StarQuest Online Refit Pack - Player Manual

Refits, defense, ship systems, war paint, the Experimental Fab Bay, the Science Bay, Hydroponics and where to get it all

Refit Pack v3 - October 2026

Welcome back, Captain. Your old ship still flies the way you remember it: the same consoles, the same throttle, the same Engineering sliders. What is new is everything you can now bolt into the empty rooms behind those consoles.

How to use this manual

This manual is for captains of StarQuest Online who want to rebuild their ships: refit rooms, point defense, ship systems, war paint, the Experimental Fab Bay, the Science Bay and Hydroponics. You do not need to read it in order.

• New to refits? Read chapter 1 first. It explains refit rooms, power, how a module gets fitted and how the Refit Terminal boards work. Everything else builds on it.
• Looking for one system? Use the contents below (or the sidebar): chapters 2-5 cover combat, ship systems, paint and buying gear; chapters 6-9 cover the fab bay, the science bay, hydroponics and crafting.
• Need a command? Chapter 10 lists every player command, every crew voice order and a troubleshooting table.
• Need exact numbers? Prices, materials, build times and stats for every module, gizmo, crop and good are in Appendix A (refit modules, paint, vendors, missions, materials) and Appendix B (fab bay, science bay, hydroponics). Each chapter tells you which table to open.

How commands are written. <id> means "type a value here", [room] means "optional", and a|b means "one of these". Every command is typed in chat with a / in front, for example /refit rooms. If your client eats the slash, use !refit rooms; !, . and \ all work the same. On a Refit Terminal board the prefix is optional.

Where a command works is shown as anywhere, aboard (on your ship, docked or not), aboard, in space (not docked), docked, at a station (galley and so on) or on a terminal (typed on a board).

Terminal pages in this manual are shown exactly as the board shows them, with example numbers for an Alliance Ticonderoga called Kestrel. Your own numbers will differ.

If terminals don't appear. Every board page is also available in chat: /refit show <page> prints its status (for example /refit show pd), and every order on a board is also a chat command. A missing board can be put back by the owner with /refit terminal reset <room>.

Contents

• Chapter 1. Getting started with refits
• 1.1 What a refit room is
• 1.2 How many rooms your hull has
• 1.3 The power budget
• 1.4 Finding your rooms and the 6 m rule
• 1.5 Three ways to fit a module
• 1.6 Permissions
• 1.7 The Refit Terminal boards
• 1.8 The ship-wide overview board
• 1.9 Removing a module and refunds
• 1.10 Limits every captain hits
• 1.11 Materials & build
• Chapter 2. Defense and point defense
• 2.1 How an intercept works
• 2.2 PD modes
• 2.3 The PD Battery Terminal
• 2.4 Point-defense lines
• 2.5 Flak and escort screens (fighters, drones, shuttles)
• 2.6 Decoys and spoofers (guided torpedoes)
• 2.7 Sweepers and minefields
• 2.8 Chaff, smoke and ion haze (beams)
• 2.9 Shields
• 2.10 Armour and bulkheads
• 2.11 EMP hardening (XON)
• 2.12 Boarding defense
• 2.13 The Armour & Shield Terminal
• 2.14 Alerts you will see
• 2.15 Restocking ammo, mines, decoys and chaff
• 2.16 Recommended fits
• 2.17 Counterplay: how to beat a defended ship
• 2.18 Materials & build
• Chapter 3. Ship systems
• 3.1 Power and engines
• 3.2 Hull, armour and repair
• 3.3 Sensors, ECM and computers
• 3.4 Utility: wardroom and smuggler holds
• 3.5 Hangar and flight ops
• 3.6 Cargo: holds, vaults, certificates and the fuel cracker
• 3.7 Comms and fleet auras
• 3.8 Stealth and break-lock
• 3.9 Teleport
• 3.10 Crew and morale
• 3.11 Medical
• 3.12 Science labs (annexes)
• 3.13 Weapon mods
• 3.14 Voice orders at a glance
• Chapter 4. War paint and insignia
• 4.1 The paint shop
• 4.2 Liveries and unlocks
• 4.3 Finishes
• 4.4 Fame trims
• 4.5 Nose lettering
• 4.6 Kill tally
• 4.7 Ribbons
• 4.8 Squadron insignia
• 4.9 Materials & build
• 4.10 Interior paint and battle damage
• Chapter 5. Getting gear
• 5.1 Vendors
• 5.2 Standing
• 5.3 Daily stock rotation
• 5.4 Refit yards
• 5.5 Salvage and loot
• 5.6 Refit missions
• 5.7 Achievements
• 5.8 Materials & build
• Chapter 6. The Experimental Fabrication Bay
• 6.1 Bays and labs
• 6.2 What you need for one experiment
• 6.3 Running an experiment, step by step
• 6.4 The roll, explained simply
• 6.5 Outcomes
• 6.6 Lab events and /fab choose
• 6.7 Research notes and the tech tree
• 6.8 Second-stage chains
• 6.9 Cursed and quirky results
• 6.10 Derelict teardown (ADL)
• 6.11 Anomaly samples (AXC)
• 6.12 First discoveries and galaxy news
• 6.13 Schematics, copies and fitting a hybrid
• 6.14 The FAB BAY TERMINAL
• 6.15 Safety tips
• Chapter 7. The Science Bay
• 7.1 Bays and Science Decks
• 7.2 Benches and mounting gizmos
• 7.3 The gizmos
• 7.4 Operators and the science crew post
• 7.5 Research projects
• 7.6 Probes and prescans
• 7.7 Specimens
• 7.8 Exotic tracks, tech tokens and the accelerator
• 7.9 Chemistry, briefings and language
• 7.10 Bay events
• 7.11 The botany bench and crop strains
• 7.12 Daily limits
• 7.13 The SCIENCE BAY TERMINAL
• Chapter 8. Hydroponics and Provisions
• 8.1 Grow decks and modules
• 8.2 Beds and their needs
• 8.3 Planting and harvesting
• 8.4 Blight and pests
• 8.5 Alien seeds from /sample
• 8.6 Breeding strains
• 8.7 The ship's store
• 8.8 Processing stations, step by step
• 8.9 Every good, by type
• 8.10 How buffs work
• 8.11 Feeding the crew and morale
• 8.12 Selling produce
• 8.13 The HYDROPONICS and GALLEY TERMINALS
• Chapter 9. Crafting and Materials Guide
• 9.1 The Schematic window
• 9.2 Tools for each step
• 9.3 Skills and difficulty
• 9.4 Raw materials and where to get them
• 9.5 Race-equivalent materials
• 9.6 Consumables and restocking
• Chapter 10. Command Reference, Voice Orders and Troubleshooting
• 10.1 All player commands
• 10.2 Crew voice orders
• 10.3 Troubleshooting and FAQ
• Appendix A. Refit tables
• A1. Modules
• A2. Consumables and craft
• A3. Liveries (nose art)
• A4. Finishes, trims, paint services, ribbons and insignia
• A5. Vendors
• A6. Refit yards
• A7. Loot tables
• A8. Refit missions
• A9. Achievements
• A10. Material catalogue
• Appendix B. Fab Bay, Science Bay, Hydroponics and Provisions
• B1 Experimental Fab Bays and labs
• B2 Alien-tech hybrids
• B3 Science Bays and Science Decks
• B4 Science gizmos
• B5 Hydroponics modules
• B6 Crops
• B7 Goods (provisions, drinks, tinctures, stims, trade goods)
• B8 Consumables and restock items

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Chapter 1. Getting started with refits

1.1 What a refit room is

Your ship's stock hardpoints (the reactor, engines, lasers, shields and so on) are full. Nothing in this pack takes a hardpoint. Instead, refit modules go into rooms: the cargo bays, storerooms, crew quarters, conference rooms, gyms and mess halls you have been walking through for years.

When a module is fitted, the room stays walkable, but its name changes. Walk past the old "Cargo Bay 2" after an install and the room label now reads APD-2 PD CLUSTER. A small bulletin board appears next to the label: that is the room's Refit Terminal, where you check on the module and give it orders (section 1.7).

The room label also tells you how the module is doing:

Which rooms can be converted

Never converted: the Bridge, Engineering, the Reactor and Engine Room, Sickbay, the Transporter room, airlocks, the Shuttle Bay or Hangar, Life Support, weapon and torpedo rooms, the Brig and corridors. Those rooms hold your stock systems and consoles.

Each module also lists the room kinds it accepts. A hangar needs a big cargo bay, storeroom or spare room; a chapel is happy in the crew quarters. Appendix A shows the accepted kinds in the rooms column.

1.2 How many rooms your hull has

Every hull has a refit room budget: the most rooms you may convert. It is half the number of decks (rounded) plus one, between 1 and 8; the Titan and the Deathwing get at least 6 as capitals. It can never be more than the number of convertible rooms that actually exist on the deck plans.

/refit rooms shows your real count, which rooms qualify, and what is in each one. The table below is the guide for every buyable hull.

A "~" or a range means the deck plans had not been surveyed when this manual was written. Trust /refit rooms.

Capital ships (Ticonderoga, Titan, Deathwing, Star Warrior) are the only hulls that can take tier 3 and higher modules in most families, and the only hulls that take modules marked "capitals only". Everything else tops out at tier 2. Two exceptions: point-defense modules follow their own hull list, and the civilian Celay decoy arrays and Ryl'Atti chaff pods go up to tier 3 on any hull.

1.3 The power budget

Every module that does something draws power from the same bus as your shields and weapons. The Engineering console is still the single truth about power:

• Module draw is added to the matching allocation bar: point defense, weapon mods and fighter wings to weapons; shield modules to shields; teleport modules to teleport (only while beaming); tractor arrays to tractor; overdrive to propulsion; hyperdrive tuning to hyperdrive; algae vats to life; the rest to other.
• Aux generator annexes (section 3.1) add their supply to the two aux generator gauges (half on each), so the gauges and the total always match.
• If demand is higher than supply, the ship browns out. Every module then works at the brownout ratio (supply divided by demand). Below half power most modules switch off entirely.

You manage refit load exactly as you always managed power: with the Engineering sliders and the AUTO / MANUAL / ALERT modes.

Check the bus at any time:

• /refit power gives supply (with aux), use (with refits) and load, plus a BROWNOUT line if you are short.
• Say 'engineering, power report' (needs an engineer aboard).
• Open the power page of any Refit Terminal, or the ship-wide overview board (section 1.8).

You will see this warning if you overload the bus:

[Refit] WARNING: power deficit 412 PU - brownout.

Rule of thumb. A typical parked ship uses about 6,300 of its 7,600 supply, mostly on shields. A capital's spare margin (the "+ 800" on a Ticonderoga's class page) disappears fast once you add three or four refits. That is what aux generator annexes are for.

1.4 Finding your rooms and the 6 m rule

1. Type /refit rooms. You get each convertible room, its kind, what is installed, any build timer and module health.
2. Type /refit catalog (or /refit catalog point_defense, /refit catalog hangar and so on) to see every module that fits your hull. A * marks modules that fit a free room right now.
3. Type /refit info <id> for the full card of one module: cost, materials, hours, rooms, power, crew and drawbacks. Example: /refit info pd_alliance_mk2.
4. Walk to the room. When you fit a module yourself, you must stand within 6 metres (6 floor tiles) of the room's label, and the room must be empty. NPC yard crews do not need you there.

Finding your way: room names

Every ship now knows the names of its rooms, so you no longer have to count corridors.

• Walking in. When you step into a named room aboard a ship, the chat tells you where you are: You enter Main Sickbay, deck 9. You get the line once per room and not again for a minute, so pacing a corridor does not flood your chat. /refit alerts all shows it every time, /refit alerts off silences it (together with the other combat lines).
• Asking. Type /where at any time aboard. Below your position you get your deck and room, or, in a corridor, the nearest named room and how far away it is.
• In battle. Damage reports name the room that was hit: [Damage] Reactor hit - Main Engineering, deck 8. Fire and breach warnings and the sickbay's injury reports name the room too, so you know where to send help.
• Room signs. If you spot a room sign on a wall, click it: the chat shows what the sign says.
• Terminals. A Refit Terminal board stands in the middle of the room its module was fitted in.

Older hulls had only a handful of labelled rooms. The rest of the names come from the ship's deck plans, so a few smaller compartments may carry a plain name such as "Crew Quarters" or "Storage".

1.5 Three ways to fit a module

You always need the module crate (bought, looted or assembled from fragments, see chapter 5) and the module's materials (metal ingots, electronics, trycene and so on, listed in Appendix A). Then pick how it goes in.

A. Buy and let the yard fit it (easiest)

Dock at a vendor with a refit yard (Terra, Klinshay, Therat Prime, the Alpha / Duell / Temple starbases, Manara, Rodom V).

1. /acq shop to see today's stock and your price; /acq buy <id> to buy the crate.
2. /refit yard <id> [room] [rush], for example /refit yard def_aap_mk2 Storage. The same thing from the vendor's side: /acq install <id> [room|self] sends a crate you carry to the yard (or, with self, to a self-install), /acq rush <id> [room] books the rush service, and /acq buy <id> [install [room]] buys the crate and sends it straight to the yard in one step (/acq buy def_aap_mk2 install Storage).
3. The yard charges a fee of 10-12.5 % of the module's price (minimum 1,000-1,500 cr), times 0.75 for small hulls, 1 for medium and 1.5 for capitals. Add rush to pay double the fee for half the time.
4. The refit timer on your Engineering console counts the hours down. You cannot launch until it reaches 0.
5. When it is done, your engineer reports: Engineering: APD-2 is installed and online in Cargo Bay 2.

Yard crews never fail and skip the 6 m rule. Not every yard fits everything: see the yard table in section 5.4.

B. Self-install (cheapest)

Bring the crate and the materials and do it yourself.

1. Stand within 6 m of the room label.
2. /refit selfinstall <id> [room], for example /refit selfinstall crg_rhd_mk1 Cargo Bay 1.
3. Where: tier 1-2 modules at any dock, or in open space if you have taken no hit for 120 s and no hostile is within 1.2. Tier 3 and higher at any dock.
4. Time: 1.5 x the build hours, or 0.75 of that with two or more engineering crew posted.
5. The roll: your chance is 35 + (Fabrication Technology skill / 5) + up to 10 for engineering crew of skill 100 or more + 5 with the Self-Made achievement, minus the module's difficulty (Appendix A, "skill; diff"), kept between 10 % and 95 %. * Miss by 20 or less: half the hours are lost, you keep the materials, and you can try again. * Miss by more than 20: a quarter of the materials are lost and the module goes in at 50 % health. * A roll of 96-100 also gives you a small power surge accident.

[Refit] Botched fit (41% vs 55%). Time lost, parts kept.

Self-install is the only way to fit Tikopai and XON salvage outside Rodom V.

C. Fabricate the consumables yourself

Mines, decoys, chaff, ordnance packs, fighters, drones and shuttles can also be built in the stock Schematic window with welder, bonder and tracer tools (rows and tools in Appendix A2). Tier 1-2 work needs the basic tools, tier 3-4 the advanced ones, tier 5 the master ones.

1.6 Permissions

• Reading a Refit Terminal: anyone aboard. Dock boards (paint shop, vendor, yard, missions): anyone.
• Giving orders (on a board, by voice or by chat command): the ship's owner, plus any players the owner has allowed. /refit terminal lists your boards and who may use them. The owner adds or removes a player with /refit terminal allow|deny <player>, for example /refit terminal allow Vos.
• Voice orders also need at least one crew member of that department aboard. If nobody is at the post, you get Tactical: nobody at that post. and nothing happens. Chat commands work without crew.
• Modules belong to the hull. If you lose the ship, its modules are lost with it (secure vaults are the one exception, section 3.6).
• No ship needed: a few commands work anywhere, even when you are not aboard: /refit info <id>, /refit help2, /fab notes, /fab discoveries, /fab tree [faction], /fab token <faction>, /acq standing, /acq ach, /acq fragments, /refitmissions [list] and /refitmissions <id|short id>, /hydro buffs and /hydro seeds. Everything else answers "You need to be aboard your ship."

1.7 The Refit Terminal boards

Every fitted module gets a board one tile from its room label, named after the system: PD BATTERY TERMINAL, POWER TERMINAL, FLIGHT OPS TERMINAL and so on. Use-click it like any bulletin board and the DataPad dialog opens with a status page.

Reading a page

Every page has the same layout. Here is the point-defense page of the example ship Kestrel:

==================================================================================================
 REFIT TERMINAL :: POINT DEFENSE & COUNTERMEASURES                       KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 2 -> APD-2 PD CLUSTER   Deck 6                           Power 100%  Crew 1/1 tac
==================================================================================================
 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 STATUS
  Mode AUTO        Engagements 3 per 4 s window (cap)       ECM resist 30%      Kills: 4 torp, 2 ftr
  Mount        Room          hp    Torp  Msl   Ftr   Drone Mine  Arc      Crew   Draw
  APD-2        Cargo Bay 2   100%  25%   29%   13%   13%   13%   FWD 180  1/1    225
  AFK-1 flak   Storage 1      82%   6%    6%   28%   28%    -    360      1/1    120
  AMS-1        Cargo Bay 4   100%   5%    5%     -     -    30%   360      1/1    100
  Best vs torpedo 31% (cap 50%)  missile 34%  fighter 35%  (after crew, power, ECM, mode)

 COUNTERMEASURES            charges   cooldown   restock (docked)
  AML-1 mine layer           6/8       ready      400 cr/mine     fields out 1/2 (armed)
  ADL-1 decoy launcher       2/3       0:41       300 cr/charge   burst +15% intercept 8 s
  ACD-1 chaff dispenser      3/3       ready      250 cr/charge   15% beam negation 10 s

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] pd auto              [ ] pd missile         [ ] pd fighter         [ ] pd off
  [ ] refit mine lay
  [ ] refit mine clear
  [ ] refit decoy
  [ ] refit chaff
  [ ] refit restock         # docked: refill mines/decoys/chaff at the prices above
  [ ] acq restock Cargo Bay 2   # in the field: uses 1 ordnance pack

 CHAT  /pd auto|missile|fighter|off  /refit mine lay|clear  /refit decoy|chaff|restock
 VOICE 'tactical, point defense missiles'  'tactical, lay mines'  'tactical, decoys'
 NOTE  Tactical panel buttons are fixed: PD has no button there. RED alert sets PD AUTO.
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page armour  [ ] page security  [ ] page weapons  [ ] page overview

• Header: the system, your ship, the room and what it became, the deck, the module's power and how many of its crew are posted.
• RESULT: what happened the last time you saved orders here (shown for 2 minutes; the same lines also go to chat).
• STATUS: live numbers. They are the same numbers /refit show <page> prints in chat.
• QUICK ORDERS: one-click orders.
• CHAT / VOICE lines near the bottom remind you of the matching commands.
• GO TO: jump to another page of the same ship.

Giving orders: tick, type, Save

The dialog is a plain text editor. The page itself is the form.

1. Tick a box. Change [ ] to [x] in front of an order: [x] pd missile
2. Or type an order. Replace the _ on a > line with any command the page allows (the / is optional): ```

   refit fleet join Kestrel pd status ```

3. Press Save. The orders run top to bottom, at most 6 per save. Results appear in chat at once and in the RESULT block the next time you open that board.

Rules worth knowing:

• A line that still contains _ is ignored, so you can leave the blank order lines alone.
• Anything after # on a line is a comment.
• One line may hold several boxes ([x] pd auto [x] refit decoy); each runs.
• A page only accepts commands for its own system. The cargo board will not fire your mines.
• page <name> (ticked or typed) switches the board to another page for you. refresh redraws it, help shows the form help.
• You can save once every 2 seconds.

Lost a board?

If a board goes missing, the owner can put it back: /refit terminal [reset <room>], for example /refit terminal reset Cargo Bay 2. Plain /refit terminal lists every board on your ship.

If terminals don't appear. Every board page is also available in chat: /refit show <page> prints the page's status block (up to 12 lines), for example /refit show pd or /refit show hydro. Every order on a board is also a chat command, so you can play the whole refit pack from chat while a board is missing.

The pages

1.8 The ship-wide overview board

Once your ship has at least one refit, a SHIP REFIT OVERVIEW board appears in the Main Computer Bay (or next to the Ship Computer console if there is no such room). The same text is added to the Ship's Log on the main computer under "REFIT".

