So I wrote a short story in college about the discovery of an alien artifact during the establishment of the first permanent base on Mars. The story was kind of inspired by Eclipse Phase and I would like to do an adventure based on the object. The Maker The Maker is a perfect 3 m x 3 m x 3 m cube of an unknown gray metal that is covered all around in a membrane of a cellular gel. This gel acts as the interface system for the cube as the gel extends outward from the cube and combines with the user's nervous system. The Maker is by all accounts, a TITAN's personal factory, capable of producing anything that the user requests of it, expelled from the cube in a manner similar to cellular exocitosis. The Maker requires no additional resources or materials to produce an object, only a request from a user. A couple have been found in the TQZ and can even be used by transhumans. Through trial and error, there have been several rules to using the Makers. 1. The user must request an object when interfacing with a Maker. 2. The user must know how the requested object is to be used and function. Only one object can be requested at a time and it must physically exist in the world. 3. If a user possesses intimate details of the object's inner workings than those details are put into the object. Otherwise, the Maker substitutes these details, usually with alien technology. For example, if a person wants to make a specific brand of ecto using the Maker, he can even though he doesn't know how an ecto works. The Maker will produce the ecto which will outwardly looks like the requested ecto and functions like an ecto even though the inside contains only a solid-state circuit made of computronium wired into the inputs and outputs. 4. The Maker copies the Ego of each user and stores it. The specific Ego can be loaded into a morph the Maker produces if requested. If an Ego that is not stored in the Maker is requested, the Maker loads in an altered version of a randomly selected Ego best suited for the request. 5. Biological bodies and organisms can be requested though an Ego will be loaded into the organism if it is a complete organism. 6. Certain items cannot be requested, usually these items are other Makers, Pandora Gates, or other such fantastic items. Exsurgent Egos cannot be requested by the user. This may be due to a kind of DRM against transhuman Egos using the device. Because of their nature and rarity, they are often heavily fought for by nomads, Oversight, Firewall, and even exsurgents. Oddly there are no obvious ill effects from using the Makers. As to whether something horrible will appear later, well who knows what that TITANs could have up their sleeve? So what does everyone think of this artifact?