Restricted

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The locals of this world labor under a regime that tightly restricts the employment of common technology. While most worlds have strictures against devices of mass destruction or private biological weaponry development, this world goes so far as to control the use of entire classes of technology- weapons, communications tech, medical science, or other society-changing artifacts. Use of this restricted tech is usually reserved to the local elites or priestly class, and its possession often comes with powerful cultural significance. Enforcement of these restrictions is usually at the hands of the tech's proper owners, though some worlds are locked into their laws by outside powers.

Leaders:
^{Who might be encountered while conducting business}

• AI robot of the synthetic ruling class
• Tech-priest devoted to the mysteries
• Cynical warlord with no delusions about the tech
• Ruthless inquisitor rooting out illicit tech

Enemies:
^{Who might be encountered who opposes the group}

Rebel bent on getting a new source for tech

Elite in desperate need of replacements for dying tech

Far trader inclined to destroy the monopoly

Colonial offworld official enforcing the rules on the hapless locals

Complications:
^{How might the situation on the world be more complicated}

The tech is self-aware and using the elites

The restricted tech is extraordinarily dangerous on this particular world

The tech is vital to life and the elite's lynchpin of control

The tech is fueled by something precious or deplorable

Things:
^{What items might be found on the world}

Cache of tech lost when the owner was killed

"Cloaked" tech that looks like allowed objects

Superior local tech reserved for elites

Trove of the incredibly dangerous tech that provoked the restrictions in the first place

Things:
^{What regulations might complicate things}

The tech isn't so important as the ritual or cultural meaning of holding it

Social rank is based on tech permissions

All tech is theoretically owned by the state and loaned to the worthy

Non-elite cannot use the tech even to save their own lives

Tags: Lopop,Trade