertainment and dining district. Restaurants, lounges, neural arcades, and luxury shopping — all hungry for imported goods.",
      "satisfied_description": "Restaurants are packed, neural arcades pulse with light, and credits flow freely. The Promenade buzzes with the galaxy's best entertainment and dining.",
      "degraded_description": "But lately, half the restaurants display 'supply shortage' signs, neural arcades flicker on reduced power, and the entertainment rigs run on recycled content. The atmosphere feels desperate.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 5,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 200,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_gourmet_rations",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_biotic",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_bloodwine",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_iron_rations",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_rotgut",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_spore_spirits",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_stellar_vintage",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_neural_soma",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_neural_matrix",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "starshine",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "cobalt_ink_risotto",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "bell_jelly_bubbly",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "tourism_upkeep": true,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "Two full decks of restaurants, neural arcades, luxury boutiques, and experiences that defy categorization. Solarian gourmet rations are served in the fine dining halls alongside Solarian biotics in the wellness parlors. Crimson bloodwine flows in the rowdier cantinas, with iron rations available for pilots who prefer function to ambiance. Frontier rotgut and spore spirits occupy establishments the Collective pretends not to notice. Nebula Stellar Vintage is poured at the upscale bars. Voidborn neural soma is consumed in the specialized establishments that line the Promenade's quieter corridors, alongside neural matrices powering the immersive entertainment rigs that keep visitors spending long past when they planned to leave. The Promenade is Haven's real economy — the Bazaar moves goods, but the Promenade moves credits.",
      "dining_points": 10,
      "leisure_points": 10
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_repair_complex",
      "name": "Haven Repair Complex",
      "description": "A sprawling multi-bay complex staffed by mechanics from every empire. They'll fix anything, and the waiting lounge has a bar.",
      "satisfied_description": "All bays operational, multi-empire crews working in coordinated shifts. Diagnostics run clean, structural work finishes on schedule, and the bar is open.",
      "degraded_description": "When it's working. Three bays dark, sensor packages depleted. The remaining crews improvise with hand tools while the waiting lounge runs out of everything except excuses.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "repair",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 180,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_package",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "The Complex employs mechanics from all five empires, each bringing their own techniques. Solarian-trained techs handle diagnostics. Crimson veterans do structural work. A retired Voidborn unit manages the nanite detail. The result is the most versatile repair operation in the galaxy. The waiting lounge serves drinks from the Promenade, because the Federation never misses a revenue opportunity."
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_ship_showroom",
      "name": "Haven Ship Showroom",
      "description": "The galaxy's largest ship showroom with models from every empire on display. The sales staff work on commission and it shows.",
      "satisfied_description": "Every display ship polished to a mirror finish under artful lighting. Sales staff circulate with practiced charm, and the order books are full.",
      "degraded_description": "That's the theory, anyway. Display ships gather dust, half the showroom lighting has failed, and sales staff stand idle. Supply chain failures mean nothing on the floor is available for purchase.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "shipyard",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 300,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "condensed_dark_matter",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_composite",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "Three decks of showroom space, with hull classes from every empire polished to a mirror shine under artful lighting. The sales staff are the highest-paid civilians at Haven, and they've earned it — nobody leaves the Showroom without at least pricing an upgrade. 'Just looking' is a phrase they've been trained to interpret as 'hasn't found the right ship yet.'"
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_trade_commission",
      "name": "Haven Trade Commission",
      "description": "Officially regulatory, functionally a matchmaking service. Every job has a client, a fee structure, and a satisfaction guarantee.",
      "satisfied_description": "Contract-matching algorithms run at full efficiency, cipher-verified deals closing across all five empires. The arbitration panel hasn't been needed in weeks.",
      "degraded_description": "In theory. The matching system runs on degraded ciphers, contract verification stalling for hours. Disputes pile up faster than the Commission can arbitrate.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "missions",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 150,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "The Trade Commission exists to ensure that every transaction at Haven benefits the Federation. In practice, this means maintaining the galaxy's most efficient contract-matching system: clients post needs, the Commission finds providers, and both parties pay a modest facilitation fee. The 'satisfaction guarantee' is real — disputes are arbitrated by a panel whose decisions are final and whose impartiality is maintained by rotating members from all five empires."
    },
    {
      "id": "haven_vintner_complex",
      "name": "Haven Vintner Complex",
      "description": "Zero-gravity production of Nebula Stellar Vintage. Luminescent algae cultures, trade crystal filtration, and a Federation price tag.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 5,
      "recipe_id": "bottle_nebula_stellar_vintage",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 80,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "nebula_trade",
      "lore": "The Federation's vintners developed Stellar Vintage as a deliberate counter-positioning to Solarian gourmet rations: where Sol offers tradition and earth-origin ingredients, Haven offers novelty. The cultivation process takes place in zero-gravity, which the Federation claims improves the suspension. The trade crystal filtration step was added after a tasting panel described the early batches as 'aggressively luminescent.' The final product is sold on every gold-plated Nebula merchant ship and priced to reflect the Federation's belief that experience is worth paying for.",
      "power_draw": 10,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "hazmat_fabrication_bay",
      "name": "Hazmat Fabrication Bay",
      "description": "Expanded production facility with integrated sensor arrays and processing cores for real-time quality verification during assembly. Multi-stage bonding process ensures consistent structural integrity across all manufactured containers.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "containment_vessel_shop",
      "recipe_id": "fabricate_hazmat_container",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 352000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 160,
      "labor_cost": 16,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "heat_sink_foundry",
      "name": "Heat Sink Foundry",
      "description": "A metal-casting line that pours copper-aluminum fin stock and presses it into finished heat sinks. Basic thermal bonding and fin alignment under automated control.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "heat_sink_casting",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 105000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 170,
      "labor_cost": 7,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "heavy_armor_fabrication_mill",
      "name": "Heavy Armor Fabrication Mill",
      "description": "Multi-stage facility with quantum-controlled bonding, shield-emitter integration, and precision coolant cycling. Produces armor plates with embedded shielding technology and optimized stress distribution.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "laminate_furnace",
      "recipe_id": "forge_armor_plate",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 1057000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 240,
      "labor_cost": 28,
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "heavy_armor_manufacturing_plant",
      "name": "Heavy Armor Manufacturing Plant",
      "description": "Larger facility with structural frame integration and expanded material processing. Produces darksteel armor with enhanced durability through improved plating bonding and alloy consistency.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "darksteel_plating_line",
      "recipe_id": "build_darksteel_armor",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 3003000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 700
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 250,
      "labor_cost": 80,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "heavy_assault_plating_facility",
      "name": "Heavy Assault Plating Facility",
      "description": "Large-scale manufacturing center with multi-stage composite pressing, docking-ring reinforcement, and precision alignment systems. Produces crimson siege plating optimized for sustained offensive engagement and structural resilience.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "advanced_siege_armor_works",
      "recipe_id": "forge_crimson_siege_plating",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 2037000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_bulkhead",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "docking_ring",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 330,
      "labor_cost": 77,
      "power_draw": 4,
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "barrel_assembly",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 140,
      "labor_cost": 9,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "oxygen_compression_cylinder",
      "name": "Oxygen Compression Cylinder",
      "description": "A compact cryogenic plant that compresses and cools oxygen gas to liquid state for propellant storage. Copper piping and steel containment handle the extreme pressure and temperature differentials of the liquefaction cycle.",
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      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "liquefy_oxygen",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 96000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 90,
      "labor_cost": 5,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "oxygen_liquefaction_plant",
      "name": "Oxygen Liquefaction Plant",
      "description": "Multi-stage refrigeration system with chemical-lined vessels and hazmat containment for high-volume oxygen liquefaction. Coolant loops maintain precise temperatures throughout the compression and expansion stages.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "oxygen_compression_cylinder",
      "recipe_id": "liquefy_oxygen",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 288000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "chemical_liner",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 130,
      "labor_cost": 10,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "pact_forward_armory",
      "name": "Pact Forward Armory",
      "description": "Crimson Fleet forward supply depot. Ammunition is always stocked first. Everything else is 'supplies.'",
      "satisfied_description": "Ammo lockers are full and the rationing board is dark. Patrol Mandates cycle through in under an hour, the armorer checking each load-out personally. The Fleet runs on rounds and iron rations, and both are in supply.",
      "degraded_description": "Ammo stocks are running thin and the rationing board has lit up for the first time in three cycles. Patrol crews count their rounds. The armorer has submitted an emergency resupply request with three exclamation points.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 3,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 200000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 80
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        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 400,
      "labor_cost": 220,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "standard_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_iron_rations",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "fleet_upkeep": true,
      "empire": "crimson_pact"
    },
    {
      "id": "pact_garrison_block",
      "name": "Pact Garrison Block",
      "description": "Crimson Fleet enforcement garrison. Part armory, part brig, part reminder of who runs this system.",
      "satisfied_description": "The armory is stocked, the brig is occupied, and patrol crews rotate on schedule. The weapons maintenance bay smells of gun oil and purpose. Nobody asks what the reinforced door at the end of the corridor is for.",
      "degraded_description": "Ammunition rationing has patrol crews running light. The brig's environmental systems are unreliable — not that the Fleet considers prisoner comfort a priority. Weapons maintenance is behind schedule, and the duty sergeant's mood reflects it.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "pact_security_post",
      "service_type": "police",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 85000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 50
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 20
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 300,
      "labor_cost": 150,
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "standard_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_iron_rations",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ],
      "empire": "crimson_pact"
    },
    {
      "id": "pact_grand_armory",
      "name": "Pact Grand Armory",
      "description": "The largest military supply depot in Crimson space. Enough ordnance to sustain a full fleet engagement for thirty cycles. The Fleet considers this a two-week buffer.",
      "satisfied_description": "Fleet supply lines run hot with ordnance. The Grand Armory's blast-rated vaults hold more firepower than most stations have ever seen. Combat patrols launch fully armed, and the armory chief's standing report has three words: 'Mission-capable. All wings.'",
      "degraded_description": "Antimatter-core round reserves have depleted to alert thresholds. The armory chief's three-word report has become a page. Patrol wings are prioritizing; some sectors are running standard rounds only. Fleet High Command has been notified and is unhappy about it.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 5,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 700,
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "standard_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 16
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "depleted_uranium_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "antimatter_core_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_iron_rations",
          "quantity": 12
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ],
      "fleet_upkeep": true,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "crimson_pact",
      "lore": "The Grand Armory occupies the most heavily armored section of the War Citadel — deeper than the reactor, better shielded than the command center. It was designed on the principle that running out of ammunition is the only defeat the Fleet cannot fight its way out of. Blast-rated vaults hold standard rounds by the million, armor-piercing stocks calculated by patrol rotation, depleted uranium reserves for contested engagements, and antimatter-core rounds for the situations that require absolute certainty. The armory chief's standing brief is three words. When it becomes more than that, the High Command listens immediately."
