Universal Translator

A Universal Translator is an automatic system that translates languages and converts them to the language of each person who hears them. It can also translate the language of the people on the ship and translate it for anyone receiving the communication. This only works on languages programmed into the system, so it will not work on aliens during first contact. A Linguistics specialist may translate the language and then program it into the system, but if they do a bad job the system may mistranslate what is being said. Such a device will work on aliens whose languages can’t be spoken by humanoid races, but not on those considered untranslateable. A Universal Translator takes up one unit of space on a ship and costs 12,000 credits.
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