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CSI Products & Tech

Other Names: CSI Products, CSI Tech
Related Lore: Nova Sector, CS&ES, CSI Divisions, CSI Black Ops, Cybersun Industries
Languages: CodespeakSyndicate operatives can use a series of codewords to convey complex information, while sounding like random concepts and drinks to anyone listening in., YangyuAlso popularly known as "Konjin", this language group formally regarded as Orbital Sino-Tibetan is a result of a genetic relationship between Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and other Human languages of similar characteristics that was first proposed in the early 19th century and is extremely popular even in the space age. Originating from Asia, this group of tongues is the second most spoken by Human and Human-derived populations since the birth of Sol Common - and was a primary contender to be the Sol Federation's official language. Many loanwords, idioms, and cultural relics of Japanese, Ryukyuan, Korean, and other societies have managed to persist within it, especially in the daily lives of speakers coming from Martian cities.

Cybersun Products & Tech

Overview

Design Philosophy

Quality Over Quantity

Integrated Systems

Premium Standardization

Restriction and Access

Civilian Product Lines

Consumer Electronics

Communications and Networking

Commercial Vehicles and Transit Systems

Home, Office, and Daily-Life Systems

Industrial and Infrastructure Systems

Heavy Machinery

Power and Energy Systems

Extraction and Refining Equipment

Station, Relay, and Facility Systems

Medical and Cybernetic Technologies

Osaka Medical Systems

Civilian Medical Equipment

Surgical and Clinical Systems

Cybernetics and Prosthetics

Restricted Biomedical Technologies

Security and Military Equipment

Corporate Security Arms

Protective Equipment and Armor

Tactical Implants

Vehicles, Drones, and Support Platforms

Joint Development Projects

Covert and Restricted Technologies

Authentication and Access Systems

Concealment and Evasion Tools

Electromagnetic and Electronic Warfare Tools

Black Operations Provisioning

Experimental Projects

Branding and Market Presence

Public Reputation

Packaging and Design Language

Corporate Showrooms and Expo Spaces

Product Legitimacy in SolFed Space

Known Product Families

Exagon-Ichikawa

Osaka Medical Systems

Parent-Brand Cybersun Lines

Unconfirmed or Attributed Designs

Notable Technologies

Cybersun's technological portfolio reflects the corporation's broader doctrine: refined presentation, practical lethality, and a preference for controlled superiority over cheap ubiquity.

The following technologies are among the more recognizable, infamous, or culturally significant products associated with Cybersun Industries and its subsidiaries.

Strategic Systems and Naval Technologies

CSI AI Core - Station Grade

Type: Station-grade artificial intelligence core
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Centralized station or facility management, systems oversight, and integrated infrastructure control.
Description: A station-grade artificial intelligence core produced by Cybersun Industries, intended for use in major facilities, vessels, or installations requiring high-level synthetic administration. As with many Cybersun products, the exact technical specifications are not widely publicized, but the system's existence reinforces the corporation's reputation for producing advanced infrastructure-grade technologies rather than merely consumer hardware.
Notes: Publicly, such systems present Cybersun as a capable provider of high-end administrative technology. Privately, the existence of station-grade synthetic architecture under corporate control raises obvious questions about surveillance, access, and centralized authority.

Advanced CSI Cruiser

Type: Advanced corporate cruiser
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Armed patrol, transport security, and protected corporate transit.
Description: Marketed in one surviving internal paper as one of the most advanced cruisers owned by Cybersun Industries, this vessel is described as carrying twelve prototype laser turrets intended to make hostile boarding attempts futile. Other listed features include an atmospheric system, camera network with built-in X-ray visors and a safety module, and an emergency engine system capable of directing crew toward a nearby Syndicate pod in the event of catastrophic failure.
Notes: The surviving text frames the vessel in the familiar voice of corporate confidence, blending reassurance, technical pride, and the faint implication that its users are expected to survive through preparation rather than mercy.

Battle Cruiser SCSBC-12

Type: Battle cruiser
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Heavy armed deployment, sustained shipboard combat operations, and corporate military projection.
Description: A battle cruiser identified in surviving documentation as the SCSBC-12. Its systems are described as advanced enough to sustain long-term spaceflight with minimal concern for power failure under normal conditions, though emergency instructions note the presence of a uranium-fueled backup generator and bridge-controlled turret systems that must be manually reactivated in crisis scenarios.
Notes: The surviving operational text is distinctly Cybersun in tone: proud, exacting, and openly disinterested in user survival if the instructions are ignored.