==================================================================================================
 REFIT TERMINAL :: SHIP REFIT OVERVIEW                                   KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Owner: Andy   Hull 100%   Docked: no   Alert: GREEN                               Refit rooms 7/8
==================================================================================================
 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 POWER  supply 8415  used 7020  load 83%  OK      morale 64   signature x0.85   fleet 3/8
 ROOM                 MODULE                    hp     state       terminal page
  Cargo Bay 1         AFG-X2 aux annex          100%   ONLINE      power
  Cargo Bay 2         APD-2 PD cluster          100%   AUTO        pd
  Storage 1           ASM-2 shield modulator     82%   focus FWD   armour
  Cargo Bay 3         AFR-2 Valkyrie rails      100%   2 aboard    hangar
  Conference Room 2   ASB-2 science bay         100%   2 projects  science
  Cargo Bay 7         AFB-2 fab bay (2 rooms)   100%   WAITING     fab.events
  Cargo Bay 8         AGB-2 grow bay            100%   1 ripe      hydro
  Crew Quarters 3     (free: any family)
 ALERTS (last 10)
  12:02 [Fab] Lab event waiting: /fab choose a|b (4 min)
  11:48 [PD] Torpedo intercepted (APD-2)
  11:20 General: Beds 1-4 are ripe. Harvest when ready.
 BUILDING  none     REFIT TIMER 0:00 (Engineering console)

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit rooms
  [ ] refit power
  [ ] refit terminal
  [ ] refit alerts brief     [ ] refit alerts all     [ ] refit alerts off

 CHAT  /refit rooms  /refit show <page>  /refit power  /refit catalog  /refit info <id>
 LOG   Main computer -> Ship's Log shows this page under 'REFIT'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page pd  [ ] page armour  [ ] page power  [ ] page hangar  [ ] page science
         [ ] page fab  [ ] page hydro  [ ] page crew  [ ] page paint

From here you can give orders to point defense, overdrive, the fab bay, the science bay and hydroponics as well as /refit commands, so a captain on the bridge deck never has to run to a cargo bay mid-fight.

Combat chatter. /refit alerts all, /refit alerts brief (default) or /refit alerts off choose how many of the new combat lines (PD kills, mine hits, room hits) you see. It is your own setting; it does not change what your crew sees.

Chat copy of any page. /refit show <page> prints the STATUS block of any page in chat (up to 12 lines): overview pd armour security power sensors hangar cargo comms stealth teleport medical crew weapons fab science hydro. Every department also answers ', refit status' with the first line of its page.

1.9 Removing a module and refunds

/refit remove <room> (docked), for example /refit remove Cargo Bay 2:

• You get back 50 % of the price and half of the materials (rounded down) - the actual elements and alloys of the module's recipe (the same metals you put into its schematic), not generic ingots. /refit salvage <id> shows what a module would return before you strip it.
• It takes 25 % of the module's build hours on the refit timer.
• The room gets its old name, cargo space and berths back, and its board is removed.
• At an NPC yard the removal costs a 5 % fee.
• If you remove one module to fit another in the same room, the new install's labour is free.

[Refit] APD-2 Point Defense Cluster stripped out. Refund 25,000 cr + half the materials.

Do not confuse the three "uninstall" commands: /refit remove is for refit rooms, the stock /uninstall is for hardpoint parts, and /fab uninstall exists only for one very unusual fab-bay result (chapter 6).

1.9b Building a module yourself: schematics, elements and the crate

Every module, gizmo and consumable with a recipe can also be built from a printed schematic instead of being bought as a crate. /refit schematic [<id|name> [price]]: with no words it lists the schematics and crates you carry; with price it shows the rows (the elements and alloys the schematic takes) and the price; with just an id or name it sells you the printed schematic (10 % of the module's price, at least 250 cr). Any Commodities Agent sells them too - say 'refit schematics' or 'buy schematic '.

Hold the schematic, put the elements and alloys into its rows (steel, stainless, titanium alloy, iron, aluminium and titanium all count as metal ingots; the Klinshaya, Therataan and Tikopai ingots take the same alloys), use the tool each step asks for and press CREATE. The used schematic is now the module crate: carry it to the room and /refit install <id> [room] as usual (or the yard / self-install routes). A crate you built already holds its materials, so the install takes no second batch. Reverse engineering a built crate with a blank schematic prints the module's recipe again.

1.10 Limits every captain hits

The pack is designed so that stacking more modules buys you breadth, not invulnerability. These are the ceilings, in plain words:

Other caps you may run into: speed above flank +40 %, hull +30 %, ECM strength 0.80, beam damage +30 %, torpedo ammo +10 per launcher, shield regen x2.5, shield capacity +25 %, scan range +75 %, crew skill bonus +30.

1.11 Materials & build

• The full table of every module, with tier, faction, legality, hull fit, rooms, power, price, materials, build hours, skill and difficulty, where to get it and which terminal page it uses: Appendix A1.
• Prices and sources of every raw material and tool: Appendix A10.
• Yard fees and hours: Appendix A6.

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Chapter 2. Defense and point defense

Defense in the refit pack is not one big shield number. Each kind of threat has its own answer:

Two rules sit over all of it:

• The 50 % rule. However much you stack, your modules together never remove more than half of a hit's expected damage. Shields and your stock ECM work on top of that.
• Point defense never stops more than half of the torpedoes that would hit you.

What you will meet today. Rogue Empire ships currently fire lasers only. Point defense, flak, decoys and reactive armour come into their own against torpedo-armed NPCs, fighters and drones, against minefields, and in the PD drills of the refit missions. Beam defenses (chaff, haze, crystal plating), shields, armour, bulkheads, break-lock and your own mines work against today's rogues right away. NPC starbases and ODPs already carry point defense against your torpedoes, so expect fewer of them to land than before.

2.1 How an intercept works

Torpedoes do not fly as objects you can see; each one lands 1.5 s after launch. At that moment, if it passed its hit roll, your PD gets one roll to stop it.

• Chance. Your best PD module's chance against that threat type, adjusted for its firing arc, the PD mode, crew skill, ship power and the attacker's ECM. Never above 50 %.
• Engagements. Each module adds a number of engagements per 4-second window (its "cap"). Every roll uses one, hit or miss. When they are used up, further torpedoes in that window get through untouched.
• Arcs. Lower-tier APD and KPD clusters cover 180 or 270 degrees around the side of the hull their room is on. Higher tiers and most other lines cover all round.
• Crew. A crewed module needs its tactical crew posted (1 for T1-T3, 2 for T4-T5). With fewer it works at half strength; with none, not at all. Good tactical crew add up to +10 %.
• ECM. An attacker with ECM on weakens your PD a little (Celay decoys twice as much; XON gear not at all). Your own ECM still rolls first to jam each hit.
• Beams are never intercepted. PD is for ordnance and small craft.

When a torpedo is stopped you see:

[PD] Torpedo intercepted (APD-2). 1 engagement left this window.

2.2 PD modes

• /pd (or /pd status, or 'tactical, point defense report') shows the mode, mounts, engagements per window, your chances and your kill count.
• RED alert from the command chair puts PD back to AUTO if it was off (unless you switched it off by hand in the last minute), and puts shield focus on AUTO.
• The Tactical console has no PD button. Use chat, voice or the PD terminal.

2.3 The PD Battery Terminal

Every room holding a PD cluster, flak, sweeper, decoy launcher, mine layer, chaff or haze module gets this board.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: POINT DEFENSE & COUNTERMEASURES                       KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 2 -> APD-2 PD CLUSTER   Deck 6                           Power 100%  Crew 1/1 tac
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 STATUS
  Mode AUTO        Engagements 3 per 4 s window (cap)       ECM resist 30%      Kills: 4 torp, 2 ftr
  Mount        Room          hp    Torp  Msl   Ftr   Drone Mine  Arc      Crew   Draw
  APD-2        Cargo Bay 2   100%  25%   29%   13%   13%   13%   FWD 180  1/1    225
  AFK-1 flak   Storage 1      82%   6%    6%   28%   28%    -    360      1/1    120
  AMS-1        Cargo Bay 4   100%   5%    5%     -     -    30%   360      1/1    100
  Best vs torpedo 31% (cap 50%)  missile 34%  fighter 35%  (after crew, power, ECM, mode)

 COUNTERMEASURES            charges   cooldown   restock (docked)
  AML-1 mine layer           6/8       ready      400 cr/mine     fields out 1/2 (armed)
  ADL-1 decoy launcher       2/3       0:41       300 cr/charge   burst +15% intercept 8 s
  ACD-1 chaff dispenser      3/3       ready      250 cr/charge   15% beam negation 10 s

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] pd auto              [ ] pd missile         [ ] pd fighter         [ ] pd off
  [ ] refit mine lay
  [ ] refit mine clear
  [ ] refit decoy
  [ ] refit chaff
  [ ] refit restock         # docked: refill mines/decoys/chaff at the prices above
  [ ] acq restock Cargo Bay 2   # in the field: uses 1 ordnance pack

 CHAT  /pd auto|missile|fighter|off  /refit mine lay|clear  /refit decoy|chaff|restock
 VOICE 'tactical, point defense missiles'  'tactical, lay mines'  'tactical, decoys'
 NOTE  Tactical panel buttons are fixed: PD has no button there. RED alert sets PD AUTO.
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Example: switch to anti-torpedo mode and pop decoys in one save. Change [ ] pd missile to [x] pd missile and [ ] refit decoy to [x] refit decoy, then Save. Chat shows both results.

2.4 Point-defense lines

Chances are per torpedo, before the 50 % ceiling. "Cap" is engagements per 4 s window.

T5 clusters take two refit rooms. NPC starbases and ODPs carry their own station batteries (APD-S, KPD-S, TPD-S, EMPD-XS); you cannot buy those, but you will meet them when you attack a station.

Every PD cluster also gets a roll against mines at half its torpedo chance.

2.5 Flak and escort screens (fighters, drones, shuttles)

Flak screens are built for small craft. Each roll against a craft uses only half an engagement, and a quarter of the time an intercepted craft is destroyed outright. They are almost useless against torpedoes.

Escort screens cover your fleet as well as you. Allies within 0.15 of you get your screen at 60 % strength, and it spends your engagements on their threats. Join a fleet first (section 3.7).

2.6 Decoys and spoofers (guided torpedoes)

Decoys only work on guided ordnance. They roll like PD all the time, and you can fire a burst for a short, strong boost.

Fire a burst: /refit decoy, tick [x] refit decoy on the PD board, or say 'tactical, decoys'.

[Refit] Decoys away: +15% intercept for 8s.

2.7 Sweepers and minefields

Mines hide at a spot in space for 10 minutes and go off when something comes close. Sweepers protect you in a field: they roll against each mine that triggers on you, and they also clear nearby mines every second.

Laying your own mines

• Lay: /refit mine lay, or 'tactical, lay mines'. Mines arm after 5 s (8 s for seeker mines). You may have up to two fields out (one for the seeker nest), and must wait 20 s between lays.
• Clear your own fields: /refit mine clear, or 'tactical, clear mines'.
• Your mines never hurt other players unless your server has switched player-versus-player mines on.

[Refit] Laid 2 mine(s), 6 left.
[Refit] Mine field 1 hit a Rogue Raider (30 dmg).

2.8 Chaff, smoke and ion haze (beams)

PD cannot touch beams. These can.

Pop chaff: /refit chaff or 'tactical, chaff'. Beam negation from all sources tops out at 25 %.

[Refit] Chaff burst: 15% beam negation for 10s.

2.9 Shields

Stock shields are unchanged: six facings (FWD, STBD, AFT, PORT, DRSL, VENT), 100 each, regenerating 1 per second. The shield modules shape that.

Choosing the focus (modulators, harmonics, tuners):

• /refit shield FWD (or STBD, AFT, PORT, DRSL, VENT, AUTO). AUTO follows the facing taking the most fire.
• Say 'engineering, shields to forward' or 'engineering, shields auto'.
• Tick the facing on the Armour & Shield board.
• Where your client reports it, powering a shield arc on the Tactical console also sets the focus.

[Refit] Shield focus: FWD.

2.10 Armour and bulkheads

Armour is a pool of hit points between your shields and your hull. It takes a share of each hit's hull damage (its "DR") until the pool runs dry. Damage control refills it at its repair rate once your systems are fixed (five times faster when docked).

/refit armor shows your pool. When it runs low:

[Refit] Armour AAP-2 down to 20/90.

Bulkheads cut damage to your internal systems. Stock ships have a 60 % chance that a hull hit also damages a system.

Radiation hazards include your own hold: radioactive ores and elements carried as cargo (pitchblende, uranium, thorium and the like) dose everyone aboard, minute by minute, unless radiation shielding is fitted - RSH-1 blocks 30 %, RSH-2 half. /refit radiation shows the radioactive units aboard, the shielding and the dose.

System damage can never fall below half of stock, however much you stack.

2.11 EMP hardening (XON)

The XON EMPlasers hit systems hard. Hardening reduces EMP damage and the chance an EMP hit knocks out a system. It does nothing against other weapons, so fit it for XON patrols.

2.12 Boarding defense

Boarding parties capture ships. These modules make your ship harder to take. They are passive: post security crew to the rooms (half effect with too few, none with nobody).

Capture chance against you never drops below half of normal. Check it on the Security board, with /refit show security, or by saying 'security, report'.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: SECURITY & BOARDING                                   KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Crew Quarters 3 -> AMB-1 MARINE BARRACKS   Deck 9                  Power 100%  Crew 2/2 sec
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 STATUS
  Capture chance vs this ship: x0.68  (floor x0.50)     teleport board block 10%
  ISF-1 security field   Storage 3        100%   capture x0.85  block 10%   crew 1/1 security
  AMB-1 marine barracks  Crew Quarters 3  100%   capture x0.80  boarder casualties 30%
  Counter-board window: none          Last attempt: 14 min ago by Rogue Corsair - REPELLED
  Berths lost to conversions: 4 (crew 23/216)

 These systems are passive. Post security crew to the rooms to keep full effect;
 with fewer crew the effect is halved, with none it is 0.

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit show security

 CHAT  /refit show security        VOICE 'security, report'
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[Refit] Boarders scattered by security fields.

2.13 The Armour & Shield Terminal

Shield modules, armour, bulkheads, EMP and radiation hardening, hull frames and damage-control modules all share this board.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: ARMOUR, SHIELDS & HARDENING                           KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Storage 1 -> ASM-2 SHIELD MOD   Deck 4                             Power 100%  Crew 1/1 eng
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 SHIELDS (6 facings, stock capacity 100, regen 1/s)
  Facing   FWD    STBD   AFT    PORT   DRSL   VENT       Focus: FWD (set)     regen x1.75 focus
  Charge   100    74     100    61     100    100        others x0.75    total mult cap 2.5
  Cap      100    100    100    100    100    100        TSO capacity +0% (none fitted)
  KSH-A harmonics: move 2/s from fullest to weakest (donor >= 50%)

 ARMOUR (hull portion only, after shields)
  AAP-2 ablative   pool 72/90   DR 20%   threats: all   repair 2/s when DC queue empty (x5 docked)
  Mitigation budget this hit: PD + negate + EMP + armour <= 50% (ECM, shields outside)

 HULL & DAMAGE CONTROL
  AHF-2 hull frame   hull +18%  mass +8%    internal-damage chance 60% -> 45%
  EBH-1 bulkheads    system damage x0.85    floor chance x amount >= 0.30
  ARD-2 drone bay    DC 2 slots 2.0 %/s     (ARD-3: hull regen 0.5%/min up to 80% out of combat)
  AEH-1 EMP harden   EMP dmg x0.80          RSH-1 rad shield  rad -30%, overheat dmg x0.70

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit shield AUTO
  [ ] refit shield FWD       [ ] refit shield AFT      [ ] refit shield PORT
  [ ] refit shield STBD      [ ] refit shield DRSL     [ ] refit shield VENT
  [ ] refit armor

 CHAT  /refit shield <facing|AUTO>   /refit armor   /refit show armour
 VOICE 'engineering, shields to forward'   'engineering, shields auto'
 PANEL Tactical console shield arc PWR: the powered arc becomes the focus
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2.14 Alerts you will see

Turn the combat chatter up or down with /refit alerts all|brief|off (your own setting; default brief). The overview board has one-click boxes for the three settings.

2.15 Restocking ammo, mines, decoys and chaff

Ordnance Packs drop from combat loot, are sold at the race ODP field depots, and can be built in the Schematic window. One pack fully refills one module. Example: /acq restock Cargo Bay 2.

2.16 Recommended fits

Power is total module draw against the hull's class-page power.

• Boarding-heavy servers: swap the Ticonderoga's EBH-2 for AMB-2 (needs 4 security crew), or the Deathwing's armour for KMB-B.
• Minefield work: put AMS-1 or KMS-A in place of the chaff or harmonics room.

2.17 Counterplay: how to beat a defended ship

2.18 Materials & build

• Every PD and defense module (price, materials, build hours, skill and difficulty, hull fit, where to get it): Appendix A1.1 (point defense, flak, sweepers, decoys, escort screens) and A1.2 (mines, chaff, haze, shields, security, hardening). Armour plating and bulkheads are in A1.3; break-lock is in A1.11; marine barracks are in A1.13.
• Mines, decoys, chaff, KPD ammo, Ryl'Atti charges, Tikopai PD drones and Ordnance Packs: Appendix A2.
• Typical shopping lists: the line-ship fit above needs about 347 metal ingots, 150 electronic components and 68 trycene crystals; the Deathwing brawler about 283 Klinshaya ingots, 96 Klinshaya electronics and 55 trycene; the Star Warrior tank about 140 Therataan ingots, 187 Therataan electronics and 104 trycene.

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Chapter 3. Ship systems

Each section below follows the same pattern: what the system does, the modules, how to fit it, how to run it (console, terminal page, chat commands, voice orders), the alerts you will see, tips, and where its materials are listed.

Fitting is the same for every module (chapter 1.5): crate plus materials, then /refit yard <id> [room] at a yard or /refit selfinstall <id> [room] within 6 m of the room label. Each section's "Fit" line only lists what is special.

3.1 Power and engines

Aux generator annexes

An annex is an extra generator in a refit room. It adds supply to the power bus, shown on the Engineering console as extra output on your two aux generator gauges (half on each).

• Total aux supply is capped at 25 % of your hull's class-page power (30 % with KAFG-X).
• Annexes burn fuel like any generator (an X2 adds roughly 24 kt per hour). KAFG-X burns 25 % more, heats the reactor 50 % faster when you run above 95 % load, and crew working in its room slowly lose health.
• Only one annex per ship.

Engineering: Annex spun up, +800 to the aux bus.
[Refit] AFG-X2 annex destroyed - blast damage to adjacent rooms!

Capacitor banks

A capacitor bank stores spare power and dumps it on command: perfect for riding out a shield spike or an alpha strike.

• It only recharges from surplus power (supply minus use), and draws its recharge rate until full.
• Any hit on its room drains the bank.
• Dump: /refit discharge, tick [x] refit discharge on the Power board, or say 'engineering, dump the capacitors'.

[Refit] Capacitor bank dumping +1000 PU for 20s.

Fusion overdrive (with burnout warnings)

The overdrive opens a speed band past flank. It is built on the stock flank-wear rule: flank speed already wears your fusion engines (25 % after about 36 minutes, destroyed after about 2 hours). Overdrive wears them much faster.

How to use it:

1. Arm it: /overdrive on, 'engineering, overdrive on', or tick [x] overdrive on on the Power board. [Engine] OVERDRIVE ARMED: throttle past flank for +15% speed.
2. On the Helm, push the throttle past flank. You are now in the overdrive band.
3. Watch the warnings. Engine wear is reported at 5, 25, 50 and 75 %: [Engine] WARNING: fusion engine wear 25%.
4. Reactor heat climbs while you are in the band. At 90 heat the overdrive cuts out by itself and starts its cooldown: [Engine] Reactor heat 90 - overdrive cut out. Cooling down. If heat still reaches 100, your main reactor takes the stock 15 % overheat damage.
5. Stand down: /overdrive off or 'engineering, overdrive off'. Check state, wear, heat and cooldown with /overdrive.

Burnout. Engine wear stays until damage control repairs the fusion engines. At 100 % the engines are destroyed and you stop dead. AFO-1 on its own reaches the heat cut-out in about two minutes. The extra propulsion draw also pushes your load toward 95 %, so overdrive pairs naturally with an aux annex. Fuel burn on the engines doubles while in the band (x2.5 for TFO-R).

You cannot overdrive while cold-running, and AFO-2/3 and TFO cannot share a ship with the heavy hull frames (AHF-2/3).

Hyperdrive tuning and fuel bladders

Bladders show up on the Engineering fuel gauge as a bigger tank. Refuelling still costs 5 cr per % of the (enlarged) tank. Tuning labs go in non-cargo rooms.

[Refit] Fuel bladder hit: 25% of the bladder leaked.
[Engine] Misjump! The tuning lab threw us off course.

Tractor arrays

Operate tractors as always from the Ship Ops console.

