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Grafts 28

Modules for the growing station. Silhouette is the contract: a player pulling one off the rack should know it before they can read the label, so each owns one outer shape and nothing else uses it. Capacity, demand and routing are separate purchases, and no single graft lifts output on its own.

  • Seedling Product Pod module

    Seedling Product Pod

    core socket · trunk collar — one only, the company itself

    One chamber, one product, one shift. Everything after this is an argument about scale.

    Cost
    $600K
    Upkeep
    $45K/qtr
    • Demand 10% of its market
    • Production capacity +34,000 units
    • Route throughput +44,000 units
    • Realised price +$2 per unit

    Available from the first quarter · in the opening rack

  • Assembly Chamber module

    Assembly Chamber

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    Raises what the station can physically make. It has no opinion about whether anyone wants it.

    Cost
    $1.6M
    Upkeep
    $85K/qtr
    • Production capacity +68,000 units
    • Route throughput +25,000 units
    • Research +1 per quarter

    Available from the first quarter · in the opening rack

  • Fulfilment Rail module

    Fulfilment Rail

    root socket · below the bench — anything that carries or stores

    Carries finished units out of the station. Without one, capacity is just inventory.

    Cost
    $1.45M
    Upkeep
    $75K/qtr
    • Demand 4% of its market
    • Production capacity +20,000 units
    • Route throughput +110,000 units

    Available from the first quarter · in the opening rack

  • Hand-Cart Tendril module

    Hand-Cart Tendril

    root socket · below the bench — anything that carries or stores

    A barrow, a short rail and one strapped crate. It moves about half what a rail moves, for about half the money.

    Cost
    $850K
    Upkeep
    $48K/qtr
    • Demand 2% of its market
    • Production capacity +30,000 units
    • Route throughput +52,000 units

    Available from the first quarter · in the opening rack

  • Retail Blossom module

    Retail Blossom

    canopy socket · the top — anything the public sees

    Opens the product to people who were never going to visit the station.

    Cost
    $2M
    Upkeep
    $115K/qtr
    • Demand 9% of its market
    • Route throughput +8,000 units
    • Realised price +$7 per unit
    • Market attention +6%

    Available from the first quarter · in the opening rack

  • Branding Petal module

    Branding Petal

    canopy socket · the top — anything the public sees

    Changes nothing the station makes. Changes how many people ask for it.

    Cost
    $1.4M
    Upkeep
    $82K/qtr
    • Demand 5.5% of its market
    • Route throughput +8,000 units
    • Market attention +16%

    Available from the first quarter · in the opening rack

  • Sensor Lab module

    Sensor Lab

    canopy socket · the top — anything the public sees

    Puts instruments inside the product, and a reason to charge more for it.

    Cost
    $2.1M
    Upkeep
    $140K/qtr
    • Demand 1.5% of its market
    • Production capacity +18,000 units
    • Route throughput +14,000 units
    • Realised price +$13 per unit
    • Market attention +5%
    • Research +2 per quarter

    Available from the first quarter · in the opening rack

  • Pilot Bench module

    Pilot Bench

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    A potting bench under a hooded lamp. It ships almost nothing and is the cheapest research on the board.

    Cost
    $1.1M
    Upkeep
    $70K/qtr
    • Demand 1% of its market
    • Production capacity +32,000 units
    • Route throughput +26,000 units
    • Stability +3%
    • Research +4 per quarter

    Available from the first quarter · in the opening rack

  • Chip Frond module

    Chip Frond

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    Fabricates the part the station used to buy, on the station’s own schedule.

    Cost
    $3.4M
    Upkeep
    $195K/qtr
    • Production capacity +90,000 units
    • Route throughput +14,000 units
    • Realised price +$18 per unit
    • Market attention +5%
    • Research +1 per quarter

    Unlocks at 6 research

  • Bulk Rail module

    Bulk Rail

    root socket · below the bench — anything that carries or stores

    Three times the rail for three times the money, and the first route that does not bind again by quarter nine.