Implants and Cybernetic Technologies

Firearms Authentication Implant

Type: Subdermal security implant
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Automatically activates upon implantation and authenticates the user to compatible secured weapon systems.
Description: The Cybersun Equipment Authentication Implant is a subdermal RFID authentication module and paired transmitter, designed to interface with equipment that has appropriate security systems, such as implant-locked firing pins popular with associated covert operatives and non-state actors. Equipment with such authentication systems is noteworthy for inconveniencing those trying to pilfer equipment from fallen enemies' hands, preventing their equipment from easily being used. However, it should be noted that the weakest link in a digital authentication scheme is oftentimes the physical layer.
Notes: The implant reflects Cybersun's preference for retention, discipline, and denial of captured equipment rather than simple lethality alone.

EMP Implant

Type: Subdermal tactical implant
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Activated manually. Generates an indiscriminate electromagnetic pulse of moderate size when triggered.
Description: The Cybersun Subdermal Electromagnetic Pulse Generator is, true to its name, a subdermal implant designed to generate indiscriminate electromagnetic pulses when triggered, disrupting electronic equipment, such as energy weaponry, and lifeforms, such as stationbound silicon units, within the user's radius. Prospective users are reminded that the S-EPG does not protect the host from their own electromagnetic pulses.
Notes: A perfect example of Cybersun pragmatism: refined, dangerous, and only selectively interested in the comfort of the user.

Smoke Implant

Type: Subdermal tactical implant
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Activated manually. Generates an indiscriminate cloud of smoke of moderate size when triggered.
Description: The Cybersun Subdermal Visual Obstruction Generator is, true to its name, a subdermal implant designed to generate visual obstructions in the form of smoke clouds when triggered, disrupting lines of sight to the user. Prospective users are reminded that the S-VOG does not protect the host particularly well from thermal imaging, nor does it actually stop blind fire into the smoke, nor does it stop movement.
Notes: Less a defensive miracle than a brief disruption tool, intended to create confusion, hesitation, and opportunity.

S3 Implant

Type: Subdermal concealment implant
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Activated manually. Fabricates a horrifically fragile cardboard box around the user with integrated gradual optical camouflage.
Description: The Cybersun S3 Implant, colloquially the "stealth" implant, allows users to fabricate, on the spot, a "stealth" box around them, which sacrifices most of its miniscule strength as a cardboard box in order to support an optical camouflage weave. Unfortunately, the optical camouflage cannot instantly initialize; bumping into living beings will disrupt the camouflage, and after disruption or upon initial activation, the camouflage system has to recalibrate to its surroundings. However, once calibrated, it is invisible to the naked eye.
Notes: One of the stranger examples of Cybersun's covert design culture, balancing absurdity with actual utility.

Contraband Security HUD Implant

Type: Cybernetic eye implant
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Provides a security HUD overlay to the user.
Description: A Cybersun Industries brand Security HUD Implant. These illicit cybernetic eye implants will display a security HUD over everything the user sees.
Notes: Though treated as contraband by Nanotrasen, the implant reflects Cybersun's broader willingness to package surveillance, awareness, and authority directly into the body.

Security, Military, and Tactical Equipment

Contractor MODsuit

Type: Lightweight tactical MODsuit
Manufacturer: Gorlex Marauders, with assistance from Cybersun Industries
Function: Mobility, protection, concealment, and contractor field deployment.
Description: A rare departure from the Syndicate's usual color scheme, the Contractor MODsuit is produced and manufactured for specialty contractors, built for travelling and fighting light, providing no encumberance when deactivated, but slight encumberance otherwise. The external plating is composed of streamlined layers of shaped plastitanium and composite ceramic, while the undersuit is lined with an ablative kevlar hybrid weave to provide ample protection to the user where the plating doesn't. Unfortunately, the sacrifices made for a lightweight build mean that it is slightly less armored than its crimson siblings. In addition, it has an integrated chameleon system, allowing you to disguise the suit while undeployed. A small tag hangs off of it, reading 'Property of the Gorlex Marauders, with assistance from Cybersun Industries. All rights reserved, tampering with suit will void warranty.'
Notes: A strong example of Cybersun engineering meeting Gorlex practicality, with all the cynicism that implies.