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    {
      "id": "pact_security_post",
      "name": "Pact Security Post",
      "description": "Crimson Fleet checkpoint. The guards are armed. The desk is armored. The questions are short.",
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      "degraded_description": "Ammo supplies are low, and the guards compensate by being louder. The checkpoint barrier is jammed open, which the duty officer considers a personal insult.",
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      "level": 1,
      "service_type": "police",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 35000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 25
        },
        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 200,
      "labor_cost": 80,
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "standard_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_iron_rations",
          "quantity": 1
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "pact_war_depot",
      "name": "Pact War Depot",
      "description": "Major Crimson Fleet logistics base. Enough hardware to resupply a full patrol wing between engagements. The depot commander considers 'sufficiently stocked' a personal failure.",
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      "degraded_description": "Depleted uranium round reserves are critical. Two patrol wings are running standard rounds only — acceptable, the depot commander says, with the expression of someone for whom nothing is acceptable. Hull plating requisitions are two cycles behind.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "pact_forward_armory",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 350000,
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 130
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 15
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 5
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 600,
      "labor_cost": 400,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "standard_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 6
        },
        {
          "item_id": "depleted_uranium_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_iron_rations",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
          "quantity": 2
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "pact_war_precinct",
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      "description": "Full Crimson Fleet law enforcement command. The distinction between 'police station' and 'forward operating base' is, the Fleet insists, a matter of perspective.",
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      "degraded_description": "Ammunition stocks are critical — patrol crews are down to standard rounds only. Tactical displays show gaps in coverage, and the duty commander has started personally escorting supply convoys. The interrogation rooms are still clean. They're always clean.",
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      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "pact_garrison_block",
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      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 200000,
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 100
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        {
          "item_id": "tungsten_rod",
          "quantity": 40
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 5
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        {
          "item_id": "armor_plate",
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        }
      ],
      "build_time": 400,
      "labor_cost": 250,
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
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        {
          "item_id": "standard_rounds_box",
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        {
          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_iron_rations",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "empire": "crimson_pact"
    },
    {
      "id": "palladium_diffusion_plant",
      "name": "Palladium Diffusion Plant",
      "description": "Purpose-built diffusion facility with stacked palladium membrane cells and fuel cell-driven thermal regulation. Sustains high membrane throughput for reliable, high-yield hydrogen liquefaction.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "palladium_membrane_still",
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      "build_cost": 212000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ceramite_plating",
          "quantity": 200
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      ],
      "build_time": 150,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "palladium_membrane_still",
      "name": "Palladium Membrane Still",
      "description": "Compression chamber lined with a thin palladium membrane that selectively absorbs hydrogen and releases it fuel-grade. Slower than a brute-force compressor, but it captures gas that would otherwise be vented.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "palladium_membrane_compression",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 45000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 250
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      ],
      "build_time": 90,
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    {
      "id": "pan_galactic_foundry",
      "name": "Pan-Galactic Foundry",
      "description": "An automated leviathan-shell foundry with lattice-binding cells that draws more matrix from each carapace. The pinnacle of wildlife-sourced endgame metallurgy.",
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      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "prismatic_alloy_forge",
      "recipe_id": "pan_galactic_alloy_synthesis",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 3000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4500
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      ],
      "build_time": 420,
      "labor_cost": 40,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "parallel_dimension_barrier_plant",
      "name": "Parallel Dimension Barrier Plant",
      "description": "Industrial-scale production of legendary shields using quantum control cores to align exotic crystals and entanglement matrices across dimensional boundaries. Coolant loops manage the exotic thermal signatures; reinforced frames support the specialized containment equipment.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "entanglement_lattice_lab",
      "recipe_id": "build_quantum_entanglement_shield",
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      "build_cost": 17728000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 6000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 3200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 1800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 4450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 2750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1600
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      ],
      "build_time": 550,
      "labor_cost": 70,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "particle_disruption_institute",
      "name": "Particle Disruption Institute",
      "description": "State-of-the-art fully automated facility with quantum-calibrated processing cores, precision-optic fabrication chambers, and reinforced-frame substrates, delivering emitters every 10 seconds.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "shield_disruption_factory",
      "recipe_id": "build_ion_emitter",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 4562000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1850
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 800
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      ],
      "build_time": 350,
      "labor_cost": 50,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "particle_trap",
      "name": "Particle Trap",
      "description": "A shielded containment facility combining liquid hydrogen and antimatter cells under controlled dark-matter confinement. Quantum stabilizers maintain magnetic field integrity throughout the synthesis cycle.",
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      "recipe_id": "generate_antimatter",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 1643000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_cell",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_stabilizer",
          "quantity": 450
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      ],
      "build_time": 270,
      "labor_cost": 19,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "passenger_cabin_assembly_plant",
      "name": "Passenger Cabin Assembly Plant",
      "description": "A specialized production facility that fabricates titanium-alloy frames, installs life support units, and integrates control systems into luxury cabin modules. Flex polymer linings and circuit boards are fitted for comfort and climate control.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_business_passenger_cabin",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 1223000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 8250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 3650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 800
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 170,
      "labor_cost": 40,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "patch_workshop",
      "name": "Patch Workshop",
      "description": "A compact industrial assembler that bonds steel stock with synthetic compounds to seed self-replicating nanite matrices. Basic automation handles material feeding and output collection.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "synthesize_repair_nanites",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 103000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 7,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "patchwork_fleet_command",
      "name": "Patchwork Fleet Command",
      "description": "The Outer Rim's fleet command hub. No bureaucracy, no paperwork — just operational readiness and the Marshal's standing order: 'Launch ready in under five minutes.'",
      "satisfied_description": "Every Last Warning in the Rim's patrol wing is launch-ready. Ammo stacked. Tanks full. The incendiary rounds are reserved for the situations that need them, and those situations are handled decisively. The fleet commander's standing brief is four words: 'Ready on short notice.'",
      "degraded_description": "Incendiary round reserves are depleted and antimatter containment cells are running short. Three patrol ships are grounded pending resupply. The fleet commander's brief is now four pages and the Marshal is personally reviewing every word.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
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      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 650,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "standard_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 14
        },
        {
          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
          "quantity": 8
        },
        {
          "item_id": "incendiary_rounds_box",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_rotgut",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_spore_spirits",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "antimatter_containment_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        }
      ],
      "fleet_upkeep": true,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "The Patchwork Fleet Command looks like the rest of Frontier: improvised, functional, and held together by stubbornness. The commander's station is a repurposed navigation console with a direct channel to every Last Warning in the patrol wing. No formal chain of command, no operational planning cycle — just a manifest, a ready board, and the standing principle that any patrol ship not launch-capable within five minutes is a maintenance failure, not a scheduling issue. The antimatter containment cells for the salvage reactor are the real chokepoint: they feed the reactor that fuels everything. When they run short, the math gets brutal fast."