    Cost
    $4.2M
    Upkeep
    $210K/qtr
    • Demand 5% of its market
    • Production capacity +50,000 units
    • Route throughput +420,000 units

    Unlocks at 6 research

  • Assembly Hall module

    Assembly Hall

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    Six times a chamber’s output, and the first thing on the bench that will not run without parts.

    Cost
    $4.8M
    Upkeep
    $240K/qtr
    • Production capacity +280,000 units
    • Route throughput +60,000 units
    • Research +1 per quarter

    Unlocks at 6 research

  • Support Tendril module

    Support Tendril

    root socket · below the bench — anything that carries or stores

    A dozen numbered nozzles and somebody to answer the telephone. Services do not deliver themselves.

    Cost
    $3.6M
    Upkeep
    $205K/qtr
    • Demand 3% of its market
    • Production capacity +40,000 units
    • Route throughput +220,000 units
    • Stability +8%

    Unlocks at 6 research

  • Service Node module

    Service Node

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    Sells the work instead of the object. Fewer units, better priced, delivered down the wire that made them.

    Cost
    $3.4M
    Upkeep
    $290K/qtr
    • Demand 7% of its market
    • Production capacity +60,000 units
    • Route throughput +60,000 units
    • Realised price +$24 per unit
    • Market attention +6%
    • Stability +6%

    Unlocks at 6 research

  • Data Tank module

    Data Tank

    root socket · below the bench — anything that carries or stores

    Holds everything the station has ever measured. Buyers pay more for a product that already knows them.

    Cost
    $2.4M
    Upkeep
    $165K/qtr
    • Demand 3% of its market
    • Production capacity +12,000 units
    • Route throughput +34,000 units
    • Realised price +$12 per unit
    • Market attention +10%
    • Stability +10%
    • Research +1 per quarter

    Unlocks at 55 research · needs sensor-lab placed

  • Storefront Canopy module

    Storefront Canopy

    canopy socket · the top — anything the public sees

    Six glazed petals, a counter and a queue rail. The largest single share of a market that money can buy.

    Cost
    $5.2M
    Upkeep
    $265K/qtr
    • Demand 16% of its market
    • Route throughput +20,000 units
    • Realised price +$9 per unit
    • Market attention +10%

    Unlocks at 55 research

  • Campaign Petal module

    Campaign Petal

    canopy socket · the top — anything the public sees

    One petal angled like a dish, with a megaphone at the hinge. It makes nothing, and it is the best defence on the board.

    Cost
    $4M
    Upkeep
    $230K/qtr
    • Demand 9% of its market
    • Route throughput +12,000 units
    • Market attention +28%

    Unlocks at 55 research

  • Telemetry Lab module

    Telemetry Lab

    canopy socket · the top — anything the public sees

    Five instruments on a ribbed collar, reading the product back to itself. The readings are worth more than the instruments.

    Cost
    $4.6M
    Upkeep
    $270K/qtr
    • Demand 2% of its market
    • Production capacity +40,000 units
    • Route throughput +34,000 units
    • Realised price +$38 per unit
    • Market attention +8%
    • Research +3 per quarter

    Unlocks at 55 research

  • Model Tank module

    Model Tank

    root socket · below the bench — anything that carries or stores

    Three banded cylinders and one frosted sight-glass. What comes out is not a unit; it is what units are made of.

    Cost
    $6.4M
    Upkeep
    $340K/qtr
    • Demand 4% of its market
    • Production capacity +30,000 units
    • Route throughput +80,000 units
    • Realised price +$26 per unit
    • Market attention +14%
    • Stability +12%
    • Research +3 per quarter

    Unlocks at 55 research · needs data-tank placed

  • Research Nursery module

    Research Nursery

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    Expensive and quiet. It ships only what its pilot line makes while it works on next year.

    Cost
    $2M
    Upkeep
    $150K/qtr
    • Demand 2% of its market
    • Production capacity +40,000 units
    • Route throughput +40,000 units
    • Realised price +$28 per unit
    • Market attention +4%
    • Stability +5%
    • Research +8 per quarter

    Unlocks at 55 research

  • Inference Nursery module

    Inference Nursery

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    Inference grown on site. It prices like a service, runs like a utility bill, and stops entirely without models.

