Every hull you can sail and the rules that decide who keeps the cargo. This is a slice of the reference that ships inside the client, taken from the same text the game shows you.
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Work in progress. Praxion-7 is in development and these rules are still being tuned. Numbers here match the current build and will change.
A guide for the recently crashed.
The Codex covers everything these waters can do to you and everything you can do back. Every underlined term in chat, jobs, and tooltips opens an article here, and the search box finds the rest. Hover an item, a module, or a ship and press F1 to land on its page. Links walk you deeper, Alt plus the left arrow walks you back, and F1 with nothing under the cursor opens the Codex from anywhere.
No market, no repair, no fitting until you are docked.
Sail inside an island's dock ring and request docking. 3 seconds later you are in. Docking unlocks fitting, repair, the market, production, storage, and research spending. Undocking places you just outside the ring. Structures take the same request at close range. They advance jobs and stage encounters rather than selling services.
Island job boards. Take a job, finish it within 12 hours.
Each island posts its own board, and taking a job starts a 12-hour clock.
Jobs come in four kinds. Combat jobs send you to hunt and kill, and the repeatable ones post as patrols. Trade jobs move cargo between islands. Exploration jobs point you at beacons, sweeps, and whatever else is out there unlisted. Story jobs chain into longer arcs with their own characters and consequences.
Patrol difficulty follows the map. Frontier islands post the hard, best-paying patrols, Developing and Established islands the medium ones, Core islands the easy ones, and Pristine islands post none at all.
Progress tracks on its own as you play, and rewards claim into your wallet and storage. Patrols above the entry tier sometimes roll a craft license on top of the credits, and the larger trade runs do the same, less often.
Branching story scenes you read and steer from your console.
Some jobs lead into a written encounter. Most run while you sit docked at the island the job names. One that follows a beacon step runs inside the beacon sub-zone instead, and one that follows a boarding step runs docked at that structure. Your choices steer the scene, later scenes build on what you picked, and different paths reach different endings. Some choices fail the scene outright. Finishing credits the job like any other step.
Every window has a key, and a green corner marks the ones with something new.
The rail runs top to bottom, and every button on it answers to a key. World Map (M) plots routes and shows what you have charted. Job Log (J) tracks what you took and what it wants. Market (P) trades, and at sea it opens in browse mode so you can price-check a haul before you commit. Mail (E) is where blackboxes arrive. Notifications (N) holds whatever scrolled past while you were busy. Chat (Enter) carries global, fleet, enclave, and concord channels alongside direct messages.
People live behind Friends (F), Fleet (G), and Enclave (U). CRI Research (K) queues your next upgrade, and the Codex is F1.
A green corner on a rail button means something new waits behind it.
Three labels decide what an island stocks, what it builds, and how hard its jobs run.
An island's specialization sets what its market stocks beyond commodities and what you can produce there. Ten exist: Natural, Extraction, Biological, Energy, Processing, Commerce, Salvage, Research, Military, and Settlement.
Its development level runs Pristine, Frontier, Developing, Established, Core. Development decides how advanced a craft license the island can run and how hard the jobs on its board are. Specialization and development are independent, so a Frontier Research island and a Core Research island stock the same kinds of goods at very different depths.
Terrain is separate again, and it sets which commodities the island trades, so a Volcanic Commerce island is a normal thing to find.
Shields and armor come back at sea. Hull damage waits for a dock.
Incoming damage eats shields first, then armor, then hull, and a big hit cascades through all three. Shields recharge on their own at sea and return to full every time you undock. Armor comes back at sea as well, through your hull's own repair rate, fitted repairers, and assist tethers from other ships.
Eight damage families, each strong or weak against different defense layers.
Four families come out of guns and launchers. Kinetic rounds deal 100% damage to armor and hull but only 75% to shields. Energy fire deals 125% to shields and 60% to armor, and always hits. Corrosive deals 60% to shields and 125% to hull. Disruption deals 60% to armor and 100% elsewhere, and its real payload is electronic.
Four more come out of hatcheries (Bio-Drones), and they are far narrower. Each of the first three feeds on one layer at 100% and manages 40% on the other two, so a shield-eating brood barely marks hull. The fourth lands 10% everywhere, because what it really takes is your target's power.