Syndicate MODsuit
Type: Powered tactical MODsuit

Manufacturer: Gorlex Marauders, with assistance from Cybersun Industries
Function: Standard heavy combat suit for Syndicate mercenary and strike operations.
Description: A suit designed by Gorlex Marauders, offering armor ruled illegal in most of Spinward Stellar.

Extended Description: An advanced combat suit adorned in a sinister crimson red color scheme, produced and manufactured for special mercenary operations. The build is a streamlined layering consisting of shaped plasteel and composite ceramic, while the undersuit is lined with a lightweight kevlar and durathread hybrid weave to provide ample protection to the user where the plating does not, with an illegal onboard electric powered ablative shield module to provide resistance against conventional energy firearms. A small tag hangs off of it reading; 'Property of the Gorlex Marauders, with assistance from Cybersun Industries. All rights reserved, tampering with suit will void warranty.'
Notes: The standard Syndicate MODsuit is one of the clearest symbols of Cybersun's covert industrial reach: premium corporate engineering merged with openly illegal battlefield survivability.

Syndicate Elite MODsuit
Type: Enhanced powered tactical MODsuit

Manufacturer: Gorlex Marauders, upgraded with assistance from Cybersun Industries
Function: Elite strike and officer-grade combat suit.
Description: An elite suit upgraded by Cybersun Industries, offering upgraded armor values.

Extended Description: An evolution of the Syndicate suit, featuring a bulkier build and a matte black color scheme, this suit is only produced for high ranking Syndicate officers and elite strike teams. It comes built with a secondary layering of ceramic and kevlar into the plating providing it with exceptionally better protection along with fire and acid proofing. A small tag hangs off of it reading; 'Property of the Gorlex Marauders, with assistance from Cybersun Industries. All rights reserved, tampering with suit will void life expectancy.'
Notes: Where the standard Syndicate MODsuit is a workhorse of deniable violence, the Elite variant is its perfected expression: heavier, harsher, and tailored for personnel whose survival is judged worth the extra mass and expense.

Cybersun S-120

Type: Directed-energy weapon
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Security and combat sidearm / longarm platform.
Description: A laser gun primarily used by Syndicate security guards. It fires a rapid spray of low-power plasma beams.
Notes: Its design suggests a preference for controllable, sustained pressure over singular overwhelming impact.

Contractor Baton
Type: Telescopic electroshock baton

Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Nonlethal incapacitation, close-quarters suppression, and prisoner capture.
Description: A high tech telescopic stun baton, as developed by Cybersun Industries. Delivers a precise shock to a target's central nervous system to incapacitate them.

Extended Description: The Contract Acquisition Device, sometimes referred to as the CAD in encrypted correspondence, is one of the more frequently encountered examples of Cybersun Industries weaponry. Extremely similar to Nanotrasen's own Secure Apprehension Device, the contractor baton is able to induce CNS disruption in a target to render them helpless. It is also capable of devastating blunt force trauma if used as a bludgeon. The contractor baton is also capable of telescopic deployment, allowing for discretion while making an approach towards a target, and attachment to MODsuit forearms if utilizing a specialized magnetic holster. The contractor baton is famously associated with contractors, elite Syndicate field agents, particularly in kidnappings of high-value personnel and information acquisition operations.
Notes: One of Cybersun's clearest examples of violence designed to preserve value rather than destroy it.

MOD Wraith Cloaking Module

Type: MODsuit cloaking module
Manufacturer: Disputed, often attributed to Cybersun Industries
Function: Destructive stealth and light-disruption system.
Description: A more destructive adaptation of the stealth module. Incompatible with armor modules.

Extended Description: The Wraith Module does not simply bend light around the user to obscure their visual pattern, but actively attacks and overloads surrounding light emitting objects, repurposing this energy to power the suit. It is possible that this technology has its origins in Spider Clan advancements, but the exact source of the Wraith Module is highly disputed. No group has stepped forward to claim it as their handiwork due to the political consequences of having stolen Spider Clan tech and their inevitable retaliation for such transgressions. Most point fingers at Cybersun Industries, but murmurs suggest it could even be even more clandestine organizations amongst the Syndicate branches.
Notes: Whether or not Cybersun truly created it, the device is entirely in line with the corporation's covert appetite for elegant intimidation.

