Quartermaster

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Quartermaster
Quartermaster	Difficulty: Medium Requirements: None Access Level: Cargo Bay, Maintenance Additional Roleplay Access Level: None Supervisors: Chief Engineer, Captain Subordinates: None Responsibilities: Order and distribute supply crates if they are needed, buy goods from and/or sell goods to the shipping market to turn a profit Guides: This is the guide.

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The Cargo Bay, in all its glory.

The Cargo Bay, in all its glory.

The Cargo Bay, in all its glory.

The Cargo Bay, in all its glory.

The Cargo Bay, in all its glory.

The Cargo Bay, in all its glory.

The Cargo Bay, in all its glory.

You're a Quartermaster! Let's make money!

Your 'official' job capacity is to take orders from the crew for such things as medicines, bots, and weapons. In practice, you often get a few orders early on from people looking for materials and then are mostly free to do what you want.

An active quartermaster will typically account for well over 90% of the crew's final score at the end of the round. They are also one of the few offices on the station that actually turn a profit on a regular basis, so if the station ends up in the black, it's often creditable to the QMs. While relatively meaningless in the long run, it's still kind of satisfying to see that while the rest of the crew was preoccupied with such important things as passing out in a pool of vomit, wearing their own ass as a hat, or trying and failing to strangle a chimpanzee, you've made the entire station worth it.

Buy! Sell!

See that orange console, the image of which you see above? Time to get acquainted with it. You're going to be spending a large amount of time glued to it. Go ahead, click on it! You'll get some options:

• Order Items - Shows a list of commodities. Clicking the link will bring up a comment box, the crate will be tagged with whatever you enter here. Handy for keeping track of requests.
• Contact CDC - Allows for NPC-controlled pathology research. More on that in this section of the Guide to Pathology. Useless at the moment (and indefinitely) since pathology is disabled. Cannot be used for grave fever, Avian Flu, or any of the other diseases caused by the viruses system.
• View Requests - See the request console outside the QM's office? Those requests go here. Clicking "Approve" works just like ordering things from the regular order screen. "Remove" will deny the request, and "Clear list" will wipe all requests. Labelling the crate with the name of the person who ordered it can help you keep track of them.
• View Order History - Pretty self explanatory and not terribly helpful since you get a PDA notification every time you or another QM buys something.
• View Shipping Market - This shows you the current prices of various commodities. Things marked as "HOT!" are worth significantly more right now then they usually are on the market. Ideally, you'll be tracking down what's in high demand and sell it off for loads of dough.
• Contact Traders - Multiple traders will be available after each market shift. Contact them here.
  • After ordering things from a trader, go back one step to tell them to actually send the crate.
  • To sell to a trader, tag the crate with a barcode from the QM Barcode computer.
• Requisitions - Off-station buyers will put out open-market requisition contracts, which you can fulfill with specific items for a listed payout. The rewards can be cash, items, or a combination of both. These rotate with each market shift, but you can pin one contract at a time to keep it available through rotations, so long as it isn't time-sensitive.
• Rockbox Controls - Lets you control fees on ores sold from the Miners' RockBox through the fabricators and manufacturers. You can control percentage and minimum fee taken per ore, which go to the shipping budget. You can also pay 10 000 credits for a premium service; this waives the 5 credit transaction fee RockBox itself takes (which doesn't go to the station budget), so you can take it for yourself.

Your orders will come flying through space, landing on the lower east conveyor belt in the supply dock. Turn on the conveyor belts to roll them into the QM office proper. The blast doors should automatically open for crates to come in, but they close after a while. If a crate hits the blast door while it is closed, further crates may pile up on the belt and cause a jam. Get a spacesuit and jetpack or a space pod to clear the jam and let crates keep coming in.

To sell items, just load them (in a crate) on the upper east conveyor belt and turn it on. It will be catapulted into space and sold for sweet cash. Somehow. Don't forget to tag the crate if you're responding to a trade offer, or its contents will just be sold on the public market instead.

Shipping and Receiving

If you get an order from a crew member who isn't at your office ready to take the crate then you'll have to mail it to them. You have a couple of ways to send things around the ship/station, each with their upsides and downsides. On all maps, you have a cargo transporter, and depending on the map, you can also use a MULEBot, Belt Hell, and/or the Cargo Carousel. And of course, you can always just pull stuff to its destination yourself. Play around with them, and select the best one based on the situation.

Cargo Transporter

Compatible with closets/lockers, crates alien artifacts, and a few other random things. There aren't too many cargo pads around, but teleportation works almost instantly. Generally, It's used by miners miners to send things back to the station and by scientists to send artifacts to you to sell.

Available Destinations

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• Artlab
• Robotics
• Mineral Magnet
• Electronics/Mechanics
• Cargo Bay
• Main Pod Bay (The one near Engineering.)
• Hydroponics (In the backroom.)
• Mining Outpost (Adjacent to the fabricators.)

• Artlab
• Robotics
• Mineral Magnet (In the little room with the mineral magnet computer)
• Electronics/Mechanics
• Cargo Bay
• Pod Bay (The one near the market.)
• Hydroponics (In the backroom.)
• Mining Outpost (Adjacent to the fabricators.)

• Artlab
• Robotics
• Mineral Magnet
• Mechanics
• Cargo Bay
• Aft Pod Bay (The one in the Cargo Bay)
• Main Hangar
• Security Pod Bay
• Hydroponics (In the backroom.)
• Mining Outpost (Adjacent to the fabricators.)

• Artlab
• Robotics
• Mineral Magnet
• Mechanics
• Cargo Bay
• Main Hangar
• Security Pod Bay
• Hydroponics (In the backroom.)
• Mining Outpost (Adjacent to the fabricators.)

• Security Pod Bay
• Cargo Bay
• Mechanics
• Catering Hangar
• Artifact Lab
• Research Outpost Pod Bay
• Robotics
• Mineral Magnet

The MULE

The MULEbot is one of the few ways to quickly transport large amounts of goods across the station. Not every map has one, and while it is possible to order one if your workplace lacks one, there is no guarantee the map's system of navigational beacons (which are also used by other robots) was designed for MULE use. Most maps in rotation at this point have MULE beacons. If cargo starts with a MULE, it has beacons for it.