Match your loadout to the layer you want to strip.
| Shields | Armor | Hull | |
|---|---|---|---|
| From guns and launchers | |||
| Impact | 75% | 100% | 100% |
| Resonance | 125% | 60% | 100% |
| Corrosive | 60% | 100% | 125% |
| Disruption | 100% | 60% | 100% |
| From hatcheries | |||
| Anti-Shield | 100% | 40% | 40% |
| Anti-Armor | 40% | 100% | 40% |
| Anti-Hull | 40% | 40% | 100% |
| Power Drain | 10% | 10% | 10% |
Shoot past specification range and your hit chance bleeds away. At 150% a turret stops firing.
Inside its specification range a weapon applies its full hit chance. Cross that line and the penalty starts at once: hit chance halves for every further half of specification range you put between you and the target. A projectile turret at 150% is therefore down to half its chance before your target's Evasion is counted at all.
150% is also a wall. Past it a turret will not fire at all. Ballistic Stability stretches the falloff band 1.5% per level, which softens the slide without moving the wall.
Energy weapons and bay weapons work differently. They stop dead at their listed range and lose nothing inside it. A landed hit always deals full damage. Range only decides whether you hit.
Chance for incoming projectiles to miss, scaling with your current speed.
Every point of current speed gives you a 1% chance to evade incoming projectiles (2% with Evasive Maneuvering fully researched). The attacker's ammo matters, because your evasion is divided by the round's velocity, so fast rounds are harder to evade and slow heavy rounds easier. Missiles and Bio-Drones roll against your evasion too, with their own speed weighed in.
Any ship can engage any ship, anywhere. Nothing stops the shot.
These waters carry no safety interlocks. Strangers, enclave-mates, pact partners, and concord blocs can all damage each other. Assist runs just as open, so a repair tether can mend any ship, a rival included.
Your HUD colors every ship by how it stands to you: red for a hostile or your locked target, blue for Fleet, green for your own Enclave, pale green for a pact partner, orange for a Pacts & Concords bloc, cyan for an accepted friend, and gray for everyone unaffiliated.
Each of those colors is a label, and a label stops nothing. What an attack costs you is in Crime & Punishment.
Guardians answer violence in race waters. Blackboxes remember it everywhere.
Strike another ship in waters a race holds and the answer comes fast. The zone's guardian wing, a three-ship patrol, logs every hit landed in its waters and comes for whoever it catches shooting at a protected ship. It does not sort out who started it. It shoots to kill and it does not lose interest, so breaking off means docking, leaving the zone, or slipping into a splitstream. Guardians answer for every zone a race owns, islands or no islands, and outside those waters no patrol answers at all.
What follows you everywhere is the record. Every player ship you destroy writes a permanent Blackbox naming you, and anyone can share it. That record is your whole standing out here, and it is all that answers for a shot nothing stopped (Open PvP).
Heavy fire can tear off armor plate that only a dock can restore.
Hits that reach your armor carry a small chance to chunk it, tearing away 5 to 15% of its maximum. Chunking lowers the ceiling repairers can mend to. Modules and assist tethers only restore armor up to what remains, so under sustained fire your armor grinds down over the course of a fight. A dock repair restores it at double the price of plain armor damage. Some hulls resist chunking, and some weapons and rounds are built to cause it.
Deep hull damage risks lasting conditions like fires and power leaks.
When your hull drops past 75, 50, 25, or 10%, each crossing risks one lasting condition drawn from the damage type that pushed you over. Five exist.
Fire cuts your power recovery by 30% and Power Leak cuts it by 40%. Both come from energy and disruption hits. Flooded Compartment, from kinetic hits, cuts your top speed by 15%. Propulsion Impaired cuts top speed by 20% and acceleration by 30%, and Steering Damaged widens your turns by 25%. Both come from kinetic and corrosive hits.
Different conditions stack, so Fire plus Power Leak leaves you 42% of your power recovery. Active conditions show as small icons under your hull bar.
Landing hits in a row on one target makes each next hit bite harder.
Every weapon keeps its own streak against the target it is shooting. Each landed hit in a row adds 6% damage, up to 5 stacks and 30% at the top, and because the count is per weapon a five-gun broadside runs five separate streaks that climb at their own pace. Miss, switch targets, or leave a long gap between hits and that weapon drops back to zero.
Some weapons override that ramp. A Spine Cannon climbs to 6 stacks and a Shredder Battery to 8, while the Veykr arc weapons take 5% a stack instead of 6. Three rounds raise the per-stack figure rather than the ceiling, each loading into the one gun built for it: Veykr Barbed Spine, Veykr Barbed Spine, and Veykr Shredder Spine. A weapon's tooltip lists whatever it overrides.
Electronic warfare fire that knocks modules offline and drains power.
