"Weapons were removed from standard survival blueprints following the massacre on Obraxis Prime. The knife remains the only exception."
OH, yeah! huh. The reference is oblique enough, someone on the steam forms had an even darker interpretation:
'massacre' kinda implies that some other civilian crew got stranded on a planet, met the locals and decided to just build weapons and commit mass-murder.
So Alterra made military-grade technology a restricted thing.
I think the in-universe explanation is that the mega-corporation doesn't want workers arming themselves.
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OH, yeah! huh. The reference is oblique enough, someone on the steam forms had an even darker interpretation:
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Corporations do good-ish things to avoid "bad PR" sometimes