101 fun things to find in a Sci Fi cargo crate

[Blackhawk748]

Ill be running a Sci Fi game and i need a list of random sci fi stuff to put in salvage ships. The tech level is Firefly style, so its solid projectile weapons for the most part.

1. Pre Packaged Food
2. Weapons
3. A mess of tangled wires
4. MREs

[Tohron]

5. Seedy-looking instructions to hidden treasure.
6. A 2400 page treatise on the distribution of iron oxide content in medieval-era European cooking pots.
7. A handwritten request for money from a "Nigerian Prince".
8. A laser gun. Laser is powerful enough to show a red dot on the wall, and not much more.

[Velaryon]

9. Spy drone
10. Holographic projector
11. Medicine vials
12. Exotic animals (alive or dead)

[Fri]

13. A million live chicken, cryogenically frozen for transport, and back to active the instant you open the crate.

[Mastikator]

14. A spool of room temperature superconductor wire
15. A vial of alien proteins
16. A cybernetic brain
17. Parts of a powered armor suit
18. Asteroid rock
19. Comet snow/ice
20. The embryo of a genetically engineered animal/human in a synthetic womb
21. Food made from aliens animals and plants
22. Food made of an alien civilization
23. Ingots of rare earth elements mined in space (like iridium or neodymium)
24. Sealed containers containing the equivalent of the F.E.V virus
25. Cheese made from human milk
26. A crystalline silicon based life form (plant like)
27. A blob of inert grey goo

13. A million live chicken, cryogenically frozen for transport, and back to active the instant you open the crate.

Also works with snakes.

[Dragonexx]

28. A holo-projector containing footage that would probably get you arrested if it was known you had it.
29. An experimental gun that causes severe bowel distress in it's targets.
30. The unique parts necessary to activate a legendary starcraft.
31. A substance that is simultaneously edible food, high-powered explosive, and efficient fuel.
32. A plasma bomb about to detonate.
33. A gigantic insect that is both live and angry.
34. An invitation to an exclusive party hosted by a wealthy and hedonistic crime lord.
35. Nothing.
36. Nothing (or is there?)
37. A thriving colony of miniature aliens.
38. A sample of a deadly disease.

[BootStrapTommy]

39. Big ol' box of dildos.

[Kami2awa]

40. A functional cloaking device. Unfortunately it is switched on, so the crate looks empty.

[Mutazoia]

41. A fully functional Android.

[Vizzerdrix]

Collectable replicas from another sci fi setting.
Functional collectable replicas from another sci fi setting.
Damaged and poorly made action figures that almost resemble the pcs.

[TheTeaMustFlow]

44. Apples - like, real, actual Earth apples.
45. ...Something. You're not really sure what it is. But it's beeping.
46. Keys to the Drop Zone.
47. Tartan Fluid.
48. Grid Squares.
49. A Flight Stick Actuator.
50. Elbow Grease
51. The last Stradivarius.
52. The last Rembrandt.
53. The last Emin (not quite as valuable as the previous two)

[Spore]

54. Blinker fluid, complete with a convincing treatiser on why spaceships need both blinker fluid AND blinkers in the first place.

[Berenger]

55. Twenty disassembled cargo crates.
56. A stowaway.
57. Nerf guns.
58. Human organs.
59. Silken lingerie.
60. Drugs (10% chance of hidden tracking transmitter placed by nearest law enforcement agency).

[Bohandas]

61. Alien food. Inedible to humans.
62. Circuit diagrams/robot pornography
63. Klein bottles
64. VR headsets
65. Medical equipmemt
66. Smart rings
67. Sporting goods
68. A mysterious glow
69. Copies of a new Tupac album
70. Memory cards
71. The Blob

[Squiddish]

72. A genetically modified creature, cryogenically frozen. It shapeshifts into an exact replica of the first living thing to touch it.
73. A single, pure white, freshly-washed sock. Never, ever explain why it's there.
74. The crate contains another crate. On further inspection a) it's the same crate and b) it's a hypercube.
75. A small film of a green material. Any creature, whether terrestrial or not, that eats this or breathes the fumes for more than ten minutes is permanently turned green and can only be turned back by (pick one) magical restoration/an exotic medicine/divine intervention.

