Infinite Space Federation

Allies	A list of all the allies you may encounter in SAIS.
Artifacts	A list of all the artifacts you may collect in your journey.
Devices	A list of all the devices you may collect and use to good (or bad) effect in your journey.
Events	A list of all the events and strange occurances you may encounter.
Lifeforms	A list of all the non-sentient lifeforms you may collect in your journey.
Races	A list of all the sentient alien species you may encounter.
Secrets	Hidden features of the game.
Ships	A list of all the ships you may encounter.
Systems	A list of all the ship systems you may find.
Weapons	A list of all the deadly weapons you may find.

Allies

Ripcord O'Reilly: Ripcord is a veteran space ship test pilot. While testing a drive prototype a mishap hurled his deep space fighter across the sector. After your crew repairs his ship, Ripcord is happy to tag along.
Moon Marauder: Freebooters are terran space rogues; ruthless pirates who acquire saleable booty through less than scrupulous means. Often freebooters will act as escorts for a price, as this one has.
Slasher / Bloodfang: Garthan Star Mercs are renowned for their aggressive space combat tactics and lust for battle. They ask a high price for their services but their loyalty, once bought, is to the death.
Mephit: A noble Muktian pilot is stranded here. After his ship is repaired he joins you. It is understood that if other Muktians are encountered he will leave peacefully and rejoin his race.
Farseeker: A noble Muktian skipper and his crew are stranded here. After their ship is repaired they join you. It is understood that if other Muktians are encountered they will leave peacefully.
Sotapanna: A rogue Zorg pilot has offered his services as a mercenary. Zorg pilots have the singular ability to mentally fold space allowing their small craft to teleport during combat.
Kuti: A rogue Zorg helmsman has offered his services as a mercenary. Helmsmen can fold space around a ship group and move up to two parsecs to another star. A helmsman must rest for one week after folding.

Artifacts

Plastic Time Capsule: A transparent plastic crate. It contains a pair of peril-sensitive sunglasses, a towel and a hastily scrawled note: "So long and thanks for all the fish."
Titanium Time Capsule: A titanium canister with a magnetic lid. It contains several healing crystals and a boardgame called Kill Doctor Lucky.
Platinum Time Capsule: A platinum canister with a screw-top lid. It contains several laser viewcubes and a digital hyperwave advertisement: Only 2374.6 light years to Wall Drug
Brass Time Capsule: A brass urn with a royal seal. It contains an ancient terran book: The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. Van Vogt.
Cenotaph Of Rylex: A large metallic dais that projects a holographic image of a ninety meter tall white marble obelisk. Legend: It was created by the Dragon Queen of Zazamanque to honor her father, Lord Rylex.
Chromium Gong: A tall hollow chromium bell suspended by crystal chains. Legend: Used by Babulon at the Siege of Frunobulax. If struck three times it will summon the Five Fiery Furies.
Torc Of Babulon: A strangely engraved ebony headpiece inlaid with lapis and sard. Legend: Possesses all of the mystic powers of Babulon and bestows the gift of hypervision.
Mantle of Babulon: A fabulous moonsilk robe embroidered with spun gold. Legend: Babulon wore this grand robe of charisma while negotiating peace at the Siege Of Frunobulax.
Thrint Whistle: A plastic musical device resembling a blowfish, it is played like an ocarina. Legend: It is supposed to psionically summon something called a Thrint but this one doesn't seem to work.
Horloge Of Primordius: A celestial orrery; a brass and steel marvel of clockwork precision and perpetual motion. Legend: It calculates a planetary conjunction which heralds the coming of Primordius.
Marvelous Toy: This uncanny object transforms into any being's favorite toy when held. Legend: It was presented by Babulon to the young Prince Arcturus on his one hundred and fifth birthday.
Codex Of Primordius: A folio of scrolls frozen in time by an anti-time field. Legend: The Dark Curse Of Primordius lies dormant and hidden within its inscrutable cipher. Fortunately its time seal cannot be broken.
Alien 4D Sculpture: A bizarre tubular sculpture made of green beryl and polydimensional glass which defies all of the known laws of physics and art. Legend: One of Zabnoth's early works, titled "Mobius Tubes."
Zelulig Monocle: This singular amber cusp allows any sighted being to see through objects with X-rays. Legend: Prince Arcturus once used it to cheat the governor of Zelulig out of half of the planet's wealth.
Ancient Mummy: A well preserved ancient humanoid mummy. Legend: Discovered aeons ago, it has been hidden, stolen, traded and lost hundreds of times by hundreds of races.
Black Monolith: A black slab of unknown material measuring one meter thick, four meters wide and nine meters tall. Legend: Its origin and purpose are a total mystery.

