Common Measurements and Tools

Units of Measurement

• Metric Ton: Base unit of cargo measurement
• gats: An amount of tension on a bearing.
• Skile curve: performace rating for speeders
• Bz: data size measurement
• KTU: Engine performance rating
• SBD: Shield output rating
• RU: Hull or body rating
• DPF: Maneuverability rating
• MGLT: Velocity rating

Equipment and Tools

• Arion Drill: To make holes in things.
• Beamdrill: Tight-focus, short range drill.
• Berko-8: A non combustible cleanser (presumably the brand name.)
• Ceriline welding torch: For spot welding duridium.
• Diagnostic Scanner: Helps to pinpoint the source of problems.
• Fusion Cutter: High energy plasma beam for cutting.
• Glowrod (aka Lumas): Flashlight, worklight.
• Halite Imaging Electrograph: Monitors hot spots in ship's electronic systems.
• Hand Laser Saw: To cut through things.
• Hydroclamper: Like a hydrospanner, but different.
• Hydrospanner: All around supertool. Like a wrench, but different.
• Karlisite Depolarizer: Used to reduce the charge of a metalic substance. Useful for installing new parts and for preventing meltdowns.
• Magnon Spirograph: Used to measure effeciency of hyperdrive systems.
• Mem-stik: A small data storage device.
• Micron Calipers: Device used to make tiny little adjustments. Used for hyperdrive repair.
• Pneumatic Riveter: To connect things in a spaceworthy fashion.
• Power Calibrator: analyze and repair electronic circuitry.
• Power Condenser: a small chargable power storage unit. (Like a battery.)
• Power-Pulse Monitor: Measuring engine performance.
• Recording Rod: Audio/video recorder. (about the size if a lightsaber handle.)
• ReliaCharger: A power charge in a stick (basically)
• Relotian Dionizer: To negate the effects of an ion blast(takes about a day per system) or any other ionic contamination.
• Sonic Screwdriver: For undoing sonicly screwed items.
• Synthion Canister: Storage and aplication device for Synthionfoam.
• Virimon Pump: Fire Extinguisher.

Construction and Destruction

• Baradium: Core of a thermal detonator.
• Detonite: Common explosive used in grenades.
• Proton: Substance used in mines, grenades, and torpedoes.
• Thermite: Casing on a thermal detonator.
• Duracrete, Ferrocrete, Plascrete: Solid construction mixes
• Superlinium: Light tinny, non-corroding metal common in air ducts and vents, and construction of light structures.
• Carbonite: Flash frozen carbon compound used for storage and transport.
• Durasteel, Duranium, Duridium: Metal commonly used in starship hulls and armor.
• Plastisteel, Plasteel: Light compound of plastics and metal, commonly used in personal armor.
• Transparisteel: Transparent metal compound, usual for viewports and cockpit canopies.

Bio-medical

• Bacta: Marvellous nutrient heavy healing fluid.
• Flexi-Skin: Synthetic, non-organic coating.
• Fastflesh: Emergency compound for sealing wounds.
• Neural Interface: Connection jack allowing cyborg - computer direct links.
• Synth-nutrient Replicator: Device for dispensing Fastflesh.
• Synthflesh: Synthetic organic skin used to cover prosthetic replacements.
• Synthnet: Network of circuitry relaying commands to prosthetics.

