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All 36 commodity stubs fleshed out with lore context, production chain descriptions, and economic intelligence briefing voice. Key treatments: fusion_fuel (D-187 8:1 ratio), services (location-bound mechanics), brands distinguished from commodities per D-185. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Lattice Substrate
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Lattice Substrate |
| Tier | intermediate |
| Elasticity | unit_elastic |
| Base Price (Tractus) | 180 |
| Bulk Class | compact |
| Unit | units |
| Production Ubiquity | concentrated |
| Demand Model | market |
| Commission Certified | Yes |
| Compact Contested | No |
| Shadow Viable | Yes |
| Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
| Description | Processed neural lattice wafers and gate optics. From lattice-grade material. |
Lattice substrate is the processed form of lattice-grade material: precision-cleaned crystalline wafers and optically finished gate components ready for end-stage fabrication. The processing recipe is simple — 1.0t of lattice-grade material plus 0.3t of chemicals yields 1.0t of substrate — but the output requires Commission certification for legal sale, and the production is concentrated in systems adjacent to east reach lattice-grade deposits. Moving substrate legally means moving it with its certification chain intact.
The shadow market exists because of what lattice substrate feeds: implant hardware fabrication consumes 0.4 units per output, and uncertified implants require uncertified substrate. Commission certification provides the traceability that distinguishes a licensed neural interface from contraband. Any fabricator operating outside Commission oversight needs a substrate source that doesn't carry a traceable certification number — hence the shadow channel, which sources material from either uncertified processing operations or certified stock that has been diverted after purchase and before the final audit trail would record the end use.
Gate component assembly also requires 0.3 units of lattice substrate per gate unit — a separate demand stream from the implant channel, operating entirely in the formal economy because Gate Corporation has no incentive to circumvent its own supply chain audits. The substrate market is therefore split between two fundamentally different demand profiles: the traceable, regulated gate manufacturing sector and the partially-shadow implant fabrication sector.