The Power Terminal

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: POWER, OVERDRIVE & PROPULSION                         KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 1 -> AFG-X2 GENERATOR   Deck 7                           Power 100%  Crew 1/1 eng
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 POWER BUS (same numbers as the Engineering panel)
  Supply 8415 (stock 7615 + aux 800)   Used 7020 (stock 6300 + refits 720)   Load 83%   OK
  Aux cap 25% of class power = 2200   aux gauges -1200 / -1200 (annex folded in half each)
  Demand by category: shields 3450  weapons 640  propulsion 0  tractor 120  other 410  life 100

 MODULES                 room          hp     state
  AFG-X2 aux annex       Cargo Bay 1   100%   ONLINE  +800 PU   blast 15% if destroyed
  ACB-1 capacitor bank   Storage 2     100%   charged 20000/20000 PU s   dump +1000 for 20 s
  AFO-1 fusion overdrive Conference    100%   READY  wear 3%  heat 12  cut-out 90  cooldown -
  AHT-1 hyper tuning     Gym           100%   hyper x1.10  fuel +5%  draw +10%  crew skill >= 100
  AMT-X1 fuel bladders   Cargo Bay 5    90%   tank +500 kt (2500 kt)  leak 25% on a room hit
  ATB-X1 tractor array   Storage 4     100%   tractor strength +30%  range +10%

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] overdrive on         # then push the Helm throttle past flank
  [ ] overdrive off
  [ ] refit discharge
  [ ] fab burst            # hybrid burst annex only
  [ ] refit power

 CHAT  /refit power  /overdrive on|off|status  /refit discharge  /fab burst
 VOICE 'engineering, overdrive on'  'engineering, dump the capacitors'  'engineering, power report'
 PANEL Engineering console: aux gauges, allocation bars, refit timer. Heat: chat warnings.
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(/fab burst is for the burst annexes you can build in the Experimental Fab Bay, see chapter 6.)

Tips. Arm the overdrive only for the sprint, and drop out before 90 heat yourself so the cooldown starts sooner. Dump the capacitor bank the moment you switch shields to ALERT. If you see BROWNOUT, the cheapest fix is a slider, not a module.

Materials & build: Appendix A1.4 (aux power) and A1.5 (engines); tractor arrays in A1.7.

3.2 Hull, armour and repair

Armour plating and bulkheads are covered in chapter 2.10. This section covers the hull frames and damage control.

• Docked repairs run five times faster on top of all of this. All three damage-control modules also put out fires in their own room. Only one of ADC / ARD per ship.
• Refit rooms take damage too. A hull hit's system roll can land on a refit module instead of a stock system. The module's health shows on its room label and terminal, and damage control repairs it like any other system: [Refit] Hit on Cargo Bay 2 (APD-2 PD CLUSTER): module 45%. Engineering: Fire in the Experimental Fab Bay!
• The Engineering console's Damage Report still lists only the stock systems. Use /refit rooms or the overview board for refit modules.
• Operate: passive. Board: ARMOUR & SHIELD TERMINAL (chapter 2.13). Ask 'engineering, refit status' for a one-line summary.

Materials & build: Appendix A1.3.

3.3 Sensors, ECM and computers

These go in any suitable room, and they are the only modules a Main Computer Bay or Computer Core accepts.

How ECM works now. The ECM button on the Communications console is still the only ECM switch. The stock strength is 0.20 + 0.004 per point of skill, up to 0.60. An ECM suite adds to that strength and raises the cap, but only while the ECM button is on (and only then does it draw power). Each incoming hit is jammed with that chance. Remember the hit-chance cap: computer annexes, the targeting annex, salvo controller and fleet auras together add at most +0.10.

The computer annex raises the capacity line on the Engineering console. If your main computer is destroyed, your consoles stay up while the annex works.

The Sensor Terminal:

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: SENSORS, ECM & COMPUTER                               KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Main Computer Bay -> ACS-E1 ECM SUITE   Deck 2                   Power 100%  Crew 1/1 comms
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 STATUS
  ECM button (Comms console): ON   strength 0.20 + 0.05 + 0.004 x skill 100 = 0.65 (cap 0.70)
  ASP-X1 sensor annex   sensor range +20%  scan time -15%  scan range +10%  own signature +5%
  K-X1 computer annex   computer cap +200 (Eng. computer line)  hit chance +0.04 (cap 0.10)
  Hit-chance bonus total: +0.07 of 0.10 cap (K-X, TCA, salvo, fleet auras)

 Sensor mods are passive. ECM only counts while the Communications panel ECM button is ON.

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit sig
  [ ] refit show sensors

 CHAT  /refit sig   /refit show sensors     VOICE 'comms, signature'
 PANEL Comms console ECM / FOF buttons; Engineering computer line shows the K-X capacity
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• /refit sig (or 'comms, signature') shows your signature multiplier and how far away rogues notice you (section 3.8).
• Scan bonuses apply to the stock /scan and /sample at the Science console.

Materials & build: Appendix A1.6.

3.4 Utility: wardroom and smuggler holds

• The wardroom shows on the CREW TERMINAL; smuggler holds on the CARGO TERMINAL (section 3.6).
• If contraband is found, the fine is twice its value, you get a criminal flag and the goods are confiscated.
• Tractor arrays (also "utility") are in section 3.1.

Materials & build: Appendix A1.7.

3.5 Hangar and flight ops

Hangar modules carry server-side craft: fighters, utility drones and shuttles that launch from your ship. You buy the craft separately.

Fighters. A wing attacks your current target on the Tactical console for 6-7 damage per fighter every 4 seconds (about a third of a stock laser), and each fighter aboard or out screens 5 % of incoming fighter attacks (up to 20 %). Damaged fighters rearm at 2 % per second aboard (five times faster docked). You may only carry fighters of your own race, and only one wing type per ship.

Drones have three roles (four with a science bench kit):

Shuttles ferry cargo to a station within range 3.0: 60 units per trip, 2 minutes a trip.

The recovery cradle gives a 35 % salvage roll on kills within 0.6 and recovers half of your own downed craft. It needs a working stock tractor.

Operating the hangar

Launch and recall act on all craft at once; /refit launch 2 or /refit recall 1 are accepted, but the number is ignored. Craft prices: Valkyrie, Quen and K Type fighters 8,000 cr; utility drones 3,000 (2,500 for the Swarm Hive); shuttles 12,000.

Warning: craft that are still out are lost when your ship jumps to hyperspace. Recall first.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: HANGAR & FLIGHT OPS                                   KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 3 -> AFR-2 LAUNCH RAILS   Deck 5                         Power 100%  Crew 1/1 tac
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 WING  AFR-2 Valkyrie rails (554)    capacity 2   launch 10 s   recover 20 s
  Craft        hp       state      kills
  Valkyrie 1   40/40    ABOARD     1
  Valkyrie 2   22/40    ABOARD     0       rearming 2%/s (x5 docked)
  Wing: 6 dmg per fighter every 4 s at the tactical target; screen 5%/fighter (cap 20%)

 DRONES  ADB-1 utility bay (571)   capacity 2   role MINING (scout|mining|repair|sample)
  Drone 1 25/25 OUT   Drone 2 25/25 OUT    ore +1 per 6 min, trycene 10%
 SHUTTLE SBX-1 (547)  ferry 60 units/trip, 120 s, range 3.0   job: none
 CRADLE  RTC-1 recovery cradle: salvage 35% within 0.6, craft recovery 50% (tractor OK)

 Warning: craft still out are LOST when the ship jumps to hyperspace.

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit launch
  [ ] refit recall
  [ ] refit drones scout     [ ] refit drones mining    [ ] refit drones repair
  [ ] refit drones sample    # DSR-1 kit on a science bench
  [ ] refit buycraft 1       # docked; 8,000 cr per Valkyrie

 CHAT  /refit launch|recall  /refit drones <role>  /refit buycraft [n]  /refit ferry load|unload <n>
 VOICE 'tactical, launch fighters'  'engineering, drones mining'  'helm, shuttle unload 120'
 PANEL Ship Ops LAUNCH/LAND/PREP work the wing. The target drone stays stock.
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The Ship Ops target drone button still launches the stock gunnery drone; it is not part of the hangar.

[Refit] Launching 2 craft.
Tactical: Valkyrie 2 is down.
[Refit] 2 craft left behind in the jump.

Tips. Carriers live and die by power: rails draw only while craft are aboard rearming or out, but a full deck plus PD can brown you out. A solo miner (ADB-1 plus the fuel cracker, section 3.6) can sit in a belt indefinitely.

Materials & build: Appendix A1.8 (modules) and A2 (craft).

3.6 Cargo: holds, vaults, certificates and the fuel cracker

• Reinforced holds are the one module you may fit several of (one per cargo room).
• Certificates let you accept cargo missions that need them (refrigerated, hazmat, secure, quarantine).
• The hold size shown on the Ship Ops console follows your conversions: every module in a cargo bay costs hold space (Appendix A, "rooms" column), and holds and compressors give it back. JETTISON never empties a secure vault.
• The cracker is a range tool, not a money maker: it keeps a parked miner fuelled. Load ore or trycene into cargo, then /refit convert on or 'engineering, start the cracker'; stop with /refit convert off or 'engineering, stop the cracker'.
• Smuggler compartments (section 3.4) also report here.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: CARGO, VAULTS & FUEL CRACKER                          KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 4 -> RCH-1 REINFORCED HOLD   Deck 8                                    Power 100%
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 HOLD   capacity 1240 (stock 1300 - 180 conversions + 60 RCH-1 + 60 BCX-1 compressed)
        used 812    extra space locked if the compressor loses power: 0
 VAULTS cert          used/cap    sale bonus
  RFV-1 refrigerated  22/60       +15% perishables
  SCV-2 secure        10/40       the vault survives ship loss (to station storage)
 SMUGGLER  SMC-1 hidden 80 units, scan evasion 70% (deep scan 30%)

 FUEL CRACKER  CFC-1   state OFF   rate 200 kt/h   feed: ore 5 kt each, trycene 40 kt each
  feedstock aboard: ore x14, trycene crystals x3   heat +0.1/s while converting
 SHUTTLE FERRY (SBX-1)  station in range: Terra (1.4)   job: none

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit convert on
  [ ] refit convert off
  [ ] refit ferry load 60
  [ ] refit ferry unload 60

 CHAT  /refit convert on|off   /refit ferry load|unload <n>   /refit show cargo
 VOICE 'engineering, start the cracker'   'helm, shuttle load 60'
 PANEL Ship Ops cargo bay capacity; JETTISON never empties the secure vault
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page hangar  [ ] page teleport  [ ] page power  [ ] page overview

[Refit] Fuel cracker out of feedstock.
[Refit] Compressor unpowered: 36 units of hold space locked.
[Refit] Shuttle moved 60 units, 60 to go.

Tip for traders. Two rooms buy you either about +45 % hold, or certificates for better-paying cargo. Not both.

Materials & build: Appendix A1.9; cracker feedstock in A2.

3.7 Comms and fleet auras

Fleets. Auras, relays and escort screens work on your fleet. If your server already has groups, those are used. Otherwise:

• Join: /refit fleet join <ship> or 'comms, join fleet Kestrel'. Leave: /refit fleet leave or 'comms, leave fleet'. /refit fleet shows the fleet.
• Auras do not stack: for each bonus the best value in range applies. A fleet suite never buffs its own ship, so a proper fleet has a dedicated flagship.
• Contacts from the listening post arrive on the Communications CommNet and in chat. Ask 'comms, contacts' for the latest.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: COMMS, FLEET & LISTENING POST                         KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Conference Room -> AFC-3 FLEET COMMAND   Deck 3                  Power 100%  Crew 2/2 comms
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 FLEET  (server group: none -> /refit fleet)   flagship: KESTREL   members in aura range 3/8
  Aura AFC-3: hit +0.03, DC +0.5 %/s, ECM +0.03   range 5.0 (x2 relay)   self: no
  Member         range   hull   aura
  Morrow         1.2     88%    yes
  Hale's Pride   4.1     100%   yes
  Brightwater    7.9     61%    out of range
 RELAY  LRR-1 relay chat ON (fleet hears the ship channel at any range); distress < 25% hull
 LISTEN DLP-1 range 3.0 (+25% vs signature)  signature +5 while on
  Contacts (last 10 min): Rogue Raider brg 045 r 2.40 | Corsair brg 210 r 2.95
 ENCRYPT ENC-1: enemy ECM vs our shots x0.80

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit fleet
  [ ] refit fleet leave
> refit fleet join _

 CHAT  /refit fleet [join <ship>|leave]   /refit show comms
 VOICE 'comms, join fleet Kestrel'   'comms, contacts'
 PANEL Comms console CommNet carries relay, distress and contact lines
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page sensors  [ ] page stealth  [ ] page overview

To join from the board, replace the _ on the > refit fleet join _ line with the ship's name and Save.

[Comms] Contact: Rogue Raider bearing 045, range 2.40
Kestrel distress at Sol-3

Materials & build: Appendix A1.10.

3.8 Stealth and break-lock

Signature is how easy you are to notice. Rogues spot you at their normal aggro range (about 1.2) times your signature multiplier, and give up the chase beyond 1.5 times that. Your multiplier runs from x0.50 to x1.50.

Dampers and ghosting cannot share a ship with ASP-X2 or DLP-2, and SGD and SGH exclude each other. Ghost misses top out at 15 %.

Running cold: /refit coldrun on or 'engineering, run cold'; back to normal with /refit coldrun off or 'engineering, normal running'. Cold running ends by itself when you fire, take a hit, overdrive or dump the capacitors.

[Refit] Running cold. Signature down, speed capped.
[Refit] Cold run ended. All systems back to normal.
Shot struck a sensor ghost.

Break-lock

A break-lock throws off every hostile lock on you for a few seconds.

The chance drops by 10 % for each attacker beyond the first, and the effect ends the moment you fire. Trigger it with /refit breaklock, the voice order above, or the Stealth board.

[Refit] Break-lock succeeded - lock broken (35%).

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: STEALTH & BREAK-LOCK                                  KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Storage 2 -> CRM-2 COLD-RUN SUITE   Deck 6                         Power 100%  Crew 1/1 eng
==================================================================================================
 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 SIGNATURE  x0.85  (damper -15, cold run 0, listening post +5; clamp -50..+50)
  Rogue aggro range 1.20 x 0.85 = 1.02     disengage beyond 1.53
 COLD RUN   CRM-2  state OFF   transition 30 s   speed cap 50%  shields/weapons x0.25
            ends on: firing, taking a hit, overdrive, capacitor dump
 GHOSTING   SGH-2  beam miss 8%, torpedo miss 12% (+4 with a working stock shroud)
 BREAK-LOCK ABL-2  chance 35% (-10% per extra attacker)  hold 12 s  cooldown 90 s  ready
  Attackers now: 0

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit coldrun on
  [ ] refit coldrun off
  [ ] refit breaklock
  [ ] refit sig

 CHAT  /refit coldrun on|off   /refit breaklock   /refit sig
 VOICE 'engineering, run cold'   'helm, break lock' (KBL/TBL/TKS)   'comms, break lock' (ABL)
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page comms  [ ] page sensors  [ ] page overview

(The example shows a damper and a ghosting array together for illustration; on a real ship SGD and SGH exclude each other.)

Tip for runners. Stack signature reduction to the -50 % floor and rogues pick you up at half range. Break-lock is your panic button when they do.

Materials & build: Appendix A1.11.

3.9 Teleport

You still beam people with the stock teleporters; these modules make them better. Teleport modules draw power only while beaming.

Beam cargo: lower shields to 25 % or less on the Engineering sliders, then /refit beamcargo to <station|ship> <n> or /refit beamcargo from <station|ship> <n>, for example /refit beamcargo to Terra 40. On the board, fill in both blanks on the > refit beamcargo to _ _ line.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: TELEPORTERS & CARGO BEAM                              KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Storage 5 -> CTR-1 CARGO TRANSPORTER   Deck 10                                   Power 100%
==================================================================================================
 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 STOCK TELEPORTERS  #1 OK 100%   #2 OK 100%
 PADS     ATP-1  people per cycle 1 + 2 = 3   cooldown -20%
 RANGE    LRB-2  range +100%   beams beyond stock range fail 5%
 CARGO    CTR-1  20 units/min   needs shields allocation <= 25% (now 60%: BLOCKED)
  Job: none

 Teleport power draws in the 'teleport' allocation only while beaming.

 QUICK ORDERS
> refit beamcargo to _ _
> refit beamcargo from _ _

 CHAT  /refit beamcargo to|from <station|ship> <n>   /refit show teleport
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page cargo  [ ] page armour  [ ] page overview

Materials & build: Appendix A1.12.

3.10 Crew and morale

Morale

Every ship now has a morale value from 0 to 100 (it starts at 70).

• It drops 2 per hour once you have been away from a dock for more than 6 hours, and rises 10 per hour while docked.
• Its ceiling is 70 plus your morale modules (up to 100).
• Below 40, every crew skill your modules and combat use is x0.90. At 80 or more, x1.05.
• Serving the crew good food and drink from hydroponics also raises it (chapter 8, /hydro serve).

General: Morale is slipping (38). The crew needs shore leave.

Crew modules

The wardroom (CRW-1/2, section 3.4) also adds skill, XP and morale. Marine barracks are crew-family modules too, but they are covered under boarding defense (chapter 2.12). Converting crew quarters costs berths (2, or 4 on capitals). Crew skill bonuses from all modules top out at +30, and officer bonuses at +50 for a department head.

Simulator focus (TSM-2): /refit simfocus <dept> (tactical, engineering, science, helm, medical, security), or tick it on the Crew board.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: CREW QUARTERS, MORALE & TRAINING                      KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Gym -> TSM-1 TRAINING SIM   Deck 11                                              Power 100%
==================================================================================================
 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 MORALE  64/100  target 85 (70 + wardroom 5 + chapel 8 + ...)  floor 0   effect: x1.00
         (< 40 -> skills x0.90, >= 80 -> x1.05; -2/h after 6 h undocked, +10/h docked)
 CREW    23/216 aboard, berths 212 (-4 barracks)   injured 2
 OFFICERS OFQ-1: dept heads +20 skill (cap +50 total)
 SIMULATOR TSM-1  20 XP/h each while docked or idle  (focus x2 needs TSM-2)
 SHRINES  Terran Chapel: morale +8, Alliance medical crew +15
 TEACHER  (dream-teacher hybrid not fitted)

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit simfocus tactical      [ ] refit simfocus engineering   [ ] refit simfocus science
  [ ] refit simfocus helm          [ ] refit simfocus medical       [ ] refit simfocus security
> fab teach _

 CHAT  /refit simfocus <dept>   /fab teach <dept>   /hydro serve <good> <n> (meals = morale)
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page medical  [ ] page hydro.stations  [ ] page security  [ ] page overview

(/fab teach is for the dream-teacher hybrid from the fab bay, chapter 6.)

Materials & build: Appendix A1.13.

3.11 Medical

Crew injuries

Crew can now be hurt. When a hull hit damages an internal system, there is a 10 % chance a crew member of the department running it is injured for 30 minutes. Injured crew do not count as posted, so the modules they run weaken. A second hit on an already injured crew member can kill them (20 %); you then hire a replacement.

Medical: Ensign Hale injured at the reactor - 30 min.

Sickbay itself is never converted; these annexes go next to it. Only one sickbay annex (MSB or TK) per ship. Death save tops out at 75 %, injury time reduction at 75 %.

Revive frozen crew (docked): /refit cryo revive, 'medical, revive the frozen', or tick it on the Medical board. A cryo revival kit (medkit plus Traumaid plus electronics, Appendix A2) can replace the fee.

Medical: Lt. Vos is in cryo. Revive at a dock.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: MEDICAL, CRYO & QUARANTINE                            KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Crew Quarters 1 -> MSB-1 SICKBAY ANNEX   Deck 4                    Power 100%  Crew 1/1 med
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 CASUALTIES   injured 2   dead (this week) 0   frozen 1/4
  Ens. Hale       engineering   injured   18 min left (recovery -30%)
  Spc. Oru        tactical      injured   27 min left
  Lt. Vos         science       CRYO      revive 1,500 cr (skills -10%) when docked
 MODULES  MSB-1 heal +50% recovery -30%   MTW-2 death save 50%   MCB-2 cryo 4 slots
          MQP-1 quarantine 6 berths (cert: quarantine)  xeno hazard blocked

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit cryo revive     # docked
  [ ] refit show medical

 CHAT  /refit cryo revive   /refit show medical       VOICE 'medical, report'
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page crew  [ ] page science  [ ] page overview

Materials & build: Appendix A1.14.

3.12 Science labs (annexes)

These five labs boost the stock /scan and /sample at the Science console and the research projects you already know from discoveries. With a Science Bay fitted (chapter 7), each lab also adds 2 benches to it.

Caps: scan range +75 %, finds +40 %, research speed +60 %. One sensor/survey lab (ASL or TDA) per ship.

