Archotech eraser

The Archotech eraser is an Archotech artifact added with the Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids module. When activated by a pawn, it destroys all non-grounded entities within a 10-tile radius. Anything in the radius is wiped from existence and cannot be resurrected or recovered.

Use

 * The item needs to be on the ground; i.e., it cannot be activated from the inventory or a shelf.
 * The pawn activating the artifact is necessarily sacrificed. If they have a lover, family, or friends, their Social tab simply shows the sacrificed pawn as "Missing" or "Unknown." Thus, mood debuffs from death do not apply.
 * Any entity (pawn, animal, building, item, flora, etc.) that is not part of the ground layer is erased. This means that bridges, floors, and water features are unaffected.

Strategy

 * In the "Mercenaries" scenario included with Insectoids, the Ancient Danger can be looted for the hope of acquiring an eraser. Then, one of the four pawns can lure all the insectoids to themselves before activating the eraser. This essentially turns the scenario into a jump-started "Crashlanded" play-through, in which you start with a small pre-built base and a few charge rifles. On higher difficulties, this is potentially one of the only ways to "defeat" the overrun outpost rather than running away.