[InvisibleBison]

76. A data storage device containing some highly encrypted data. Is it valuable? Who knows?
77. Metal ingots.
78. Babies!

[Spore]

79. The strongest hallucinogen in the galaxy: table salt

[Bohandas]

80.) Plutonium
81.) Canisters of compressed radon
82.) volatile chemicals

[Calen]

83. Dongles
84. Widgets
85. A book titled Players Handbook: (insert title of your system here)

[ComradeBear]

86: A robot built to pass butter. It feels existential crisis about this.

87: Fusion batteries

88: (if psychics are a thing) Highly psycho-reactive crystals. They extend the range of telepathy, make precognition a bit clearer, explode when moved telepathically, and if teleported.... you don't wanna know what happens if you teleport them. Just know that every psychic on the planet will be in a lot of pain, if not dead.

89: Chemical weapons.

90:.Biological samples.

91: Ship toilets.

92: A comms relay

93: A whole bunch of mascot costumes for the most popular snack company in the system.

94: Dehydrated soybeef.

95: Rehydrated beefsoy.

[Bohandas]

96.) Blood samples
97.) Sprockets
98.) Dehydrated water
99.) DVDs of Futurama
100.) Eyeballs for transplantation
101.) Plans for the Death Star
102.) Cloned dinosaurs
103.) Spice melange cut with Tang
104.) Advertisement flyers for a hotel run by a featureless black monolith
105.) A battleaxe with a laser for a blade

EDIT:
Products from throwaway gags on Futurama:

106.) Aracno-spores: the fatal spore with the funny name.
107.) Glagnars Human Rinds: Its a buncha muncha cruncha human
108.) Thompsons Teeth: the only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth
109.) Molten boron

EDIT:

110.) Copies of The Book of the SubGenius
111.) A solarinite bomb
112.) A corbomite bomb
113.) DEVO energy dome hats
114.) hygiene products for creatures with alien anatomy and physiology
115.) Edison phonograph cylinders. The hipster music crowd insists that the sound quality is better than digital.
116.) Personal teleporters

EDIT:

117.) Canned air
118.) Superman crystals
119.) Proton packs
120.) Liquid schwartz

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121.) Self-sealing stem bolts
122.) Soylent green
123.) A laser gun inexplicably shaped like a composite longbow
124.) An enormous diamond

[Kami2awa]

125. Jesus. Have you found him?
126. Bacon burgers.
127. A crate-replicating machine.
128. A crate-moving device.
129. A label maker, in its original unopened packaging.
130. The ship's cat, which leaps out to ruin the tension of the scene.

[FabulousFizban]

131) Self Sealing Stem-bolts

[Bohandas]

132.) Kryptonite
133.) Dilithium crystals
134.) Another smaller crate
135.) cybernetic hands
136.) promotional drink cups
137.) Illudium q-36 explosive space-modulators

[Professor Chimp]

138. A depressed robot named Marvin.
139. A triggerhappy Martian, also named Marvin.
140. Both of the above. In the same crate.
141. A full set of all 1978 12 back Star Wars action figures in mint condition unopened packaging.
142. A crateload of lightsabers. They're really just fancy glowsticks for sweet rave parties tho.

[JAL_1138]

143: A brain-damaged psychic human female with positively frightening hand-to-hand combat skills, who is the younger sister of the ship's medic.

[Lord Gehnvaar]

Dried paint, cans and cans of useless dried paint

[Beleriphon]

144. Dried paint, cans and cans of useless dried paint

145. A batch of xenalene
146. A cyrbike
147. A brand new Data Circulator Tool
148. Five-hundred Comprehensive Dream Possessor Interfaces
149. A disassembled Reinforced Pet Teleporter Matrix

[Grand Arbiter]

143: A brain-damaged psychic human female with positively frightening hand-to-hand combat skills, who is the younger sister of the ship's medic.

150: A mechanical lightning bug capable of traveling at interstellar speeds.

[Hunter Noventa]

131) Self Sealing Stem-bolts

Love it.

151: All of the Holographic Foil Charizard Pokemon Cards. ALL OF THEM.
152: Singing and Dancing Vocaloid Plushies
153: Anime Body Pillows meant for Omicron Persei 8
154: A Microscopic Space Fleet
155: Towels
156: Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses
157: Dozens of Paintings of Robots playing Poker