They report on the SCIENCE BAY TERMINAL (science page; full description in chapter 7), with /sb (also /science), and to 'science, report'.

Materials & build: Appendix A1.15.

3.13 Weapon mods

These all work through the Tactical console you already know:

• The SALVO button gets the salvo controller's bonuses.
• Subsystem targeting (anything except HULL) gets the targeting annex's +25 %.
• Torpedo ammo per launcher shows the magazine bonus. Refill at a dock with /refit rearm, 'tactical, rearm', or the Weapons board.

One magazine, one beam focus, one targeting annex and one salvo controller per ship. Beam damage bonuses top out at +30 %, extra torpedo ammo at +10.

[Refit] MAGAZINE COOK-OFF in Cargo Bay 3! Adjacent rooms damaged.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: WEAPON MODS & MAGAZINE                                KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 6 -> TMX-1 TORPEDO MAGAZINE   Deck 12                    Power 100%  Crew 1/1 tac
==================================================================================================
 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 TORPEDOES  ammo cap per launcher 10 + 5 = 15   launchers 4   TMX-R reserve 40 (reload 1 per 90 s)
  AAMT-3 #1  15/15    AAMT-3 #2  12/15    AAMT-3 #3  15/15    AAMT-3 #4  9/15
  cook-off risk on a room hit 10% (adjacent rooms take 20%)
 BEAMS      BCF-2 beam damage +20% (all beams), cooldown +5%   (cap +30%)
 TARGETING  TCA-1 hit +0.03, subsystem damage +25% when targeting is not HULL
 SALVO      SVC-2 salvo cooldown -15%, hit +0.03, heat +2 per salvo

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refit rearm          # docked
  [ ] refit show weapons

 CHAT  /refit rearm   /refit show weapons      VOICE 'tactical, rearm'
 PANEL Tactical console: SALVO, subsystem targeting, arcs. Ammo shows per launcher.
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page pd  [ ] page power  [ ] page overview

Tip. Magazines go in cargo bays, so they cost hold space and can cook off. Put them away from your aux annex.

Materials & build: Appendix A1.16.

3.14 Voice orders at a glance

Say these in chat or on the IntraShip Comm console. The department answers on the ship channel. Each needs at least one crew member of that department aboard.

Science, astrogation and galley orders ('science, report', 'astrogation, prescan ', 'galley, harvest' and so on) are in section 10.2.

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Chapter 4. War paint and insignia

Old bomber crews painted their luck on the nose. Now you can too: 39 nose-art liveries, 9 hull finishes, fame trims, ribbons, a kill tally that paints itself, and a squadron emblem you design yourself.

Where you see it. Your livery, tally and ribbons always show in /livery, /livery tally and on the Paint Shop board, and your server may publish a picture of your ship on its web page or Discord. Seeing the paint on the 3D hull in your own client needs the optional texture pack your server provides. The ship name label over your hull is too short for the nose name, so it keeps the fame tag ([N], [R], [F], [L]) as before.

4.1 The paint shop

Paint shops are at every shipyard and space dock and at the starbases and ODPs (Alpha, the Alliance ODPs, the Klinshaya ODP, Duell, the Therataan ODP and Temple). Each has a PAINT SHOP board on the dock. There is no paint shop at the hostile Tikopai stations: they are raid targets.

• You must be docked. Only the ship's owner can order paint (officers may request; the owner pays).
• Paint jobs take 15 minutes to 1 hour on the refit timer; you cannot undock until it finishes. Leave early and the job is cancelled with a 50 % refund.
• Price and paint materials scale with hull size: small hulls x0.5, medium x1, capitals x2.5.
• Paint uses plastic (the paint base) and fabric (masking), plus trycene for metallic leaf on tier 3+ art.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: PAINT SHOP                                            KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Terra Fleet Yards   (docked: KESTREL)                                     Hull size: capital x2.5
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 CURRENT  Stock   finish factory   trim none   nose ''   tally 4 fighter, 1 capital   rev 7
 AVAILABLE (unlocked for this hull)              tier   price      unlock
  wp01_lucky_deck        Lucky Deck              1      12,500     -
  wp16_brass_bulldog     Brass Bulldog           4      225,000    fame Famous  OK
  wp06_comet_kate        Comet Kate              2      LOCKED     needs Deck Crew
 FINISHES olive metal sea night bronze sand slate jungle arctic   5,000 cr   TRIMS by fame rank
 RIBBONS  rb_first_blood rb_convoy (rack 2/10)
 INSIGNIA squadron: none (register 25,000 cr)
 Paint jobs take 0.25-1 h on the refit timer; leaving early refunds 50%.

 QUICK ORDERS
> livery apply _ _
> livery finish _
> livery trim _
> livery name _
  [ ] livery list
  [ ] livery list locked
  [ ] livery tally
> livery ribbons show _
> livery insignia _ _ _
> livery preview _          # free: link to a picture of that livery on this ship
  [ ] livery strip tally    # 1,000 cr: repaint the tally (fame kept)
  [ ] livery strip all      # free factory strip, 0.5 h
> livery interior _         # inside paint: <id> | same (follow the hull) | off

 CHAT  /livery [status|list|apply|preview|finish|trim|name|strip|tally|ribbons|insignia|interior]
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page vendor  [ ] page yard  [ ] page missions

Fill in a blank line and Save, for example > livery apply wp04_titans_anvil sea. Not sure? Type > livery preview wp04_titans_anvil first: you get a link to a picture of that livery on your own hull, with your real kill tally, at no charge.

4.2 Liveries and unlocks

Base prices by tier (for a medium hull): T1 5,000, T2 15,000, T3 40,000, T4 90,000 cr. A capital pays x2.5.

Unlocks. Seven liveries are open from the start. The others unlock through your hull (fame rank, kill marks, missions flown) or you (faction standing, achievements):

Faction rule. A livery tagged with a faction can only go on a hull that faction can own. Celay and Ryl'Atti liveries fit any race's civilian hull; the pirate-hunter and civilian liveries fit anything. The "suggested hull" in Appendix A3 is only a suggestion: the art is a decal, so any livery fits any hull its faction allows.

[Livery] Paint job finished: Titan's Anvil (sea finish).

4.3 Finishes

/livery finish <key>, for example /livery finish night. 5,000 cr and half an hour. (The Master Shipwright achievement gives you arctic free.)

4.4 Fame trims

Each fame rank of your hull unlocks a trim painted over any livery. You may wear any trim at or below your rank.

/livery trim <rank|none>, for example /livery trim Renowned. Free, 15 minutes.

4.5 Nose lettering

/livery name <text>, up to 18 characters, for example /livery name Titan's Anvil. 2,500 cr, 15 minutes.

4.6 Kill tally

Your kills are painted aft of the bridge, port side, automatically:

• Up to 3 rows of 10 marks, in the order starbases, capitals, freighters, fighters, pirates.
• Each mark is the colour of the victim's faction (Alliance blue, Klinshaya red, Therataan green, Tikopai orange, XON violet, Quen teal, Celay yellow, Ryl'Atti magenta). Pirates are always black.
• When it overflows, ten cheap marks merge into one mark with a x10 bar.
• Ace stars: one gold star for every 5 capital-plus-starbase kills, up to 5.
• Mission bombs: one per mission, up to 20.

Not counted: kills of your own faction, kills in safe zones, and killing the same target again within 30 minutes. The kill goes to the ship that landed the killing hit.

/livery tally shows it as text. The marks belong to the hull and stay with it if you sell the ship.

Stripping paint (docked at a paint shop): /livery strip tally repaints the tally from zero (1,000 cr, 15 minutes; your fame counters are never touched). /livery strip all is a free factory strip (half an hour): livery, finish, trim, lettering and insignia all come off. /livery strip on its own means tally.

[Livery] Kill marks: fighter 9, capital 2, freighter 3. Missions: 14.

4.7 Ribbons

Ribbons are earned by your hull (they stay with the ship) and shown on a nameplate rack of up to 10.

• /livery ribbons lists what you have earned.
• /livery ribbons show <ids..> picks the rack, in order, for example /livery ribbons show rb_ace rb_convoy.
• /livery ribbons hide <id> takes one off (it stays earned).

4.8 Squadron insignia

A fleet or guild can register one emblem, built from parts so it is always original.

Building one, step by step:

1. /livery insignia parts lists the exact part keys.
2. Build your draft: /livery insignia set shield heater, /livery insignia set charge owl, /livery insignia set backing wings, and so on.
3. Colour it: /livery insignia colour field navy, /livery insignia colour charge steel.
4. Add a motto: /livery insignia motto WE SEE FIRST.
5. Check it with /livery insignia.
6. Squadron leader only: /livery insignia register <name> publishes it for 25,000 cr.
7. Members join with /livery insignia join <squadron> and paint it on the tail at a paint shop with /livery insignia wear (free, 15 minutes; /livery insignia wear off to remove it).

Twelve example emblems (Lantern Watch, Ninth Hammer, Grey Pack and others) are available as starting points.

4.9 Materials & build

• All 39 liveries with tier, faction, price, unlock and paint materials: Appendix A3.
• Finishes, trims, lettering, insignia, strip prices and materials, ribbon list, insignia parts: Appendix A4.
• The achievements that unlock liveries: Appendix A9.

4.10 Interior paint and battle damage

Your livery can be carried inside the ship too: bulkheads, doors, deck plating and carpets are repainted in the same colours and motifs as the hull art, so the bridge of Lucky Deck looks like it belongs to Lucky Deck.

• You must be docked at a paint shop, and the livery must be unlocked for you (section 4.2), just like the hull.
• An interior job is charged like a paint job: 2,500 cr for a medium hull (small x0.5, capital x2.5), plus 3 plastic and 3 fabric times the same hull-size factor, and one hour on the refit timer.
• same is the default: repaint the hull and the inside follows for free. off is a free strip (half an hour).

Battle damage. With the optional texture pack, hulls show their wounds. Scorching appears at 25 % hull damage, breaches and burnt plating at 50 %, and at 75 % (when the ship reports Hull Integrity Critical!) the hull is torn open. The same stages show inside your own ship: scorched bulkheads, sparking panels, flickering lights. Repairs clean the paint again, a little after the hull climbs back below each line, so the look does not flicker while damage control works. You see the damage of every ship you have scanned or targeted; liveries of other ships come from the server, so they appear a moment after the ship does.

[Livery] Interior painters at work: wp01_lucky_deck.

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Chapter 5. Getting gear

5.1 Vendors

Module crates are sold from the REFIT VENDOR BOARD on the dock, or in chat with /acq. (The old vendor window is full, so it does not list refit modules.)

The Tikopai stations (Taodin, the Tikopai dock, Bienm ODP) are hostile: no vendors, only raids.

Commands (docked):

Who may buy what:

• Military modules are sold only by your own race's vendors, and only for a military hull of your race.
• Civilian modules may be bought by anyone at any vendor that stocks them.
• Salvage-only modules (Tikopai TKPD, XON EMPD-X, the TK seeker mine nest, the TK Ghostskin) are never on a shelf. They come from loot, fragments or missions.
• NPC station gear is never obtainable.

Buy-back is 30 % of list for crates (40-45 % at Manara). Manara also buys alien salvage (300 cr), Quen Resonators and Ryl'Atti shards (4,000), blueprint fragments (1,500), derelict cores (2,500) and anomaly samples (1,800).

Every shipyard, starbase and free port also has a materials shelf: metal ingots 25 cr, electronic components 60, trycene 150, plastic 20, fabric 15, wooden boards 10, synthleather 30, ore 8 (race versions cost the same at that race's docks), so a module's materials never stop a purchase.

5.2 Standing

Your standing with each race (-100 to 100) is the same standing the game already tracks. The refit tiers are labels on it:

• You start trusted (25) with your own race.
• Standing rises with completed missions (+4 each; refit missions often count 2-5 times) and a little with trade and taxes; it falls when you attack (-6) or kill (-12) that race's ships.
• The free ports have no standing gate and no standing discount.
• Some achievements lower a gate (for example Iron Umbrella lets you buy PD T5 at honored).
• Licence: 5 blueprint fragments of a line can be turned into a one-time licence to buy that line one tier above your gate (/acq assemble <line> <tier> licence).
• Your final price never drops below 75 % of list.

5.3 Daily stock rotation

Shelves change every 24 hours at 00:00.

• T1 and T2 are always in stock.
• T3: 6 random modules a day, 2 of each. T4: 3 a day, 1 each. T5: one a day, one unit.
• One item a day is a deal (-15 %) and one is scarce (+20 %).

Check several docks: a T5 on the shelf is an event.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: REFIT VENDOR                                          KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Terra Fleet Yards   standing terran 38 (trusted)                                    Stock day 299
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 TODAY'S STOCK (your price; * = you may buy, - = reason)    rotation resets 00:00
  * pd_alliance_mk2       APD-2 Point Defense Cluster    47,500 cr
  * def_aap_mk2           AAP-2 Ablative Plating         33,250 cr   deal
  * hgr_afr_alli_mk2      AFR-2 Valkyrie Launch Rails    61,750 cr
  - pd_alliance_mk4       APD-4 Point Defense Cluster    needs honored (50)
  * sb_bay_mk2            ASB-2 Science Bay              43,700 cr   x1 scarce
  ...   (/acq shop <family> for the rest)
 SHELVES  seeds/goods: /hydro shop    data cores bought here x1.0, specimens: no
 FRAGMENTS  pd_alliance T3: 3/5     ORDNANCE PACKS 1,500 cr

 QUICK ORDERS
> acq shop _
> acq buy _
> acq buy _ install _       # buy and send the crate straight to the yard (room optional)
> acq price _
> acq sell _ _
  [ ] acq standing
  [ ] acq fragments
> acq assemble _ _
  [ ] hydro shop
> hydro buy _ _
> hydro sell _ _
  [ ] sb sell all

 CHAT  /acq [shop|buy|price|sell|standing|fragments|assemble]   /hydro shop|buy|sell
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page yard  [ ] page paint  [ ] page missions

(The /hydro and /sb lines are for seeds, goods and science data, covered in chapters 7 and 8.)

5.4 Refit yards

Fees are multiplied by hull size: small x0.75, medium x1, capital x1.5.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: REFIT YARD                                            KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Terra Fleet Yards (home shipyard)   hull: capital x1.5                         Yard crews: 3 free
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 FREE ROOMS ON KESTREL  Crew Quarters 3 (any)   Storage 6 (any)
 CRATES IN YOUR HOLD   def_aap_mk2   crg_rhd_mk1
 YARD INSTALL   fee = max(min, cost x pct) x hull size; always succeeds; skips the 6 m rule
  def_aap_mk2 -> Storage 6       fee 5,250 cr    3 h 00     rush 10,500 cr  1 h 30
 SELF INSTALL   6 m rule, crate + materials, fab-skill roll
  crg_rhd_mk1 -> Crew Quarters 3  chance 71%     4 h 30 (x0.75 with 2 eng crew)
 CATALOG  /refit catalog [family]   INFO /refit info <id>

 QUICK ORDERS
> refit yard _ _
> refit selfinstall _ _
> acq install _ _           # crate you carry: room, or 'self' for a self-install
> acq rush _ _              # yard with rush: fee x2, half the hours
> refit remove _
> refit catalog _
> refit info _
  [ ] refit rooms

 CHAT  /refit yard <id> [room] [rush]  /refit selfinstall <id> [room]  /refit remove <room>
 TIMER Engineering console refit timer counts the work; no launch until 0.
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
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5.5 Salvage and loot

When you destroy a ship, the killing ship rolls on that ship's loot table; every other ship that did at least 10 % of the damage rolls for materials. Loot goes into your cargo; anything that does not fit floats as a salvage pod for 2 minutes (scoop it with a tractor). Loot comes on top of the normal bounty.

[Acq] Salvage: 3 item(s), 1,200 cr.

Fair play rules:

• Killing the same target again within 30 minutes gives no loot (and no kill mark).
• Kills 7-12 of the same kind of ship within an hour pay half; from the 13th, a quarter and no crates, relics or fragments.
• Daily limits per player: 6 crates, 2 relics, 10 fragments, 1 CLOACA.
• No loot from your own faction's ships, inside a station's safe zone, or while you are docked.
• Overmind and Tikopai station raids lock each participant out for 72 hours; you need at least 10 % of the damage.
• Pity: every crate or fragment roll that misses adds a point; at 25 points your next roll gives a fragment.

Blueprint fragments

Each fragment belongs to a module line and a tier (for example "TKPD, tier 3").

• /acq fragments shows your collection.
• /acq assemble <line> <tier> turns 5 matching fragments into a module crate (docked), for example /acq assemble pd_tikopai 3. This is how you get the top salvage-only tiers.
• For lines that vendors sell, add licence to turn them into a one-time licence above your standing gate instead.

Ordnance Packs

One pack refills one module's ammo, charges, mines or decoys in the field: /acq restock <room> after 30 s out of combat (chapter 2.15). Packs drop from combat loot, are sold at the ODP depots (1,500 cr) and can be built.

5.6 Refit missions

Refit missions are real missions: the giver opens them in the usual Mission window when you say 'assignment', 'mission' or 'orders'. You can have one active mission at a time. The MISSION BOARD on the dock and these commands also work:

You may leave off the acq_m_ at the front of a mission id.

Rewards run from 4,000 cr (tier 1) to 90,000 cr (the Overmind raid), plus materials, fame, standing and sometimes discounts or titles. Several missions need a particular module fitted: Aegis Proving Ground and MagPulse Calibration fire inert drill torpedoes and drones at you so you can test your point defense safely. Full steps and rewards for all 30 missions: Appendix A8.

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: REFIT MISSIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS                         KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Player: Andy                                                                Active: aegis_proving
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 ACTIVE  Aegis Proving Ground (T2, 9,000 cr)  step 3/4: intercept the drill torpedoes
 OPEN TO YOU
  scrap_sweep        T1  Scrap Sweep              4,000 cr   daily
  scatter_audit      T1  Scatter Driver Audit     4,000 cr   daily
  sb_field_survey    T1  Field Survey             6,000 cr   daily
  hp_fresh_produce   T1  Fresh Produce Run        3,000 cr   daily
 Missions also open at the giver: say 'assignment', 'mission' or 'orders' (Mission window).
 ACHIEVEMENTS 9/61   titles: Deck Crew

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] refitmissions
> refitmissions _
> refitmissions start _
> refitmissions say _
  [ ] acq ach

 CHAT  /refitmissions [id]  /refitmissions start <id>|say <word>  /acq ach
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
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[Acq] Mission failed: escort lost.

5.7 Achievements

Achievements are yours (not the ship's). /acq ach lists them and your titles.

[Acq] Achievement: Deck Crew.

Two are hidden until you find them. The full list with exact counts: Appendix A9.

5.8 Materials & build

• Vendors, yards, loot tables, missions and achievements, one row each: Appendix A5 to A9.
• Material shelf prices and where every material, relic and tool comes from: Appendix A10.
• Ordnance Packs, fighters, drones and shuttles: Appendix A2.

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Chapter 6. The Experimental Fabrication Bay

The Experimental Fabrication Bay ("fab bay") is where you take one of your own ship parts and one piece of alien technology, put them on a bench together and see what comes out. Sometimes it's nothing. Sometimes it's slag. And sometimes it's a weapon, hull plate or engine that nobody in the galaxy has ever built, with your ship's name on the discovery.

6.1 Bays and labs

A fab bay is a refit-room module. It takes over one or two rooms (most bays take two; the Celay Bio-Lab fits in one), draws power from your reactor, and needs crew posted in it. There are nine kinds:

One fab bay per ship. Appendix B1 lists every bay's crew, power, part-tier limit, research-tier cap, stage limit, minutes per experiment, cooldown and price, plus the materials to build it.

Installing a fab bay. Buy the crate at a refit vendor (/acq shop fab_bay, then /acq buy <id>), then either let a yard fit it (/refit yard <id> [room]) or fit it yourself standing at the room's label (/refit selfinstall <id> [room]). Tier 3 and up must be fitted while docked. When the build timer runs out, the room label changes (for example AFB-2 FAB BAY) and the FAB BAY TERMINAL appears next to it.

6.2 What you need for one experiment

Part B's race decides which faction pair you are researching, for example Alliance + Therataan.

Some rules: * Part A must be your own race's tech; Part B must be alien. (A hybrid in slot A is yours, whatever went into it.) * Each bay has a highest part tier it accepts (AFB-1 takes tier 2 at most). * AFB-1 and the Celay Bio-Lab cannot hold alien artifacts (the Quen Resonator, Ryl'Atti shard and the like). * You can't experiment while docked or inside a starbase's safe zone: station safety regulations. * You can run 12 experiments a day, and the same Part A + Part B pair only once every 6 hours. * After each result the bay recalibrates for its cooldown before it takes the next job.