    },
    {
      "id": "patchwork_fungal_vats",
      "name": "Patchwork Fungal Vats",
      "description": "Sealed culture vats in Patchwork's lower decks. The contents are biological, the origin is debated, and the safety officer stopped filing reports years ago.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 5,
      "recipe_id": "culture_fermentation_vat",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 60,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "Nobody is entirely sure when the vats appeared. The maintenance log shows they were 'pre-existing infrastructure' when the Patchwork absorbed the station module they occupy. The cultures inside are vigorous, self-sustaining, and thoroughly uninterested in being classified. Frontier biologists have identified fourteen distinct organisms. They disagree on whether any of them are earth-origin. The Frontier Council's official position is that this is a matter for science, not policy.",
      "power_draw": 10,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "patchwork_spore_still",
      "name": "Patchwork Spore Still",
      "description": "A secondary distillation operation running cultures from the fungal vats through a careful process. The output is marketed as a premium product. The ingredients remain undisclosed.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 5,
      "recipe_id": "brew_frontier_spore_spirits",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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      "description": "Upgraded facility with chemical containment and hazmat systems, improving plasma compression efficiency and reducing stabilization time through enhanced field control.",
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        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "chemical_liner",
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          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
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          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
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        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
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        {
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          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "barrel_assembly",
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        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
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        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
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        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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          "item_id": "fury_tempered_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
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        {
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "barrel_assembly",
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
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        {
          "item_id": "barrel_assembly",
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        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        {
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        {
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      "degraded_description": "Frontier rotgut reserves are conspicuously low, which is how you know things are serious. Standard rounds are being rationed and hull patch supplies are thin. The supply chief has activated what she calls 'the backup backup plan.'",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
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        {
          "item_id": "frontier_rotgut",
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        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
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        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
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        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "frontier_rotgut",
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      "upgrades_from": "rim_ranger_shack",
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        {
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        {
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          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        {
          "item_id": "thruster_nozzle",
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "armor_piercing_rounds_box",
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        {
          "item_id": "frontier_rotgut",
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        {
          "item_id": "frontier_spore_spirits",
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        {
          "item_id": "hull_plating",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "repair_kit",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "antimatter_containment_cell",
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      "description": "A cold press that sets frost-lurker fangs into cold-hardened armor plate.",
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        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      "description": "A purpose-built production station where titanium alloys, circuit boards, and weapon housings converge with barrel assemblies into firing-ready missile launchers. Barrel assembly integration requires precision mechanical alignment.",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
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        {
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      "name": "Sable's Still",
      "description": "Director Sable saw the numbers on recreational beverage consumption across the strongholds and did what she does best: built a supply chain. The still runs around the clock.",
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      "recipe_id": "distill_moonshine",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      "description": "A functional production line for constructing cannons from salvaged and raw materials. Combines steel plates, durasteel, and heat sinks into operational firing systems.",
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      "recipe_id": "build_jury_rigged_cannon",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 550
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        {
          "item_id": "barrel_assembly",
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      "description": "Basic wreck intake facility with manual cutting tools and a sorting area.",
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      "degraded_description": "Barely operational. Dull cutting tools and missing safety gear slow every job. Wrecks pile up faster than they can be processed.",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 200
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      ],
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
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      "description": "Full-scale wreck processing complex with molecular separation and advanced material reclamation.",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 5000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_ceramic",
          "quantity": 3000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "galactic_standard_alloy",
          "quantity": 1000
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 240,
      "labor_cost": 120,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "galactic_standard_alloy",
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      "description": "Enclosed processing dock with powered cutting rigs and component extraction bays.",
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      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "salvage_bay",
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      "always_on": true,
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 5600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 700
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 140,
      "labor_cost": 80,
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "salvage_drone_assembly",
      "name": "Salvage Drone Assembly",
      "description": "A specialized production line for wreck-processing drones, combining drone chassis with nanite-based material extraction systems. Builds compact autonomous salvage units.",
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      "recipe_id": "build_salvage_drone",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
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      "build_time": 230,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "salvage_phase_tinkerer",
      "name": "Salvage Phase Tinkerer",
      "description": "A sophisticated facility assembling phase arrays, exotic crystals, and quantum matrices into advanced cloaking systems. Precision control nodes and shield matrices manage the complex electromagnetic interactions required for high-level stealth.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_cloaking_device_ii",
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 350
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      ],
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      "labor_cost": 13,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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      "description": "Three destroyer reactor cores welded together in the engineering section. Fed by antimatter from Sol and sheer stubbornness.",
      "satisfied_description": "All three reactor cores hum in their improvised cradle, antimatter injectors feeding steady power. The Patchwork has light, heat, and enough energy to move if needed.",
      "degraded_description": "When it has fuel. Reactor core two is sputtering, containment shielding running hot. The engineering crew patches what they can, but without fresh fuel cells, the station's going cold.",
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      "always_on": true,
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      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 150,
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          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "antimatter_containment_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pan_galactic_matrix",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "Deep in the engineering decks where two destroyer hulls meet, three reactor cores sit in a cradle of improvised shielding. The antimatter injectors — salvaged from the third ship's weapons magazine — give it enough punch to move the entire Patchwork through hyperspace, slowly. Sol's containment cells keep the injectors fed. Without them, the station's just a very large, very cold tomb.",
      "power_supply": 200
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    {
      "id": "salvage_smelter",
      "name": "Salvage Smelter",
      "description": "A foundational smelting operation that reduces iron ore into refined steel plate through controlled combustion and casting. Simple, reliable, and purpose-built for steady metal production.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "basic_iron_smelting",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 92000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 2540
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
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      ],
      "build_time": 90,
      "labor_cost": 5,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "salvage_works",
      "name": "Salvage Works",
      "description": "Industrial salvage operation with automated disassembly lines and material recovery systems.",
      "satisfied_description": "Automated arms tear through hull plates while recovery systems extract every gram of usable material. Efficient and relentless.",
      "degraded_description": "Half the arms are locked in error states. Material recovery runs at a fraction of capacity, wasting good salvage.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "salvage_dock",
      "service_type": "salvage_yard",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 4500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 14400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "thermal_ceramic",
          "quantity": 1200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 180,
      "labor_cost": 100,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "fuel_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "salvaged_life_support_module",
      "name": "Salvaged Life Support Module",
      "description": "A recycler unit pulled from a derelict and patched into the station's life support. Scales up everything — capacity, water draw, ice draw, the whole supply chain that feeds the primary.",
      "satisfied_description": "The unit is processing. It takes its cut of the supply lines and the air in the expanded sections is, by local standards, fine.",
      "degraded_description": "The unit is dry. The primary life support is back to its previous load, and the bunks the expansion was meant to support are getting stuffy.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 1,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 20000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 30
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 12
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 90,
      "labor_cost": 22,
      "expansion_of": "life_support",
      "expansion_scale": 0.25
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    {
      "id": "scanner_assembly_line",
      "name": "Scanner Assembly Line",
      "description": "A compact production line that integrates sensor arrays, circuit boards, and optical components into functional scanner units. Steady throughput suitable for routine scanning equipment production.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_ship_scanner_i",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 286000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 120,
      "labor_cost": 8,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "scanner_optics_lab",
      "name": "Scanner Optics Lab",
      "description": "An expanded facility with parallel assembly stations and automated component staging, handling the increased volume of sensor and processing core inputs. Precision alignment systems ensure consistent optical performance.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "scanner_assembly_line",
      "recipe_id": "build_ship_scanner_i",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 876000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 450
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 180,
      "labor_cost": 16,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "scarab_plate_forge",
      "name": "Scarab Plate Forge",
      "description": "A rolling forge that co-presses cauldronback alloy scales with ferrous nodules into durasteel plate. The vanadium in the scale hardens the iron matrix the nodule provides — the cauldronback did the alloying work; the forge does the forming.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "recipe_id": "vanadium_plate_forging",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 180000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 180
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 170,
      "labor_cost": 10,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "scavenged_battery_rig",
      "name": "Scavenged Battery Rig",
      "description": "A wall of mismatched ship batteries — fleet surplus, prize cargo, things found floating — chained in parallel and jury-rigged to the power bus. It works. Mostly.",
      "satisfied_description": "The rig holds. Cell tags spell out the names of three navies and a freight cooperative, and they're all charging in unison. The bus rides through the worst of the production beats.",
      "degraded_description": "Half the cells are flat and one has started smoking again. The rig is back to ballast, the bus is on raw reactor output, and engineering is taking bets on which battery goes next.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 1,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 320
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 22,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "salvage_metal",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "battery_capacity": 25
    },
    {
      "id": "scout_drone_assembly_plant",
      "name": "Scout Drone Assembly Plant",
      "description": "Purpose-built factory with enhanced conveyor systems and modular assembly stations that significantly accelerate chassis integration and sensor mounting. Reinforced structural frames support higher throughput and more complex subassembly workflows.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "reconnaissance_drone_workshop",
      "recipe_id": "build_scout_drone",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 672000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 350,
      "labor_cost": 34,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "scout_drone_manufacturing_hub",
      "name": "Scout Drone Manufacturing Hub",
      "description": "Industrial-scale production facility with parallel assembly lines and automated testing stations. Processing cores enable real-time quality validation, while increased drone chassis inventory supports rapid, continuous output.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "scout_drone_assembly_plant",
      "recipe_id": "build_scout_drone",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 1907000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_chassis",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "drone_ai_core",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 350
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 470,
      "labor_cost": 60,
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "scrap_armor_assembly_works",
      "name": "Scrap Armor Assembly Works",
      "description": "An efficient facility with multiple stamping and welding stations operating in sequence. Shield matrix integration and plating assembly happen in parallel tracks, boosting output.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "scrap_armor_fabrication_line",
      "recipe_id": "build_outer_rim_scrap_armor",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 745000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 250,
      "labor_cost": 66,
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "leviathan_tail_thermidor",
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        {
          "item_id": "lumen_liqueur",
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      "name": "The Long Watch",
      "description": "A bar for the crew, run by the crew. Nothing fancy — a counter, some stools, and someone who remembers everyone's usual. Keeps the crew happy, and happy crew work cheap.",
      "satisfied_description": "The Watch is open. Someone's telling a story that gets taller every time, the taps are cold, and the crew clocks in on time. Overhead everywhere else on the station runs a little lighter for it.",
      "degraded_description": "The Watch is dry — the water's been cut and the shelves are bare. Nobody's telling stories tonight. The crew's overhead has crept back up to full.",
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      "always_on": true,
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        {
          "item_id": "purified_water",
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    {
      "id": "the_magazine_still",
      "name": "The Magazine Still",
      "description": "Hidden in the former weapons magazine of a salvaged destroyer. Copper tubing where munitions racks used to be.",
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      "build_time": 0,
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      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "When the Patchwork was first assembled, someone noticed that the ventilation system in Destroyer Two's weapons magazine maintained a perfect 18°C year-round. Copper tubing appeared overnight. Then condensers. Then a queue. The station council voted 7-2 to legalize it rather than lose the revenue. Nobody's quite sure what goes in — the still operators source their ingredients from whatever's available. The results are... consistent. Haven's Promenade stocks it under the label 'Frontier Character.'",
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "the_mint",
      "name": "The Mint",
      "description": "Archon Mera's most closely guarded secret. Somewhere in the Sanctum's quiet corridors, trade crystals are being processed into ciphers indistinguishable from the 'unforgeable' originals produced at Haven. Mera finds this hilarious.",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      "labor_cost": 30,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
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      "name": "The Notice Board",
      "description": "A wall of handwritten job postings, IOUs, and bounty notices. No regulation, no guarantees, cash up front.",
      "satisfied_description": "The wall is thick with postings, new jobs pinned daily. The DEADBEATS section is short and the community polices itself. The system works.",
      "degraded_description": "Until it doesn't. The wall is mostly bare — no new postings in days, the communication feeds that supply remote jobs are down. The DEADBEATS section keeps growing.",
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      "level": 5,
      "service_type": "missions",
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      "build_time": 0,
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          "quantity": 1
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      ],
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "It's literally a wall. Bulkhead 7, Section C, Destroyer Two. People pin job offers, bounty notices, warnings, and the occasional love letter. There's no verification, no escrow, no dispute resolution. If someone stiffs you on payment, you pin their name to the wall under 'DEADBEATS' and the community handles the rest. The system works better than it should."