Disruption's payload is electronic rather than raw damage. Some disruption rounds knock a random module offline for a few seconds, and the round decides how long. Certain disruption weapons drain the target's power pool instead. The family deals only 60% to armor. Fit it to cripple, then switch families to finish the job.
Hatcheries grow living drones that latch onto a target and feed.
A hatchery is a bay module that grows drones out of bio-encoded mass, and the Veykr Clade builds every one of them. Deploy against a locked target and the drone swims across, latches, and feeds once a second for six feeds before it dies.
Seven species ship, each built for one job. Veil-Chewer Hatchery eats shields, Plate-Gnawer Hatchery eats armor, Marrow-Borer Hatchery eats hull, and Sap-Drinker Hatchery drains your target's power pool. The other three go onto another ship instead: Veil-Mender Hatchery puts shields back, Shell-Mender Hatchery puts armor back, and Sap-Feeder Hatchery hands over power. Every species comes in three marks.
Hatcheries feed from refrigerated Magazines, and the mass you stock decides the brood: Lean Bio-Encoded Mass swims 25% faster and bites a quarter softer, Dense Bio-Encoded Mass bites 35% harder and swims 20% slower, and Bio-Encoded Mass sits between them.
A damage brood rolls against your target's Evasion once, at deploy, and it rolls on its own swim speed rather than a round's velocity, so the heavy slow broods are the ones a fast hull shakes off. Support broods and anything that cannot move latch without a roll.
Five nodes back the tree. Brood Culturing opens hatcheries by size and Brood Refinement opens the refined marks, while Metabolic Endurance adds feeds per drone, Spawn Reflexes shortens the deploy cycle, and Bio-Assembly Efficiency cuts the mass each drone costs.
Shape decides where a module fits. Stacking decides what it is worth.
Every module occupies a shaped footprint on your hull grid, and most rotate in quarter turns. Weapons need a free hardpoint, bay modules need a launch bay, thrusters need to touch the rear, and hull-mounted gear needs to touch the shell. External cargo attachments rack outside the hull, where each one has to rest on the rear strip or on another attachment already resting there.
A module's bonus counts in full only when nothing else aboard touches that stat, and every further contribution to the same stat is worth half the one before it. One Cargo Hold adds 5 m³, two add 7.5 rather than 10, and three add 8.75. The count runs per stat, so a cargo hold never dilutes a shield reservoir. The fitting screen's stat panel already has the penalty in it, so trust that panel over adding tooltips together.
Overload your hull and you crawl. Past 150% you do not undock at all.
Your fitted modules' combined mass is measured against the hull's tolerance. Cargo and loaded ammunition weigh nothing, so only modules count. Up to 80% costs nothing. From 80% to 150% your speed, acceleration, and agility degrade on a ramp, down to 25% of your speed at the limit. 150% is the wall, and past it you will not be cleared for undock.
Mass Optimization shaves 1% off every module's mass per level, and the gate reads that lighter number, so enough levels can bring an overweight fit back under the wall. Mass Distribution flattens the ramp instead and leaves the wall where it is.
Projection, systems, and engineering group your modules on the combat HUD.
Each module belongs to one of three decks. Projection carries weapons and targeted tools, systems carries ammunition magazines and combat amplifiers, and engineering carries the rest. The deck decides which HUD row a module lands on and how its hotkeys group, never where the module can sit. The hull grid decides that.
Gun and round sizes from I to III that must match exactly.
Weapons and ammunition come in calibers I, II, and III. A gun loads only rounds of its own caliber. Magazines store any size, and caliber never limits where a module fits on the grid. Three research nodes raise kinetic gun damage, each for its own caliber, and they ladder in order: Compact Caliber Mastery, then Standard Caliber Mastery, then Heavy Caliber Mastery.
A gun accepts every round of its damage family in its caliber.
Turret guns load any round matching their damage family and caliber. The round rewrites the shot, so damage and range take the round's modifiers, and the round's damage type overrides the gun's own.
Six rounds split their damage across two types instead of one and are scored against both in proportion, so an Aurelion Harmonic Round landing 60% kinetic and 40% energy strips a shield far better than a plain shell of the same caliber.
Each round also carries an evasion divider, listed under that name in its tooltip: a fast round cuts the target's evasion, a slow heavy one hands evasion back. On missiles and drones that same number is their real travel speed.
Two caliber III rounds carry a shield bypass that sends part of their damage straight past the shield layer, the kinetic Phasing Shell and the disruption Phase Disruptor Round. A round's tooltip lists every gun that takes it.
Shared ammo stores that feed adjacent bay launchers.
