Ideas for Quests and Items

[Psientist]

An "upgrade station". first, it requires a quest item - a key or something for trade. Second - it will look for items that you have and swap one for the next, better item.

For example, if you have the "hyperfilter array", it will take that away and give you the "signature projector". Or a beam type weapon, or a projectile weapon, or the repair systems, or the sensor systems.

With random quests with the same KEY, you could make it random which technology gets upgraded.