Artifacts

Artifacts are special technologies that the Aeon designed and brought with them along on Project Prometheus to protect themselves and their passengers from whatever monstrous creatures may lurk within the new universe. When the Prometheus' systems crashed, they were forced to launch these technologies into space to propel themselves towards a nearby planet. The name "artifact" came later because these technologies are so old. Now, aliens run accross these devices from time to time and use them to their advantage. The Zap family of artifacts is manufactured from a special compound that temporarily shuts off certain areas of the targets brain. Humans, however, are the one alien that react positively to the influence of this compound. In fact, they have a special gland that secretes it, called the adrenaline gland.

Technologies

Technologies are blueprints for Artifacts that did not get completed before the Prometheus was to be launched. These differ from Artifacts in that they need top specialists to research them before they can be manufactured.

The one technology, named "The Prometheus", is not actually the blueprints for an Artifact, but the blueprints for the complicated key that once started the Prometheus' engines. This key has become lost since it's use, and can only be replicated from these blueprints. (See "Aeon").