6.3 Running an experiment, step by step

1. Post your crew. The bay needs its crew department aboard and posted (science for most bays; engineering for the Forge-Bay; medical for the Grove and the Bio-Lab; AFB-3, ADL and AXC need one extra).
2. Carry the parts and catalysts. Part A, Part B and the catalysts must be in your inventory.
3. Leave the dock. Undock and clear any starbase safe zone.
4. Load and start. Open the FAB BAY TERMINAL and type the parts on the line > fab start _ _, or type in chat: /fab start laser_mk3 magpulse_coil (add a focus item as a third word if you have one). The terminal lists the parts in your hold that it can see, so you can copy their names.
5. Wait. The bay works on the server clock, even while you do other things. Base time is the bay's minutes, plus 25 % for every tier your two parts add above 1+1. Check progress with /fab or science, fab report.
6. Answer any lab event. At the halfway mark there's a chance (25 %, AXC 50 %) that the crew calls you with a decision (Section 6.5). You have 5 minutes.
7. Read the result. The bay announces the outcome in chat. A new hybrid lands in your inventory.

Power matters. While an experiment runs, the bay's draw goes up (for example AFB-2 from 300 to 450). If your ship goes into brownout, the experiment pauses until power is back. Watch the Engineering console's allocation bars.

6.4 The roll, explained simply

When the timer ends, three questions are asked in order:

1. Was there an accident? Usually a few percent (1 % at best, 35 % at worst). Higher-tier parts, volatile alien tech and stage-2 rework make accidents more likely; a skilled crew and a well-contained bay make them rarer.
2. Did it work? The success chance starts near 45 % and is adjusted by: * Skill: a blend of your Fabrication Technology, Science Technology and Reverse Engineering plus your best crew in the bay's department. * Race compatibility of the pair: some races' tech fits well together (Alliance + Therataan +8, Klinshaya + XON +10), some badly (Alliance + Ryl'Atti -12, anything + Unknown tech -10 to -15). * Research notes on that pair and part type (they build up from failures; see 6.6). * Part tier: every tier above 1 makes it harder. * The bay's success bonus and its specialities, any lab event choice you made, and the +3 from a Particle Accelerator run in your Science Bay (Chapter 7). It is always between 10 % and 95 %.
3. If it worked, how well? A breakthrough (up to 25 %) gives a better, "Prototype" version one tier higher. Otherwise 7 times in 10 you get a hybrid, and 3 times in 10 a minor bonus.

If it didn't work: three times in four the result is "Inconclusive" and you get your part back; one time in four the part is destroyed (it turns into a Fused Slag Curio you can sell for 250 cr). AFB-2/3 and most faction labs save your part even then (50 %, AFB-3 80 %).

Examples (a 250-skill operator with an average crew, tier 2 + tier 1 parts):

6.5 Outcomes

Part B and the catalysts are always used up.

If the crew says "we're close to something here, but we don't understand the well enough yet", your success roll was good but your research on that pair isn't high enough for any hybrid it could make. You get a minor bonus and more research. Keep going (Section 6.6).

Accidents

All accident damage is multiplied by the bay's accident factor (AFB-1 x1.25, AFB-3 x0.6, Bio-Lab x0.5).

6.6 Lab events and /fab choose

At the halfway point the crew may stop and ask you something. The experiment pauses, you see the question in chat, and you have 5 minutes to answer with /fab choose a or /fab choose b (or say science, option a, or tick the box on the fab.events page). If nobody answers, the crew goes with the safe default ("No orders. Going with ..."). Only the person who started the experiment or the ship owner can answer. Every answered event adds +3 research.

If a choice costs something (the 4 trycene) and you don't carry it, the default is used instead.

FAB BAY TERMINAL, page fab.events (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: FAB BAY :: LAB EVENTS                                 KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 7 -> AFB-2 FAB BAY   Deck 13                             Power 100%  Crew 2/2 sci
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 EVENT  resonance   job 1   answer within 4:12 (else default a)
  Science: "The alien part is resonating with the casing. I can damp it or let it ring."

  [ ] fab choose a      # DAMP IT        accident -4, success -3
  [ ] fab choose b      # LET IT RING    success +6, accident +5

 Only the job's operator or the ship owner may answer. Each answer adds +3 research.

 RECENT EVENTS
  2h ago   power_hungry   b cut it (minutes +25%)
  yesterday catalyst_short a spend 4 trycene (accident -5)

 GESTALT ASCENDANT (only when fitted and you try to remove it)
  [ ] fab debate a      # 'you are a tool'      60% it complies
  [ ] fab debate b      # 'you deserve better'  complies; -10 morale; it renames the ship

 CHAT  /fab choose a|b [job]   /fab debate a|b     VOICE 'science, option a'
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
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6.7 Research notes and the tech tree

Two kinds of progress build up as you experiment:

Research notes (short-term). Each pair of races and part type keeps a notes score up to 100. Failures add notes; every 10 notes are worth +2 % success. A successful hybrid spends 50 of them. /fab notes shows them.

Research (R) and the tech tree (lifetime). Every finished experiment also adds research to your faction pair (your race + Part B's race). R is never spent and belongs to you, not your ship. It unlocks tiers of hybrids:

R gained per experiment: inconclusive +10, part destroyed +15, accident +20, minor bonus +5 (all multiplied by the bay's notes factor, up to x1.5), hybrid +8, breakthrough +12, answered lab event +3. A typical run on an AFB-2 earns about 12 R, so T2 comes after about 4 experiments on a pair, T3 after about 10, T4 after about 25.

The bay caps the tier: AFB-1 can only make T2, AFB-2, the Grove and the Bio-Lab T3, AFB-3, Forge, Resonance Lab and ADL T4, and the AXC has no cap.

Tech tokens from the Science Bay (Chapter 7) add +15 R to a pair of your choice: /fab token Therataan. You can spend up to 2 a day. An Anomaly Study in the Science Bay also adds +10 R to your pair with Unknown tech.

Check your tree with /fab tree (or /fab tree Therataan for one faction), or on the fab.tree page.

FAB BAY TERMINAL, page fab.tree (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: FAB BAY :: RESEARCH TREE                              KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Player: Andy   (research is per player, not per ship)
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 PAIR                    R     TIER   NEXT          compat bonus
  Alliance|Therataan      135   T3     T4 at 300     +2
  Alliance|Quen            52   T2     T3 at 120     -
  Alliance|Klinshaya       18   T1     T2 at 40      -
  Alliance|Unknown         40   T2     T3 at 120     -
 Bay cap: AFB-1 T2, AFB-2 T3, AFB-3 T4, faction bays T3-4, Anomaly lab no cap.

 TECH TOKENS  2 held (daily cap 2)
> fab token _

 SCHEMATICS LEARNT  hy_phase_tuned_laser, hy_mag_clamped_tractor
 FIRST DISCOVERIES (server)  23 of 86 hybrids known

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] fab tree
  [ ] fab notes
  [ ] fab discoveries

 CHAT  /fab tree [faction]  /fab notes  /fab discoveries  /fab token <faction>
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
> _
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 GO TO:  [ ] page fab  [ ] page fab.events  [ ] page overview

6.8 Second-stage chains

A bay with stage 2 or more (every bay except AFB-1) can take a hybrid you made as Part A and push it further with the right alien part. These rolls are a little harder (counted half a tier higher and slightly more volatile). If the rework fails badly, the first hybrid is lost like any Part A.

Printed Lattice Hull      + Therataan MagPulse coil  -> Lattice-Mag Composite Hull   (uncommon, +16 % hull)
Phase-Tuned Laser MK      + XON EMPlaser             -> Phase-Locked Lance           (rare, 35 % shield bypass)
Symbiotic Scrubbers       + Alien Salvage (Celay)    -> Celay Living Sickbay         (uncommon, medical module)
Gestalt Core              + Ryl'Atti Carapace Shard  -> Gestalt Ascendant            (legendary, CURSED)
Echo Drive                + Ryl'Atti Carapace Shard  -> Echo-Fold Drive              (legendary)
AFG-X Flux Capacitor Annex+ Anomaly Sample (AXC only)-> Storm-Heart Annex            (legendary)

A first discovery of a stage-2 hybrid is announced as "a second-generation prototype". Stage 3 (AFB-3 and AXC) is reserved: no stage-3 recipes exist yet, so a stage-3 attempt can only give a minor bonus, nothing or an accident.

6.9 Cursed and quirky results

Four hybrids are cursed. They are powerful, they show [CURSED] after their name, their downsides always apply, and vendors won't buy them.

• Whispering Comm Array: strong ECM, but every hour there's a 2 % chance it broadcasts your sector to everyone online ("...the sings at ...").
• Hungry Hull: +14 % hull, but it eats metal ingots from your cargo every hour. If it can't eat, your hull capacity drops by 5 % an hour (down to -20 %) until you feed it. You'll see [Fab] The hull is hungry. Hull capacity 95%.
• Ghost-Ship Transponder: rogues of the captured ship's race take you for one of their own and close in 30 % later, but the dead crew sometimes hail your bridge, and your own race's defence platforms may challenge you.
• Gestalt Ascendant: the best computer in the game. It runs damage control and point defense by itself, and now and then it refuses an order it calls "unwise" and tells you why. It sulks after docking at stations it dislikes. To remove it, /fab uninstall gestalt_ascendant starts a debate: /fab debate a ("you are a tool", it complies 60 % of the time) or /fab debate b ("you deserve better", it always complies, but crew morale drops by 10 for a day and it renames your ship on the way out).

Quirky, but not cursed: the Brood Hangar needs a plastic for every drone it regrows; the Mycelial Annex fills its room with fungus you can't walk through; the Singularity Torpedo has a 1 % chance to collapse in the tube; the Echo-Fold Drive sometimes drops you out 60 seconds before you left.

Refit-room cursed hybrids come out with /refit remove (out of combat); hardpoint ones with the normal /uninstall, except the Ascendant.

6.10 Derelict teardown (ADL)

When you capture a ship and bring it home (under tow with your tractor beam, or alongside), the ADL Derelict Analysis Lab can take it apart:

1. Tow the prize or bring it alongside.
2. /fab teardown (or tick it on the fab page). It takes 60 minutes and the prize is used up.
3. You get 1-3 Alien Salvage, 5-20 metal ingots, 2-10 electronic components, and a Derelict Core of the captured ship's race. The core's tier depends on what it was: fighter 1, freighter or pirate 2, capital 4, starbase 5. You'll see [Fab] Teardown done: ..., Derelict Core T<n> (<race>).
4. Load the core as Part B in the ADL. It counts as a part of that race (so it opens that race's normal hybrids) and also unlocks three derelict-only hybrids: the Captured Fire-Control Core (better hit chance against that race), the Prize-Crew Hull Graft (extra fame on every later capture) and the cursed Ghost-Ship Transponder. A tier 4+ core adds +5 to success.

Cores sell for 2,500 cr at Manara if you'd rather not.

6.11 Anomaly samples (AXC)

When you scan a space anomaly (a nebula, rift, storm and so on) with an AXC aboard, you collect an Anomaly Sample. Without one you still have a 25 % chance to collect one to sell (1,800 cr at Manara). A Science Bay Anomaly Detector and the Gravity-Lens Survey Lab raise the odds.

• Samples are Unknown tech, tier 3 (rift and storm samples tier 4).
• They decay after 48 hours in your hold ("The sample has dissipated."). A cryo freezer in the Science Bay stops the clock (/sb freeze anomaly).
• Only the AXC accepts them. Its hybrids include the Gravity-Lens Survey Lab, the Ion-Storm Capacitor, the legendary Singularity Torpedo and, as a second stage from the Flux Capacitor Annex, the Storm-Heart Annex.

6.12 First discoveries and galaxy news

The first time anyone on the server makes a particular hybrid:

• Everyone online sees First discovery! The Kestrel (Andy) discovered the Phase-Tuned Laser MK.
• You get 250 cr and 2 ship fame, plus extra fame for rarity (uncommon +1, rare +2, legendary +8).
• You learn its schematic (/schematic hy_<id>): [Fab] First in the galaxy - /schematic hy_phase_tuned_laser learned.

Legendary hybrids make GALAXY NEWS:

• The very first legendary on the server: GALAXY NEWS: Scientists aboard the <ship> have built the <hybrid>. The galaxy has never seen anything like it. (+10 fame and 2,500 cr on top.)
• Every later first legendary: GALAXY NEWS: The Kestrel (Andy) unveils the Storm-Heart Annex.
• Milestones at 25, 50 and all hybrids known: GALAXY NEWS: <n> alien-tech hybrids now known to science.

/fab discoveries lists every first on the server. The fab.tree page shows how many of the 86 are known.

6.13 Schematics, copies and fitting a hybrid

Fitting a hybrid you made. * Hardpoint hybrids (weapons, hull, shields, engines, computer and so on) replace the stock part in its slot. Stand within 6 m of the hardpoint, open the hybrid's schematic in the Schematic window and press COMPLETE with the fitting materials in your inventory. The hybrid keeps the old part's icon and is run from that part's usual console (a hybrid laser fires from Tactical, a hybrid engine shows on Engineering and Helm). * Refit-room hybrids (point-defense lattices, aux annexes, sickbays, hangars and so on) are installed in a refit room like any other refit module and get the matching Refit Terminal. * Appendix B2 lists what each hybrid needs to fit (materials, time, skill).

Building more with the schematic. The discoverer's schematic lets you build the hybrid again in the Schematic window from Part A + Part B + the catalysts, with a normal crafting roll (Chapter 9) instead of an experiment.

Schematic copies. The discoverer can make a Hybrid Schematic copy (10 uses, 1 copy a day) to give or sell to other players. Copies of legendary schematics are locked for 30 days after the discovery. Copies also turn up in pirate flagship loot and as a courier mission reward.

Dual-Mode EMPlaser. This hybrid has two firing modes, cut (full beam damage) and emp (low damage, drains shields 2.5 times as fast). Switch with /fab mode [cut|emp]: /fab mode on its own toggles between the two, /fab mode emp or /fab mode cut sets one. The answer is [Fab] Dual-Mode EMPlaser mode: EMP. The mode stays set until you change it.

Hybrid commands. /fab burst fires a burst from a hybrid aux annex (Flux Capacitor, Ion-Storm Capacitor, Storm-Heart Annex). /fab teach <dept> picks which department the Quen Dream-Teacher trains.

6.14 The FAB BAY TERMINAL

The fab bay's board has three pages: fab (the bay and running jobs), fab.events (lab events, shown above) and fab.tree (your research, shown above).

FAB BAY TERMINAL, page fab (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: EXPERIMENTAL FAB BAY                                  KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 7 -> AFB-2 FAB BAY   Deck 13                             Power 100%  Crew 2/2 sci
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 BAY  AFB-2  tech tier cap 3  stages 2  lab events 25%  concurrent 1  cooldown none

 JOB 1  Laser MK-3 (Alliance beam) + MagPulse coil (Therataan)   focus: success
  progress 62%  ETA 0:23   odds: success 48  breakthrough 6  accident 9   pair R=135 (T3)
  state: WAITING FOR ORDERS (event 'resonance', 4:12 left) -> see page fab.events

 LOAD A NEW EXPERIMENT (bay idle only)
> fab start _ _
  parts in your hold: laser_mk3, magpulse_coil, quen_resonator, derelict_core(Klinshaya T4)

 DERELICT LAB  prize under tow: none        ANOMALY samples: 1 (decays in 31 h)

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] fab status
  [ ] fab teardown
  [ ] fab burst

 CHAT  /fab start <A> <B> [focus]  /fab status  /fab choose a|b  /fab tree  /fab teardown
 VOICE 'science, fab report'   'science, option a'
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 ORDERS  tick a box ([x]) or type after '> ', then Save. Max 6 per save. '#' = comment.
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 GO TO:  [ ] page fab.events  [ ] page fab.tree  [ ] page science  [ ] page overview

Commands

Voice orders (needs a science crew member aboard): science, fab report (same as /fab status), science, option a / science, option b (same as /fab choose). engineering, burst fires a hybrid burst.

Alerts you'll see

6.14b The Forge-Bay's metallurgy

The Klinshaya KFB Forge-Bay also works as a foundry. With engineers at their post, /fab alloy <alloy> [batches] pours any alloy a metallurgy schematic can make (steel, stainless, bronze, titanium alloy, superconductor wire ...) straight from the elements in your inventory, with a +25 % yield over the schematic - five ingots of steel become six. /fab alloy alone lists the alloys. Alloy schematics CREATEd aboard a ship with a crewed Forge-Bay get the same bonus.

6.15 Safety tips

• Start small. Use tier 1-2 parts on a new pair until you reach T2. They're cheaper to lose and accidents are milder.
• Mind the power. Check /refit power before you start. A brownout pauses the job, and "feed it" events add a 400-power spike.
• Forge captains: each experiment adds reactor heat. Don't start one right after an overdrive run.
• Carry 4 extra trycene so "catalyst short" can always be answered the safe way.
• Stay near chat at the halfway mark. The default answer is always the safe one, but sometimes you want the risky one.
• Freeze your anomaly samples if you can't use them within 48 hours.
• Don't experiment in a fight. A hit on the fab bay room damages the bay like any refit room.
• Think twice before installing a cursed hybrid. The Gestalt Ascendant has to be argued out of your ship.

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Chapter 7. The Science Bay

The Science Bay turns your scans, samples, live specimens, odd particle tracks and conversations into research projects. Each finished project produces a data core you can sell to science buyers, and it can earn server firsts, fame, skill gains, new crop strains for your hydroponics deck and research for your fab bay.

7.1 Bays and Science Decks

The bay is a refit-room module (one room; two for the ASB-3; two or three for a capital Science Deck). It doesn't do much by itself. What it gives you is benches, and on the benches you mount gizmos: small instruments that each do one job.

One Science Bay or Deck per ship. All of them are civilian, so any race can buy any bay where the seller deals with you.

Your older science rooms plug in. If you already have the sensor lab, cartography, xenobiology lab, anomaly analyser or deep archive, each one adds 2 benches to the bay (up to +6): ASL and TDA add 2 any-benches, ASC 2 astro benches, XBL 2 bio benches, AAN 2 anomaly benches. They keep their own bonuses too.

7.2 Benches and mounting gizmos

Every bench has a kind: any, bio, astro or anomaly. A gizmo lists which kinds it fits. "any" gizmos fit every bench; a "bio" gizmo needs a bio bench (or an any-bench if it also lists any). Some big gizmos take two benches; both must fit, but they don't have to be next to each other.

To mount a gizmo:

1. Buy the gizmo crate from a vendor (/acq shop science_gizmo, /acq buy sb_spec_mk1). The XON Data-Core and the Singing Stone are never sold; you have to find or earn them.
2. Check your benches with /sb benches or the science.benches page.
3. /sb mount sb_spec_mk1 (or /sb mount sb_spec_mk1 2 to pick bench 2). You need the crate and its materials in your inventory, you can't be under fire (60 seconds since the last hit), and the gizmo's tier can't be above the bay's limit.
4. Mounting takes the gizmo's build time (half an hour to four hours). There is no fail roll.

Rules. One gizmo of each line: mounting an MS-2 Mass Spectrometer replaces your SP-1 and gives the SP-1 crate back. Exceptions: up to 4 XT-1 tanks, 2 Vivarium Arrays, 3 CSF-1 freezers and 2 CSF-2 vaults. /sb unmount <gizmo> takes a quarter of the build time and gives the crate back. Gizmos that take a hit go below 100 %; at 0 % they stop until you /sb repair at a dock (10 % of their price).

What makes a gizmo work well. Each gizmo's effect is multiplied by its crew (some need a crew member of a department aboard), your power level (in a brownout everything weakens) and your operators (7.4). Then the caps apply:

Stacking five gizmos of the same kind quickly stops paying. Variety pays: more project types, more inputs.

Power. The bay draws its own power plus every gizmo's. A full ASB-2 with five gizmos draws about 390; a full capital deck can pass 1,200 and may need an aux generator annex. The Particle Accelerator draws +900 while it runs.

7.3 The gizmos

Appendix B4 has every number. Here is what each one is for.