The MULE can carry any kind of cargo. Simply click-drag the sprite of the object object of interest onto the MULEbot's sprite. To actually send it somewhere, go onto your PDA and find the "MULE Bot Control" app. Choose the correct MULE if there multiple, select a destination (you may need to Rescan to get a valid list), and send it away!

Hovering your mouse cursor over the MULEbot brings up an interface to turn the machine on and off, and it is possible to click on the device with a screwdriver, opening the panel up for some hacking. Through hacking, it is possible to tune the motor to make the MULEbot go faster, and a devious QM can remove the MULE's traffic safety routines for nefarious purposes.

The MULEbot has historically been somewhat finicky, and its pathfinding artificial intelligence tends towards artificial stupidity at times. Judicious Rescan-ing of locations and turning the thing on and off sometimes help get it going along.

Available Destinations

This page is under construction. The following information may be incomplete. Locations need to be updated/added for Clarion, Horizon, and Oshan, in accordance with the merging of PR #8218, PR #8152, and PR #7797

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There are a number of named locations for the MULE to go:

• Arrivals (Outside the Security Checkpoint)
• Cafeteria (Near the cigarette machine)
• Bridge (Actually Customs)
• Catering (In kitchen maintenance, accessible by both the chef and bartender.)
• Chapel (In the main hallway outside the chapel.)
• Crew Quarters A
• Engineering (Outside the control room.)
• Escape Hallway
• Hydroponics (In the foyer.)
• Medbay (The pharmacy room with the floor health scanners)
• Pod Bay (In the lower main hangar)
• QM #1 (Default home beacon for the starting MULE.)
• QM #2 (Right next to QM#1)
• Research (Near Chemistry)
• Security (Next to Beepsky's House, near the Solitary Cells)
• Tool Storage

In addition to the named locations are numerous mysteriously unlabeled areas.

• buddytime-Bar
• 1-Fore Primary Hallway, close to the Teleporter Room
• 2-Arrivals, outside Crew Quarters A
• 3-Arrivals, where the Space Station 13 sign is
• 4-Outside Chapel
• 6-Outside Arcade and Barbershop
• 7-Upper Aft Primary Hallway, above the main hangar and Engineering
• 8-Lower Aft Primary Hallway, near Emergency Storage A
• 9-Outside Telescience
• 10-Outside Chemistry
• 11-Science Pod Bay
• 12-Inside Medbay
• 13-Medbay Lobby
• 14-Outside the Robot Depot and The Cloner
• 15-Right Public Market, outside the bathroom
• 16-Left Public Market
• 17-Escape Arm
• 18-Lower Escape Arm, where the Belt Hell station is
• 19-Upper Escape Arm, near the Security Checkpoint
• 20-Lower Fore Primary Hallway, near the Brig Visitor Entrance

There are a number of named locations for the MULE to go

• Catering (In kitchen maintenance, accessible by both the chef and bartender.)
• Chapel (In the main hallway outside the chapel.)
• Courtroom (In the bridge foyer.)
• Crew Quarters
• Engineering (In the control room.)
• Escape Hallway
• Hydroponics (In the foyer.)
• Market
• Medbay (Actually right next to robotics.)
• Pod Bay (In the main hangar.)
• QM #1 (Default home beacon for the starting MULE.)
• QM #2
• Research (Near the RD's office.)
• Security (In security proper.)
• Tool Storage

Destiny has no MULE beacons whatsoever. This is intentional.

There are a number of named locations for the MULE to go

• Engineering (Right below the thermo-electric generator itself)
• QM (Center of the room with the conveyor belts, rather than the warehouse of crates)
• Morgue
• Medbay (Between the medicine storage room and Operating Theatre)
• Security (In the lobby area, above the Interrogation Room)
• Medbay Lobby (Above Cryo)
• Depot (Actually above its northern entrance)
• Research (Top center, southeast of the RD's office)
• Bridge (Actually above its northern entrance)
• Customs (In front of the desk)
• Bathroom
• Crew Lounge (area above the Arcade)
• Sec Pod Bay
• Pod Bay (aka Main Hangar or Civilian Pod Bay)
• Escape (specifically above the Checkpoint)
• Command Quarters (specifically next to the Medical Director's unit)
• Arrivals
• Quarters West (actually west of the Aviary)
• Quarters Eastboard (actually east of the Aviary)
• Aviary (specifically in the middle, below the table)

Oshan Laboratory deliberately forgoes MULEBots. Part of the reasoning is to avoid flooding, a bigger part of it is because the MULEBot's god-awful pathfinding problems would only be exacerbated on a map as large as Oshan. There's still beacons and such for the GuardBuddies and Securitrons, but they're not meant to be used by MULEBots.

TBA

Belt Hell

Belt Hell is an affectionate name for the system of conveyor belts which can distribute items around the station. This isn't limited to the quartermaster, and can in fact be used as a personal transport system by daring crew members.

It is employed by using the barcode computer that's standing around at all conveyor belt stations. This will let you pick from several destinations, and print a barcode sticker. Put that sticker on whatever you wish to send (manually or by using drag & drop), and push it onto the conveyor belt to send it on a bumpy ride.

Available Destinations

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• Arrivals: North of the arrivals shuttle.
• Catering: North of the kitchen.
• Disposals: Stuff sent here will be ground to scrap. You were warned.
• Engine: Inside engineering proper.
• Escape: South of the escape shuttle.
• Export: This will sell items in a crate at the current market rate.
• Med-Sci: South of Research.
• Security: At the room left of the interrogation room.
• QM: Properly inside the QM's haunts.

• Airbridge(Right next to the main airbridge, near Medbay.)
• Cafeteria (Across the hall from the bar, close to the Pool.)
• Catering (Between kitchen maintenance and hydroponics.)
• Disposals (Stuff sent here will be ground to scrap. You were warned.)
• Engine (Inside engineering proper.)
• EVA (In a maintenance corridor near EVA.)
• Medical-Science (Between medbay's pharmacy and chemistry.)
• QM (Properly inside the QM's haunts.)
• Security (At the northern end of the brig.)

Cargo Carousel

The cargo carousel is a huge conveyor belt system that runs around the inner rim of Oshan Laboratory, with some parts within the station's maintenance tunnels and other parts on the open seafloor, with plastic flaps carefully blocking floodwater where the belt enters and exits the sea. Unlike Belt Hell, which violently launches shipments via multiple stations of conveyor belt mass drivers, the carousel rather breezily carries them to their destinations on one continuous loop, like a lazy river or those luggage carousels you see at airports. Enterprising engineers may redirect power to the carousel power unit to speed up the system. But since the carousel only has two destinations and both are not very helpful, it almost never gets used.