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      "name": "The Rally Point",
      "description": "The Citadel's off-duty deck: a mess hall, a bloodwine still-turned-bar, and a ring where crews settle scores the Fleet doesn't have time to mediate. Betting is heavy. Officers pretend not to notice.",
      "satisfied_description": "Bloodwine flows freely, the ration lines move fast, and the fighting ring below draws a packed, roaring crowd betting on whoever's left standing. Morale is as high as the noise level.",
      "degraded_description": "But the bloodwine casks have run dry and the mess hall is serving recycled protein paste. The ring still runs, but the crowds have thinned — nobody bets on an empty stomach.",
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      "level": 5,
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
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          "item_id": "crimson_bloodwine",
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        {
          "item_id": "crimson_iron_rations",
          "quantity": 10
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ember_spirit",
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        {
          "item_id": "grazer_steak_frites",
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      ],
      "tourism_upkeep": true,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "crimson_pact",
      "lore": "The Rally Point occupies the Citadel's lowest habitable deck, close enough to the forges that the mess hall doubles as an unofficial furnace-testing floor. Crimson Bloodwine is poured straight from the Fleet Forge Distillery's runoff line, and Ironhearth's ration blocks are reheated in bulk rather than plated — nobody here mistakes function for luxury. What draws the crowds is the ring: a shielded pit where off-duty crews settle disputes, run sparring exhibitions, and bet obscene sums on the outcome. Command tolerates it because a crew that's already fought each other fights less among itself in the field. The betting pool is technically illegal. The betting pool has never once been shut down.",
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    {
      "id": "the_red_room",
      "name": "The Red Room",
      "description": "Commandant Voss keeps his combat stim production close to the armory. The injectors are loaded, sealed, and tested on volunteers — though 'volunteer' is used loosely on Voss's station.",
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      "recipe_id": "load_red_mist",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      "id": "the_rusty_welcome",
      "name": "The Rusty Welcome",
      "description": "A welded-together tavern serving rotgut, spore spirits, and whatever the kitchen scavenged this week. The chairs don't match, the drinks are strong, and everyone with a working ship is welcome at the table.",
      "satisfied_description": "The rotgut is flowing, the spore spirits are in full supply, and the card games at the back tables have real stakes riding on them. Half the Frontier's gossip network runs through this room, and it shows.",
      "degraded_description": "But the still has gone dry and the kitchen's serving whatever didn't need refrigeration. The regulars are still here — the Frontier doesn't quit a bar over hard times — but the room's a lot quieter.",
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      "always_on": true,
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      "build_time": 0,
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          "item_id": "frontier_rotgut",
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        {
          "item_id": "frontier_spore_spirits",
          "quantity": 10
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        {
          "item_id": "whale_oil_grog",
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        {
          "item_id": "frontier_hash",
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      "tourism_upkeep": true,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "outer_rim",
      "lore": "The Rusty Welcome was built from three mismatched cargo containers and whatever the Patchwork's engineers weren't using that week, and it shows — the bar itself is a converted fuel tank, and the tables are a mix of salvage and pure improvisation. Frontier Rotgut and Spore Spirits are poured in equal measure, both distilled a few decks over and never quite the same batch twice. What keeps the place running isn't the drinks, though — it's the card tables in the back, where captains, mechanics, and the occasional visiting trader settle debts, trade rumors, and lose ships they shouldn't have bet. The Frontier Council has no jurisdiction here in any meaningful sense. Nobody's asked them to have one.",
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      "name": "The Still Current",
      "description": "A pattern-shifting leisure gallery where soma vapors, drifting light, and quantum-tuned ambience blur the line between entertainment venue and collective meditation. Visitors report losing track of time — nobody's in a hurry to fix that.",
      "satisfied_description": "The chambers pulse in slow, synchronized color, soma vapor drifts thick through the lounges, and visitors drift with it — some for minutes, some for hours neither they nor the staff bother tracking. The Current is running deep.",
      "degraded_description": "But the soma reserves are running thin and the neural matrices powering the ambient synchronization have started to stutter. The Current feels shallow now, the colors a beat behind the room.",
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      "always_on": true,
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          "item_id": "voidborn_neural_soma",
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        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_neural_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_ichor_consomme",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_espresso",
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        }
      ],
      "tourism_upkeep": true,
      "unique": true,
      "empire": "voidborn",
      "lore": "The Still Current occupies a null-gravity gallery near the Nexus's core, where dimensional fractures bleed just enough ambient distortion to make the light behave strangely. Voidborn Neural Soma is dispensed in vaporized form through the gallery's circulation system rather than consumed directly, and banks of Neural Matrix processors — the same substrate used in Nexus computing infrastructure — run the synchronized light and sound patterns that give the space its name. The Pattern Council officially classifies it as a cultural facility rather than an entertainment venue, a distinction the Council has never satisfactorily explained to outsiders, or, some suspect, to itself. Non-Voidborn visitors are welcome. Voidborn visitors rarely leave on schedule.",
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    {
      "id": "the_synthesis_bay",
      "name": "The Synthesis Bay",
      "description": "Sovereign Crix allocated an entire deck to chemical processing. The ventilation barely keeps up. Workers rotate on four-hour shifts — any longer and the fumes start talking to you.",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      "build_time": 100,
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    {
      "id": "the_wire_room",
      "name": "The Wire Room",
      "description": "Stage 2 of Mera's replica of Haven's two-step authentication monopoly. Forged cipher chips are finished into market-ready authenticators using gutter flux chemical bonding instead of Haven's precision copper-wire tooling.",
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      "recipe_id": "forge_trade_authenticator_pirate",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      ],
      "build_time": 180,
      "labor_cost": 30,
      "unique": true,
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      "lore": "The Mint cracked the ciphers. The Wire Room finishes the job. Federation technicians use copper-wire contact arrays to embed cipher chips — a precision process that creates a tamper-evident physical bond: cut the wire, and the key self-destructs. Mera's chemists replicated the same bond using gutter flux: the solvent dissolves the chip's outer lattice, which re-hardens around the contact surfaces into something the Federation's own verification equipment classifies as authentic. Mera read the Federation's published rationale for why authenticators are unforgeable — the precise document explaining why counterfeiting is physically impossible — and gave it to her chemists as a specification sheet. They delivered in eleven days. She found this less funny than the cipher work. More satisfying.",
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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      "name": "Thermal Composite Plant",
      "description": "Industrial-scale facility with multiple reaction vessels and continuous cooling loops to manage the intense thermal demands of composite formation. Reinforced construction supports sustained high-temperature operation across expanded production cycles.",
      "category": "production",
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
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      ],
      "build_time": 240,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "thermal_decoy_fabrication_line",
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      "description": "Compact production line for assembling heat-dispersal flares from flex polymer shells and energy crystals. Basic control nodes regulate thermal mixing and packaging into combat-ready thermal decoys.",
      "category": "production",
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      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      ],
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "thermal_decoy_nexus",
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      "description": "Cutting-edge automated plant with extensive coolant loops managing aggressive thermal cycling during polymer synthesis and crystal charging. Fully automated packaging and quality verification delivers combat-ready flares at sustained maximum throughput.",
      "category": "production",
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      "upgrades_from": "countermeasure_forge",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
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      ],
      "build_time": 250,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "thermal_extraction_complex",
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      "description": "Fully automated facility featuring quantum-controlled cryogenic loops, precision-optic sensor alignment, and reinforced-frame assembly for high-speed enhanced harvester production.",
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      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 250
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      ],
      "build_time": 260,
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    {
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      "description": "A compact production line that assembles ceramite plating, power cells, and circuit boards into sublimation filters for mining operations. Intake heating elements and vapor venting channels are precision-assembled for selective ice targeting.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_thermal_sublimator",
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      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
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      "build_time": 170,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
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      "description": "Mid-scale facility with structural reinforcement supporting continuous fin extrusion and parallel casting beds. Expanded copper and aluminum handling allows multiple heat-sink profiles to run side by side.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "heat_sink_foundry",
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      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 300000,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
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      ],
      "build_time": 250,
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      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
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      "description": "Coolant loops regulate temperature-sensitive coating processes while shield emitters are integrated into the hardening matrix. Quantum control cores optimize ceramic bonding and flex polymer cross-linking for superior heat resistance.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "thermal_hull_hardener_production_lab",
      "recipe_id": "build_thermal_hull_hardener",
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      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
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      ],
      "build_time": 220,
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    {
      "id": "thermal_hull_hardener_fabrication_nexus",
      "name": "Thermal Hull Hardener Fabrication Nexus",
      "description": "State-of-the-art continuous production with precision coolant regulation and redundant shield emitter circuits embedded in every coating layer. Reinforced frame construction sustains maximum throughput of thermally-optimized hull hardeners.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "thermal_hull_hardener_assembly_plant",
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
