Technology

**Technology** in the *Valkyrie: Princess Of Arcadia* world varies greatly from nation to nation, particularly in development. An industrial revolution that rapidly advanced manufacturing and vehicular technology, allowing it to become more powerful than all the other nations.

## Technological Items

### Anti-Gravity Belt

Most commonly used by those brave enough to travel to the high-gravity environment, this belt uses a form of graviton levitation to essentially reduce gravitational pull. You can activate the belt as a swift action, and it operates until you spend another swift action to deactivate it or until it runs out of charges. You treat areas of extreme gravity as having high gravity, areas of high gravity as having standard gravity, and areas of standard gravity as having low gravity. This belt has no effect in areas that naturally have low gravity or zero gravity.

### Cranial Bomb

A cranial bomb is a bomb implanted at the base of the skull that explodes when remotely activated by a detonator’s signal. Though normally implanted, a cranial bomb can also be detonated outside of a body. If detonated while implanted, it deals with bludgeoning damage and points of fire damage.

### Implanted Weaponry

A single light melee weapon or one-handed firearm can be implanted in an arm or cybernetic arm. Melee weapons extend or retract as a swift action. Ranged weapons fire through a port on the palm or back of the wrist. Either type of weapon has statistics identical to its normal form. Firearms reload through a breach in the arm, increasing the reloading time of the weapon to a full-round action, or doubling reloading times that already take a full round or longer.

### Tool Kit

A tool kit is a set of specialized tools and devices not worth purchasing individually, but which as a collection are required for a given task or provide a circumstance bonus to certain skill checks.

### Tracking Bug

This tiny tracking device contains a miniaturized transponder that makes it easier to follow and locate quarry. Tracking bugs are usually sold on Absalom Station to private detective agencies and suspicious family members. You can hide a tracking bug on a vehicle or other conveyance as a standard action with a successful sleight of hand check opposed by the perception checks of anyone searching the vehicle.

### Wingsuit

A wingsuit consists of a tight-fitting overall with smart-fabric membranes stretched between the arms and legs. When wearing a wingsuit, you can retract or deploy the membranes as a swift action. When the membranes are deployed, your falling speed is slowed, reducing the maximum damage you could take from a fall and you act as if you deliberately jumped instead.

## Vehicles

### Airship

This exotic and expensive vehicle is held aloft by a massive balloon connected by chain to a ship that hangs below. This ship is similar to a sailing ship, complete with an open top, and is propelled by an easily controlled magical engine. Passengers and cargo are carried in the ship.

### Communication System

A personal communication unit is pocket-sized device that combines a minor portable computer and a cellular communication device, allowing wireless communication with other comm units in both audio- and text-based formats at planetary range

### Mobile Command Center

Mobile bases are designed to traverse unknown or unfriendly ground and set up a modular outpost to tend to local needs. They can be refitted for technical work, surveillance and prospecting, medical support, or a dozen other roles as needed, and can be swiftly packed up and refitted in the field. The built-in weapon systems are often removed if local wildlife and denizens aren’t expected to be hostile.

### Motorcycle

This two-wheeled, open vehicle is very common on the streets of many urban areas.

### Skyboat

Built with lighter-than-air ballast chambers and a bare minimum of hover technology, skyboats rely on sails to soar through the clouds of Liavara, leaving virtually no chemical or energy waste to disturb the delicate ecosystem.