Summary: The commander can create weapons, ammo packs and health packs. Weapons can only be placed within range of the appropriate structure. Jet packs and heavy armor are also dropped.

Select the desired equipment from the equipment menu, and place the icon over an approved location (see equipment descriptions).

Distress Beacon
The observatory punches through the nano-gridlock, sending an emergency signal to the neighboring dropship. The dropship immediately sends reinforcements, homing in on the signal's location, and spending large amounts of energy to create temporary "subject fields" out of the construction nanos in the ceiling-based command network. The squad immediately returns to full deployment. The reinforcements get there every time, but it is incredibly stressful and dangerous for the dropship's engines (not to mention the dropship's commander). See phase technology for more information on phase travel.