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There are four star bases that sell hardware to equip a ship with. One base is only accessible by having a very low reputation; this base is referred to as the "Pirate base".

Costs of hardware are shown in the following table:

Item	Cost	Comments
Nuke	50,000	Approximately 2000 damage. Purchased only from the Pirate base or with tokens.
G-14 Negotiator	15,000	Approximately 900 damage. Purchased from any base.
Mines	10,000	Approximately 1000 damage. When detonated carefully, it only does around 300 damage. Purchased from any base.
Compound Mines	45,000	Similar to a regular mine but can be detonated up to 4 times. Purchased from any base.
Beacons	500	Leaves a short message for all to see. Placed in space or on a planet. Purchased from any base.
Biodome Kit	40,000-2,090,000*	The foundation of colonies. Purchased from any base.
Flak Cannon	25,000	Deals approximately 100 damage and gives splash damage. Reduces energy slightly on impact. Purchased from any base.
Laser Cannon	75,000	Deals 200 damage. Reduces energy. Bounces off objects. Purchased from any base.
Shields	20**	Shields are a ships primary protection against attack. Purchased from any base or port.
Cargo Holds	2,500	Used to carry resources & colonists. Purchased from any base or port.
Plasma Shooter	1,000	Poor standard weapon, approx. 30 damage with high rate of fire & low energy use. Bounces off objects.
Fusion Blast	1,250,000	Projectile weapon with approx. 70 damage, low energy use, and high rate of fire. Bounces off objects.
Explosive Charge	175,000	Projectile weapon with approx. 200 damage, slow traveling, slow rate of fire & high energy use. Detonates upon impact.
Graviton Beam	3,000,000	Weapon with auto-aim and average range. Can attack three targets at once. Passes through objects.
Hellbore Laser	15,000	Weapon with average damage applied as long as its in contact with the target, and medium range. Blocked by objects.
Death Ray	120,000	Weapon with very short range and high damage.
Broadband Scanner	800,000	Scans the whole system, returning the combined weights of all planets. Uses 3 fuel.
Neutrino Scanner	1,500,000	Scans the whole system, returning the weights of planets individually. Uses 5 fuel.
Tactical Scanner	500,000	Displays shield percentage of other ships.
Battle Scanner	1,000,000	Displays shield percentage of other ships. It also reveals cloaked Avengers.

* This amount varies between servers. 40k is the standard price, while 2.09mil is normally found on the PAX servers.

** Prices are subject to Supply and Demand at ports with 20 being price at full supply, bases always sell for 20.