Sending large goods along via the cargo carousel is much like sending them via Belt Hell on other stations. You use a barcode computer at one of the carousel locations to print out a sticker with the destination of interest, stick it onto whatever you want to ship, and then push it onto the conveyor belt for a lazy ride under the ocean.

Available Destinations

Oshan

• North: Roughly northwestern part of the station, near the Chapel and Tool Storage.
• South: Southeastern part of the station, located between Customs and the Info Office.

Making Money

When you're more comfortable in your station, consider asking people to get things for you that are doing well on the market If they aren't willing to work for free, have them but a barcode with their ID tag on the crates of goods to split the profits 50/50 between the shipping budget and their own bank account. Miners, for example, rarely have a use for certain rare minerals like syreline, cobryl, and gold. These ores tend to fetch high prices on the market, so ask the miners to set up the rockbox to sell so that you can buy ores from them to resell on the open market. Botanists will also sometimes grow way too much weed and you can shore up your bank account by becoming an intergalactic dank dealer.

If there aren't any botanists, don't fret. You can start your own grow-op! Just order yourself a few Hydroponics Starter crates and procure yourself some seeds. Jazz Lounge usually has a few cannabis seeds hidden under some scrubs, and there's an seed dispenser in an abandoned satellite a good distance south of the Mining Outpost. If there's an AI online, you can also simply ask it to let you into Hydroponics for seeds.

Occasionally, something will be doing well on the market that you can get from buying a crate. In this case, you can buy crates of goods and immediately sell them for more than you bought them for. When this happens, your profits are only limited by how fast you can move crates. Mechanics may be able to set up a mechanism for you to sell the inbound crates much faster than you could manually.

Other sources of money

NPC traders will occasionally offer you trades. Most of these are useless, but occasionally you will get offers that will pay for material at much more than market price. These can occasionally make you 100,000 credits less than 10 minutes into the round.

While you can reach some traders with the console, NPC traders don't purely exist online. Take your space pod and go exploring for others!

Also, the AI, Captain, and Head of Personnel have access to the station's bankrolls and can shore up the Shipping budget if things go wrong for whatever reason. Assuming, of course, a treacherous captain hasn't spent the entire budget making himself into a green death-commando with an entire armory on his back, or some Traitor isn't demanding the whole budget as ransom money.

Particularly ingenious engineers may be kind enough to divert unused power to the Power Transmission Laser, creating a gigantic laser beam to some strange place in space willing to pay to have a massive laser beam pointed at them. If this happens, rejoice, but not right away. Part of the money earned by the PTL goes to the Chief Engineer's and their Engineer underlings' bank accounts, while the rest goes to the station payroll. If the Head of Personnel/Captain are around, you can ask them to transfer the money to the shipping budget.

In addition, philanthropic crew members (including yourself) can donate to the shipping budget when they access a Supply Request Console and pick Request Supply Points, at a rate of one supply point per credit donated. Not too useful considering how it's rarely used, but, hey, it's the thought that counts.

Other ways to waste money

NPC traders will also occasionally offer to sell you things. These trades are usually overpriced garbage, but certain ones can be useful. Check in on the randomly-generated traders each market shift, as they may be selling something rare and valuable.

Funding gimmicks or insanity is also an acceptable way to use your fat stacks of cash, particularly if doing so in spite. If the Head of Security orders you to buy a million guns to outfit his personal army, consider ordering a shuttle full of liquor instead and telling the Head of Security that his team will still be loaded.

The Price is Right

In the Contact Traders tab on the QM console, you can buy and sell from various space traders that come by the station. There are five consistent traders that have profile pictures and similar sales each shift, and a variety of procedurally generated traders that have a generic profile picture and random name and trades. The consistent traders often will not be perfectly clear about what they are selling. To further complicate matters, some trades may represent multiple possible outcomes, and what you will get cannot be determined until you purchase their item.

Traders can be haggled with in order to get better prices for buying or selling. Each trader has a preset amount of deviation from the current price that they're willing to tolerate before rejecting your offer, and a range of possible patience values that represent how many haggle attempts they will tolerate before getting frustrated and refusing to trade with you. Traders will haggle you back, so the actual value of the offer after haggling will be somewhere in the middle of the original price and your offer, favoring them. All traders have a "final offer" line that they will say when they are out of patience, but they may try to fake you out by using this line when they are still willing to haggle more. Each trader has a chance of arriving and leaving every time the market changes, and a maximum number of item types that they can buy and sell. All traders will buy and sell at least one item every market shift.

Generic Trader

These are random space merchants that can have a variety of stuff. They are always honest and often have helpful or profitable trades.

Generic traders have a price change tolerance of 20% and a patience between 4 and 20. They have a 45% chance of arriving each market shift and a 66% chance of leaving each market shift. They buy a maximum of 5 items at once and sell a maximum of 4 items at once. Their final offer line is "This is my final offer. Can't do better than this."

Buys

Item	Initial Offer
Ore	60 - 230
Food	50 - 150
Medical Herbs	75 - 200
Electrical Components	20 - 100
Ship/Pod Components	400 - 700
Jumpsuits	135 - 210
Furniture Parts	100 - 350
Writing Utensils	80 - 150

Sells

Offer Name	Initial Offer	Item	Alternate Items	Number in Stock
Sheet Metal	5 - 10	Steel Sheet	N/A	∞
RCD Charges	200 - 700	Compressed Matter Cartridge	N/A	25
Cloth Fabric	60 - 70	Cotton Fabric	N/A	∞
Telecrystals	900 - 1200	Telecrystal	N/A	20
Glowsticks	8 - 20	Emergency Glowstick	N/A	100
Emergency Gas Masks	200 - 500	Gas Mask	N/A	25
Monkeys	250 - 1000	Monkey	N/A	4
Wolf Pack Ringtone Cartridge	700000 - 900000	WOLF PACK ULTIMATE PRO ringtone cartridge	N/A	1

Gragg

Gragg is a rockworm who is is willing to buy tasty ores to eat and sell ores that he doesn't like to eat.