Core instruments

• SP-1 Optical Spectrometer (any bench): +5 % finds and 10 % faster scans with /scan. The first gizmo most people buy.
• MS-2 Mass Spectrometer (any): replaces the SP-1; +8 % finds, much better on minerals and atmospheres, and +1 grade on survey and materials cores.
• EM-2 Electron Microscope (bio or any): faster bio, materials and pathogen research; an extra sample when you /sample pathogens and microbes.
• GS-2 Gene Sequencer (bio): every read with your hand-held genetic sampling probe is stored as a genome (6 slots). Genomes are inputs for xenobiology papers. With a specimen tank of the same species aboard, xeno papers get +1 grade.
• GS-3 Genome Forge (2 bio benches): 12 genome slots; a xeno paper with 3+ genomes from the same planet gets +1 grade; +1 grade on xeno, botany and medical cores.
• XT-1 Specimen Tank (bio): holds 1 live creature (7.7). Up to 4 per ship. 20 cr a day upkeep per specimen.
• XT-3 Vivarium Array (2 bio): holds 3, cheaper upkeep, specimens heal over time, fewer escapes.
• CSF-1 Cryo Sample Freezer (any): 6 freezer slots. Frozen anomaly samples and seed packets stop ageing.
• CSF-2 Deep Cryo Vault (any): 16 slots and can freeze live specimens (no upkeep, no escapes, but they don't count as live).
• CB-1 Chemistry Bench (med or any): when you use a chemistry lab (ANALYZE / SYNTHESIZE) aboard your ship, or at a dock while your bay is running, you get +10 analyze skill and +10 % synthesis success.
• CB-3 Synthesis Suite (2 med/any): +20 / +20 %, a 15 % chance of an "increased" vial, and four new compounds at the lab (7.9).
• CF-1 Sample Centrifuge (bio, med or any): an extra pathogen or plant sample per /sample, and a small "increased" chance at the lab.
• CC-2 Cloud Chamber (anomaly or any): every /scan has a 10 % chance to record an exotic particle track (7.8). With the accelerator, each run gives an extra track.
• PA-3 Particle Accelerator (2 anomaly benches): /sb accel burns 10 trycene, draws +900 power for 60 seconds, adds reactor heat +15 and gives an exotic track. It also gives +3 on your next fab experiment within a day. Cooldown 2 hours. Power surges in the bay become twice as likely.
• QC-2 Qubit Coprocessor (any): +8 % research speed and more computer capacity.
• QC-3 Quantum Computer Core (2 any): +15 % research speed, more computer capacity and one more project at a time. Now and then a "decoherence" pauses your second project for 10 minutes.

Astro and survey

• SST-2 Subspace Telescope (astro or any): /sb prescan <system> up to 1 jump away (7.6). +10 % scan range.
• AD-3 Astrometrics Dome (2 astro): prescans 3 jumps away in 6 minutes and shows life, plants and anomalies too. Faster cartography, +1 grade on charts.
• HSC-2 Holo Star Chart (astro or any): 5 % less hyperdrive fuel, another 5 % on jumps into systems you've charted, +10 to your astrogation crew, faster cartography.
• GA-2 Gravimetric Array (any): +25 % mineral finds and a chance that a mineral find is a rich deposit (an extra sample, and it counts double for survey and materials projects).
• SA-1 Seismic Array (any): land on a planet and /sb geology: after 20 minutes every mineral and terrain find on that planet is yours. Also /sb brief gives the away team +10 Resource Harvesting for an hour.
• AS-1 Atmospheric Sampler (any): +30 % atmosphere finds, an extra atmosphere sample, and /sb brief gives +10 Outdoor Survival.
• PL-2 Probe Launcher (astro or any): holds 4 science probes and fires them up to 2 jumps (7.6).
• PL-4 Deep Probe Battery (2 astro): 8 probes, 4 jumps, better odds, and probes bring back a sample.
• DSR-1 Drone Sample Kit (any): needs a drone bay (ADB-1 or TK Swarm Hive). Adds a sample drone role: /refit drones sample. In orbit of a planet you've scanned, each drone brings back a sample every 15 minutes (6 a planet a day). With a botany bench, plant finds come back as seed packets.

Anomaly and exotic

• AD-2 Anomaly Detector (anomaly or any): +25 % anomaly finds, +15 % chance of anomaly samples for the fab bay's AXC, and a warning when you pass near an unscanned anomaly: [Science] Anomaly reading, bearing 120, range 1.8.
• DMX-3 Dark-Matter Detector (2 anomaly): reveals exotic phenomena in each system (dark-matter filaments, neutrino sources, cold spots, gravity knots) that you can /scan in open space; they count as discoveries. 15 % exotic track chance per scan.
• NX-2 Neutrino Detector (astro, anomaly or any): tells you when ships drop out of hyperspace nearby, sometimes with their class; 5 % exotic track chance.

Language, medicine, botany

• XL-2 Xenolinguistics Decoder (any, communications crew): faster linguistics projects, and /sb decode <race> gives you a boost in that race's language (+5 per corpus level, up to +20) and +10 Diplomacy for 2 hours.
• MRB-2 Medical Research Bench (med or bio): faster medical research; compounds from planetary research are 20 % stronger and you get an extra vial.
• BB-1 Botany Bench (bio or any): +12 to your plant-breeding odds in hydroponics, and /sb seed <packet> analyses a seed packet (its needs and what it becomes) before you plant it.
• BB-3 Phytogenetics Lab (2 bio): +20 breeding, and you choose the trait when you cross two beds (/hydro cross 1 2 hardy).

Faction gizmos

• Therataan Resonance Scope (anomaly or any): +20 research skill, better anomaly and exotic finds, an anomaly-only prescan 1 jump out. Works even better with a TDA Deep Archive aboard, but clashes with the TK Neural Lattice (both at half strength).
• Klinshaya Hunt-Tracker (bio or any, security crew): when you kill a creature on a planet surface, 40 % of the time you take it alive in a capsule. Escaped specimens are much easier to recapture, and /sb brief gives +10 Marksmanship.
• Celay Bio-Sensor (bio or any): +25 % lifeform and +15 % plant finds; specimens heal; contamination half as likely.
• Ryl'Atti Echo Sonar (any): better mineral and terrain finds, rich deposits, best-of-two rich rolls, spots smuggled cargo on scanned ships. With a Seismic Array, /sb geology works from orbit.
• TK Neural Lattice (any): +7.5 % per posted operator and raises the operator cap to x1.40, but costs 3 crew morale and sometimes whispers (-1 morale, a chance at +1 grade).
• XON Salvaged Data-Core (2 any, never sold; XON loot): +20 % research speed and an extra project slot, but 8 % of its cores come out corrupted (they only sell at Manara, at 30 %). Fights a quantum core: with a QC-2 or QC-3 it works at half strength.

Weird, rare and support

• TER-3 Temporal Echo Recorder (anomaly or any): on a planet where every find has already been discovered (by anyone), /sb echo rescans it as an "echo" for echo papers. More sensor ghosts.
• PSA-3 Psionic Amplifier (any): your own PSI speeds up linguistics and xeno research when you start the project standing in the bay. With the Echo Recorder, 15 % of sensor ghosts turn out to be real anomalies.
• Singing Stone Resonator (2 anomaly, tier 4, never sold; reward of the Strange Tracks mission, needs a Ryl'Atti shard): +30 % anomaly and exotic research, +4 morale, breakthroughs twice as likely.
• BS-1 Bench Stabilizer (any): bad bay events 40 % less likely.
• FH-1 Containment Glovebox (bio, med or any): halves xeno hazards, and contamination never destroys a project input.

Combos worth knowing: sequencer + specimen tank, Synthesis Suite + Medical Research Bench, Cloud Chamber + accelerator, Dark-Matter Detector + Anomaly Detector, telescope or dome + probe launcher, drone kit + botany bench, Echo Sonar + Seismic Array, Resonance Scope + Deep Archive. Avoid: Resonance Scope with the TK Lattice, XON Data-Core with a quantum core.

7.4 Operators and the science crew post

Each bay has 1 to 4 operator posts: science stations where crew in science uniform can be posted. Each posted operator raises every gizmo's effect by their skill / 40 % (a 500-skill operator gives +12.5 %, two of them the full +25 %). The best operator's skill is also the project skill that decides speed and grade. Operators earn crew experience from every finished project. Low morale (under 40) cuts their skill by 10 %, so keeping the crew happy (Chapter 8) helps your science too.

No operator posted? The bay uses your best science crew member, or your own skill.

7.5 Research projects

Start a project with /sb project <type> [subject], on the science.projects page, or by voice: science, start a survey project on Vega II. The inputs are taken when the project starts. Cancelling (/sb cancel <n>) loses them.

How long? Base time x (1.5 - skill/100), shortened by research speed, but never less than a quarter of the base time. A skill-80 operator with +40 % speed writes a 60-minute xeno paper in about 30 minutes. With 125+ skill you're already at the fastest; gizmos then help with grade, not speed.

What grade? Grades run 1 to 5: 1 + skill/150, +0.5 for each extra input beyond the minimum (up to 2), plus gizmo grade bonuses (up to +2), plus lucky bay events. A live specimen also adds its health / 100.

What's it worth? Core price = base price x grade (grade 1 x0.4, 2 x0.7, 3 x1.0, 4 x1.5, 5 x2.2) x novelty x the buyer's rate. * Novelty: the first ship on the server to publish that subject gets full price and a server first (250 cr, 2 fame, an announcement; grade 5 firsts +1 fame). Subjects someone else published first pay 60 %. Your own repeats pay 25 %, and you can't redo the same subject for 7 days. * Cores keep the name of whoever wrote them. Selling a core to a friend doesn't make it new again.

Where to sell data cores (/sb sell <n> or /sb sell all, docked):

Stolen cores (from pirate loot) pay half.

Skill gains. Every finished project adds a little to the base of each skill listed for that type (0.1 x grade points), up to 2 points per skill per day.

7.6 Probes and prescans

Prescan (/sb prescan <system>, needs the Subspace Telescope, Astrometrics Dome or Resonance Scope). Points your telescope at a system within range. After a few minutes you get the planet list and how many of each kind of find each planet has: "Vega II: 3 minerals, 1 atmosphere". No discoveries are made yet. For the next 7 days, /scan on those planets is twice as fast and gets +10 % finds. Prescanned systems count toward cartography. Up to 20 prescans a day.

Probes (/sb probe <system> [planet], needs a probe launcher and science probes). Load probes from your cargo with /sb probe load. A probe flies to a planet 2 jumps away (4 with the Deep Probe Battery) and scans it for you at 70-85 % of normal odds. Discoveries it makes are yours. Firsts pay the normal 250 cr and half the fame (at least 1). If hostiles are in that system, the probe may be lost: [Science] Probe lost over Vega (hostiles). The Deep Probe Battery's probes fly home with a sample (lost if you've jumped more than 4 jumps away). Up to 8 probe launches a day. Probes cost 1,100-1,500 cr (cheapest at Rodom V).

Probes are launched by the server, not from the Ship Ops console's target drone button. That button still launches gunnery drones.

Geology (/sb geology, needs the Seismic Array): land, run it, and every mineral and terrain find on the planet is yours after 20 minutes. Once per planet per 6 hours.

Echoes (/sb echo, needs the Temporal Echo Recorder): only on a planet where every find has already been discovered. Each echo is new to the science registry (half the first-discovery reward, no fame) and gives echo readings for an echo paper. Once per planet, ever.

SCIENCE BAY TERMINAL, page science.probes (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: SCIENCE BAY :: PROBES, PRESCAN, GEOLOGY               KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Conference Room 2 -> ASB-2 SCIENCE BAY                                           Power 100%
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 PROBES  PL-2  loaded 3/4   in cargo 2   range 2 jumps   today 2/8
  in flight: Vega II   arrives 0:06   sample return: yes
 PRESCAN SST-2 1 jump   cooldown -   today 4/20   prescanned: Sol (5 d left), Vega (6 d)
  Vega: Vega II 3 minerals 1 atmosphere | Vega IV 2 lifeforms 2 medicinal plants
 GEOLOGY SA-1 landed survey (needs landing)   orbital: no   last: Kessa IV 2 d ago
 ECHO    TER-3 not fitted
 EXOTIC  tracks 3/10 (NX-2 detector 2% per scan)

 QUICK ORDERS
> sb probe _ _
  [ ] sb probe load
> sb prescan _
  [ ] sb geology
  [ ] sb echo

 CHAT  /sb probe <system> [planet]|load  /sb prescan <system>  /sb geology  /sb echo
 VOICE 'science, probe Vega'   'astrogation, prescan Vega'
 NOTE  Probes are server objects; the Ship Ops target-drone button is not a probe launcher.
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7.7 Specimens

Live creatures are the best xeno-paper input and are worth money to the Klinshay Hunt Lodge (1,500 cr x health/100, double for a species they've never seen).

Catching one: * /sample a lifeform find while you have a free tank slot aboard: 50 % of the time you catch it alive (health 60-100) instead of a plain sample. * With the Hunt-Tracker mounted, a creature you kill on a planet surface is taken alive 40 % of the time (health 30-60). Up to 6 a day. * Specimen capsules also turn up in Tikopai loot, and you can buy empty ones at Manara (200 cr).

Keeping it: 1. A capsule must go into a tank within 30 minutes or the creature dies (you keep a bio sample): /sb tank (or /sb tank 1 for a particular capsule). 2. In the tank it loses 2 health an hour (Vivarium and Celay Bio-Sensor heal it) and costs upkeep once a day from your bank. Unpaid upkeep costs 20 health. At 0 health it dies and becomes a bio sample. 3. /sb release <slot> lets it go. /sb sell spec <slot> sells it at the Hunt Lodge.

Escapes. Each specimen has a small daily chance to get loose: [Science] SPECIMEN LOOSE: Kessa crawler escaped its tank! For up to an hour the crew tries to recapture it every 10 minutes (50 % base, more with the Hunt-Tracker and security crew posted). While it's loose, crew members may get hurt. After an hour it's gone. A specimen frozen in a Deep Cryo Vault can't escape.

SCIENCE BAY TERMINAL, page science.specimens (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: SCIENCE BAY :: SPECIMENS & FREEZER                    KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Conference Room 2 -> ASB-2 SCIENCE BAY                                           Power 100%
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 TANKS  1/2   (XT-1 x1)                     escape 2%/day per specimen
  1  Kessa crawler   health 74   live 3 d   upkeep 20 cr/day (paid)
  2  (empty)
 CAPSULES waiting: 1  Vega lurker  dies in 22 min if not tanked
 FREEZER CSF-1 2/6
  1  anomaly sample  (storm, frozen: no decay)
  2  seed packet     xeno_healleaf 'hardy'

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] sb tanks
> sb tank _
> sb release _
> sb freeze _
> sb thaw _
> sb sell spec _       # docked at the Klinshay Hunt Lodge

 CHAT  /sb tanks  /sb tank [capsule]  /sb release <slot>  /sb freeze ..  /sb thaw <n>
 ALERT 'SPECIMEN LOOSE' -> security crew help recapture (10 min rolls)
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7.8 Exotic tracks, tech tokens and the accelerator

Exotic tracks are rare particle readings. Every /scan (planet or open space) has a chance to record one if you have a Cloud Chamber, Neutrino Detector or Dark-Matter Detector; the accelerator makes them on demand. Your ship holds up to 10. Three make an Exotic Particle Survey; one can stand in for the minerals of a Materials Study.

Tech tokens come from exotic surveys and (sometimes) materials studies of grade 3 or better, and from the Strange Tracks mission. Spend them in the fab bay: /fab token <faction> (+15 research on your pair with that faction, 2 a day).

7.9 Chemistry, briefings and language

Chemistry lab bonuses. The chemistry lab objects (ANALYZE and SYNTHESIZE) get your Chemistry Bench or Synthesis Suite bonuses when you use them aboard your own ship, or at a dock while your bay is running. The Synthesis Suite unlocks four new SYNTHESIZE results, made on ordinary vials (the vial keeps its usual name; the chat line tells you which compound it is):

Away-team briefing (/sb brief, or science, brief the away team): every player aboard gets the skill boosts of your mounted briefing gizmos for an hour (Seismic Array: Resource Harvesting +10; Atmospheric Sampler: Outdoor Survival +10; Hunt-Tracker: Marksmanship +10). Each gizmo then needs an hour to recharge.

Language decoding (/sb decode <race>, needs the Xenolinguistics Decoder and a corpus for that race): see 7.3. One decode at a time; it recharges when it ends. /sb corpus shows your progress per race.

7.10 Bay events

While a project runs or a live specimen is aboard, the bay has a small chance each hour (3-6 %) of an event. No events while docked at a shipyard.

7.11 The botany bench and crop strains

The Science Bay and the hydroponics deck work together:

1. /sample a medicinal plant (or other plant-like find) on a planet to get an alien seed packet (Chapter 8).
2. /sb seed <packet> on a botany bench tells you what it is and what it needs before you plant it.
3. A Crop Genetics Study (/sb project botany <planet>) with that analysed packet and a plant sample gives you 2 seed packets of a new strain with an extra trait (random, or your choice with the BB-3).
4. The botany bench's bonus also raises your odds when you cross two beds in hydroponics (/hydro cross).

Planting a strain you developed counts toward the Seed Scholar achievement and finishes the Seed Vault mission.

7.12 Daily limits

7.13 The SCIENCE BAY TERMINAL

The science board has five pages: science (overview), science.benches, science.projects, science.probes and science.specimens (the last two are shown above).

SCIENCE BAY TERMINAL, page science (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: SCIENCE BAY                                           KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Conference Room 2 -> ASB-2 SCIENCE BAY   Deck 3                       Power 100%  Ops x1.13
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 BAY  ASB-2   benches 5 (+2 ASL-1 annex)  used 5/7   gizmo tier <= 3   ACTIVE
  power: bay 150 + gizmos 135 = 285 PU    operators posted 2/2 (best skill 260)
 PROJECTS  2 running / 1 slot (+1 QC-2)    tracks 3/10   tanks 1/2   probes 3
  1 survey  Kessa IV          62%  ETA 0:14   grade est. 3
  2 xeno    Kessa crawler     20%  ETA 0:48   grade est. 4  (live specimen h 74)
 EVENTS  last: sensor_ghost 1h ago (false contact)   next roll in 0:31 (8%/h)
 ANNEXES ASL-1 sensor lab: research +10%, finds +5%   ASC-1 cartography: hyper fuel -5%
         XBL-1 xenobiology  AAN-2 anomaly analyser  TDA deep archive  (as fitted)

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] sb status
  [ ] sb projects
  [ ] sb benches

 CHAT  /sb (or /science) ...   /sb help      VOICE 'science, report'
 PANEL Science pad: /scan at the pad uses the scan bonuses of this bay
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SCIENCE BAY TERMINAL, page science.benches (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: SCIENCE BAY :: BENCHES & GIZMOS                       KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Conference Room 2 -> ASB-2 SCIENCE BAY   Deck 3                       Power 100%  Ops x1.13
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 #  tag    gizmo                       hp     state     draw   effect (x crew x power x ops)
 1  any    SP-1 Optical Spectrometer   100%   on        20     finds +5%, scan time -10%
 2  any    CB-1 Chemistry Bench        100%   on        30     analyze +20, synth +10%
 3  any    PL-2 Probe Launcher          85%   on        40     probes 3/4, range 2 jumps
 4  bio    XT-1 Specimen Tank          100%   on        30     1/1 live, upkeep 20 cr/day
 5  any    CSF-1 Cryo Sample Freezer   100%   on        25     2/6 slots
 6  any    (ASL-1 annex)  free
 7  any    (ASL-1 annex)  free

 Mount rules: crate in your inventory (or buy at a dock), tier <= 3, not in combat (60 s),
 mount time = build hours (no roll). One gizmo per line unless multi-mount.

 QUICK ORDERS
> sb mount _ _
> sb unmount _
  [ ] sb repair            # docked, 10% of cost
  [ ] sb accel             # PA-3 only: 10 trycene, 60 s, +900 PU, heat +15

 CHAT  /sb benches  /sb mount <gizmo> [bench]  /sb unmount <gizmo>  /sb repair  /sb accel
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SCIENCE BAY TERMINAL, page science.projects (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: SCIENCE BAY :: PROJECTS & PAPERS                      KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Conference Room 2 -> ASB-2 SCIENCE BAY   Deck 3                       Power 100%  Ops x1.13
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 RUNNING
  1 survey  Kessa IV        62%  ETA 0:14   inputs 4 finds        skill 260 -> grade 3
  2 xeno    Kessa crawler   20%  ETA 0:48   live specimen h 74    skill 260 -> grade 4
 READY TO START (inputs aboard)
  survey Vega II (3 finds)   materials (2 mineral + 10 trycene)   lingua therataan (22 lines)
 TYPES  survey carto xeno materials anomaly lingua exotic botany echo   (10 per player per day)

 DATA CORES  3 aboard: survey g3 Kessa IV (server first)  carto g2  xeno g4
  sale here: Terra Fleet Yards x1.0  (shipyards x0.8)
 CORPUS  therataan 22/20 lines (ready), klinshayan 7/20

 QUICK ORDERS
> sb project _ _
> sb cancel _
  [ ] sb cores
  [ ] sb corpus
  [ ] sb brief             # away-team skill briefing
> sb decode _
  [ ] sb sell all          # docked at a science buyer

 CHAT  /sb project <type> [subject]  /sb projects  /sb cancel <n>  /sb cores  /sb sell <n|all>
 VOICE 'science, start a survey project on Vega II'   'science, brief the away team'
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Commands (all /sb ... also work as /science ...)