    Cost
    $20M
    Upkeep
    $1.25M/qtr
    • Demand 12% of its market
    • Production capacity +1,100,000 units
    • Route throughput +1,100,000 units
    • Realised price +$32 per unit
    • Market attention +18%
    • Research +5 per quarter

    Unlocks at 75 research · needs research-nursery placed

  • Foundry Frond module

    Foundry Frond

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    Five crucible fingers, a tapping spout and a slag gutter. It makes the alloy that nobody upstream will sell you.

    Cost
    $21M
    Upkeep
    $1.3M/qtr
    • Production capacity +900,000 units
    • Route throughput +120,000 units
    • Realised price +$22 per unit
    • Research +4 per quarter

    Unlocks at 75 research

  • Arterial Rail module

    Arterial Rail

    root socket · below the bench — anything that carries or stores

    Four tracks on arched piers, curving off the edge of the frame. Nothing this company builds will out-carry it.

    Cost
    $14M
    Upkeep
    $880K/qtr
    • Demand 6% of its market
    • Production capacity +260,000 units
    • Route throughput +2,600,000 units
    • Research +2 per quarter

    Unlocks at 75 research

  • Continuous Hall module

    Continuous Hall

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    A doubled vault that never stops. Its appetite for cells is larger than most stations’ entire output.

    Cost
    $16M
    Upkeep
    $1M/qtr
    • Production capacity +1,600,000 units
    • Route throughput +240,000 units
    • Stability +6%
    • Research +4 per quarter

    Unlocks at 75 research

  • Exchange Node module

    Exchange Node

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    A glazed drum on a stalk with eight cable arms. It reaches a fifth of the market, and asks for models to do it.

    Cost
    $26M
    Upkeep
    $1.6M/qtr
    • Demand 20% of its market
    • Production capacity +1,600,000 units
    • Route throughput +1,600,000 units
    • Realised price +$38 per unit
    • Market attention +12%
    • Stability +8%
    • Research +3 per quarter

    Unlocks at 75 research

  • Grid Tank module

    Grid Tank

    root socket · below the bench — anything that carries or stores

    Six sunken tanks under a brass walkway. At this size the models are the product and the tanks are the overhead.

    Cost
    $26M
    Upkeep
    $1.6M/qtr
    • Demand 9% of its market
    • Production capacity +700,000 units
    • Route throughput +1,200,000 units
    • Realised price +$36 per unit
    • Market attention +16%
    • Stability +14%
    • Research +4 per quarter

    Unlocks at 150 research

  • Deep Nursery module

    Deep Nursery

    branch socket · working arm — production and service chambers

    Stacked lit shelves behind glass on an iron frame braced for a building. Fourteen a quarter, indefinitely.

    Cost
    $24M
    Upkeep
    $1.5M/qtr
    • Demand 20% of its market
    • Production capacity +900,000 units
    • Route throughput +900,000 units
    • Realised price +$130 per unit
    • Market attention +12%
    • Stability +10%
    • Research +14 per quarter

    Unlocks at 150 research

  • Launch Spire module

    Launch Spire

    canopy socket · the top — anything the public sees

    Lifts the station’s whole output into a market it could not otherwise reach. The braces are not decorative.

    Cost
    $42M
    Upkeep
    $2.6M/qtr
    • Demand 16% of its market
    • Production capacity +1,400,000 units
    • Route throughput +1,400,000 units
    • Realised price +$220 per unit
    • Market attention +24%
    • Stability -5%

    Unlocks at 190 research · needs route-rail placed

  • Orbital Mast module

    Orbital Mast

    canopy socket · the top — anything the public sees

    Twice the height of the trunk, three gantry collars and a capsule at the top. The bench was not rated for this.

    Cost
    $90M
    Upkeep
    $5.6M/qtr
    • Demand 30% of its market
    • Production capacity +3,600,000 units
    • Route throughput +3,600,000 units
    • Realised price +$420 per unit
    • Market attention +34%
    • Stability -8%

    Unlocks at 260 research · needs launch-spire placed

The station these fit into is through the side door: the growing station .