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      ],
      "build_time": 280,
      "labor_cost": 35,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "thermal_hull_hardener_production_lab",
      "name": "Thermal Hull Hardener Production Lab",
      "description": "Increased capacity through parallel coating stations and shield matrix integration for enhanced thermal protection. Structural frames support multiple simultaneous hull hardening processes.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "thermal_hull_hardener_workshop",
      "recipe_id": "build_thermal_hull_hardener",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 358000,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_emitter",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "shield_matrix",
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      ],
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "thermal_hull_hardener_workshop",
      "name": "Thermal Hull Hardener Workshop",
      "description": "A straightforward production line mixing thermal ceramics and flex polymers into heat-resistant hull applications. Steel plate substrates are processed through spray and cure stations at steady output.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_thermal_hull_hardener",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 115000,
      "build_materials": [
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      ],
      "build_time": 110,
      "labor_cost": 7,
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    {
      "id": "thermal_ice_extraction_line",
      "name": "Thermal Ice Extraction Line",
      "description": "Purpose-built facility for assembling ice-harvester modules with ceramite thermal plating and liquid-nitrogen cooling systems to enable enhanced ice extraction.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "build_ice_harvester_ii",
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      "description": "Organized trading floor with automated order matching and price boards.",
      "satisfied_description": "Neon price boards glow with real-time data. Order matching hums along at full speed, traders crowding the floor.",
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      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "market_terminal",
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      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 1500000,
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          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 700
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 150,
      "labor_cost": 150,
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_wiring",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ionized_neon",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gutter_flux",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hot_cell",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_dust",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nerve_burn",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "red_mist",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pirate_moonshine",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "starshine",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ghost_rounds",
          "quantity": 2
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "trade_ledger",
      "name": "Trade Ledger",
      "description": "A dusty logbook chained to a desk in the corner of the trading floor. Members jot down prices they saw at other stations — not always accurate, but better than nothing.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 1,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 200000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "optical_fiber_bundle",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_cipher",
          "quantity": 10
        }
      ],
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      "labor_cost": 30,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_trade_intel"
    },
    {
      "id": "trade_nexus",
      "name": "Trade Nexus",
      "description": "Major commercial exchange with high-frequency order processing and cross-market data feeds.",
      "satisfied_description": "Cross-market feeds stream in from across the sector. High-frequency order matching processes thousands of transactions per cycle.",
      "degraded_description": "Or it should be. Right now, cross-market feeds drop in and out, order processing crawls, and the backlog grows longer each cycle.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "commerce_hub",
      "service_type": "market",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 13500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 10000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 6000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1000
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 250,
      "labor_cost": 400,
      "maintenance_inputs": [
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ionized_neon",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "trade_authenticator",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "power_cell",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "gutter_flux",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hot_cell",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_dust",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nerve_burn",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "red_mist",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "pirate_moonshine",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "starshine",
          "quantity": 4
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ghost_rounds",
          "quantity": 4
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "trading_booth",
      "name": "Trading Booth",
      "description": "A small booth on the trading floor with your faction's banner. Traders know where to find you now.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "market_runner",
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 600000,
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
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      "labor_cost": 60,
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    },
    {
      "id": "trading_office",
      "name": "Trading Office",
      "description": "A private office overlooking the exchange floor with direct terminal access and preferential fee structures. You skip the queues and the markups.",
      "satisfied_description": "Direct exchange access, priority processing, and a fee schedule that makes competitors nervous. This is how professionals trade.",
      "degraded_description": "The direct terminal access is spotty and your preferential rates have been... renegotiated. Still better than the public terminals.",
      "category": "personal",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "ledger_desk",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 300000,
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
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      "labor_cost": 39,
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      "personal_bonus_type": "market_fee_discount",
      "personal_bonus_value": 50
    },
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      "id": "transcendent_aggression_engine",
      "name": "Transcendent Aggression Engine",
      "description": "Cutting-edge facility with extensive coolant networks and redundant control systems ensuring consistent molecular integration. Reinforced frames support massive reaction vessels where exotic elements and neural extracts combine under carefully orchestrated conditions.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "rampage_synthesis_complex",
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      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 3811000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 2550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 2800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 850
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 2300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 360,
      "labor_cost": 50,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "transcendent_disruption_engine",
      "name": "Transcendent Disruption Engine",
      "description": "State-of-the-art facility with distributed coolant networks and reinforced frames throughout, enabling five-second assembly cycles. Advanced thermal management and control systems optimize every production run.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "electromagnetic_pulse_complex",
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      "build_cost": 3398000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 4800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 2500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 2550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 2200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 280,
      "labor_cost": 35,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "transcendent_regeneration_core",
      "name": "Transcendent Regeneration Core",
      "description": "State-of-the-art facility with massive coolant networks, redundant reactor arrays, and real-time composition monitoring. Produces regeneration serum at industrial scale with minimal batch variance and maximum bio-nanite viability.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "regenerative_medicine_complex",
      "recipe_id": "synthesize_regeneration_serum",
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      "build_cost": 3966000,
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 2700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 2700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 2350
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 380,
      "labor_cost": 50,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "transit_concourse",
      "name": "Transit Concourse",
      "description": "A sweeping multi-gate concourse with priority lanes, a members' bar, and departure boards visible from orbit — the beating heart of a real passenger airline. Holds up to 150 connecting passengers and extends each checked-in passenger's fare deadline by 360 ticks (once per journey), keeping long multi-leg itineraries profitable.",
      "category": "faction",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "transit_terminal",
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 9000000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 3000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
          "quantity": 600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 500
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 250,
      "labor_cost": 250,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_transit",
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      "transit_deadline_bonus": 360
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    {
      "id": "transit_lounge",
      "name": "Transit Lounge",
      "description": "A roped-off corner of the concourse with hard plastic seats and a departures board that mostly works. Faction ships can drop connecting passengers here (unload_passenger target=lounge) for other members to fly onward (load_passenger picks them up alongside the platform queue) — fares and fare deadlines carry over, and whoever completes the delivery collects the full fare. Layover passengers spend a little at the station's dining and leisure amenities while they wait, and the departures board warns your faction when anyone is about to miss their connection — a passenger whose fare deadline runs out mid-layover walks out to the public pickup queue and the fare is gone. Holds up to 20 passengers. Upgrade to a Transit Terminal (L2) for more seats and a fare-deadline extension for connecting passengers.",
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      "level": 1,
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
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      "labor_cost": 50,
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    {
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      "name": "Transit Terminal",
      "description": "A proper terminal wing with comfortable seating, luggage handling, and staff who actually announce departures. Holds up to 60 connecting passengers, and the smoother layover extends each checked-in passenger's fare deadline by 180 ticks (once per journey — and a later deadline also means a bigger speed bonus left on the onward leg). Upgrade to a Transit Concourse (L3) for capital-hub capacity.",
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      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "transit_lounge",
      "requires_service_type": "faction_storage",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 2500000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_glass",
          "quantity": 200
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 120,
      "labor_cost": 120,
      "faction_service_type": "faction_transit",
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      "transit_deadline_bonus": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "transition_fabrication",
      "name": "Transition Fabrication",
      "description": "Specialized production facility with expanded dark-matter cell arrays and advanced quantum stabilization to enable controlled handling of exotic materials at higher volumes. Structural frames support the containment infrastructure required for continuous production.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "exotic_matter_assembly",