Bay launchers carry no ammunition of their own. They draw whole shots from magazines touching them on the grid, and several launchers can share one magazine's pool. Two families exist.
Missile stores hold missile components of any weight and feed an adjacent Swarm Launcher, Missile Battery, or Torpedo Rack. They come compact as the Missile Magazine and armored as the Missile Silo.
Refrigerated stores keep bio-encoded mass alive and dormant for adjacent hatcheries (Bio-Drones), as the small Chill Pouch and the larger Chill Vault.
Bays refill themselves from your cargo hold at sea.
When a weapon bay runs dry it reloads from your ship's cargo, preferring the type already loaded. The reload takes half the weapon's activation time. Turret Loading shortens turret reloads and Rapid Rearm shortens launcher reloads, 2% per level each. Docked, you can load a bay from your hold or the island's stores. Unloading one returns its rounds to island storage.
Active modules draw from a shared power pool.
Every activation draws the module's full power cost up front. The pool refills at your hull's recovery rate. Energy weapons carry no ammunition at all, so every shot draws from this same pool and sustained energy fire competes with your other modules. Certain disruption weapons and Bio-Drones drain the pool of whoever they hit.
Passive modules work when fitted. Active ones cycle on command.
Passive modules improve your ship the moment you undock with them fitted. Active modules fire on command, spend power, then cool down for one full cycle before firing again. Most keep repeating against a locked target until you stop them. Anything you activate cancels a pending dock.
A destroyed hull is gone. Part of its fit survives in a wreck.
When your ship dies, the hull is lost for good. Each fitted module has an even chance of surviving into the wreck, and item stacks usually survive in part. The wreck floats at the kill site for 30 minutes. A blackbox record of the kill arrives by mail, and your killer gets a copy when a player fired the final shot.
You wake docked at the last core-waters island you used, in a free pod.
10 seconds after your ship dies you wake docked at the last island you used inside one of the four races' core clusters, meaning a cluster that holds a Core island. The zone's owner hands you a free escape pod, and each race builds its own.
Kharum Directorate issues the Bailout, Aurelion Synod the Lumen, Veykr Clade the Husk, and Kel'Thryx Assembly the Hatchling. Every pod mounts one weapon over a 5 m³ hold and passes every research gate.
Ask the shipyard for a free pod. Once every 4 hours.
The shipyard at any island will hand you a free escape pod on request, once every 4 hours. It arrives fitted, docked where you asked, and built by whichever race holds the island.
This exists so you can never be stranded. A pod passes every research gate, so even if the only hulls you own are ones you are not cleared to fly, one request puts you back in the water.
Stop within 30 m to open one. First come, first served.
To open a plain wreck or cache, come within 30 m and stop. A locked cache works off your Decrypter's own listed range instead. Contents show only to whoever opens the container. The container itself belongs to nobody, so anyone in range can loot it, and every grab is final. Loot lands in your ship's cargo.
You pay by the point of damage, whatever the hull is worth.
Repair happens docked, in one purchase that clears everything. Armor costs 1.5 Cr per point, hull 2 Cr per point, chunked armor 3 Cr per point, and each lasting hull condition a flat 500 Cr. The price ignores what the hull or its fit is worth, and refitting never changes the damage on record.
A hull too damaged to list still pays half its base value.
Scrapping pays half the hull's base value, minimum 1 Cr. The credits arrive the moment you confirm. The hull has to meet the same conditions a market listing asks for (Selling Ships), with one difference: the yard takes it damaged.
Subspace lanes that carry you across clusters at 10× your top speed.
Come within 5 m of a lane and enter, and the stream hurls you along it at 10× your maximum speed. You can ride from either end or drop out midway.
Plot a course on the world map and the navigator sails it for you, right to the dock.
Plot a course from the world map, then engage. The navigator sails each leg, enters splitstreams facing the planned exit, and docks you at the destination. Cancel a route and the destination sticks, so one keypress resumes it and the navigator re-plots from wherever you are.
Private pockets of sea behind beacons that eventually collapse.
Traversing a beacon moves you into a private pocket of sea, hidden from outside. Pockets are never stable. 30 seconds before one collapses, everyone inside gets a countdown, and at zero you come out at the beacon's position in the open world. Your ship and cargo travel in and out with you.
Cargo is measured in cubic meters against your hull's hold.
Every item occupies volume, and your hold's capacity comes from the hull, the modules you fit, and research. Freighter Doctrine adds 2% per level on Freighter hulls, and Medium Hull Integration and Heavy Hull Integration widen the hold along with every other stat on T2 and T3 hulls. Moving a stack aboard fills whatever space remains. A single large item needs room for the whole piece.
