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Player > Starships > Manufacturers > Thaumtech Unlimited
Starfinder Starship Operations Manual p.76
Precognizant Engineers
Manufacturing Centers: Eox (Thousand Moons)
Specialties: “Smart†ships and reconnaissance vessels
Famous Models: Cairncarver, Omenbringer, Shadowcaster
Thaumtech Unlimited is an oddity among starship
manufacturers. Though it goes long stretches between releases,
each design is a runaway success. Its quality-of-life features—
like immersive infosphere integration, smart-acoustics hull
lattices, and phrenic AI assistance—are released to rave reviews,
and the company can coast for years on a single starship
release. Thaumtech even has a cult following among tech
enthusiasts, who eagerly hype the slightest announcement. The
company encourages this excitement, hosting outlandish reveal
events and granting sponsorships to vidstream celebrities who
record their live reactions. Their largest announcements have
even involved the rambunctious personality Zo!, whose undead
antics already draw media attention.
Few starship manufacturers are as secretive as Thaumtech
Unlimited. Formed during the Gap, the company lost nearly
all of its records after the Gap ended, including the company’s
data about its own operations. Not deterred by the loss,
Thaumtech utilized every magical and technological resource
at its disposal to launch an aggressive (and invasive) market
research campaign to recoup its losses. It was able to profit
enormously in a short amount of time by capitalizing on
consumer trends and honing its marketing with a laser focus.
The company’s most notable success was the Shadowcaster,
the first Drift-capable Eoxian starship.
The Shadowcaster would forever be remembered in Eoxian
history, and netted Thaumtech enormous profits. However, it
also drew the attention of jealous rivals. In 42 ag, Thaumtech
was hit with an enormous fine for market abuse under the
new Absalom Pact regulations on divination magic. Soon after,
its Eoxian rivals pushed the company off Eox entirely, and
Thaumtech was forced to consolidate activity in self-contained
mining-manufactories on the Thousand Moons. Yet despite
these attempts to sink the company, Thaumtech remains a
wildly popular manufacturer. Its profits have only expanded,
and the physical isolation of its factories enables its operations
to be more discreet.
Thaumtech is unique among Eoxian manufacturers in
that it regularly designs for both living and undead clientele.
Though widely popular, the corporation is often under scrutiny.
The starship computers Thaumtech installs are riddled with
proprietary code that is difficult to unravel, and attempts to
edit this code risk destroying the ship’s computers entirely.
Privacy experts caution against holding private conversations
aboard a Thaumtech ship; with all of Thaumtech’s innovations,
the computers could be the least of who or what is listening.
Manufacturer Perk: Thaumtech operating systems are among the most secure in the Pact Worlds. Anti-hacking systems cost 1 BP less to install.
Name | Tier | Type | Source |
---|---|---|---|
Thaumtech Cairncarver | 2 | Small light freighter | DS02 p.0 |
Thaumtech Omenbringer | 14 | Gargantuan battleship | CRB p.307 |
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