Does 4D damage against targeted material. Acquiring Equipment Some of the equipment in this chapter is perfectly legal and available in almost any port. Some of it is more expensive and available in any major port, perhaps with a small fee and a modest amount of paperwork. Some of it is mildly illegal — you can get it in a legal port, but only from shady characters like arms merchants. Other equipment is highly illegal and hard to find at all — stealth equipment, for example — and often can only be found in a fringe port, where the law isn't strongly enforced. Then again, raiders are raiders and will often simply seize needed equipment from prizes. Privateers can't just strip a ship or rob the passengers blind, but the Alliance is often willing to pay in goods (largely because they possess little hard currency). If a captain needs a new tractor beam, perhaps one can be taken from the next prize, with the tractor beam's price deducted from the prize's value, of course. A privateer who has proven reliable may even be able to get some equipment off the Alliance on credit — once in a while, and only if the needed items are available, of course.