# Lore Tips

###### tags: `Work-In-Progress` `Lore`

'Suit sensors were invented by a small clothiers' firm based on Teceti named Merita Textiles.'

'The Gorlex Marauders split up into three groups after the Inter-Corporate War. The 2nd Battlegroup is the largest of the three, with the strongest ties to the ACLF and forming a military dictatorship somewhere in the independent colonies of the Frontier. The second is the Ramzi Clique, which is a group of glorified pirates wielding Syndicate equipment and training. The last are the Hardliners, die-hard soldiers who've made a deal with the Devil (in the form of working for Cybersun) in order to keep working against Nanotrasen.'

'SolGov worked out how to create bluespace drives via decoding the Voynich Manuscript, a series of medieval-era documents in an unknown language that described a variety of foreign plants and animals.'

'Inteq Risk Management Group was founded after the Inter-Corporate War by abandoned Nanotrasen and Syndicate personnel.'

'Inteq Risk Management Group operates out of an extensively modified colony ship, simply referred to as 'The Mothership.' The IRMG Mothership serves as a mobile headquarters supporting many thousands of personnel and can even function as a drydock for several smaller vessels.'

'SolGov-licensed mercenaries, or Sonnensoldner, are required to report their activities to the Intelligenzkompanien for analysis and cataloguing. This intelligence-reporting requirement is a standard part of every Sonnensoldner contract.'

'The Grand Solar Orrery is the galaxy's largest orrery and a marvel of engineering, accurately tracking the movement of most of the galaxy's major stars through purely mechanical means. Solarian ships primarily use its data for bluespace navigation.'

'CMM-GOLD would like to remind you to pay your taxes.'

'The purchase and transport of dangerous xenofauna is strictly forbidden in CMM space.'

'The Colonial Minutemen first took their blue helmets from a Night of Fire-era evacuation ship. The equipment inside was critical in their first victory against the old Frontiersmen.'

'Equipment popular on the frontier is usually more resistant to bullets than to lasers.'

'Subjecting IPCs to electro-magnetic pulse effects can cause significant system damage and is widely considered to be bad manners.'

'The majority of trade in Syebenaltch is done through custom-order commissions or private contracts. Thus mass-produced goods are frowned upon by many native Rachnid.'

'Just before the Night of Fire, a number of slower-than-light ark ships made their exodus from Sol. While it's believed they were all lost to the Lepiton Storm, this has yet to be confirmed.'

'If you plan to go interstellar bar hopping, the Frontier is the right place to do it.'

'Due to the tight spaces and fragile walls found on most space vessels, melee combat training fills a useful niche for pirate and boarding crews.'

'While you can run DOOM on any positronic hardware; In many sectors it's a crime to run software on a positronic unit without its consent.'

'"Positronic" is a generic term referring to any hardware capable of running self-directing software continually and within legally approved specifications.'