Gragg has a price change tolerance of 15% and a patience between 4 and 8. He has a 33% chance of arriving each market shift and a 10% chance of leaving each market shift. He buys a maximum of 3 items at once and sells a maximum of 3 items at once. His final offer line is "FINE. BUT ENOUGH TALK. TRADE NOW OR FORGET IT."

Buys

Item	Initial Offer
Rock	30 - 60
Mauxite	60 - 120
Bohrum	250 - 400
Cobryl	200 - 600
Syreline	800 - 5000
Starstone	300000 - 450000

Sells

Offer Name	Initial Offer	Item	Alternate Items	Number in Stock
Char	20 - 40	Char	N/A	∞
Strange Red Rock	300 - 500	Erebite	N/A	5
Toxic Blue Rock	200 - 400	Cerenkite	N/A	5
Volatile Purple Rock	400 - 700	Plasmastone	N/A	5
Rock Worm Poop	500 - 600	Uqill	(10% chance) Gemstone	5
Unknown Item	1000 - 50000	Artifact	(5% chance) Miracle Matter	1

Vurdulak The Shrouded

Vurdulak is a mysterious merchant in a black cloak that buys various suspicious things and sells alien artifacts.

Vurdulak has a price change tolerance of 10% and a patience between 2 and 12. He has a 10% chance of arriving each market shift and a 10% chance of leaving each market shift. He buys a maximum of 3 items at once and sells a maximum of 1 item at once. His final offer line is "We will afford you no further leniency. Make the transaction now."

Buys

Item	Initial Offer
Meat	30 - 150
Brains	1000 - 3500
Deathweed	75 - 400
Toxic Venne	50 - 500
Amanita Mushroom	180 - 520
Roburger	125 - 550
Obsidian Crown*	20000 - 100000
Black Armor*	20000 - 100000
Strange Relic*	15000 - 75000

* These offers are considered on a separate list from the others, and they do not count towards the maximum number of buy offers.

Sells

Offer Name	Initial Offer	Item	Alternate Items	Number in Stock
Alien Artifact	4000 - 6000	Artifact	N/A	4

Josh

Josh is an archetypical "dudebro" character, complete with hip Californian slang and a truly stunning number of variations on the word "bro."

He has a price change tolerance of 15% and a patience between 8 and 18. He has a 35% chance of arriving each market shift and an 8% chance of leaving each market shift. He buys a maximum of 3 items at once and sells a maximum of 4 items at once. His final offer line is "That sounds fine enough. You sure you don't want to buy any more broriffic goods?"

Buys

Item	Initial Offer
Syringe	10 - 40
Radio	30 - 60
VR Goggles	200 - 400
Security Belts	400 - 800
HoS Uniform*	700 - 7000
Injector Belt*	4000 - 9000
Vape-O-Matic*	8000 - 11000

* These offers are considered on a separate list from the others, and they do not count towards the maximum number of buy offers.

Sells

Offer Name	Initial Offer	Item	Alternate Items	Number in Stock
Slickin' Skateboards	400 - 800	Skateboard	N/A	∞
Jet Boots	50 - 100	Rocket Shoes	N/A	∞
Rippin' Tacos	10 - 30	Taco	N/A	2
Stylish Black Gloves	20 - 100	Fingerless Gloves	N/A	∞
Brotein Shake	700 - 1400	Brotein Shake	N/A	2
Gnarly Hoodie	30 - 200	Hoodie	N/A	∞
Radical Electrical Device	500 - 1000	Flyswatter	N/A	∞
Totally Cool Foam Flingin' Tool	600 - 1200	Foam Dart Gun	N/A	∞

Buford

Buford is a frog man and a perpetual stoner.

He has a price change tolerance of 30% and a patience between 10 and 15. He has a 100% chance of arriving each market shift and a 66% chance of leaving each market shift. He buys a maximum of 4 items at once and sells a maximum of 6 items at once. His final offer line is "Aight man, but you're really pushing it. Let's make the trade now, yeah?"

Occasionally, Buford will be extremely high (moreso than he usually is), which will make him extremely susceptible to scamming. While stoned off his ass, he has a has a price change tolerance of 95% and patience between 50 and 200. His final offer line while extremely high is "Uh.. shit.. sure! I think? ..fuck. I'm getting a headache."

Buys

Item	Initial Offer
Rainbow Weed	50 - 500
White Weed	50 - 400
Omega Weed	50 - 1500
Psilocybin	100 - 650
Pizza	10 - 42

Sells

Offer Name	Initial Offer	Item	Alternate Items	Number in Stock
Strange Seeds	200 - 400	Strange Seeds	N/A	5
Cannabis Seeds	3 - 5	Cannabis Seeds	N/A	∞
Saltpetre Plant Formula	50 - 100	Powerplant Plant Formula	N/A	20
Mutagenic Plant Formula	50 - 100	Mutriant Plant Formula	N/A	20
Potash Plant Formula	50 - 100	Topcrop Plant Formula	N/A	20
Amonia Plant Formula	50 - 100	Groboost Plant Formula	N/A	20
Mutadone Plant Formula	50 - 100	Fruitful Plant Formula	N/A	20
Weedkiller	20 - 60	Weedkiller Plant Formula	N/A	20

Pianzi Hundan

Pianzi is a lizard man who is known for being a scammer and all-around total asshole. He is the only trader who will accept your offer instead of correcting you if you haggle in his favor, though that's really on you for not paying attention. Most of the items that he's willing to sell have multiple possible outcomes, meaning that you can't really know what he'll send you until you've already spent your money.

Pianzi has a price change tolerance of 33% and a patience between 12 and 20. He has a 25% chance of arriving each market shift and a 25% chance of leaving each market shift. He buys a maximum of two items at once and sells a maximum of five items at once. His final offer line is "Well, my good friend. This is my final offer, I'd have to be insane to cut you a better bargain than this!"

You're Gonna Need to Sign For That

As a quartermaster, you will sometimes get people asking you to order things for them. Some people will be very polite about this, coming down to the cargo bay in person, using the appropriate computer, and leaving clear instructions on delivery. Others will be very rude, simply barking an order over the radio and not responding when you ask them for details.