Devices

Limited Vacuum Collapser: A doomsday bomb which destabilizes a limited area of space-time causing the vacuum of space itself to collapse into a lower energy state destroying everything within five light years.
Stellar Probe: Slightly larger than a starship torpedo and possessing a quantum flux microdrive, the stellar probe is used to scout a planet in another system. To activate simply select a star and use the probe.
Melodium Conograph: A small crystalline spike upon which can be spun an assortment of brass cones to produce beautiful music. Legend: Created by Mensius for Eledra, it was used to calm the young Prince Arcturus.
Timeless Bauble: A clear teardrop-shaped crystal on a slender golden chain. Legend: Trapped timelessly within the perfect gem is Lord Fomax, Eledra's would-be assassin.
Aethric Mirror: This intricately wrought gold and crystal mirror reflects images from other places. Legend: Eledra used this artifact to transpose her troops with those of her enemies.
Klakar Beacon: A white sphere encased within a spindly brass cage. Three oval buttons may be pressed to summon the exalted Klakar race of avians with a powerful hyperwave beacon.

Events

Devastated System: This system has been destroyed by its own exploding nova. No planets exist in orbit around the collapsed star. just a vast disk of cosmic debris.
Star Flare: Your ship is bombarded by charged particles from the flaring star. Alarms sound as systems short circuit.
Thief: A resourceful thief has ransacked the cargo hold. A quick search reveals that the clever filcher has escaped. The missing item is probably halfway across the sector by now.
Nova: This star is unstable. In one month it will become over one hundred times brighter. At that time an enormous thermonuclear explosion will occur which will utterly destroy the system.
Saboteur: Someone or something has ruthlessly sabotaged the ship's system. It has been completely destroyed and cannot be repaired. After a thorough search it is apparent that the saboteur has escaped.
Space Whales: Docile and majestic, these slow behemoths range throughout deep space in schools of up to a hundred whales or more. Sighting a school of space whales is a rare experience and is said to bring good luck.
Stasis Cone: Looking like a large mirror-sided cone, it contains objects by actually stopping time within its volume. A metallic button-like protrusion deactivates the stasis field.
Space Hulk: You have successfully boarded and secured a drifting space hulk of unknown origin. Many discoveries are logged while exploring its icy inner chambers including several unique items.
Gas Giant: Giant gas planets are not rare in the galaxy but ringed worlds such as this one are particularly spectacular havens for scientific study and tourism.