Store as much as you like for nothing. It stays exactly where you left it.
Each island keeps its own hangar and warehouse for you, with no volume limit and no fee. Ships park the same way, one hangar per island.
Click your wallet to see where your credits and your things went.
Three tabs sit behind your wallet. Ledger lists every credit that entered or left your wallet with the reason attached, so you can read back exactly where a missing payout went. Blackbox collects the kill records you were part of. Assets lists everything you own and the island holding it, and since storage never moves on its own, that tab is the only place showing your holdings across every island at once.
One order book per item per island, with instant trades and resting orders.
Buying and selling both go through the order book. An instant trade fills against the best resting orders and refunds any price difference. A resting order waits in the book at your price. Fills happen at the resting order's price and pay the seller in full.
Every sell pays a 5% fee, instant or resting, charged up front on your limit price times the full quantity. The fee is spent the moment you sell, whether the order fills, expires, or you cancel it. Raising the price of a listed sell order charges the fee difference on what is still unsold.
Ships trade on the same market, and a used hull sells once it is stripped and repaired (Selling Ships). You start with 3 resting-order slots, and Market Logistics raises that toward 80.
Only buy orders travel. Everything else waits for a hauler.
A sell order lives at the island where you placed it. A buy order can stay within its own cluster or reach 1, 3, or 5 regions out. Stock and prices differ from island to island, so a full hold moved to the right buyer is a trade in itself.
Hulls sell on the market one at a time, bare and repaired.
To list a hull it must sit docked at the sale island, fully repaired, stripped of modules and loaded ammo, with an empty hold, and it cannot be your active ship. Each listing is one named hull. Buy orders for ships work too, up to 25 at once.
Scan the piles, cut them up, haul the yield.
Salvage fields gather in empty clusters, each a scatter of piles you can see but not read. A scanner like Debris Scanner reveals what a pile holds. Each pile carries a single item type. A fitted extractor like Basic Extractor cycles volume out of the pile into your hold until the pile runs dry, and worked-out fields eventually return.
Where you cut decides what you find. Water a race holds carries shallow and deep fields only, thick with common metal. Contested drifts need unclaimed or lawless water, and both warlord-grade fields form nowhere but lawless water. Every step up that ladder is a rarer sight than the one below it, and the payoff is stock nothing else yields. Reprocessing turns those fields into the capacitor banks, barrel assemblies and reinforced frames that tier 2 and tier 3 module licenses call for, and a warlord cache is the only source anywhere of the Containment Lattice every tier 4 module needs.
Research sharpens every step. Extraction Yield adds 2% more material per cutting cycle per level, Cycle Acceleration shortens each cycle by 2% per level, Composition Scanning widens your scanner's radius by 2% per level, Range Extension extends how far your extractor reaches by 2% per level, and Salvage Efficiency pulls 1.5% more material per level out of wrecks.
Convert salvage into refined materials, 100 units at a time.
Reprocessing converts raw salvage in packs of 100 units. One run processes every full pack in your stack. Reclamation Yield adds 1.5% more output per level, up to 15%, and the output preview counts your bonus in. An item's tooltip lists what it refines into.
Run craft licenses at islands that meet their requirements.
Production runs a craft license at the island you are docked at. The island has to match the license's specialization and be developed enough for its tier, both at once. Ship licenses skip the specialization check and hinge on development alone.
Design Comprehension caps the complexity you may run, Batch Manufacturing sets how many jobs run at once, and Production Speed shortens them. Each run costs 1,000 Cr plus materials from local storage, and each material unit has a 10% chance to survive the run and stay in storage.
Blueprints with limited uses. Most come from job rewards.
A craft license spends one use per production run. Component and ammo licenses carry 50 uses. Module and ship licenses are single-use.
Basic component and ammo licenses sell at island markets of the matching specialization: universal component licenses at Processing islands, ammo licenses at Military islands, and each race stocks its own at its own islands. That is the same specialization allowed to run the license, so you can buy one and run it without leaving the dock.
More advanced component licenses, and every module and ship license, arrive as random rewards from jobs and exploration.
Your implant researches upgrades in real time, even offline.
The Control Relay Interface researches nodes across multiple trees, in wall-clock time that keeps running while you are offline. Levels run 1 to 10, from 24 minutes at the bottom to hundreds of hours at the top. Most nodes pay the same gain every level. A few, like production lines and market order slots, grow in bands and save the big jumps for the top.