Voice orders (needs science crew aboard): science, report; science, start a <type> project [on <subject>]; science, probe <system> [planet]; science, run the accelerator; science, brief the away team; astrogation, prescan <system> (needs astrogation crew).

The Science pad. /scan and /sample at the stock Science (Ship/Deck Scan) console get all your bay's scan bonuses automatically.

Alerts

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Chapter 8. Hydroponics and Provisions

Grow your own food aboard, cook it, brew it, steep it or distill it, and eat or drink the result for a timed boost to your attributes and skills. Feed your crew fresh meals to keep morale up, and sell the surplus to colonies and free ports.

The chain is always the same: grow (beds) -> store (the ship's store) -> process (a station) -> consume (a timed buff) or sell.

8.1 Grow decks and modules

Hydroponics modules are refit-room modules (any race can buy and fit them; tier 3 is for capital hulls). Appendix B5 lists them all.

You can fit several grow bays (AGB-1/2, towers, cellars, racial gardens). Only one of each of the others (one AGB-3, one vault, one set of vats, one synthesiser, one light rig, one galley, one brewery, one apothecary, one biome tank).

A good starter deck is an AGB-2 Grow Bay plus a Galley Annex in two rooms. Add a Brewery & Still or algae vats in a third room later.

Every module draws power, and beds grow slower when power is short. Grow beds want a crew member of their department posted (usually general crew): uncrewed beds grow at half speed (a quarter on the AGB-3).

8.2 Beds and their needs

Every crop needs three things, each on a scale:

Each bed has a value for each need, set by the module (an AGB bed is normal / normal / temperate). A crop grows: * at full speed if all three match exactly, * at three-quarters speed for each need that is one step off, * not at all if any need is two or more steps off (you can't plant it there).

any (Xeno Biome Tanks) matches everything.

Adjusting beds. The AGB-2 lets you change 1 bed and the AGB-3 4 beds, one step per need: /hydro bed 2 water + makes bed 2 one step wetter. A Grow-Light Rig turns every normal-light bed into a bright one for crops that want bright light, and speeds growth.

Water and nutrient. Every growing bed drinks from the ship's water and nutrient tanks each hour (roughly 0.5-1.5 water and 0.3-1 nutrient per bed). If a tank runs dry, growth stops (nothing dies). Refill at a dock with /hydro refill (water 1 cr a unit, free at friendly docks of your own race). Nutrient packs (+50 each, 150 cr) in your cargo are used automatically when the tank drops below 25 %. A Nutrient Synthesiser cuts nutrient use and turns ore from your cargo into nutrient. Algae vats and the Celay Water Garden recycle water. Harvests return some nutrient as compost.

Power. Growth slows in proportion to any power shortage. Light rigs only draw power while something is growing.

8.3 Planting and harvesting

1. Get seed packets. Buy them docked (/hydro shop, /hydro buy wheat 4), take them from the Seed Vault, or /sample alien plants (8.5). /hydro seeds lists what you carry. Foraged herbs are seeds too. Every natural drug you can /forage on a planet grows in a bed from the herb itself: /hydro plant 2 velith plants a velith moss (one herb per bed, no packet). /hydro crops [herbs] lists every crop with its needs and whether its seed is a packet or the herb.
2. Plant. /hydro plant 3 wheat plants bed 3; /hydro plant all wheat fills every free bed that suits wheat. One packet per bed. You can also plant a strain you bred by its name.
3. Wait. Crops grow on the server clock in real hours, even while you're logged off. Wheat takes 3 hours, an apple tree 8, a xeno Glowmat 16 (Appendix B6). Faster with grow lights, aeroponics, racial gardens and crew.
4. Harvest. When beds are ripe you'll hear General: Beds 1-4 are ripe. Harvest when ready. Then /hydro harvest all (or hydroponics, harvest).

What a harvest gives: * The crop's yield roll (for example wheat 6-9 units), plus bonuses from the module, racial gardens, strain traits and your crew operator (up to +60 % in total). The units go into the ship's store (/hydro store). Crops never sit in your own inventory; they stay with the ship. * A 60 % chance of one seed packet back. A farm that never buys seed slowly shrinks unless you keep a Seed Vault or breed strains. * Herb crops are the exception to the store rule: the harvest goes to your own inventory as the herbs themselves (chew, distil or sell them like foraged ones), with the same 60 % chance of one extra herb back as seed. * Perennials (apple, pear, orange, grape, coffee, tea) regrow by themselves 4-6 times before you have to replant. * A little compost back into the nutrient tank.

Seed age. Without a Seed Vault, seed packets older than 7 days fail to sprout half the time. The vault (or a cryo freezer in the Science Bay) stops that.

8.4 Blight and pests

Every harvest has a small chance (3-9 %, see the crop table) of trouble: * Pests (one time in three): the harvest is halved. * Blight: the bed is lost, with no harvest and no seed back: [Hydro] Blight took bed(s) 3.

Lower the risk with the hardy trait (half the blight), a skilled operator (up to half again) and by avoiding the Tikopai Tide Beds for fragile crops (+50 % blight there).

Seed Vault replant. If your Seed Vault holds a packet of the blighted crop, /hydro replant 3 replants bed 3 from the vault for free. (That earns the Blight Survivor achievement.)

8.5 Alien seeds from /sample

Alien crops can't be bought. They come from planets:

1. /scan a habitable or marginal world and find a medicinal plant, a plant-like lifeform, an extremophile or spores.
2. /sample it. You get a seed packet named after the find, for example "Kessa IV Healleaf". The xenobiology lab (and some gizmos) give extra packets. The same plant always gives the same crop.
3. Plant it in a Xeno Biome Tank (it won't grow anywhere else).
4. The first ship on the server to harvest a given alien plant makes a first discovery: 250 cr, 2 fame and an announcement. (The Xeno Gardener achievement also lowers the standing you need for tier-3 hydroponics.)

Any 3 alien crop units also make a Xeno Botanical Extract, a trade good worth 450 cr at Manara.

Analyse an alien packet with the Science Bay's botany bench before planting (/sb seed <packet>, Chapter 7).

8.6 Breeding strains

When two beds are ripe at the same time you can cross them instead of harvesting: /hydro cross <bedA> <bedB>.

• Allowed pairs: Terran with Terran, Terran with racial, racial with racial, alien with alien. Crossing alien with Terran or racial stock needs a Xeno Biome Array (XBT-3).
• Odds: 30 % + (your best science crew skill / 10) % + your botany bench bonus (up to +25), at most 80 %.
• Success: both harvests are used and you get 2 seed packets of a new strain, based on bed A's crop, named after your ship (for example Peppermint 'Kestrel'), with one trait added.
• Failure: both harvests are lost: [Hydro] The cross failed (39%). Both harvests lost.
• Crossing a strain again can add a second trait (two at most).
• With a BB-3 Phytogenetics Lab you choose the trait: /hydro cross 1 2 hardy.

Store strains in the Seed Vault (40 packets, 20 strains; seeds never age there): /hydro vault put <seed> [n], /hydro vault take <seed> [n]. The first harvest of a new strain on the server is a first discovery too.

8.7 The ship's store

Harvested crops, algae paste and finished crew rations live in the ship's store, not your backpack. /hydro store lists it; the hydro.stores page shows store, vault and your packets.

• Cooking at a station takes crops straight from the store, so you must be aboard your own ship to cook with them.
• /hydro pack [n] packs 20 Terran crop units into a Fresh Produce Crate to carry and sell.

HYDROPONICS TERMINAL, page hydro.stores (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: HYDROPONICS :: STORE, VAULT, SEEDS                    KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 8 -> AGB-2 GROW BAY   Deck 14                                          Power 100%
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 STORE (raw crop units, ship only)
  wheat 18   tomato 7   potato 22   soy 6   lettuce 4   tea 3   sage 2   hops 2
 SEED VAULT  14/40 packets, 2/4 strains   seeds never decay here
  wheat x6   tomato x3   tea 'hardy' x2   xeno_healleaf x3
 YOUR PACKETS  potato x2   mint x1
 POOLS  water 182/300 (1 cr/unit docked, free at own-race docks)  nutrient 96/150

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] hydro store
  [ ] hydro vault
  [ ] hydro seeds
> hydro vault put _ _
> hydro vault take _ _
> hydro pack _
  [ ] hydro refill         # docked
> sb seed _              # botany bench analysis

 CHAT  /hydro store  /hydro vault [put|take <seed> [n]]  /hydro pack [n]  /hydro refill
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8.8 Processing stations, step by step

How to make something:

1. Have the ingredients. Crops in the ship's store; other items (raw meat, raw bird, empty vials, water) in your inventory. The GALLEY TERMINAL's "CAN MAKE NOW" list shows what your store can cover.
2. Go to the station. Stand in the module's room (or within 3 m of the kitchen unit or lab).
3. Make it. /hydro make garden_pizza (or /hydro make garden_pizza 2 for two batches). You can leave off good_.
4. The roll. Success chance = 45 % + your skill points - the recipe's difficulty, plus the station's bonus (Galley +5 Cooking, Apothecary +5, Pharma Still +10), between 10 % and 95 %. If you fail, only the last ingredient on the list is lost.
5. Quality. Beat the roll by 30 or more for quality 2, by 60 or more for quality 3. Quality makes the good last longer (+25 % / +50 %), never stronger.
6. Brewing takes time. At the brewery and still a batch (up to 6) ferments for 2 hours: [Hydro] Batch of 6 fermenting, ready in 2h. One batch at a time. A hit on the brewery room spoils the batch.

Several recipes make more than one item per batch (cookies make 3, ales 3, wines and rations 2).

GALLEY TERMINAL, page hydro.stations (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: HYDROPONICS :: GALLEY, BREWERY, APOTHECARY            KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Mess Hall -> GALLEY ANNEX   Deck 9                                 Power 100%  Crew 1/1 gen
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 STATIONS ABOARD  kitchen+tea (Galley Annex)   brewery+still (Brewery & Still)   apothecary
  You are at: kitchen, tea  (within 3 m of the Galley label)
 CAN MAKE NOW (store has the crops)
  good_garden_pizza     wheat 2, tomato 2, sage 1         Cooking 45%+   hunger 45, STR+1 CON+1
  good_galley_ration    soy 1, potato 1, lettuce 1        Cooking        x2, crew meal
  good_tea_vitalis      tea 1, xeno healleaf 1            Cooking        CON+2, regen 1/min
  good_hops_ale         hops 2, wheat 2 (brewery, 2 h)    Cooking        CHA+2, crew morale +2
 BREWERY  batch 6 fermenting: Hydro Hops Ale, ready 1:12
 CREW MEALS  galley 30 meals/h from the store   last fresh meal 3 h ago (+5 morale)

 QUICK ORDERS
> hydro make _ _
> hydro serve _ _

 CHAT  /hydro make <good> [n]  /hydro serve <good> <n>     VOICE 'galley, serve hops_ale 25'
 ALSO  a kitchen unit or a food sequencer works as a kitchen station too
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8.9 Every good, by type

Hunger and thirst values replace your current need (the bigger the number, the more it fills). Durations are at quality 1. Appendix B7 has the same list with prices and where each is sold. The code in brackets is what you type after /hydro make.

Everyday food (kitchen; fruit is eaten as picked)

• Fresh Apple (fresh_apple) - 1 Dwarf Apple. Hunger 15, CON +1; 30 min.
• Fresh Pear (fresh_pear) - 1 Dwarf Pear. Hunger 15, AGI +1; 30 min.
• Garden Pizza (garden_pizza) - 2 Dwarf Wheat, 2 Cherry Tomato, 1 Sage & Thyme. Hunger 45, STR +1, CON +1; 60 min.
• Soy Burger (soy_burger) - 2 Soybean, 1 Dwarf Wheat, 1 Butter Lettuce. Hunger 40, STR +2; 45 min.
• Spiced Sausage (spiced_sausage) - 1 raw meat, 1 Sage & Thyme, 1 Dwarf Wheat. Hunger 35, WIL +1, CON +1; 45 min.
• Herb-Crusted Steak (herb_steak) - 1 raw meat, 2 Sage & Thyme, 2 Potato. Hunger 60, STR +3, CON +2; 90 min.
• Honey-Glazed Bird (glazed_bird) - 1 raw bird, 1 Sugarcane, 1 Ginger. Hunger 50, CON +2, regen 1 HP/min; 60 min.
• Fungal Loaf (fungal_loaf) - 3 Oyster Mushroom, 1 Dwarf Wheat. Hunger 50, WIL +2; 120 min.
• Oat & Sugar Cookie (oat_cookie) - 1 Dwarf Wheat, 1 Sugarcane (makes 3). Hunger 10, CHA +1; 30 min. Sugar tolerance +1.
• Spice Cookie (spice_cookie) - 1 Dwarf Wheat, 1 Ginger (makes 3). Hunger 10, INT +1; 30 min. Sugar tolerance +1.
• Ginger Snap (ginger_snap) - 2 Ginger, 1 Sugarcane (makes 3). Hunger 10, xeno resist 5%; 60 min. Sugar tolerance +1.
• Cane Candy Bar (cane_candy) - 2 Sugarcane, 1 Peppermint (makes 2). Hunger 10, AGI +1; 15 min. Sugar tolerance +1.
• Popcorn Ball (popcorn_ball) - 2 Popping Corn, 1 Sugarcane (makes 3). Hunger 10, CHA +1, crew morale 1 when served; 30 min. Sugar tolerance +1.
• Mint Lollipop (mint_lollipop) - 1 Peppermint, 1 Sugarcane (makes 3). Hunger 5, Starship Sensors Technology +2; 30 min. Sugar tolerance +1.
• Fresh Galley Ration (galley_ration) - 1 Soybean, 1 Potato, 1 Butter Lettuce (makes 2). Hunger 35, counts as a crew meal (fresh).
• Algae Ration Bar (algae_bar) - 4 Spirulina Paste (makes 2). Hunger 30, counts as a crew meal (not fresh).

Racial delicacies (kitchen)

• Terran Apple Pie (del_apple_pie) - 3 Dwarf Apple, 2 Dwarf Wheat, 1 Sugarcane. Hunger 40, CON +1, CHA +2, crew morale 3 when served; 90 min. Alliance speciality.
• Sunfruit Comb (del_sunfruit_comb) - 3 Ryl'Atti Sunfruit. Hunger 30, AGI +2, CHA +1, crew morale 3 when served; 60 min. Ryl'Atti speciality.
• Celay Lotus Cakes (del_lotus_cakes) - 3 Celay Dream Lotus, 1 Dwarf Wheat. Hunger 30, WIL +1, PSI +2, crew morale 3 when served; 90 min. Celay speciality.
• Blood-Moss Jerky (del_moss_jerky) - 3 Klinshaya Blood-Moss, 1 raw meat. Hunger 45, STR +2, CON +2, crew morale 3 when served; 90 min. Klinshaya speciality.
• Glassroot Shavings (del_glassroot) - 2 Therataan Glassroot. Hunger 25, INT +2, PSI +2, crew morale 3 when served; 90 min. Therataan speciality.
• Tide Kelp Rolls (del_kelp_rolls) - 3 Tikopai Tide Kelp, 1 Soybean. Hunger 35, AGI +2, CON +1, radiation resist 10%, crew morale 3 when served; 60 min. Tikopai speciality.

Juices, water and coffee (kitchen or tea station)

• Mint Water (mint_water) - 1 Peppermint, 1 water (unit). Thirst 40, WIL +1; 30 min.
• Fresh Orange Juice (orange_juice) - 3 Calamondin Orange. Thirst 35, CON +1, disease resist 10%; 45 min.
• Pressed Apple Juice (apple_juice) - 3 Dwarf Apple. Thirst 35, AGI +1; 45 min.
• Tanga Juice (tanga_juice) - 2 Tanga Vine. Thirst 35, INT +1, PSI +1; 45 min.
• Cellar Mushroom Juice (mushroom_juice) - 3 Oyster Mushroom. Thirst 30, WIL +2, radiation resist 10%; 45 min.
• Kelp Tonic (kelp_juice) - 2 Tikopai Tide Kelp. Thirst 30, AGI +1, CON +1; 45 min. Tikopai speciality.
• Deck-Grown Coffee (coffee) - 1 Dwarf Coffee, 1 water (unit). Thirst 20, INT +1, Engineering +3; 60 min. Caffeine tolerance +1.

Brewery and still

• Sassafras Root Beer (root_beer) - 1 Ginger, 2 Sugarcane (makes 2). Thirst 30, CHA +1; 30 min.
• Garden Cola (kola_cola) - 1 Dwarf Coffee, 2 Sugarcane (makes 2). Thirst 30, INT +1, AGI +1; 20 min. Caffeine tolerance +1.
• Hydro Hops Ale (hops_ale) - 2 Hops, 2 Dwarf Wheat (makes 3). Thirst 25, CHA +2, crew morale 2 when served; 60 min. Intox +1, alcohol tolerance +1.
• Ship's Vintage (ship_vintage) - 4 Table Grape (makes 2). Thirst 20, WIL +1, CHA +2, crew morale 2 when served; 90 min. Intox +1, alcohol tolerance +1.
• Still-Room Spirit (still_spirit) - 3 Potato, 2 Sugarcane (makes 2). Thirst 10, WIL +2, CHA +1; 60 min. Intox +2, alcohol tolerance +2.
• Blood-Moss Wine (blood_wine) - 3 Klinshaya Blood-Moss, 1 Sugarcane (makes 2). Thirst 20, STR +2, WIL +2, crew morale 3 when served; 60 min. Intox +2, alcohol tolerance +2, Klinshaya speciality.

Teas (tea station)

• Vitalis Tea (tea_vitalis) - 1 Camellia Tea, 1 Healleaf (xeno). Thirst 25, CON +2, regen 1 HP/min; 60 min.
• Sage Focus Tea (tea_sage_focus) - 1 Camellia Tea, 1 Sage & Thyme. Thirst 25, INT +2, Science Technology +3; 60 min. Caffeine tolerance +1.
• Chamomile Calm (tea_chamomile) - 2 Chamomile. Thirst 25, WIL +2, sobers you 1 level, halves stim crashes; 60 min.
• Celay Dew Tea (tea_celay_dew) - 1 Celay Dream Lotus, 1 Camellia Tea. Thirst 25, CHA +1, PSI +2; 60 min. Celay speciality.
• Ryl'Atti Ember Tea (tea_ember) - 1 Ryl'Atti Sunfruit, 1 Ginger. Thirst 25, STR +1, AGI +1, radiation resist 10%; 60 min. Ryl'Atti speciality.
• Resonance Tea (tea_resonance) - 1 Therataan Glassroot, 1 Chamomile. Thirst 25, AGI -1, PSI +3; 60 min. Built-in AGI -1, Therataan speciality.
• Tide Tea (tea_tide) - 1 Tikopai Tide Kelp, 1 Peppermint. Thirst 25, AGI +2; 45 min. Tikopai speciality.

Tinctures (apothecary)

• Ironroot Tincture (tinc_ironroot) - 2 Ginger, 1 Sage & Thyme, 1 empty vial. CON +3, disease resist 20%; 120 min. Tincture tolerance +1.
• Clearmind Tincture (tinc_clearmind) - 1 Neuralbloom (xeno), 1 Sage & Thyme, 1 empty vial. INT +2, WIL +2, Medical Technology +5; 120 min. Tincture tolerance +1.
• Steadyhand Tincture (tinc_steadyhand) - 1 Stimvine (xeno), 2 Chamomile, 1 empty vial. AGI +1, Marksmanship +5; 60 min. Tincture tolerance +1, cooldown 60 min, usable in combat.
• Starsight Tincture (tinc_starsight) - 1 Glowmat (xeno), 1 Peppermint, 1 empty vial. Astrogation +5, Starship Sensors Technology +5; 90 min. Tincture tolerance +1.
• Silvertongue Tincture (tinc_silvertongue) - 1 Celay Dream Lotus, 1 Peppermint, 1 empty vial. CHA +3, Diplomacy +5; 60 min. Tincture tolerance +1.
• Xenoward Tincture (tinc_xenoward) - 1 Immunocap (xeno), 1 Ginger, 1 empty vial. Xeno resist 30%, disease resist 20%; 180 min. Tincture tolerance +1.
• Rad-Bloom Tincture (tinc_radbloom) - 1 Radbloom (xeno), 1 Oyster Mushroom, 1 empty vial. Radiation resist 35%; 120 min. Tincture tolerance +1.
• Mindbloom Tincture (tinc_mindbloom) - 1 Glowmat (xeno), 1 Therataan Glassroot, 1 empty vial. WIL +1, CON -1, PSI +4; 90 min. Built-in CON -1, tincture tolerance +1.