MOD Syndicate Storage Module

Type: Nanotechnological storage module
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Compresses physical matter of stored items for compact transport.
Description: A storage system using nanotechnology developed by Cybersun Industries, these compartments use esoteric technology to compress the physical matter of items put inside of them, essentially shrinking items for much easier and more portable storage.
Notes: Utility disguised as sorcery, and exactly the kind of thing Cybersun likes being known for.

Medical, Informational, and Utility Technologies

CyberMed ++

Type: Advanced medical vending platform
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries / Osaka Medical Systems
Function: Dispenses medical drugs, both recreational and medicinal.
Description: An advanced vendor that dispenses medical drugs, both recreational and medicinal.
Notes: A small but telling example of Cybersun's polished medical-commercial presence.

Cybersun 'Scalpel' NIF-Cutter

Type: NIF extraction and copying tool
Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Removes NIFSofts and saves blank copies to disk.
Description: A modified version of a NIFSoft remover that allows the user to remove a NIFSoft and have a blank copy of the removed NIFSoft saved to a disk.

Extended Description: In the upper echelons of the corporate world, Nanite Implant Frameworks are everywhere. Valuable targets will almost always be in constant NIF communication with at least one or two points of contact in the event of an emergency. To bypass this unfortunate conundrum, Cybersun Industries invented the 'Scalpel' NIF-Cutter. A device no larger than a PDA, this gift to the field of neurological theft is capable of extracting specific programs from a target in five seconds or less. On top of that, high-grade programming allows for the tool to copy the specific soft to a disk for the wielder's own use.
Notes: A deeply Cybersun device: elegant, compact, and morally horrific in an extremely professional way.

Consumer, Cultural, and Miscellaneous Technologies

Syndi-Fox
Type: Consumer robotic novelty / MiniVix model

Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Robotic companion or collectible novelty item.
Description: It's a Cybersun MiniVix robotic model wearing a microsized Syndicate MODsuit and a cute little cap. Quite pretty.
Notes: Equal parts toy, mascot, and corporate weirdness.

Plasma Dog Supreme
Type: Consumer food product

Manufacturer: Cybersun Park concessions
Function: Signature ballpark food item.
Description: The signature snack of Cybersun Park, home of the New Osaka Woodpeckers: a ballpark hot-dog with sambal, dashi-grilled onions and pineapple-lime salsa. You know, the sort of bold flavours they enjoy on Mars.
Notes: Not every notable Cybersun product is military or surgical. Some are simply branding made edible.

Saibāsan
Type: Commemorative beverage

Manufacturer: Cybersun Industries
Function: Anniversary-branded consumer drink.
Description: A drink made in honour of Cybersun Industries' 600th year of continual business. Officially, you're meant to call this a "Hong Kong Cooler" on Nanotrasen stations, but that name sucks.
Notes: A small but charming piece of cultural branding, and one of the few products on this list willing to sound almost playful.


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Nova Sector Lore

Common Species Humans, Tiziran, Unathi, Moths, Ethereals, Azulae, Slime Hybrids, Teshari, Synthetic Humanoids (and assorted robots), Pod Persons, Hemophages, Xenomorphic Hybrid,
Other Species Genemodders (Felinids, Ice Walkers, Dwarf), Ashwalkers, Snailpersons, Ordoht (Formerly Skrell), Plasmamen, Flypeople, Vox (Primalis et al), Tajaran, Vulpkanin, Rouges (Abductorkin), Miscellaneous Species, Dullahans, Employee Golems, Changelings
Nanotrasen Nanotrasen, Central Command, Emergency Response Corps
SolFed SolFed, Sol in 2566, The SolFed Armed Forces
External Groups Heliostatic Coalition (HCAFHeliostatic Coalition Armed Forces, CZDCommonwealth of Zvirdnyn Dominions, KMIFKemppainen-Morozov Industrial Fabrication, InspectorsThe Expeditionary Force. They inspect more than stations. (Quick Reference, SOPStandard Operating Procedure, LexiconLingo, chatter guide, manner of speaking.)),
Interdyne Pharmaceutics, Cargo
Hostiles The Syndicate (Gorlex, Tiger Cooperative, DS-2, Syndicate Manifestos),
The Void Imperium, The Spider Clan
Nova The Nova Sector, IndecipheresLavaland, volcanic mining place., FreyjaIcebox and Snowglobe station frozen moon., BoletusSerenity Mushroomoon.
Concepts Bluespace, Plasma, Faster Than Light Travel, Resonance ("Souls"), Death