Haven Cipher Foundry Unique
Cuts raw trade crystals into cryptographic cipher chips — Stage 1 of Haven's two-step transaction verification monopoly.
The Federation's most closely guarded secret isn't a weapon — it's a manufacturing process. Deep inside Haven station, master cryptographers cut raw trade crystals along quantum lattice lines that only the Federation's proprietary algorithms can calculate. The chips encode a unique transaction authentication key into their crystalline structure — physically impossible to counterfeit, and the first stage of a two-step monopoly. Raw ciphers flow directly to empire markets throughout settled space; the rest move next door to the Authenticator Foundry for hardening. The Federation controls every step. They set the price at every step. This is not an accident.
Stats
| Level | 5 |
| Empire | Nebula Trade |
| Build Cost | 0 cr |
| Labor | 300 |
| Power Draw | 10 |
| Life Support Draw | 1 |
Upgrade Path
Recipe
| Output | Encode Trade Cipher |
| Crafting Time | 75s |
Recipe Inputs
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Trade Crystal | 10 |
Recipe Outputs
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Trade Cipher | 10 |