Lifeforms

Six Finned Bloater: A two meter long green aquatic creature. It exists in salt water as a fast swimmer and in the air as a slow floater. Six radial fins allow it to turn, ascend and descend.
Purple People Eater: This small voracious purple creature has wings, a singular horn growing from its head and one eye. It walks pigeon-toed, sneaks up on people and eats them.
Three Headed Threep: A unique humanoid mutant with three different heads. Dim-witted and pitiful, perhaps it can be enlisted as a servant aboard ship.
Snailopus: An omnivorous man-sized nautilus. When hungry its feeding tentacle emerges from its cone to entangle small creatures. It then absorbs their life force by emitting a weak osmotic field.
Crab Monster: A vicious blue land crab the size of a hovertaxi, it is thickly armored and has two large claws. Above its articulated mandibles, two tiny red eyes on stalks peer disturbingly in different directions.
Spider Bat: A truly hideous creature, half bat and half spider, over fifteen meters tall. It thrives in dark caves and crevices and will attack anything that gets caught in its funnel-like web-shrouded lair.
Tentacular Tiger: A large orange and gold striped feline with a mass of twitching tentacles instead of a head. This creature's appearance is at once unsettling and sublime.
Clingon: A small edible legume with hooked spines. Its stumpy cactus-like parent is a seed pod. Clingon pods burst open peppering everything within ten meters with hundreds of clingon nuts.
Crystal Fish: Existing in a tenuous balance between evolution and annihilation, these delicate aquatic creatures inhabit hot springs and sulphur fumaroles.
Megamoeba: A gigantic single-celled gelatinous blob which can dissolve and absorb most organic materials. It's pulsating nucleus is bioluminescent and glows pale yellow-green in darkness.
Plasma Worm: A weird energy creature native to starship systems and core temporal logic circuitry. A plasma worm eats troublesome stray probability eidolons and is classed as a very helpful temporal parasite.
Piranha Bee: A swarm of these black metallic insects can stun and devour a entire fuzzy lummox in seven seconds. Piranha bee honey is a potent aphrodisiac.
Serpent Vine: Purple vines which cover the ground with a twisted net of tendrils and shoots. Rubbery and prehensile, the thick tendrils seek water. The tender shoots produce blue fly-trap flowers.
Wind Bag: This mustard-colored thin-skinned balloon creature spends its entire life amongst the clouds. It stays aloft by producing its own helium.
Fuzzy Lummox: A large six-legged pachyderm with shaggy gray fur. A docile herbivore most suitable as a beast of burden.
Dragonette: A small flying lizard with scintillating green scales and lamp-like yellow eyes. It can exhale a fumious cloud of methane and nitrous oxide to cause its prey to rapidly become disoriented and drowsy.
Neon Mantis: A large carnivorous insect with translucent electric pink chitin, a triangular head, two compound eyes, leathery forewings, powerful jaws and two spiny front legs held together as if praying.
Dream Snake: This tiny gold and brown ringed serpent has a venomous bite which can induce intense dreams and nightmares, psychotic episodes and insanity.

Races

Terran: Average physically and mentally. Humans are considered by many of the galactic races to be an interstellar nuisance.; Demeanor: Aggressive and emotional.
Klakar: The noble Klakar race of avians seek trade not war. As the custodians of interstellar commerce they purvey goods to many races throughout the galaxy, as they have for a thousand generations.; Demeanor: Bold, proud and peaceful.
Zorg: A diminutive biped with an oversized hairless head. Physically weak, Zorg possess bizarre mental capabilities. A helmsman can fold space by rubbing its head with a charged iridium cranial wax.; Demeanor: Philosophical and disciplined.
Muktian: A highly intelligent yellow slug-like being. Muktians usually spend their long lives deep underground. The explorer caste have returned to the surface and recently developed space travel.; Demeanor: Fickle and cautious.
Garthan: A large carnivorous cold-blooded lizardoid, physically very strong and tough but somewhat slow. As warriors and slave lords, they demonstrate their violent tendencies with a religious fervor.; Demeanor: Aggressive and brutal.
Tan Ru: A man-sized sentient machine resembling a chitinous crab or insect. Physically weak but highly intelligent, they utilize a radio-electronic gestalt to share data.; Demeanor: Oblivious to biological life.
Urluquai: Urluquai are large luminescent hemispherical floaters who feed on fear and death. Physically weak, they are natural space navigators due to their aquatic heritage.; Demeanor: Malevolent and thoroughly evil.
Yellow Kawangi: The Kawangi are an ancient race of super-evolved predatory beings from another galaxy. The Yellow Kawangi caste are star system harvesters who wreak wanton destruction on a galactic scale.; Demeanor: Power-mad and insane.

Secrets

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Even If You Don't Have It, You Could Always Wish

The Yellow Kawangi Destroyer is equipped with two of the most powerful weapons in the game - the Nova Cannon, and the Graviton Disintegrator. You will not be able to find such awesome weapons floating around in space... however, if you could wish for it...
Defeating the Yellow Kawangi

Note that there are three different ways to destroy the Yellow Kawangi. One option is invariably made available in any game in which the Kawangi appear. A second and more direct method of deferating them may or may not be available to you. Finally, it is in fact possible to defeat a Yellow Kawangi Destroyer in ship-to-ship combat if you are fortunate enough to acquire sufficiently high-end equipment, but be advised that this is not a likely scenario.

