[Miles]

It's not simply a matter of spotting TL10+ wordlines and swiping a few laser guns or futuristic iPads. First and perhaps most importantly, you need some way to power the things. That means you either need to steal a year's supply of power cells, or steal the secrets for manufacturing them, and then reverse engineer that (not an easy task at all).

Operating on Ultra-Tech worlds is very, very hard for outtimers. You almost certainly need some form of ID (and the world where you don't are often even more hazardous). Infinity doesn't even have the tools to try and make fake identification, so that means buying off the local black market without attracting suspicion. Anything you do that stands out can easily wind up on the local equivalent of YouTube. Concealing the energy flashes associated with conveyors is another challenge.

You can't take anything with an AI offworld, because that's as good as breaking the Secret.

Still, the Infinity Patrol probably does have a fair amount of ultra-tech swimming around among its members. It's just all on a case by case basis. One patrolmen has a standard issue sidearm, but grabbed a sweet pair of experimental hyperspectral binoculars on Shikaku-Mon. Another gets by with the standard night vision binocs, but snagged a fusion-powered laser rifle on Lenin-3 that's guaranteed to run forever (said Patrolman was killed by death cultists on Gotha-7 after the fusion core ran dry in the middle of a firefight). The Patrol even has a couple of ultra-tech things that are standard issue, like the nanocleanser on page 26 that's explicitly noted as being TL10.