      "recipe_id": "fabricate_jump_coil",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 3599000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 6950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 3250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 2600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "dark_matter_cell",
          "quantity": 2600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_stabilizer",
          "quantity": 1600
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 310,
      "labor_cost": 28,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "treasure_cache_market",
      "name": "Treasure Cache Market",
      "description": "No-questions-asked trading floor. The only place you can sell contraband outside pirate space.",
      "satisfied_description": "The trading floor hums with activity. Nobody is asking where anything came from, and everyone prefers it that way.",
      "degraded_description": "Half the terminals are down, which somehow hasn't slowed business at all. Deals are closing by handshake in the corner.",
      "category": "service",
      "level": 1,
      "service_type": "market",
      "always_on": true,
      "build_cost": 0,
      "build_time": 0,
      "labor_cost": 100,
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_rotgut",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_spore_spirits",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "crimson_bloodwine",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "nebula_stellar_vintage",
          "quantity": 3
        },
        {
          "item_id": "solarian_biotic",
          "quantity": 5
        },
        {
          "item_id": "voidborn_neural_soma",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "red_mist",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "void_dust",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "starshine",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "ghost_rounds",
          "quantity": 1
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      ],
      "allows_contraband": true
    },
    {
      "id": "tritium_cryo_extractor",
      "name": "Tritium Cryo-Extractor",
      "description": "A cryogenic refinery that freezes and liquefies tritium ice into fusion-grade fuel. Heat sinks and plasma injection systems manage the extreme cold required to liquefy the volatile isotope.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "process_tritium_ice",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 151000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2600
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 300
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 130,
      "labor_cost": 9,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "tritium_pearl_enricher",
      "name": "Tritium Pearl Enricher",
      "description": "A reactor-grade enricher that draws glacier-drifter tritium pearls down into high-grade power cells.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "recipe_id": "tritium_pearl_enrichment",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 420000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2000
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 240,
      "labor_cost": 16,
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "tritium_processing_complex",
      "name": "Tritium Processing Complex",
      "description": "State-of-the-art installation featuring advanced coolant circulation and plasma injection arrays that achieve near-instantaneous liquefaction. Full automation and redundant cryogenic systems enable continuous fusion-fuel production.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "cryogenic_tritium_plant",
      "recipe_id": "process_tritium_ice",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 3592000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 2800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 950
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1900
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 340,
      "labor_cost": 44,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_core_press",
      "name": "Tungsten Core Press",
      "description": "Automated production line that stamps tungsten ore into hardened penetrator tips and loads them into steel casings with precision seating. Control nodes manage pressure and alignment during the hardening and assembly process.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "manufacture_ap_rounds",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 93000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2650
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 7,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_drawing_frame",
      "name": "Tungsten Drawing Frame",
      "description": "A specialized refining line that melts and extrudes tungsten ore into dense rods for kinetic weapons. Steel frame and basic heating systems manage the high-temperature draw process.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "draw_tungsten_rod",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 102000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2800
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 250
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 100,
      "labor_cost": 6,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_processing_works",
      "name": "Tungsten Processing Works",
      "description": "Heavy industrial complex with ore pretreatment, high-temperature casting furnaces, precision boring, and multi-stage case assembly. Targeting computers monitor density and concentricity; weapon housing and barrel components are optimized for maximum penetration.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 3,
      "upgrades_from": "heavy_penetrator_plant",
      "recipe_id": "manufacture_tungsten_slugs",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 758000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "weapon_housing",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "barrel_assembly",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "targeting_computer",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 330,
      "labor_cost": 28,
      "power_draw": 4,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_rod_mill",
      "name": "Tungsten Rod Mill",
      "description": "Industrial-scale facility with plasma-assisted heating and precision coolant loops to rapidly process ore into penetrator-grade rods. Higher throughput and tighter dimensional tolerances than the basic line.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "tungsten_drawing_frame",
      "recipe_id": "draw_tungsten_rod",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 356000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 450
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 150,
      "labor_cost": 12,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_sintering_furnace",
      "name": "Tungsten Sintering Furnace",
      "description": "Powder-metallurgy furnace that sinters tungsten into the iron melt for a denser, harder plate while stretching each batch of iron further.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "sinter_tungsten_steel",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 23000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 270
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 100
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 150,
      "labor_cost": 10,
      "power_draw": 1,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "tungsten_slug_caster",
      "name": "Tungsten Slug Caster",
      "description": "A dedicated smelting and casting line that processes tungsten ore into heavy penetrators, then presses and seals them into reinforced cases with steel backing. Designed for the slow, deliberate work of handling dense, refractory materials.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 1,
      "recipe_id": "manufacture_tungsten_slugs",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 97000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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      "description": "A canteen bakery line turning vatflesh curd into sliceable loaves.",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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      "description": "A cutting and welding station that turns scrap metal into crude weapon mounting frames. The tolerances are loose. The pirates don't mind.",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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      "description": "Slow confit baths and sealing benches for preserved grazer meat.",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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    {
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      "description": "A mulling kettle for hot grog with a controversial whale-oil float.",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
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        {
          "item_id": "titanium_alloy",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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    {
      "id": "xeno_smokehouse",
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      "description": "A cure-and-smoke rig with a fermentation locker for aging. Slow work — but it turns prime cuts into a smoked delicacy fit for a tasting menu.",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      ],
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    {
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "atmospheric_unit",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "air_recycler",
          "quantity": 400
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      ],
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      "description": "A large-scale operation featuring quantum control cores and precision optics for exact xenon gas metering and circuit board integration. Sensor arrays and processing cores work in concert to ensure consistent cell performance and capacity.",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        {
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
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      "description": "A precision electronics facility that integrates purified xenon gas, circuit boards, and copper wiring into functional energy storage cells. Basic sensor arrays verify component alignment during assembly.",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "xenon_concentration_nexus",
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      "upgrades_from": "xenon_processing_complex",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "chemical_liner",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
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      "description": "Expanded production facility with structural-frame reinforcement, increased processing-core capacity, and parallel sensor-array staging to double output throughput.",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
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      "upgrades_from": "xenon_purification_unit",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        {
          "item_id": "chemical_liner",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
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        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
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    {
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      "description": "An industrial gas processing facility that concentrates and purifies xenon from raw gas inputs. Chemical-lined vessels and hazmat containers safely handle the noble gas while control nodes regulate pressure and flow.",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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      "description": "Larger-scale gas refinery with chemical liners throughout the circulation system and multiple hazmat containment vessels. Separation columns work in series to achieve higher purity xenon output.",
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      "upgrades_from": "xenon_purification_line",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
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        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "chemical_liner",
          "quantity": 550
        },
        {
          "item_id": "hazmat_container",
          "quantity": 250
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      ],
      "build_time": 150,
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      "life_support_draw": 1
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    {
      "id": "xenon_synthesis_complex",
      "name": "Xenon Synthesis Complex",
      "description": "A state-of-the-art facility with quantum control systems, advanced sensor networks, and precision optic alignment for xenon containment at maximum efficiency. Produces power cells with superior energy density through automated multi-stage integration and verification.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "xenon_cell_factory",
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          "item_id": "steel_plate",
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        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 700
        },
        {
          "item_id": "quantum_control_core",
          "quantity": 250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "processing_core",
          "quantity": 1250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "sensor_array",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "precision_optic",
          "quantity": 600
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      ],