Ships

Terran Fleet

Average physically and mentally. Humans are considered by many of the galactic races to be an interstellar nuisance.

Demeanor: Aggressive and emotional.

Terran Fighter
Terran Scout
Terran Corvette

Klakar Fleet

The noble Klakar race of avians seek trade not war. As the custodians of interstellar commerce they purvey goods to many races throughout the galaxy, as they have for a thousand generations.

Demeanor: Bold, proud and peaceful.

Klakar Trader

Garthan Fleet

A large carnivorous cold-blooded lizardoid, physically very strong and tough but somewhat slow. As warriors and slave lords, they demonstrate their violent tendencies with a religious fervor.

Demeanor: Aggressive and brutal.

Garthan Fighter
Garthan Corvette
Garthan Light Carrier

Muktian Fleet

A highly intelligent yellow slug-like being. Muktians usually spend their long lives deep underground. The explorer caste have returned to the surface and recently developed space travel.

Demeanor: Fickle and cautious.

Muktian Fighter
Muktian Corvette
Muktian Frigate

Tan Ru Fleet

A man-sized sentient machine resembling a chitinous crab or insect. Physically weak but highly intelligent, they utilize a radio-electronic gestalt to share data.

Demeanor: Oblivious to biological life.

Tan Ru Drone
Tan Ru Demolisher
Tan Ru Decimater

Urluquai Fleet

Urluquai are large luminescent hemispherical floaters who feed on fear and death. Physically weak, they are natural space navigators due to their aquatic heritage.

Demeanor: Malevolent and thoroughly evil.

Urluquai Fighter
Urluquai Corvette
Urluquai Deep Hunter

Zorg Fleet

A diminutive biped with an oversized hairless head. Physically weak, Zorg possess bizarre mental capabilities. A helmsman can fold space by rubbing its head with a charged iridium cranial wax.

Demeanor: Philosophical and disciplined.

Zorg Fighter
Zorg Corvette

Yellow Kawangi Fleet

The Kawangi are an ancient race of super-evolved predatory beings from another galaxy. The Yellow Kawangi caste are star system harvesters who wreak wanton destruction on a galactic scale.

Demeanor: Power-mad and insane.

Kawangi Destroyer

Misc Ships

Space Hulk

Systems

Thrusters

Chemical Rocket Thruster: A primitive chemical propulsion system used by all spacefaring races as a sub-lightspeed thruster.
Pulse Detonation Thruster: A high performance, low cost and very economical propulsion system that utilizes ignited plasma pulses.
Fusion Tube Thruster: A stable, powerful sub-lightspeed thruster that utilizes ambipolar diffusion and confined plasma.
Ion Impulsor Thruster: An advanced propulsion system that utilizes accelerated xenon ions to produce a strong impulsed thrust.
Reactionless Thruster: An advanced thruster system that creates a polarized field of gravitons ahead of a starship causing it to constantly fall forward in space at high sublight speeds.

Engines

Plutonium Fission Drive: A ship with this type of star drive moves at six times the speed of light.
Hydrogen Fusion Drive: A ship with this type of star drive moves at twelve times the speed of light.
Ion Flux Warp Drive: A ship with this type of star drive moves at sixteen times the speed of light.
Solar Flare Sail: A ship with this type of star drive moves at ten times the speed of light.
Graviton Implosion Drive: A ship with this type of star drive moves at twenty times the speed of light.
Solar Plasma Drive: A ship with this type of star drive moves at eight times the speed of light.
Ruby Laser Drive: A ship with this type of star drive moves at fourteen times the speed of light.
Nebular Hydrogen Drive: A ship with this type of star drive moves at six times the speed of light through both empty space and nebulae.
Nebular Sled Drive: A ship with this type of star drive moves at twelve times the speed of light through both empty space and nebulae.
Hyperdrive: A ship with this special type of star drive can teleport to any star system in the sector. It also requires nearly two months to recharge.

Shields

Structural Gluon Shield: An energy field that forms a gluon matrix by infusing itself within a ship's hull. It affords minimal shield protection.
Electron Matrix Shield: An electron matrix that surrounds a ship. It affords adequate shield protection against the rigors of space travel.
Proton Matrix Shield: A proton matrix bubble that completely surrounds a starship. It affords robust shield protection in most combat situations.
Temporal Flux Shield: A powerful energy field that surrounds a starship with an anti-time flux. It affords optimum shield protection.