Research Data unlocks each node's level bands. It drops from wrecks and caches, and you spend it docked.
Research gates undocking and fitting, never buying.
Nothing about research blocks a purchase, so buy any hull or module the moment you can afford it. Four actions check your research instead: making a hull your active ship, saving a fitting that holds gated modules, undocking, and starting a production run from a license.
Wherever gated gear appears you see the node you are missing, and that node's Codex article shows your live progress against each requirement, counting down while it researches. Queue the missing research, keep sailing, and the gear works from your next undock after the last level lands.
Hidden signals that open into private sites.
A beacon is a signal leading to a pocket of subspace worth visiting, holding salvage, caches, fights, or whatever the last crew left behind.
Finding one takes a Spectrum Sweep and triangulation. Getting in takes a breach, first Cipher Cascade and then Frequency Attunement, which earns the key to traverse. Some job-granted beacons come with the location or the key already in hand, so you skip those steps.
Public beacons let anyone through. Locked containers inside need a Subspace Anchor solve on top.
Find a beacon's carrier, then ping down its position.
Sweeping fires probes into a 256 Hz band to find a hidden carrier. Each probe answers after 5 seconds with a hit or a hot-cold hint, and a hit locks the signal, revealing what the site is and a threat read from 0 to 3 before you commit.
Triangulation follows. Fire your pings along the bearing cone, spend them all, and the fix either commits or it does not. Any hull can sweep, and Pathfinder hulls, the scanning specialists each race builds, accept a looser tune, so a near-miss probe still registers.
Pathfinder Doctrine sharpens those hulls further. Signal Processing widens how far off the carrier a probe can sit and still register, and it steadies the hot-cold hint, which starts erratic enough to be barely worth reading. Triangulation Mastery steadies the triangulation cone so your pings land easier.
Halt the spinning reels on their target glyphs.
The first half of a breach. Reels of glyphs spin, and you halt each one on its target glyph. The window shows one lock at a time. Higher tiers add reels and cut your retries.
Decryption Theory strengthens your decrypter and buys extra retries per attempt, and Cipher Foundations loosens how precisely you must halt each reel.
Match a drifting carrier wave to finish the breach.
The second half of a breach. Tune your wave to match the beacon's carrier and hold the alignment until the lock takes. Every beacon asks for frequency and phase. T3 adds amplitude and drift together, T4 adds jamming, and the lock window tightens every tier.
Cipher Foundations widens the drift window, giving your lock more room to breathe. Success earns the access key, and the beacon lets you traverse from then on.
Repeat the node sequence to crack a locked container.
Locked containers carry an anchor challenge. Watch a sequence play across a node grid, then repeat it. A fitted decrypter drives the solve, from inside its own listed range. Higher tiers lengthen the sequence and put a timer on every pick, and on a T4 grid the line your picks trace may never cross itself.
Subspace Tethering slows the input timer and, at higher levels, forgives one mistake.
The breach tool, fitted like a weapon and required past discovery.
A decrypter mounts on the projection deck beside your weapons and drives every breach stage and anchor solve. Sweeping and triangulating need no hardware. Three marks exist, Decrypter, Decrypter II, and Decrypter III, and the stronger two need Decryption Theory.
Strength decides how much of the lock the unit reads before you touch it. A stronger mark tends to hand you an easier challenge than the beacon would set on its own, sometimes a full tier easier, and levels in that same node push the effect further.
T1 to T4. Higher tiers run faster and meaner.
Every beacon carries a tier from T1 to T4. Tier sets the stage timers at 120, 90, 45, and 30 seconds plus a short grace, and hardens every minigame with more reels and fewer retries in the cipher, extra wave axes and jamming in attunement, and longer timed sequences on the anchor.
A temporary group with wings, squads, and a commander.
Create a fleet from the Fleet window and it forms around you as commander. Any member can invite another pilot by name, and the invite lands as a notification to accept or decline.
A fleet holds up to 5 pilots, organized into wings and squads under the fleet commander, with wing commanders and squad leaders below. You set your own wing and squad from the Fleet window.
The commander names the fleet, sets its objective, appoints wing commanders and squad leaders, and can hand command to someone else. Wing commanders and squad leaders can remove anyone below them in their own wing or squad. Fleetmates share a chat channel and show blue on your HUD (Open PvP).
A permanent player organization with a shared wallet.
Founding an enclave costs 50,000 Cr, Enclave Command, and a dock to sign at. Five roles ladder from recruit to leader.