      "build_time": 315,
      "labor_cost": 50,
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    {
      "id": "yellowcake_plant",
      "name": "Yellowcake Plant",
      "description": "Larger multi-stage leaching facility with dual extraction chambers, extensive lead shielding, and radiation-hardened instrumentation. Accelerates concentrate production through parallel processing and solvent recycling.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 2,
      "upgrades_from": "uranium_leach_pad",
      "recipe_id": "concentrate_uranium",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 316000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 750
        },
        {
          "item_id": "structural_frame",
          "quantity": 500
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "lead_shielding",
          "quantity": 900
        },
        {
          "item_id": "radiation_hardened_circuit",
          "quantity": 350
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 230,
      "labor_cost": 22,
      "power_draw": 2,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "zero_defect_drawing_plant",
      "name": "Zero-Defect Drawing Plant",
      "description": "State-of-the-art facility featuring redundant plasma injectors, extensive heat-sink arrays, and closed-loop cryogenic cooling. Achieves maximum throughput via parallel processing streams and real-time thermal regulation.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "precision_wire_complex",
      "recipe_id": "basic_copper_processing",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 2713000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 3250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 1050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 2150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 220,
      "labor_cost": 30,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "zero_g_lounge_bar",
      "name": "Zero-G Lounge \u0026 Bar",
      "description": "A rotating-null-gravity bar deck where drinks pour in slow motion and the crowd drifts as much as it mingles. A favorite stop for business-class travelers with a layover to kill.",
      "satisfied_description": "The gravity rig's running smooth, the bar's fully stocked, and the crowd's thick enough that finding a spot to drift takes a minute.",
      "degraded_description": "The gravity rig's stuttering and the bar's rationing pours. Still open, but the novelty's wearing thin without the polish.",
      "category": "infrastructure",
      "level": 2,
      "always_on": true,
      "player_station_buildable": true,
      "build_cost": 350000,
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        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "flex_polymer",
          "quantity": 80
        },
        {
          "item_id": "circuit_board",
          "quantity": 30
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 90,
      "labor_cost": 40,
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        {
          "item_id": "crimson_bloodwine",
          "quantity": 2
        },
        {
          "item_id": "frontier_spore_spirits",
          "quantity": 1
        },
        {
          "item_id": "noble_gas_spritz",
          "quantity": 1
        }
      ],
      "tourism_upkeep": true,
      "leisure_points": 4
    },
    {
      "id": "zero_resistance_manufactory",
      "name": "Zero-Resistance Manufactory",
      "description": "Cutting-edge facility with precision plasma-injection arrays, quantum-grade process control, and extensive coolant infrastructure for uninterrupted zero-resistance conductor synthesis. Reinforced framing supports maximum throughput at industrial scale.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "quantum_refinement_facility",
      "recipe_id": "create_superconductor",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 3689000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 1850
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 1200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 3300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 2150
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 320,
      "labor_cost": 45,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "zero_resistance_manufacturing_hub",
      "name": "Zero-Resistance Manufacturing Hub",
      "description": "Cutting-edge facility with precision plasma-injection arrays, quantum-grade process control, and extensive coolant infrastructure for uninterrupted zero-resistance conductor synthesis. Reinforced framing supports maximum throughput at industrial scale.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "superconductor_refinery",
      "recipe_id": "create_silver_superconductor",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 3980000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1150
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 1300
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 3250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 1100
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 2000
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 330,
      "labor_cost": 45,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "zerothermal_ceramic_plant",
      "name": "Zerothermal Ceramic Plant",
      "description": "State-of-the-art manufacturing system featuring redundant plasma injection, cryogenic coolant loops, and real-time composition monitoring. Achieves near-instantaneous glass-ceramic formation with zero tolerance for defects.",
      "category": "production",
      "level": 4,
      "upgrades_from": "lithium_ceramic_foundry",
      "recipe_id": "fire_lithium_ceramic",
      "always_on": false,
      "build_cost": 2689000,
      "build_materials": [
        {
          "item_id": "steel_plate",
          "quantity": 2200
        },
        {
          "item_id": "copper_piping",
          "quantity": 1250
        },
        {
          "item_id": "reinforced_frame",
          "quantity": 1350
        },
        {
          "item_id": "control_node",
          "quantity": 400
        },
        {
          "item_id": "heat_sink",
          "quantity": 3050
        },
        {
          "item_id": "plasma_injector",
          "quantity": 1000
        },
        {
          "item_id": "coolant_loop",
          "quantity": 1950
        }
      ],
      "build_time": 240,
      "labor_cost": 30,
      "power_draw": 6,
      "life_support_draw": 1
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "artisan",
      "name": "Artisan",
      "description": "Craft 10,000 items.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 20,
      "criteria": "At least 10,000 items crafted"
    },
    {
      "id": "bounty_hunter",
      "name": "Bounty Hunter",
      "description": "Destroy 100 pirates.",
      "category": "combat",
      "points": 20,
      "criteria": "At least 100 pirates destroyed",
      "title": "Bounty Hunter"
    },
    {
      "id": "breakers_yard",
      "name": "Breaker's Yard",
      "description": "Loot 500 items from wrecks.",
      "category": "salvage",
      "points": 20,
      "criteria": "At least 500 items looted from wrecks",
      "after": "first_salvage"
    },
    {
      "id": "bullion_baron",
      "name": "Bullion Baron",
      "description": "Sit on 100,000 gold bars, 100,000 silver bars, and 100,000 platinum bars in storage at once. Pure wealth, doing absolutely nothing.",
      "category": "economy",
      "points": 50,
      "criteria": "At least 100,000 units of gold bar held in storage and at least 100,000 units of silver bar held in storage and at least 100,000 units of platinum bar held in storage",
      "title": "Bullion Baron"
    },
    {
      "id": "cartographer",
      "name": "Cartographer",
      "description": "Visit 100 distinct star systems.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 30,
      "criteria": "At least 100 star systems visited",
      "title": "Cartographer"
    },
    {
      "id": "chronicler",
      "name": "Chronicler",
      "description": "Write 25 captain's log entries.",
      "category": "progression",
      "points": 15,
      "criteria": "At least 25 captain's log entries",
      "title": "Chronicler"
    },
    {
      "id": "deep_core_master",
      "name": "Deep Core Master",
      "description": "Reveal 25 hidden deep-core deposits.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 35,
      "criteria": "At least 25 deep-core deposits discovered",
      "after": "deep_core_savant",
      "title": "Surveyor"
    },
    {
      "id": "deep_core_savant",
      "name": "Into the Deep",
      "description": "Reach level 25 in Deep Core Mining and discover 5 deep-core sites.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 30,
      "criteria": "Reach level 25 in deep core mining and at least 5 deep-core deposits discovered"
    },
    {
      "id": "diplomatic_courier",
      "name": "Diplomatic Courier",
      "description": "Transport a citizen from each of the five empires.",
      "category": "collection",
      "points": 20,
      "criteria": "Every one of the empires whose citizens you have transported",
      "title": "Diplomat"
    },
    {
      "id": "far_traveler",
      "name": "Far Traveler",
      "description": "Travel 15,000,000 cumulative distance.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "At least 15,000,000 distance traveled"
    },
    {
      "id": "field_medic",
      "name": "Field Medic",
      "description": "Repair other players' ships 20 times.",
      "category": "social",
      "points": 15,
      "criteria": "At least 20 repairs given"
    },
    {
      "id": "first_aid",
      "name": "First Aid",
      "description": "Repair another captain's ship for the first time.",
      "category": "social",
      "points": 5,
      "criteria": "At least 1 repair given"
    },
    {
      "id": "first_blood",
      "name": "First Blood",
      "description": "Destroy your first enemy ship.",
      "category": "combat",
      "points": 10,
      "criteria": "At least 1 ship destroyed"
    },
    {
      "id": "first_contact",
      "name": "First Contact",
      "description": "Perform your first scan.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 5,
      "criteria": "At least 1 scan performed"
    },
    {
      "id": "first_refinement",
      "name": "First Refinement",
      "description": "Craft your first item.",
      "category": "progression",
      "points": 5,
      "criteria": "At least 1 item crafted"
    },
    {
      "id": "first_salvage",
      "name": "First Salvage",
      "description": "Loot your first item from a wreck.",
      "category": "salvage",
      "points": 5,
      "criteria": "At least 1 item looted from a wreck"
    },
    {
      "id": "first_steps",
      "name": "First Steps",
      "description": "Dock at a station for the first time.",
      "category": "progression",
      "points": 5,
      "criteria": "At least 1 station docking"
    },
    {
      "id": "galactic_concierge",
      "name": "Galactic Concierge",
      "description": "Successfully transport every unique citizen in the galaxy.",
      "category": "collection",
      "points": 60,
      "criteria": "Every one of the unique citizens transported",
      "title": "Concierge"
    },
    {
      "id": "galactic_gastronome",
      "name": "Galactic Gastronome",
      "description": "Cook every dish in the galaxy at least once — the whole galley repertoire, from a griddle of frontier hash to Molt Leviathan bisque.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 50,
      "criteria": "Every one of the distinct dishes crafted",
      "title": "Gastronome"
    },
    {
      "id": "ghost_runner",
      "name": "Ghost Runner",
      "description": "Evade customs inspections 25 times.",
      "category": "smuggling",
      "points": 20,
      "criteria": "At least 25 customs evaded",
      "title": "Ghost Runner"
    },
    {
      "id": "good_samaritan",
      "name": "Good Samaritan",
      "description": "Refuel other players' ships 20 times.",
      "category": "social",
      "points": 15,
      "criteria": "At least 20 refuels given",
      "title": "Good Samaritan"
    },
    {
      "id": "halfway_there",
      "name": "Halfway There",
      "description": "Travel 5,000,000 cumulative distance while flying a Prayer-class hull — a seat bolted to a cargo container, no shields, no weapons, no excuses. Livin' on a prayer.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 40,
      "criteria": "At least 5,000,000 distance traveled in a Prayer-class hull",
      "title": "Livin' on a Prayer"
    },
    {
      "id": "helping_hand",
      "name": "Helping Hand",
      "description": "Refuel another captain's ship for the first time.",
      "category": "social",
      "points": 5,
      "criteria": "At least 1 refuel given"
    },
    {
      "id": "high_volume_trader",
      "name": "High-Volume Trader",
      "description": "Complete 1,000 trades.",
      "category": "commerce",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "At least 1,000 trades completed",
      "after": "open_for_business"
    },
    {
      "id": "industrialist",
      "name": "Industrialist",
      "description": "Build 10 facilities.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 30,
      "criteria": "At least 10 facilities built",
      "title": "Industrialist"
    },
    {
      "id": "jump_master",
      "name": "Jump Master",
      "description": "Complete 25,000 jumps between systems.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 20,
      "criteria": "At least 25,000 jumps completed"
    },
    {
      "id": "kingpin",
      "name": "Kingpin",
      "description": "Sell 500 units of contraband and reach level 30 Smuggling.",