Refined stims and medicines (chemistry lab or Pharma Still; the Rage Draught at the apothecary)

• Garden Tridrenaline (stim_tridrenaline) - 2 Stimvine (xeno), 1 empty vial. STR +2, AGI +4; 20 min. Crash AGI -3 WIL -2 for 30 min, stim tolerance +2, cooldown 60 min, usable in combat.
• Bloom Calphasine (stim_calphasine) - 2 Neuralbloom (xeno), 1 empty vial. INT +4, Starship Combat Tactics +5; 30 min. Crash INT -2 WIL -2 for 30 min, stim tolerance +2, cooldown 60 min, usable in combat.
• Green Anaphagol (stim_anaphagol) - 2 Immunocap (xeno), 1 empty vial. CON +1, disease resist 50%, xeno resist 10%; 240 min. Tincture tolerance +1, cooldown 120 min.
• Mossweave Traumaid (stim_traumaid) - 2 Healleaf (xeno), 1 empty vial. Heals 30 HP at once, regen 3 HP/min; 10 min. Tincture tolerance +1, cooldown 30 min, usable in combat.
• Poppy Norphine (stim_norphine) - 3 Medicinal Poppy, 1 empty vial. AGI -1, WIL +3, regen 1 HP/min; 45 min. Built-in AGI -1, stim tolerance +2, cooldown 60 min, usable in combat.
• Klinshaya Rage Draught (stim_rage_draught) - 3 Klinshaya Blood-Moss, 1 Stimvine (xeno), 1 empty vial. STR +4, AGI +1, WIL +1; 20 min. Crash STR -3 CON -2 for 30 min, stim tolerance +2, cooldown 90 min, usable in combat, Klinshaya speciality.

Trade goods

• Fresh Produce Crate (produce_crate) - 20 any Terran crop. Refrigerated trade cargo, fresh 24 h.
• Herb & Spice Bundle (spice_bundle) - 5 Sage & Thyme, 5 Ginger, 5 Peppermint. Trade good.
• Xeno Botanical Extract (xeno_extract) - 3 any alien crop, 1 empty vial. Trade good.

8.10 How buffs work

Food, drink and stims raise your attributes (STR, INT, AGI, WIL, CON, CHA, PSI; you'll see the bonus in the Attributes window) and skills, give resistances and regeneration, and run on a real-time timer. /hydro buffs (or the hydro.buffs page) shows what's active.

Three categories. Every good is a food, a drink or a stim (tinctures and refined stims). In each category only your best value for a stat counts: two steaks give STR +3, not +6. Across categories they add up: a steak (food, STR +3) plus Blood-Moss Wine (drink, STR +2) plus Garden Tridrenaline (stim, STR +2) gives STR +7.

Caps.

Penalties (crashes, intoxication, built-in drawbacks like Resonance Tea's AGI -1) are added separately and are never cancelled by the caps (worst -10 per attribute).

Tolerance. Sugar, caffeine, alcohol, tinctures and stims each build a tolerance. Every use adds to it; it fades by 1 an hour (stims and tinctures every 2 hours). Above the free level (2 alcohol, 3 caffeine, 3 sugar, 2 tincture, 1 stim), each extra point weakens that kind of good by about a fifth. At stim tolerance 4 your body refuses more stims: "Your body refuses another stim."

Cooldowns. Some goods (mostly stims) have a cooldown before you can take the same one again: "Not yet (12m)." A stim also blocks other vials with the same active ingredient for that time.

Crashes. Garden Tridrenaline, Bloom Calphasine and the Klinshaya Rage Draught hit hard and then drop you: when they wear off, a crash takes attributes away for 30 minutes. Chamomile Calm halves a crash if it's active when the crash starts.

Intoxication. Alcohol adds intox levels (ale and vintage +1, spirit and blood wine +2). At level 2 and up you lose AGI (level - 1), from level 4 also INT. It wears off 1 level every 30 minutes; Chamomile Calm removes one.

Combat rules. * In a fight (you dealt or took damage in the last 10 seconds) you can only use goods marked usable in combat: Steadyhand, Tridrenaline, Calphasine, Traumaid, Norphine and the Rage Draught. Anything else: "No time to eat." * Against players, all buffs count half (attribute total +5, triad +8, combat skills +5), and no stims in the first 10 seconds of a duel. * Buffs only affect you, never your ship's combat numbers.

Logging off and dying. Buffs keep counting down while you're offline. Death clears your positive buffs but not crashes or tolerance. When a buff ends you'll see [Hydro] Vitalis Tea wore off.

HYDROPONICS TERMINAL, page hydro.buffs (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: HYDROPONICS :: YOUR BUFFS                             KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Player: Andy
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 ACTIVE  cat     buff                     ends     effect
         food    Garden Pizza (q2)        0:41     STR +1  CON +1
         drink   Vitalis Tea              0:22     CON +2  regen 1 HP/min
         stim    (none)                            stim tolerance T1
 TOTALS  STR +1  CON +3 (triad 4/15)   skill: Marksmanship +0   resist: radiation 0%
 INTOX   0.0      COOLDOWNS  none
 Caps: attribute +10, STR+AGI+CON +15, skill +15 (combat +10), PvP x0.5.

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] hydro buffs

 CHAT  /hydro buffs   (window: Attributes shows the bonus)
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8.11 Feeding the crew and morale

Your NPC crew eats three meals a day each from the ship's store.

• The Galley Annex cooks up to 30 Fresh Galley Rations an hour automatically from soy, potato and lettuce in the store, and Algae Ration Bars when the crops run out.
• The crew eats fresh rations first, then other food from the store, then algae bars (fed, but not "fresh"), then ordinary stock rations.
• Fresh coverage of 80 % or more over the last day gives +5 morale.
• Treats: /hydro serve hops_ale 25 (or galley, serve hops_ale 25) serves a delicacy or drink with a crew-morale value to the crew. You need at least one for every 10 crew. The crew gets morale = 2 x the good's crew morale for 12 hours ("Served. Crew morale +5 for 12 h."). One treat at a time.
• All hydroponics morale together is capped at +10.
• A crew that goes hungry (under 30 % fed, more than 6 hours from a dock) loses 2 morale an hour: General: Morale is slipping (38). The crew needs shore leave.
• Every crew meal from your own store saves ration upkeep (5 cr a meal), if your server charges upkeep.

Good morale makes your crew better at everything, including the Science Bay's operators.

8.12 Selling produce

Docked at a provisioner: /hydro shop to see the shelf, /hydro sell <item> [n] to sell.

• Otherwise provisioners pay 40 % of a good's list price and 50 % of a raw crop's value.
• Produce crates stay fresh for 24 hours. After that they lose a quarter of their value every 6 hours, unless your ship has a refrigerated cargo vault.
• Each player can sell up to 20,000 cr of hydroponics goods a day.
• Racial seeds are sold to anyone with at least neutral standing with that race.

Missions. Quartermaster Jun Ede (Terra), Colony Agent Mara Holt (Rodom V), Dr Anwen Ross, Seed Curator Imre Vasko (Manara), Feastmaster Grath (Klinshay) and Temple Cantor Eshu (Temple) hand out hydroponics missions: Fresh Produce Run, Colony Lifeline, Blight Relief, Field Hospital Supplies, Seed Bank Survey, Xeno Harvest, Feed the Fleet, Victory Feast and Temple Tea Ceremony.

8.13 The HYDROPONICS and GALLEY TERMINALS

Every grow room has a HYDROPONICS TERMINAL (pages hydro, hydro.stores and hydro.buffs); the galley, brewery and apothecary rooms have a GALLEY TERMINAL (page hydro.stations). The stores, stations and buffs pages are shown above.

HYDROPONICS TERMINAL, page hydro (example values):

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 REFIT TERMINAL :: HYDROPONICS :: GROW BEDS                              KESTREL (TICONDEROGA 500)
 Room: Cargo Bay 8 -> AGB-2 GROW BAY   Deck 14                            Power 100%  Crew 1/1 gen
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 RESULT  (last save; also in chat)  : -
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 POOLS  water 182/300   nutrient 96/150   store 64 units   light rig AGL-1 (bright boost)
 BED   light/water/temp          crop             progress   note
  1    bright normal temperate   Dwarf Wheat      RIPE
  2    normal wet    warm        Cherry Tomato    71%        bed adjusted water +1
  3    normal normal cool        (empty)                     blighted - vault replant ok
  4    normal normal temperate   Tea (hardy)      38%
  5-8  normal normal temperate   Potato x4        12%
 ALGAE ALV-1 algae +6/h, life support draw -10%, O2 grace 10 min

 QUICK ORDERS
  [ ] hydro harvest all
> hydro plant _ _
> hydro replant _
> hydro bed _ _ _
> hydro cross _ _ _

 CHAT  /hydro  /hydro plant <bed|all> <crop>  /hydro harvest <bed|all>  /hydro bed <id> water +
 VOICE 'hydroponics, harvest'   'hydroponics, report'
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Commands

Voice orders (general crew answers): hydroponics, harvest or galley, harvest; hydroponics, report; galley, serve <good> <n>.

Alerts

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Chapter 9. Crafting and Materials Guide

Everything in the refit pack is built from the same handful of materials, with the same tools and skills as the rest of the game.

9.1 The Schematic window

Anything you fabricate yourself goes through the Schematic window: open a schematic (for example /schematic hy_phase_tuned_laser for a hybrid you discovered), the window lists rows of component, amount and step, and you press CREATE / COMPLETE with the components in your inventory and the right tool in hand.

• Self-installing a refit module works the same way: stand within 6 m of the room's name label with the crate, the materials and the tools (/refit selfinstall <id> [room]).
• Hybrids for hardpoints are completed within 6 m of the hardpoint they replace.
• Science gizmos are mounted on their bench with /sb mount (materials taken, no tool roll).
• Hydroponics goods are made with /hydro make at a station (no hand tools).

9.2 Tools for each step

Two more hand tools gather and refine raw materials: the sonic pick (mining ore and trycene) and the hand smelter (10 ore into 1 ingot). Both are sold at shops; see 9.4.

Each crafting tool comes in three grades: basic for tier 1-2 work, advanced for tier 3-4, master for tier 5. Buy them at general and tool shelves (basic 250 cr, advanced 900 cr, master 2,500 cr) or find them in freighter loot.

9.3 Skills and difficulty

• Fabrication Technology is used for everything you build. Reverse Engineering is added for hybrids and salvaged alien parts.
• Your crew can assist: science crew for science bays and gizmos, medical crew for medical modules, Resource Harvesting for hydroponics, sensor and combat-tactics crew for their modules.
• Goods use their own skill: Cooking, Medical Technology (apothecary) or Science Technology (chemistry lab).

Your chance = 45 % + your skill points - the difficulty, never below 10 % or above 95 %.

Difficulty goes up 10 for each tier above 1, +10 for capital-only, +5 for military-only, +10 for salvage-only parts, and +5 for each extra room (0 to 70). Hybrid schematics are difficulty 10 + 5 per rarity step. Appendix B lists the difficulty of every bay, gizmo and hybrid.

A botched self-install loses the time but keeps your parts: [Refit] Botched fit (41% vs 55%). Time lost, parts kept.

9.4 Raw materials and where to get them

Every shipyard, starbase and free port has a materials shelf, so materials never block a purchase. Shelves buy materials back at half price.

Mining. Buy a sonic pick at a shop and train the Resource Harvesting skill. 1. Land on a planet and find an ore or trycene deposit (/scan from orbit shows the minerals a planet has). 2. Hold the sonic pick in your hand. 3. Click the ground at the deposit, or use Resource Harvesting from your Skills window. 4. The ore or trycene goes into your inventory. A higher Resource Harvesting skill gets you more for your effort, and an away-team briefing from a Seismic Array gives +10 to it for an hour (/sb brief, Chapter 7).

Smelting. Buy a hand smelter at a shop (they come in three grades). 1. Hold the hand smelter in one hand and a stack of ore in the other. 2. Activate the smelter (use the item, or press Ctrl-R). 3. Every 10 ore become 1 metal ingot. Repeat until the ore is used up.

Is it worth it? 10 ore cost 20 cr on the shelf against 25 cr for a ready-made ingot, so smelting bought ore saves you a little - and ore you mined yourself (or your drones brought in) costs nothing at all.

Alien and special items

9.5 Race-equivalent materials

Ingots and electronics come in race versions. They are accepted one for one wherever a recipe asks for the generic kind, and race-built modules use their own race's materials:

A hand smelter makes ordinary metal ingots; buy the race versions at that race's docks when a race-built module asks for them.

9.6 Consumables and restocking

Several systems use things up. Appendix B8 lists each one with its price and the materials to make it yourself.

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Chapter 10. Command Reference, Voice Orders and Troubleshooting

10.1 All player commands

Where: anywhere, aboard (on your ship, docked or not), aboard, in space (not docked), docked, at a station (galley and so on), on a terminal (typed on a Refit Terminal board). Every command also works when typed on a terminal whose page allows it. Prefixes /, !, . and \ all work; on a board the prefix is optional. /science works the same as /sb.

Commands marked "anywhere" that read your ship's data work best aboard.

Refit rooms and ship systems (/refit)

Point defense (/pd)

Overdrive (/overdrive)

Experimental Fab Bay (/fab)

Paint and liveries (/livery)

Buying, selling and blueprints (/acq)

Refit missions (/refitmissions)

Science Bay (also /science) (/sb)

Hydroponics and provisions (/hydro)

Terminal words (typed on a Refit Terminal only)

Command notes * /refit remove takes out a refit-room module; /uninstall takes out a stock hardpoint part; /fab uninstall is only for arguing with the Gestalt Ascendant. * /refit status is the same as /refit power. For a terminal-style summary of any page use /refit show <page>. * With vendor rules on, /refit install sends you to a yard or self-install. * /refit launch and /refit recall always launch or recall all craft. * /refit drones mine is the same as /refit drones mining. * /refit alerts all|brief|off is your own setting: other players aboard keep theirs. * Without a ship (not aboard, or shipless) these work: /refit info, /refit help2, /fab notes, /fab discoveries, /fab tree, /fab token, /acq standing, /acq ach, /acq fragments, /refitmissions (list and detail), /hydro buffs, /hydro seeds. Everything else answers "You need to be aboard your ship." * If terminals don't appear, every board page is also available in chat with /refit show <page>, and every order on a board can be typed as a chat command.

10.2 Crew voice orders

Say them in chat or over the IntraShip Comm as <department>, <order>. The department answers on the ship channel. A voice order needs at least one crew member of that department aboard (if not: ": nobody at that post." and nothing happens); typed commands don't. Only the owner and players the owner allows can give voice orders.

Department names you can use: tac or tactical, eng or engineering, helm, comms or communications, science or sci, astrogation or astro, medical or med, security or sec, and galley, hydroponics or crew (all go to the general crew).

10.3 Troubleshooting and FAQ

Fab bay

Science Bay

Hydroponics and provisions

General

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Appendix A. Refit tables

These tables are generated from the game data, so they match what the server uses. Every module, consumable, livery, ribbon, finish, vendor, yard, loot table, mission and achievement in the pack has a row here.

How to read the columns:

• Tier T1-T5. On hulls that are not capitals, most families stop at T2 (point defense is the exception).
• Legal: military modules need a military hull of your own race (civilian weapons law); civilian fits any hull the module lists.
• Rooms: how many refit rooms it takes, which room kinds accept it, and how much cargo hold it costs.
• Power: power units it draws from the bus (and supply it adds, for generators).
• Materials are used up when the module is fitted, whether a yard crew or you do it. Race ingots and electronics are accepted 1:1 in place of the plain ones.
• Skill; diff: the crafting skill used for a self-install and the difficulty subtracted from the roll.
• Terminal / console: the Refit Terminal page (board name in brackets), the stock consoles it shows up on, and its own chat commands.

A1. Modules

A1.1 Point defense, flak, sweepers, decoys and escort screens (64 records, manual chapter 2)

A1.2 Mines, chaff, haze, shields, security and hardening (40 records, manual chapter 2)

A1.3 Hull, armour and damage control (23 records, manual chapter 3.2)

A1.4 Aux power (6 records, manual chapter 3.1)

A1.5 Engines (8 records, manual chapter 3.1)

A1.6 Sensors, ECM and computers (7 records, manual chapter 3.3)

A1.7 Utility (6 records, manual chapter 3.4)

A1.8 Hangar and flight ops (9 records, manual chapter 3.5)

A1.9 Cargo (9 records, manual chapter 3.6)

A1.10 Comms and fleet (8 records, manual chapter 3.7)

A1.11 Stealth (11 records, manual chapter 3.8)

A1.12 Teleport (5 records, manual chapter 3.9)

A1.13 Crew and morale (14 records, manual chapter 3.10)

A1.14 Medical (6 records, manual chapter 3.11)

A1.15 Science labs (7 records, manual chapter 3.12)

A1.16 Weapon mods (8 records, manual chapter 3.13)

A2. Consumables and craft

A3. Liveries (nose art)

Price is the base price for a medium hull. The paint shop multiplies price and materials by hull size: small x0.5, medium x1, capital x2.5. Materials go on during the job; tools: basic welder and basic bonder.

A4. Finishes, trims, paint services, ribbons and insignia

A4.1 Hull finishes

A4.2 Fame-rank trims

A4.3 Other paint shop services

A4.4 Ribbons

Ribbons are earned, never bought. They are painted on the nameplate rack (up to 10) at no extra cost.

A4.5 Insignia parts

A5. Vendors

Rules for every vendor are in acq_vendor_defaults (Vendor rules (all vendors)): standing tiers, price formula, daily rotation.

A6. Refit yards

A7. Loot tables

A8. Refit missions

A9. Achievements

Liveries in A3 that say 'achievement X' unlock with the matching row above (keys: ach_accumulator, ach_ace, ach_bounty_hunter, ach_bounty_ledger_gold, ach_checkmate, ach_deck_crew, ach_derelict_diver, ach_far_survey, ach_first_discovery, ach_first_intercept, ach_ghost, ach_marshal, ach_moonlight_run, ach_motherlode, ach_night_owl, ach_overload, ach_overmind_slayer, ach_pd_wall, ach_relic_hunter, ach_royal_flush, ach_scrap_king, ach_self_made, ach_tender_guard, ach_tin_turtle).

A10. Material catalogue

Shelf prices are what a dock's materials shelf charges; buy-back is half. Tools are not used up.

Tool grades: tier 1-2 work needs the basic welder / bonder / tracer, tier 3-4 the advanced one, tier 5 the master one.

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Appendix B. Fab Bay, Science Bay, Hydroponics and Provisions

These tables are generated from the game data, so they match what the server uses.

The code column is what you type in commands (for example /sb mount sb_spec_mk1 or /hydro make garden_pizza; goods also work without the good_ prefix). Materials are listed by name. Race-equivalent ingots and electronics are accepted one for one (see Chapter 9).

B1 Experimental Fab Bays and labs

Building a fab bay (yard or self-install, in the refit room at its room label, docked for tier 3+):

B2 Alien-tech hybrids

Catalysts for every experiment: trycene x (2 x T), electronic components x T and plastic x 2, where T is the higher tier of your two parts; bays of tier 3 and up (AFB-3, Forge, Resonance Lab, Derelict Lab, AXC) also take 1 Containment Lattice. The catalysts column shows the amounts for this hybrid's usual parts. RT = research tier your faction pair needs (Chapter 6). Stage 2 hybrids use a finished hybrid as part A. Fitting a finished hybrid uses the Schematic window (hardpoints) or the refit-room install (refit rooms).

B3 Science Bays and Science Decks

Your older science rooms plug in as extra benches when a bay is aboard: ASL and TDA add 2 any-benches, ASC 2 astro, XBL 2 bio, AAN 2 anomaly (+6 at most).

B4 Science gizmos

Bench = benches it takes and which bench kinds it fits (any = every bench). Mount time is the build time; there is no fail roll. Effects are before crew, power and operator multipliers and the caps (Chapter 7).

Core instruments

Astro and survey

Anomaly and exotic

Language, medicine, botany

Faction gizmos

Weird, rare and support

B5 Hydroponics modules

B6 Crops

Grow time is real hours at full speed. (xN) = perennial, regrows N times. Needs are light / water / temperature; any grows in any bed of a Xeno Biome Tank.

B7 Goods (provisions, drinks, tinctures, stims, trade goods)

Ingredients come from your ship's store (harvested crops) plus the listed items from your inventory. Skill is the crafting skill used; difficulty lowers your odds (Chapter 8). Price is the shelf list price; provisioners buy back at 40 % unless a better price is listed.

Food

Drinks

Tinctures and stims

Trade goods

B8 Consumables and restock items