Generally speaking, you should be generous with people who are kind to you, and ignore people who are rude. This is not just for your ego - rude people will often forget to pick up orders, and you will then have a clutter crate that you don't want and don't need lying around. If the need is urgent or coincides with an emergency on the station, though, you should obviously make exceptions. The Chief Engineer is not going to come down and ask nicely for you to order tools, Floorbots, and metal when a bomb just went off in the escape hallway. In fact, they're your boss and have cargo access, so they'll probably just walk in and buy what they need for themselves.

When someone comes down to the cargo bay and asks you for something verbally, ask them to use the requests computer outside your office. They will order exactly what they want, and you can later just approve the order on your terminal. This limits mistakes and overbuying.

Beyond that, there are a few things you can buy that will never be unappreciated.

• Emergency supply crates have lots of emergency internals - gas masks and air tanks instantly become worth their weight in gold when the station starts depressurizing. They also carry floorbots, which will handle the hardest and most dangerous step to repairing a hole in the station - putting the floor back down so people can work.
• Medical supply crates are also much appreciated, and will be opportunistically picked clean if you leave a few outside your office. This is not a bad thing. These crates are cheap and it's a good thing for people to keep medicine on them.
• Radioactive emergency crates have radiation suits and anti-rad medicine, which is an enormous help in a radiation storm. Consider putting on a suit yourself and then delivering boxes of them to the masses hiding away in the maintenance tunnels.
• Utility belt crates are very cheap and have two belts and some tools to put in them. You will probably want one for yourself, and other people probably will too.

Beyond that, try doing something nice for a department that hasn't asked for it.

• Hydroponics loves getting a few hydroponic crates since it is the one of the only for them to get more pots to grow with, and they will never complain about bee crates either.
• Robotics will appreciate getting metal, glass, and cables since they consume huge amounts of the materials they break down to.
• The chef loves getting food crates, since his kitchen can run out fairly quickly.
• Medbay can always use more medicine, especially the rarer types like pentetic acid and omnizine.
• Gragg the rockworm trader will sell various ores, which can be useful. Engineers might appreciate extra plasmastone and the miners may want uqill if its early in the shift or their luck has been bad.
• Vurdulak The Shrouded is a mysterious merchant that sells alien artifacts. If the miners have had bad artifact luck or are absent, the scientists may appreciate some extra artifacts.

Crew Objectives

As a loyal crew member, you can sometimes be assigned some strictly optional objectives to keep yourself busy while you wait for something to happen. If you complete your objectives by the end of the round, you'll get some bonus Spacebux and might even earn some Medals too. As a quartermaster, you can expect to see the following:

Have 50,000 credits in the shipping budget at the end of the round
Pretty trivial to accomplish if you just do your job. You will, however, have to hope that you don't get any meddling from the AI, a greedy head, or a traitor with a financial goal.

Completing this objective for the first time gives you the Tax Haven medal. Aside from the pleasure of seeing a number go up, this medal unfortunately has no reward associated with it.

War is a Business

A traitor quartermaster is as good or as bad as his plan. Quartermasters can essentially produce things out of thin air, and most of the things they can produce have frightening potential. However, all of these options can ironically be the traitor's downfall, as he flounders around trying to get everything, often ending up tipping his hand and doing nothing at all. When starting your round as a traitor QM, use the first few minutes while waiting for metal and glass to arrive to consider exactly what you want to do that round. If you want to cause a drone revolution, focus on robotics crates. If you want to gut the station, get emergency supplies crates (so you can emag the floorbots). If you want to go on a psychopathic rampage, order lots and lots of phasers and be sure to murder your co-workers the instant you're able.

Your cargo bay is pretty isolated, which makes a good base of operations, but also makes you very suspicious. Security is used to getting calls that the QM is doing something shady, and they don't often need much of an excuse to demand a search. Always have a backup plan to keep yourself as inconspicuous as possible. A stealth storage in the corner of your office makes a great place to hide your incriminating toys until you're ready to go, and the outbound cargo belt and, if applicable, pod bay provide a quick place to get rid of murder victims. Any chutes are easy places to hide emergency supplies. You also may consider just holding off on spawning your gear at all until the second you need it. If the AI announces you're killing someone in the cargo bay, get rid of the evidence and insist the AI is lying. As little as people trust you, they're way more used to the AI being corrupted.

As a traitor QM, an emag is basically required. It allows you to break the cardlocks on all of the crates you can order & interacts with many of the items you get (like robots). It also lets you order the Spec-Ops Crate by emagging the QM console, which contains various other traitor items including an agent card and sleepy pen. Exactly how you spend the other points is purely up to your plan. If you are going to get violent, you might consider a buying security weapons crates and emagging them to get at the contents. If you need people distracted while you do a few things, consider the voice changer and agent card combo. If drone revolutions sound like your style, consider some EMP grenades to send the bots insane en masse.