The treasury takes deposits from any member and pays out to officers. The member cap grows with the leader's level in that node, from 25 toward 500. Upkeep runs 10,000 Cr a week out of the treasury.
Enclaves bond into pacts and blocs. The bond buys trust and HUD color.
Enclaves bond two ways. A pact ties exactly two enclaves together. A concord is a bloc of many. One enclave founds it and picks its name and tag. The founding leadership invites other enclaves in, and each of those signs on through its own leaders.
Everyone in the bloc shows friendly on your HUD (Open PvP) and shares a concord-wide chat channel. Bonded ships can still damage each other.
The forensic record of a ship kill.
Every player ship destroyed produces a blackbox, whatever killed it. The record names the victim and the killer, lists the full fitting and cargo with each item's fate, and carries a damage timeline of the final 30 seconds, attacker by attacker.
It arrives by mail, and a record shared in chat opens for anyone. Your own records also live in a tab of The Ledger. Records never change, and nothing else out here vouches for you the same way (Crime & Punishment).
Light Aurelion freighter. A 70 m³ hold behind 80 shields and 50 armor. One weapon mount at 10 speed. The shield bank is the deepest on any light freighter, and it is the only cover the cargo gets.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Aurelion freighter. 180 m³ under 150 shields, the deepest bank of any medium freighter, recharging 9 a second. Two weapon mounts. Break through the bank and there is 140 hull and 90 armor left under it.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Aurelion freighter. A 450 m³ hold under 280 shields at 14 a second, moved at 6 speed. Lose the hull and what is left of the manifest sits in the wreck for whoever reaches it first.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Aurelion guardian. 140 shields recharging 8 a second, the deepest bank at its tier, with two weapon mounts and a launch bay. Behind that sit 100 hull and 70 armor, so the shield has to hold.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Aurelion guardian. 260 shields at 14 a second, three weapon mounts, and a launch bay. It soaks on the shield layer and leaves 120 armor for whatever gets through.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Aurelion guardian. 450 shields, the largest bank of any hull in service, refilling at 22 a second. Three weapon mounts and two launch bays over 300 hull and 200 armor. The shield covers this hull and no other.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Aurelion harvester. A 35 m³ hold and 84 power for the cutters, held up by 80 shields rather than plate. Just 50 armor sits under that, so read the field before you commit.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Aurelion harvester. A 100 m³ hold, three weapon mounts, and 140 shields over 90 armor. The Synod logs what comes back and files the difference.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Aurelion harvester. A 250 m³ hold, four weapon mounts, and 220 shields to hold its place in a salvage field while the cutters work through dead hulls. It moves at 6.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Aurelion pathfinder. Sweep Power 2 across a 120 degree arc, all any light hull gets, carried at 16 speed. 60 hull and 40 armor mean the reading has to be worth the trip.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Aurelion pathfinder. Sweep Power 3, one better than any light hull manages, with 120 shields and three weapon mounts. It reads at 12 speed. The Synod keeps what it finds and decides later who is told.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Aurelion pathfinder. Sweep Power 4, the widest reading anyone has built, over 200 shields and 180 hull. Four weapon mounts and 50 m³ for whatever the survey brings home.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Aurelion striker. Three weapon mounts and 100 shields, the deepest bank any light striker carries. Under that sit 80 hull and 60 armor that will not survive a second pass. It runs at 14.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Aurelion striker. Four weapon mounts, more than any other medium striker, and 180 shields coming back at 10 a second. The 100 armor underneath is thin on purpose.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Aurelion striker. Five weapon mounts, more than any other striker in service, behind 320 shields that refill at 16 a second. 250 hull and 180 armor are the price of carrying them.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Aurelion tender. Pick a hull, run a repair tether to it, and the work comes out of your own reactor. The link cuts once your own hull runs down. 90 hull, 90 shields, 12 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Aurelion tender. Holds several tethers at once, threading shields and plating to the hulls around it out of 132 power. 180 shields of its own, and 100 armor you should not plan on using.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Aurelion tender. 192 power feeding tethers across a formation. The strain comes off its 180 armor and then its 280 hull, and the 300 shield bank at 18 a second covers everything an enemy sends instead. Four weapon mounts and a 120 m³ hold.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kel'Thryx freighter. A 75 m³ hold, second at its tier behind the Directorate hull's 80. One weapon mount, 100 hull, 10 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kel'Thryx freighter. A 190 m³ hold behind 200 hull and 160 armor. Two weapon mounts, 8 speed. The consensus prices the trip in hours and accepts them.