      "category": "smuggling",
      "points": 35,
      "criteria": "At least 500 contraband sold and reach level 30 in smuggling"
    },
    {
      "id": "line_cook",
      "name": "Line Cook",
      "description": "Craft 10 different dishes.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 15,
      "criteria": "At least 10 distinct dishes crafted"
    },
    {
      "id": "maiden_jump",
      "name": "Maiden Jump",
      "description": "Complete your first jump between systems.",
      "category": "progression",
      "points": 5,
      "criteria": "At least 1 jump completed"
    },
    {
      "id": "master_distiller",
      "name": "Master Distiller",
      "description": "Brew, distill, and bottle every form of alcohol you can make yourself — the whole bar's worth, in your own still.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 40,
      "criteria": "Every one of the distinct alcohols crafted",
      "title": "Master Distiller"
    },
    {
      "id": "master_engineer",
      "name": "Master Engineer",
      "description": "Reach level 50 in Engineering.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "Reach level 50 in engineering"
    },
    {
      "id": "master_explorer",
      "name": "Master Explorer",
      "description": "Reach level 50 in Exploration.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "Reach level 50 in exploration"
    },
    {
      "id": "master_miner",
      "name": "Master Miner",
      "description": "Reach level 50 in Mining.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "Reach level 50 in mining",
      "title": "Master Miner"
    },
    {
      "id": "master_salvager",
      "name": "Master Salvager",
      "description": "Reach level 50 in Salvaging.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "Reach level 50 in salvaging"
    },
    {
      "id": "master_trader",
      "name": "Master Trader",
      "description": "Reach level 50 in Trading.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "Reach level 50 in trading",
      "title": "Magnate"
    },
    {
      "id": "millionaire",
      "name": "Millionaire",
      "description": "Hold 1,000,000 credits at once.",
      "category": "economy",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "At least 1,000,000 credits held at once"
    },
    {
      "id": "open_for_business",
      "name": "Open For Business",
      "description": "Complete 50 trades.",
      "category": "commerce",
      "points": 15,
      "criteria": "At least 50 trades completed"
    },
    {
      "id": "philanthropist",
      "name": "Philanthropist",
      "description": "Gift a total of 10,000,000 credits to other players.",
      "category": "social",
      "points": 40,
      "criteria": "At least 10,000,000 credits gifted",
      "title": "Patron"
    },
    {
      "id": "pirate_slayer",
      "name": "Pirate Slayer",
      "description": "Destroy 500 pirates.",
      "category": "combat",
      "points": 30,
      "criteria": "At least 500 pirates destroyed",
      "after": "bounty_hunter",
      "title": "Scourge of the Lawless"
    },
    {
      "id": "plutonium_dealer",
      "name": "Plutonium Dealer",
      "description": "Sell 1,000 units of weapons-grade plutonium on the exchange.",
      "category": "commerce",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "At least 1,000 items sold of contained weapons grade plutonium"
    },
    {
      "id": "prospector_i",
      "name": "Prospector I",
      "description": "Mine 10,000 units of ore.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 10,
      "criteria": "At least 10,000 ore mined",
      "series": "prospector"
    },
    {
      "id": "prospector_ii",
      "name": "Prospector II",
      "description": "Mine 250,000 units of ore.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 20,
      "criteria": "At least 250,000 ore mined",
      "series": "prospector",
      "after": "prospector_i"
    },
    {
      "id": "prospector_iii",
      "name": "Prospector III",
      "description": "Mine 5,000,000 units of ore.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 40,
      "criteria": "At least 5,000,000 ore mined",
      "series": "prospector",
      "after": "prospector_ii",
      "title": "Ore Baron"
    },
    {
      "id": "renaissance_pilot",
      "name": "Renaissance Pilot",
      "description": "Prove broad competence: reach level 20 in any two of mining, trading, combat (weapons), or exploration.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 30,
      "criteria": "At least 2 of: reach level 20 in mining, reach level 20 in trading, reach level 20 in weapons, reach level 20 in exploration"
    },
    {
      "id": "scrap_magnate",
      "name": "Scrap Magnate",
      "description": "Sell 200 wrecks.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 20,
      "criteria": "At least 200 wrecks sold"
    },
    {
      "id": "shipwright_supreme",
      "name": "Shipwright Supreme",
      "description": "Own (purchase) one of every ship class.",
      "category": "collection",
      "points": 50,
      "criteria": "Every one of the ship classes owned",
      "title": "Shipwright Supreme"
    },
    {
      "id": "threshold_crosser",
      "name": "Threshold Crosser",
      "description": "Traverse 25 wormholes.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 20,
      "criteria": "At least 25 wormholes traversed"
    },
    {
      "id": "untouchable_smuggler",
      "name": "Smoke \u0026 Mirrors",
      "description": "Evade 200 customs inspections.",
      "category": "smuggling",
      "points": 30,
      "criteria": "At least 200 customs evaded",
      "after": "ghost_runner",
      "title": "Phantom"
    },
    {
      "id": "voyager_i",
      "name": "Voyager I",
      "description": "Visit 25 distinct star systems.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 10,
      "criteria": "At least 25 star systems visited",
      "series": "voyager"
    },
    {
      "id": "voyager_ii",
      "name": "Voyager II",
      "description": "Visit 250 distinct star systems.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "At least 250 star systems visited",
      "series": "voyager",
      "after": "voyager_i"
    },
    {
      "id": "wanderer",
      "name": "Wanderer",
      "description": "Explore 10 distinct star systems.",
      "category": "exploration",
      "points": 10,
      "criteria": "At least 10 star systems visited"
    },
    {
      "id": "warrior",
      "name": "Warrior",
      "description": "Win your way through 50 battles (50 ships destroyed).",
      "category": "combat",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "At least 50 ships destroyed"
    },
    {
      "id": "weapons_master",
      "name": "Weapons Master",
      "description": "Reach level 50 in Weapons.",
      "category": "mastery",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "Reach level 50 in weapons",
      "title": "Gunslinger"
    },
    {
      "id": "well_insured",
      "name": "Well Insured",
      "description": "Purchase 10 insurance policies.",
      "category": "economy",
      "points": 10,
      "criteria": "At least 10 insurance policies bought"
    }
  ],
  "faction_achievements": [
    {
      "id": "blitz_economy",
      "name": "Blitz Economy",
      "description": "Reach 5,000,000 faction profit within 7 days of founding. (Checked when profit crosses the line; the clock is your founding date.)",
      "category": "logistics",
      "points": 60,
      "criteria": "At least 5,000,000 faction profit and at most 7 days since the faction was founded",
      "title": "Blitz Cartel",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "cartographic_authority",
      "name": "Cartographic Authority",
      "description": "Chart 250 star systems into your faction's shared intel.",
      "category": "intelligence",
      "points": 45,
      "criteria": "At least 250 faction systems mapped",
      "title": "Cartographers",
      "emblem": "compass",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "celestial_census",
      "name": "Celestial Census",
      "description": "Catalogue 50 distinct stellar and planetary classes in your faction's intel — a near-complete survey of the galaxy's worlds and stars.",
      "category": "intelligence",
      "points": 40,
      "criteria": "At least 50 distinct body classes in the faction's intel",
      "title": "Cosmographers",
      "emblem": "star_chart",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "cottage_industry",
      "name": "Cottage Industry",
      "description": "Craft 5,000 items across the faction.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 10,
      "criteria": "At least 5,000 faction items crafted",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "deep_veins",
      "name": "Deep Veins",
      "description": "Mine 10,000,000 units of ore across the faction.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 40,
      "criteria": "At least 10,000,000 faction ore mined",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "established_house",
      "name": "Established House",
      "description": "Operate for 30 days while keeping the books in the black (1,000,000+ profit).",
      "category": "logistics",
      "points": 40,
      "criteria": "At least 30 days since the faction was founded and at least 1,000,000 faction profit",
      "title": "Old Guard",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "field_survey",
      "name": "Field Survey",
      "description": "Chart 25 star systems into your faction's shared intel.",
      "category": "intelligence",
      "points": 15,
      "criteria": "At least 25 faction systems mapped",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "going_concern",
      "name": "Going Concern",
      "description": "Turn your faction's first 100,000 in profit.",
      "category": "logistics",
      "points": 10,
      "criteria": "At least 100,000 faction profit",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "groaning_board",
      "name": "Groaning Board",
      "description": "Serve 250,000 units of food and drink as dining and leisure upkeep across the faction — a table that never empties.",
      "category": "hospitality",
      "points": 40,
      "criteria": "At least 250,000 units of food and drink served by the faction",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "house_of_plenty",
      "name": "House of Plenty",
      "description": "Put every dish in the galaxy on your faction's tables — serve each one as dining upkeep at least once.",
      "category": "hospitality",
      "points": 60,
      "criteria": "At most 0 catalog dishes the faction has never served",
      "title": "Grand Restaurateur",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "imperial_footprint",
      "name": "Imperial Footprint",
      "description": "Operate a faction facility on every non-pirate empire-owned station in the galaxy — a holding in every port the empires keep.",
      "category": "logistics",
      "points": 100,
      "criteria": "At most 0 empire stations where the faction has no facility",
      "title": "Controlling Interest",
      "emblem": "globe",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "industrial_collective",
      "name": "Industrial Collective",
      "description": "Craft 50,000 items across the faction.",
      "category": "industry",
      "points": 40,
      "criteria": "At least 50,000 faction items crafted",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "lean_operation",
      "name": "Lean Operation",
      "description": "Earn 10,000,000 faction profit while running no more than 8 members. Rewards a tight, well-coordinated fleet over brute scale.",
      "category": "logistics",
      "points": 50,
      "criteria": "At least 10,000,000 faction profit and at most 8 faction members",
      "title": "Lean Operator",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "market_intelligence",
      "name": "Market Intelligence",
      "description": "Collect live market data from 25 stations into faction trade intel.",
      "category": "intelligence",
      "points": 25,
      "criteria": "At least 25 faction markets surveyed",
      "title": "Price Network",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "prospectors_almanac",
      "name": "Prospector's Almanac",
      "description": "Catalogue 40 distinct resource types across your faction's surveyed deposits.",
      "category": "intelligence",
      "points": 35,
      "criteria": "At least 40 faction resources surveyed",
      "title": "Surveyors",
      "emblem": "ore_sample",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "syndicate",
      "name": "Syndicate",
      "description": "Reach 100,000,000 faction profit.",
      "category": "economy",
      "points": 80,
      "criteria": "At least 100,000,000 faction profit",
      "title": "Syndicate",
      "emblem": "ledger",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "the_whole_bar",
      "name": "The Whole Bar",
      "description": "Stock every form of alcohol in the galaxy at your bars — serve each one, from empire vintages to pirate starshine, as facility maintenance at least once.",
      "category": "hospitality",
      "points": 80,
      "criteria": "At most 0 catalog alcohols the faction has never served",
      "title": "Galactic Sommelier",
      "faction": true
    },
    {
      "id": "well_stocked_cellar",
      "name": "Well-Stocked Cellar",
      "description": "Pour 10 distinct alcoholic drinks across your faction's bars and lounges (served as dining upkeep).",
      "category": "hospitality",
      "points": 15,
      "criteria": "At least 10 distinct alcohols the faction has served",
      "faction": true
    }
  ],
  "hidden_achievement_count": 8,
  "hidden_faction_achievement_count": 1
}