Organization:Enhancement Module Rating Board

The Enhancement Module Rating Board, or EMRB, is the governing body which balances Superhuman Ability Modules and works to prevent abuse of SAMs.

They give each SAM an "effectiveness rating" - or ER - between 1 and 100, with 99 being the effectiveness of Nullify. Any other SAM with an effectiveness rating of 99 or higher is banned from distribution until it is modified, tested and found to have an effectiveness rating of 98 or lower.

SAMs that reached an ER of 99 before being re-balanced are few and far between, and only one SAM - Extropy - has managed an ER of 100. Due to an odd choice by Uniqus, Extropy was scrapped rather than re-balanced, and due to lax security, a dozen copies made their way to the black market.