Vehicles and Starships

• Activation Matrix: The bit of the hyperdrive that determines its fold rate factor.
• Agitator Bearings: Necessary for repulsorlift operation on gas giants. Adjustable.
• Alluvial dampers: Keeps the ship from shaking itself apart at high speeds.
• Amicron Mix: Acts as a radiation soak, and is used to shield any system that leaks dangerous radiation. Should be changed fairly often.
• Anion Discharge System: How the ship gets rid of ion drive by-products.
• Antioxidant Induction Fluid: Keeps the Activation Matrix from covering itself with a thick rustlike layer which prevents hyperdrive use.
• Balance Turbines: Distributes repulsorlift field energy evenly around the craft.
• Brath Bearing Brackets: Allow smooths rapid turns on speederbikes.
• Central Computer System: What it says.
• Cephalaph Shielding: A waxy grey insulant used to protect the other systems from the ship's power plant emissions.
• Comm unit: Pretty obvious, isn't it?
• Computer Control Circuits: Enables the computer to activate and deactivate ship's systems.
• Computer Feedback Circuits: Keeps computer aware of the status of the various systems.
• Drive Compensator: a device used to counterbalance to effects of the drive.
• Drive Compensator Fusion Coil: The central (and, consequently, the most expensive) part of the fusion engine, which provides power to the ship.
• Ethereal Rudder: Directional control in starfighters.
• Fission Charger: a device used to recharge fuel cells.
• Frigidon Mix: Very cold fluid. Passed through certain systems in partially insulated tubes to keep them from overheating. Also poured on things to make them more brittle.
• Fuel Cells: Containers of fusable material designed to be used by the power plants. Burnt out fuel cells can be recycled, or recharged through a fission charger.
• Fuel Converters: Since most ships have reactionless drives, fuel converters would be quite uncommon. If your ship has one, and it blows, you've got a major problem on your hands.
• Horizontal boosters: Thrusters used to provide lateral movement. Also known as lateral thrusters.
• Hyperdrive: That which makes the ship go past light speed.
• Hyperspace Compass: A heading indicator. Like a compass, it measures your direction of travel.
• Inertial Dampers: Keeps the crew from getting that chunky salsa look when the ship makes a fast turn.
• Interphase Transducers: Converts energy from the powerplants into a form usable by the hyperdrive.
• Ion Piston: Ion engine part.
• Jehltekk Enhancer Valve: Component of a repulsorlift maneuvering system.
• Microimpact Dampers: Keep the ships drive systems from jolting themselves out of alignment.
• Power Couplings: A power coupling transfers energy from one circuit into another.
• Power Plant: Source of energy for all ships systems.
• Quad Power Cyclers: power cyclers for speeder craft.
• Sliverfoils: Ion engine component.
• Reactant Agitator Injector: Fuel injecton? Probably some form of catalyst for the engines.
• Repulsorlift generator: Generates the repulsorlift field. Repulsorcoils.
• Repulsor Modulator: Accelerator?
• Servo-bracket: Available in any landspeeder, brackets the servos.
• Synthion Foam: Insulates, reduces emissions, and holds things together in a pinch.
• Thersop Ambulator: Skiff tiller control component.
• Trianolubricant fluid: Keeps ion drives from overheating.
• Trianolubricant Injection System: Keeps those ion drives swimming.
• Turbothrust Converter Coils: Expressed in sizes V-5 to V-12.

Blasters and Personal Weapons

• Galven Pattern Damping Sleeve: For stun settings on blasters.
• Heter-Valve: Energy converting valve.
• Magnetic Acceleration Sleeve: Rapid acceleration of personal missle weapons.
• Overload Sturm Dowel: Detects powerpack feedback and prevents overloading.
• Polarizer: The studs at the end of a wookie crossbow.
• Power Flux Dispersion Unit: Compensate for varying powerpack charge types.
• Prismatic Crystal (housing): A foci for light and gases.
• Rotating Balance Stabiliser: Keeping personal missle weapons balanced in their housing.
• Static Pulse Adaptors/Galven circuitry: Lining on the inside of the blaster barrel.
• Xciter: Mixes energy and gas to form a raw blaster bolt.

Cannon and Lasers

• Azimuth Rotation Platform: Essential component to turrets.
• Calibration Module: Presumably used to 'adjust the sights' of starfighter weaponry.
• Capacitor Banks: Banks of capacitors for cannons.
• Cooling Unit/Vent: Pretty obvious.
• Targetting Computer: The fire control box.
• Flashback Suppressor: The crescent shaped device at the tip of starfighter laser cannons.
• Gate Coupling: Connects the laser tip to the laser barrel.
• Ion Accu-accelerator: For large scale ion cannons.
• Micro-router Power Feed: Power relays from source to nozzle of weapon.
• Overload Dispersal Collar: Surrounds the base of the cannon barrel.
• Pulse Capacitors: Allows rapid fire.
• Turbolaser Pulsor: where the beam comes out
• Turbolaser Actuator: Right behind the Pulsor.

Shields and Defenses

• Projector Relays: The emitter for energy shielding
• Shield Actuator: Where the shield energyis formed and focused into the projector/emitter.
• Shield Generator Bank: The actual conversion of energy takes place here.
• Shield Matrix Boards: The circuitry and fuses which generate the shields shape, and the first to blow out in an overload.

Sensors and Communications

• ALS: Active Long-range Sensors.
• DER: Dedicated Energy Receptors.
• EPR: Electro-Photo Receptors.
• FST: Full Spectrum Transceiver.
• PLS: Passive Long-range Sensor.
• STS: Short-range Target-acquiring Sensor.
• SJP: Sensor Jamming Projector.
• Activation lights: for the Holonet Transceiver.
• Antennae: Broad beam, Tight beam, high frequency, low frequency, comm array, etc.
• Encryption Module: As described, unit used to encrypt/decrypt secure transmissions.
• Field Limiter: Determines the size of the projection.
• Hologram Pod: Device used to display a holographic transmission.
• Holonet Transceiver: The unit to receive and transmit holonet broadcasts.
• Rectenna Dish: A long range sensor component.
• S-thread Projection Crystal: Tiny crystal emitter used in homing beacons.
• Subspace Comm Detector: Detecting comm frequencies in subspace.
• Subspace Transceiver: Used for faster-than-light communication.
• Transceiver Array: Standard ship-to-shore comm array.
• Transmitter: Simple device found in communications equipment.