“Space farming ain’t like jumping through hyperspace boy! You got have patience, lots of water and thousands of kilometers of tubing.”

A 100-word piece of Sci-fi minutia 

30 books to be found within a steampunk setting. Manuals, tomes, and blueprints galore!

Bucky Batteries: when you need batteries to last a long long long time

A 100 piece of sci-fi minutia

"Ve'laan rust!" - Sailor slang, meaning "nonsense"

A metal with unique properties, ve'laan is prized by seafaring folk and admired by jewelers.

With bright light and 5 minutes burn time, this is required equipment for any cave-diver worth his salt.

Need to know which way you took in the maze? Mark your path with chalk.

Leaving a message on the wall for your sleeping lover? Write it in chalk.

Got a virginal sacrifice, a lunar eclipse, but nothing to to inscribe your floor with? No, not chalk; YOU need to get some help. Expensive, professional help.

Discover the real and mythical origins behind items of mundanity!

Fire is best kept in the boiler; it's much too dangerous to be using for something as simple as lumination.

A specialized suit of power armor designed for peacekeeping and urban roles

"Commander... every chime in a five mile radius is making a racket. Something big is coming... something mean."

-Arbiter Elusis

Codex

A longsword that lashes out in the hands of a graceful warrior.

The Forget Me Not is a weapon as beautiful and unique as it is deadly. 

"Damn," Dray said, beaming with excitement, "will you look at this, Gwythar?  There must be twenty gold coins in this box!  Hah, right behind that crushed shelf and the heap of worthless old books.  Want to see if there are any more?"

I blinked, as my blade comrade led me by the sleeve to what must have been some library.  Books?  "Worthless" old books?  "Damn" was right!  Pestilence take a handful of coins, Master Thormor would give us ten times that for those books!  Now all I had to do was talk Dray into it ...

Quest - #1 Winner

A collection of 30 bardic tales you may hear sung in the local tavern or empresses' court, complete with bardic verse excerpts from all 30 tales themselves.

Many of these tales can also be used as quick plug in adventures for Gm's looking for a side quest. (And let the players exploits be turned into the song by a near by bard perhaps?)

Relics of an ancient necromantic faith: A few strange charms and a small black book. What power do these odd devices hide?

While the glory goes to the battlemechs, during the height of the Star Empire, the martial machines were said to be outnumbered 20 to 1 by their menial brethern, the industrial mechs

Discovered by accident by a snacking alchemist, Two Flask Halo has become known as an effective and reliable source of combustion sought after by many adventurers. 

A horrible torture device. Not for the squeamish.

Prometheus was a Greek Titan.  Possibly one of the most important Titans, as he stole fire from Zeus and gave it to the humans.  This system was developed to resist those forces through technological means.

Quest

Even though I often didn't see my father for months at a time, I know he loved me as much as I love you, Son, and as he once said to me, 'I may not be the best father, but I will always send my prayers when you need them the most,' and that is what I intend to do for you. Remember this, even if you don't see me for a while and want to hate me, I love you.