Calixian Infantryman's Portable Communications Transcription Device

While the construction of the Calixian Infantryman's Portable Communications Transcription Device varies greatly from planet to planet, its function is vital. Every soldier of the Astra Militarum tithed from a world within the Calixis Sector is expected to have a rudimentary understanding of its operating procedures so that he or she may communicate when Vox-operators are not available.

Typically a gripped cylinder with a reservoir of staining liquid, the device has also been manufactured successfully on primitive worlds such as Iocanthos using soft breaking metal or fissionable residue encased in a stain resistant substance, usually milled on site.

When a staining liquid is used, it can be manufactured from a variety of substances found throughout the Calixis Sector including, but not limited to, flora/fauna compression, animal excretion harvesting, or synthetic means.

This source can often affect the hue of the staining liquid. The "por-com," as many Scintillan regiments have come to call it, is typically issued with locally-rendered Calixian Infantryman's Portable Communications Notation Devices. These can be harvested from fauna rendering processes or created synthetically.

A master-crafted Calixian Infantryman's Portable Communications Transcription Device functions even in locations without gravity and has multiple reservoirs that hold different pigments of staining liquid.