Items you can order

Miscellaneous

Item	Cost	Contents
Empty Crate	10 Credits	Nothing (Crate only)
Special Ops Supplies	80000 Credits	Can only be unlocked by emagging the console. Contains x1 Sleepy Pen, x1 Holographic Disguiser, x1 Signal Jammer, x1 Agent Card, x1 EMP Grenade Kit (box with x5 EMP grenades), x1 Tactical Grenades Kit (box with x2 incendiary grenades, x1 smoke grenade, x1 frag grenade, x1 flashbang, x1 shock grenade, and x1 graviton grenade)
Neon Lining Crate	2000 Credits	1x coil of neon lining (20 lengths), 1x paper - How to properly install official Nanotrasen neon lining
Paint Cans	1000 Credits	4x paint cans of random color
Emergency Equipment	1500 Credits	x4 Floor Bot, x2 Air Tank, x2 Emergency Oxygen Tank, x4 Gas Mask, 4x Emergency Hood, 4x Emergency Suit
Novelty Clothing Crate	15000 Credits	15x-20x Assorted Novelty Clothing
Spooky Crate	250 Credits	Appears exclusively when the server is in Spooktober mode, which usually lasts through all of October. Contains x6 goodybags
Holiday Supplies	500 Credits	Appears only when Spacemas/Christmas mode is on, which usually runs for the entirety of December. Contains 2x Presents, 2x Egg Nog cartons, 3x 2k13 vintage santa hats, 1x scissors, 2x wrapping paper rolls
Party Supplies	750 Credits	1x chocolate sponge cake, 6x Space Beers, 6x red duo cups, 2x balloon boxes (7x balloons in each), 1x box of assorted stickers (10x stickers), 1x scissors, 2x wrapping paper, 2x birthday hats (pink & blue), 5x party hats
Assorted Glowsticks Crate - 4 Pack	600 Credits	x4 "assorted glowsticks" boxes (7x glowsticks in various colors, x28 total)
Office Supply Crate	250 Credits	4x Paper Bins, 2x Clipboards, 1x Sticky Note Stack, 1x "pen box" (7x pen), 1x "crayon box" (7x random color crayons), 1x "basic crayon box" (7x crayons in aqua and ROY G. BV colors), 1x "marker box" (7x random color markers), 1x "basic marker box" (7x markers in aqua and ROY G. BV colors), 1x Stapler (red), 1x Scissors, 2x stamps
Identity kit	1500 Credits	1x Spare ID Kit (7x blank ID cards), 1x Spare PDA Box (7x unclaimed PDAs)
Cold Weather Gear	3000 Credits	2x Robust coffee, 2x chicken soup, 5x winter coat, Frames: 2x space HVAC unit
Thinktronic Build Your Own Buddy Kit	7500 Credits	1x Guardbuddy frame, 1x Guardbuddy mainboard, 1x sturdy cyborg arm, 1x power cell (empty, no charge), 1x random Guardbuddy module
Meteor Shield System	2500 Credits	4x Meteor Shield Generators
Home Networking Kit	5000 Credits	3x cable coil, 50x glass sheet, 50x steel sheet, 1x motherboard, 5x-8x random peripherals, 2x-4x random circuit boards for normal and simple computers
Candle Crate	500 Credits	1x matchbook, 6x small candle, 3x candle
Home Distilling Kit	5000 Credits	1x still, 6x bottles, 2x glass pitchers
Furnishings Crate	1500 Credits	8x-10x random furniture items, arriving as parts to be assembled
Haberdasher's Crate	5000 Credits	5x-10x random novelty hats
Masquerade Crate	5000 Credits	5x-10x random novelty masks
Shoe Crate	2000 Credits	5x-10x random novelty shoes
Kendo Crate	5000 Credits	2x men, 2x dou and tare, 2x kote, 2x shinai bag (2x shinai in each), 2x hakama
Sponge Capsule Crate	5000 Credits	1x BioToys Sponge Capsules
Candy Crate	500 Credits	1x Cupid Dan's Candy Hearts box, 1x bag of Swedish Fisk, 1x bag of peach rings, 1x goodybag
Lighting Crate	500 Credits	2x flashlights, 8x emergency glowsticks
Necessities Vending Machine Restocking Pack	3000 Credits	1x snack restock cartridge, 1x cigarette restock cartridge, 1x cola restock cartridge, 1x alcohol restock cartridge, 1x monkey restock cartridge, 1x standard restock cartridge, 1x kitchen restock cartridge
Medical/Hydroponics Vending Machine Restocking Pack	3000 Credits	1x medical restock cartridge, 1x public medical restock cartridge, 1x hydroponics restock cartridge
Security Vending Machine Restocking Pack	5000 Credits	1x security restock cartridge, 1x security ammo restock cartridge
Electronics Vending Machine Restocking Pack	4000 Credits	1x mechanics restock cartridge, 1x PDA restock cartridge, 1x computer3 restock cartridge, 1x floppy restock cartridge
Pod Production Kit	5000 Credits	Frames: 1x Ship Component Fabricator, 1x portable reclaimer
Bureaucracy Supply Crate	1500 Credits	2x paper bins, 2x pencils, 2x pens, 1x fancy pen, 2x rubber stamps, 2x folders

Basic Materials

Item	Cost	Contents
200 Metal Sheets	2000 Credits	x200 Metal Sheets
50 Metal Sheets	500 Credits	x50 Metal Sheets
200 Glass Sheets	2000 Credits	x200 Glass Sheets
50 Glass Sheets	500 Credits	x50 Glass Sheets
Electrical Supplies Crate (red) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (red)" boxes (14 red cable coils total)
Electrical Supplies Crate (yellow) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (yellow)" boxes (14 yellow cable coils total)
Electrical Supplies Crate (orange) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (orange)" boxes (14 orange cable coils total)
Electrical Supplies Crate (blue) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (blue)" boxes (14 blue cable coils total)
Electrical Supplies Crate (green) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (green)" boxes (14 green cable coils total)
Electrical Supplies Crate (purple) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (purple)" boxes (14 purple cable coils total)
Electrical Supplies Crate (black) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (black)" boxes (14 black cable coils total)
Electrical Supplies Crate (hotpink) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (hotpink)" boxes (14 hotpink cable coils total)
Electrical Supplies Crate (brown) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (brown)" boxes (14 brown cable coils total)
Electrical Supplies Crate (white) - 2 pack	2000 Credits	x2 "electrical cables storage (white)" boxes (14 white cable coils total)
Welding Fuel Tank	4000 Credits	1x Welding Fuel tank
Firefighting Foam Tank	1000 Credits	1x Foamtank (1000 units of firefighting foam)
High Capacity Watertank	2500 Credits	1x High Capacity Watertank
Rapid-construction-device Replacement	60000 Credits	1x Rapid Construction Device (empty, starts with no matter units)
Atmospherics Supplies	8000 Credits	1x atmospheric technician's jumpsuit, 1x gas tank (oxygen), 1x gas tank (air mix), Frames: 2x air scrubbers
Reclaimed Reclaimer	1000 Credits	1x Portable Reclaimer
Radioactive Emergency Supplies	2000 Credits	4x Radiation Suit Hoods, 4x Radiation Suits, 2x pill bottles (potassium iodide), 4x emergency auto-injector (potassium iodide), 2x geiger counter
EVA Equipment Crate	5000 Credits	1x EVA Space Helmet, 1x EVA Space Suit, 1x emergency gas mask, 1x Jetpack, 1x Magboots
Utility Belt Crate	750 Credits	2x Tool Belts, 2x Mechanical toolboxes