Computers

Mnemonic Sequencer: Comprised of multiple banks of sequenced computers it attempts to calculate optimum battle strategies during combat.
Eidetic Matrix Bubble: A quasi-sentient four dimensional continuum simulator with near perfect spatial accuracy. It learns to improvise with battle experience.
Sardion Optimizer: A powerful systems enhancement module which replaces any conventional battle computer and continually optimizes the functions of weapon systems to maximum efficiency.

ECMs

Hyperwave Tele-Scrambler: Emits an undulating field of hyperwaves that can scramble telemetry signals and confuse guidance systems causing incoming missiles and torpedos to malfunction.
Signature Projector: Projects a duplicate starship energy ghost at a preselected point in space confounding even the most advanced weapon systems.

Sensors

Hyperwave Filter Array: Detects starships by their energy signatures at a range of two parsecs by filtering out star and galactic background noise with powerful hyperwave radar sweeps.
Continuum Renderer Array: With a longer range than its predecessor, its powerful antialiased hyperwave multiscans can detect the energy signatures of all starships within the sector.

Repair Units

Hyperfoam Injector: A hull sealant delivery system which automatically fills hull breaches with expansive iridium sponge foam.
Multibot Repair Drone: A semi-intelligent ambulatory repair module with multiple sensors, limbs and automatic tools, capable of operating in any situation.

Special Systems

Full Spectrum Analyzer: This powerful detector automatically scans a system for planets likely to have life, minerals or both. It can also measure a distant planet's mean temperature and determine its environment.
Plasma Coil Cloaker: Renders a starship invisible to most sensors by remodulating the ship's energy signature to match the background noise of space.

Weapons

Beam Weapons

Laser Beam: A short range tactical weapon that emits a thin beam of searing laser light.
Electron Accelerator Gun: A short range tactical weapon that emits a sparkling beam of charged particles. Also called a lightning gun.
Proton Phasor Beam: An advanced prototype short range weapon which emits a writhing beam of matter-rending protons.
Positron Scrambler Beam: A large medium range tactical weapon that rapidly rotates emitting a helical beam of atom-annihilating antimatter energy.
Tachyon Ray Gun: A large medium range tactical weapon that emits a devastating translucent beam of hypercharged tachyons.

Missiles

Impaler Missile Rack: With its medium range capability, high speed and mass, the guided impaler is designed to rupture vulnerable low grade starship hulls.
Fission Missile Rack: A medium range guided tactical missile that delivers a 20 kiloton plutonium fission explosion on impact.
Fission Torpedo Pod: A long range tactical torpedo that delivers a 50 kiloton plutonium fission explosion on impact.
Fusion Rocket Launcher: A small and fast medium range tactical missile that delivers a 10 megaton hydrogen fusion warhead.
Multi-Missile Launcher: An advanced long range guided tactical missile that delivers multiple 10 megaton hydrogen fusion warheads.

Projectile Weapons

Explosive Shell Chaingun: A super-cooled short range rapid fire machine gun that fires explosive armor penetrating shells.
Micrometeorite Gun: A short range tactical projectile weapon that magnetically charges and propels an expanding globule of particulated micrometeorite material.
Gauss Cannon: A medium range tactical gun that propels a large metal slug through magnetized electric coils at high velocity.
Plasma Blaster: A short range tactical gun that fires a disruptive bolt of super-heated plasma and charged particles.

Special Weapons

Particle Vortex Cannon: An advanced long range cannon, the PVC fires a whirling disk of detuned neutron particles which discharge powerful bolts of lightning at objects it passes. Eat Electric Death, alien scum!
Nova Cannon: Fires a large neutronium containment pod which detonates on impact with the force of a thousand hydrogen fusion bombs. A weapon of such destructive magnitude could only be conceived by mad scientists.
Graviton Disintegrator: A highly advanced medium range demolition beamer which emits a gyrating stream of graviton particles. There is no known defense against this frighteningly powerful weapon.

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