Civilian Department

Item	Cost	Contents
Catering: Dry Goods Crate	750 Credits	x25 assorted cooking ingredients, specifically: x6 flour, x4 rice sprigs, x3 spaghetti, x4 sugar, x3 oatmeal, x2 pancake batter, and x3 tortillas.
Catering: Meat, Eggs and Dairy Crate	1500 Credits	x25 assorted protein and dairy products, specifically: x4 hotdogs (no bun), x3 pieces of synthmeat, x3 pieces of monkey meat, x1 salmon fillet, x1 white fish fillet, x2 bacon strip boxes, x3 egg cartons (x12 in each, x36 eggs total), x4 cheese wedges, x4 milk bottles
Catering: Fresh Produce Crate	1500 Credits	x20 assorted fruits and vegetables, specifically: x2 apples, x2 bananas, x1 lime, x1 lemon, x1 orange, x3 tomatoes, x2 carrots, x2 corn cobs, x1 garlic, x2 lettuce leaves, x2 potato, x1 onion
Catering: Condiment Crate	750 Credits	x25 assorted condiments, specifically: x3 chocolate chips, x2 cream, 1x custard, x3 hot sauce, x4 ketchup, x4 mayonnaise, x3 maple syrup, x3 peanut butter, x2 honey
Janitorial Supplies	500 Credits	x3 buckets, x3 mop, x3 wet floor signs, x3 cleaning grenades, x1 mop bucket, x1 cleaning gloves
Hydroponics: Starter Crate	500 Credits	x2 Watering Cans, x4 Compost Bags, x2 Weedkiller bottles, x2 Plant Analyzers, Frames: x4 Plant Trays
Hydroponics: Nutrient Pack	1000 Credits	x15 nutrient formulas, specifically: x3 Mutadone Plant Formula, x3 Mutagenic Plant Formula, x3 Ammonia Plant Formula, x3 Potash Plant Formula, x3 Saltpetre Plant Formula
Honey Production Kit	450 Credits	x5 Space bee eggs
Alcohol Resupply Crate	400 Credits	15x assorted bottles of alcohol, specifically: 1x space beer, 1x "beer in a box" (6x fancy beer), 1x mead, 1x wine, 1x cider, 1x rum, 1x vodka, 1x tequila, 1x Bo Jack Daniel's, 1x Curacao Liqueur
Cocktail Party Supplies	100 Credits	1x salt shaker, 1x cocktail shaker, 1x "fruit wedge kit" (1x knife, 1x lime, 1x lemon, 1x orange), 2x "cocktail umbrella box" (7x cocktail umbrellas in each, 14x total), 2x "cocktail doodad box" (2x celery sticks, 2x cocktail olives, 2x maraschino cherries in each)
Emergency Glowsticks Crate - 4 Pack	500 Credits	x4 "emergency glowsticks" boxes (x7 emergency glowsticks in each box, x28 total)
Compost Bin	1000 Credits	1x Compost Tank (empty)
Avian Import Kit	2000 Credits	5x Birds
Animal Import Kit	2000 Credits	5 Random Animals
Golden Gannets Delivery	200 Credits	2x Chinese takeout cartons, 2x fortune cookies, 2x chopsticks
Soft Soft Pizzeria Delivery	200 Credits	2x plain pizzas, 2x fries, 2x colas
Comedy Equipment	500 Credits	1x Clown Costume (mask, suit, shoes, mini funny pack), 1x cream pie, 1x Banana Peel, 1x Balloon Box, 1x Bike Horn
Janitorial Supplies Refill	500 Credits	4x cleaning grenades, 2x space cleaner spray bottles, 2x bottles of space cleaner, 1x "box of trash bags" (7x trash bags), 1x "box of biohazard bags" (7x biohazard bag)
Bathroom Kit	15000 Credits	Frames: 4x Toilet, 1x Sink, 1x Shower Head , 1x Bathtub
Kitchen Kit	50000 Credits	1x Fridge, Frames: 1x Oven, 1x Mixer, 1x Sink, 1x Deep Fryer, 1x Food Processor, 1x ValuChimp, 1x FoodTech, 1x Meat Spike, 1x Gibber
Bar Kit	25000 Credits	2x Glassware box, Frames: 1x Alcohol Dispenser, 1x Soda Fountain, 1x Ice Cream Machine, 1x Kitchenware Recycler, 1x Microwave
Arcade Machine	2500 Credits	Frames: 1x Arcade Machine
Printing Press Refill Supplies	2500 Credits	2x paper bins, 1x ink cartridge
Printing Press Colour Module	2000 Credits	x1 printing press upgrade module (Ink Color Upgrade)
Printing Press Custom Cover Module	2000 Credits	x1 printing press upgrade module (Custom Cover Upgrade)
Printing Press	5000 Credits	x1 Printing Press Frame (must deploy with a soldering iron), 1x printing press setup warning
Percussion Band Kit	2000 Credits	1x Tambourine, 1x Cowbell, 1x Triangle

Engineering Department

Item	Cost	Contents
Engineering Crate	1000 Credits	x2 Mechanical Toolbox, x2 Welding Mask, x2 Engineering winter coats
Electrical Maintenance Crate	2500 Credits	x2 Electrical toolboxes, x2 multitools, x2 pairs of insulated gloves
Firefighting Supplies Crate	1000 Credits	x3 fire extinguishers, x3 fire-fighting grenades, x2 firesuits, x2 firefighter helms
Station Pressurization Crate	1200 Credits	4x Red Oxygen Grenades, x4 Metal Foam Grenades
Experimental Local Generator	2500 Credits	x1 Experimental Local Generator
Mining Equipment	500 Credits	x1 Powered Pickaxe, x1 Power Hammer, x1 Meson Goggles, x1 Geological Scanner, x2 Mining Satchel, x3 Mining Explosives
Replacement MULE Crate	750 Credits	Contains x1 MULE. Remember to set its home beacon to QM #2 or it won't return automatically after a delivery.
Singularity Generator Crate (Cardlocked Chief Engineer)	100000 Credits	1x Gravitional Singularity Generator
Field Generator Crate	40000 Credits	Frames: 4x Field Generators
Emitter Crate	15000 Credits	1x Emitter
Radiation Collector Crate	750 Credits	4x Radiation Collectors frames, 1x Radiation collection controller frames, 1x soldering iron
Extra Large Air Mix Canister	5000 Credits	1x High-Volume Canister: Air
Spare Oxygen Canister	10000 Credits	1x Canister: Oxygen
ABCU Unit Crate	5000 Credits	1x ABC-U, 1x blueprint marker
Anti-Singularity Pack	10000 Credits	1x Singularity Buster Rocket Launcher, 5x Singularity Buster rockets, 1x paper-How to properly operate Singularity Buster rocket launcher
Construction Equipment	7000 Credits	1x miniaturized lamp manufacturer (human version), 1x Floor and Wall Designer, 1x construction worker's overalls (orange)
Mechanics Reconstruction Kit	35000 Credits	1x Ruckingenur frame, 1x Manufacturer frame, 1x reclaimer frame, 1x device analyzer, 1x soldering iron, 1x deconstruction device
Small Magnet Kit	100000 Credits	1x Magnetizer, 1x Low Performance Magnet Kit, 1x Magnet Chassis Frame
Magnet Kit	75000 Credits	1x Magnetizer, 1x High Performance Magnet Kit, 1x Magnet Chassis Frame
Manufacturer Kit	8000 Credits	Frames: 1x General Manufacturer, 1x Mining Manufacturer, 1x Gas Extractor, 1x Clothing Manufacturer, 1x Reclaimer
Basic Power Kit	20000 Credits	Frames: 1x SMES cell, 2x Furnace

Medical Department

Item	Cost	Contents
Medical: First Aid Crate	1000 Credits	x10 assorted medkits, specifically: 2x general first aid kits, 2x brute medkits, 2x fire medkits, 2x toxin medkits, 1x oxygen deprivation medkit, 1x neurological medkit
Medical: Medical Reservoir Crate	1750 Credits	2x Hyposprays (empty), 2x auto-menders (empty), 1x Syringe Kit (box of 7 syringes), 2x morphine bottles (30 units of morphine), 4x "reserve tanks" each containing common medicine, split up as: x1 anti-tox (charcoal) (has 100 u), 1x epinephrine (100u), 1x silver sulfadiazine (400 u), 1x styptic powder (400u)
Robotics Crate	7500 Credits	x1 Securitron, x1 Floorbot, x1 Cleanbot, x1 Medibot, x1 Firebot
Prosthetic Augmentation Kit	2000 Credits	6x - 8x Random Augmentations
Restricted Medicine Shipment	6000 Credits	6x bottles each containing 30 units of advanced medicine, split up as: 1x ether, 1x haloperidol, 1x omnizine, 1x pentetic acid, 2x perflurodecalin
Cyborg Component Crate	4500 Credits	1x sturdy cyborg head, 1x standard cyborg chest, 1x sturdy cyborg left arm, 1x sturdy cyborg right arm, 1x standard cyborg left leg, 1x standard cyborg right leg, 1x robot frame, 1x cable coil
Morgue Supplies	10000 Credits	1x bible, 1x syringe, 1x "embalming fluid bottle" (50 units of formaldehyde), 10x body bag, 1x coffin (it's the container all this ships in)
Blood Bank	3000 Credits	4x blood packs
Medbay kit	10000 Credits	1x Defibrillator, 2x Hypospray, 1x Medical Belt, Frames: 1x NanoMed, 1x Medical Records computer
Operating Room kit	15000 Credits	1x Staple Gun, 1x Defibrillator, 2x Scalpel, 2x Circular Saw, 1x Hemostat, 2x Suture, 1x Enucleation Spoon, Frames: 1x Medical Fabricator, 1x Operating Table
Robotics kit	20000 Credits	1x Staple Gun, 1x Scalpel, 1x Circular Saw, Frames: 1x Robotics Fabricator, 1x Operating Table, 1x Module Rewriter, 1x Recharge station
Genetics kit	30000 Credits	Circuitboards: 1x DNA Modifier, 1x DNA Scanner
Cloning kit	30000 Credits	Circuitboards: 1x Cloning Console, Frames: 1x Cloning Scanner, 1x Cloning Pod, 1x Enzymatic Reclaimer

Research Department

Item	Cost	Contents
Lab Monkey Crate - 4 pack	2500 Credits	x4 Monkey, x1 vocal translator Note: While it doesn't mention it on the order menu, the crate is access-locked to people with Medical Lockers and Toxins Storage access, i.e. a Research Director, Scientist, Medical Director, Medical Doctor, Roboticist, or Geneticist can open them, but not a Quartermaster
Chemistry Resupply Crate (Cardlocked [Research])	500 Credits	x1 Beaker Box (7x 50 unit beakers), x1 Mechanical Dropper, x1 Spectroscopic Goggles, x1 Reagent Scanner, x6 reagent bottles each containing 50 units of common chemical precusors, split up as: 1x acetone, 1x ammonia, 1x diethylamine, 1x oil, 1x phenol, and 1x sulfuric acid
Chemistry Resupply Crate	500 Credits	x4 Large beakers, x2 Beaker Boxes (7x 50 unit beakers in each), x6 reagent bottles each containing 50 units of common chemical precusors, split up as: 1x acetone, 1x ammonia, 1x diethylamine, 1x oil, 1x phenol, and 1x sulfuric acid
Artifact Research Kit	80000 Credits	Frames: 5x Data Terminal, 1x Pitcher, 1x Impact pad, 1x Heater pad, 1x Electric box, 1x X-Ray machine

Security Department

Item	Cost	Contents
Weapons Crate - Security Equipment (Cardlocked [Security Equipment])	10000 Credits	x1 helmet, x1 armor vest, x1 Handcuff Kit, x1 requisition token
Security Containment Crate - Security Equipment (Cardlocked [Security Equipment])	1000 Credits	x1 Port-a-Brig and remote
Weapons Crate - Experimental Security Equipment (Cardlocked [Security Equipment])	12000 Credits	1x Clock 180, 1x Elite Security Helmet, 1x "experimental grenade box" (1x high-range incendiary, 3x incendiary, 3x cryo), 1x "security-issue grenade box" (2x crowd dispersal grenades, 2x smoke grenades, 1x stinger grenade, 1x flashbang, 1x shock grenade)
Weapons Crate - Phasers (Cardlocked [Security Equipment])	5000 Credits	x2 Phaser Gun
Anti-Biological Hazard Supplies (Cardlocked [Security Equipment])	7000 Credits	1x Flamethrower, 2x Flare gun box (1x flare gun and 1x box of flares)
Counter-Revolutionary Kit	6000 Credits	4x Counter-revolutionary implants, 2x Implanter