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kel'Thryx freighter. A 480 m³ hold, 20 short of the Directorate bulk hull. 350 hull, 300 armor, three weapon mounts, and 5.6 speed for all of it.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kel'Thryx guardian. 140 hull and 120 armor, second at its tier behind the Directorate hull, with two weapon mounts and one launch bay at 12 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kel'Thryx guardian. 260 hull, 220 armor, 200 shields. Two weapon mounts and two launch bays, held at 9 speed. The consensus traded speed for layers and logged the trade as settled.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kel'Thryx guardian. 420 hull, 400 armor, 380 shields, and 2.2 armor repaired a second. Three weapon mounts and two launch bays at 6 speed. The Assembly stopped revising the design after this one.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kel'Thryx harvester. A 40 m³ hold, two weapon mounts, 11 speed. The consensus rates the frame at 80 hull and expects the pilot to work inside that figure.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kel'Thryx harvester. A 110 m³ hold and 132 power for the cutters, on 140 hull and 110 armor. Three weapon mounts, 9 speed. The Assembly logs every run and adjusts the quota, never the hull.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kel'Thryx harvester. A 280 m³ hold, second at its tier behind the Directorate hull's 300. Four weapon mounts, 240 hull, 6 speed. The Assembly notes the gap and keeps building it.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kel'Thryx pathfinder. Sweep Power 2 across 120 degrees, the standard light reading. 65 hull at 16 speed. The Assembly logs what comes back and lets the frame take its chances.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kel'Thryx pathfinder. Sweep Power 3, two weapon mounts, one launch bay. 120 hull at 12 speed, with a 25 m³ hold. Every bearing it takes reaches the record before the pilot reads it back.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kel'Thryx pathfinder. Sweep Power 4, and nothing built reads past it, with two weapon mounts and two launch bays on 200 hull. 10 speed, a 55 m³ hold, and every bearing entered in the record.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kel'Thryx striker. One weapon mount, two launch bays. The consensus trades guns for swarms at every tier. The frame under it runs 90 hull, 70 armor, and 14 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kel'Thryx striker. Three launch bays against a single weapon mount, the highest bay count at its tier. 160 hull, 130 armor, 11 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kel'Thryx striker. Three launch bays and two weapon mounts on 280 hull and 240 armor. 200 power, 8 speed, a 70 m³ hold. The Assembly considers the ratio settled.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kel'Thryx tender. Runs a repair tether out of 84 power and drops the link when its own 100 hull runs low. Two weapon mounts, an 18 m³ hold, 12 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kel'Thryx tender. 132 power reroutes shields and plating to several bound hulls at once, and the strain lands on its own 140 armor before any of it reaches the 180 hull. Three weapon mounts, a 50 m³ hold, 10 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kel'Thryx tender. 192 power and 8.4 a second of regeneration feeding a formation, with 260 armor to take the strain and 320 hull under it for the overflow. Four weapon mounts, a 120 m³ hold, 7 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kharum freighter. The biggest light hold at 80 m³, behind 150 hull and 120 armor. One weapon mount and 9 speed, so it outlasts what it cannot outrun.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kharum freighter. 200 m³ and 3000 kg behind 250 hull and 200 armor, the heaviest plate at its tier. Two weapon mounts at 7 speed. Cracking it takes longer than most raiders will spend.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kharum freighter. The largest hold in service at 500 m³ and 8000 kg, moved at 5 speed behind 400 hull and 350 armor. Three weapon mounts.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kharum guardian. 200 hull and 180 armor make it the hardest light hull to chew through, and it repairs 1.2 armor a second. Three weapon mounts and a 20 m³ hold.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kharum guardian. 350 hull over 300 armor, repairing 1.8 armor a second, with four weapon mounts to make ignoring it expensive. 280 mass tolerance carries plating the lighter guardians cannot.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kharum guardian. 500 hull and 500 armor, more than any other hull in service, with five weapon mounts and 3 armor back every second. It makes 6 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kharum harvester. A 40 m³ hold on 120 hull and 100 armor, the toughest small cutting hull built. Two weapon mounts, 10 speed, and 300 kg of tolerance for the slag it brings back.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kharum harvester. A 120 m³ hold, the largest at its tier, on 180 hull and 160 armor. Three weapon mounts cover the crew while the cutters run.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kharum harvester. The largest hold at its tier at 300 m³, carried behind 300 hull and 280 armor. Four weapon mounts, 5 speed, and no pretense of getting anywhere in a hurry.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kharum pathfinder. Sweep Power 2 over a 120 degree arc is the ceiling for a light hull, so the Directorate spent the rest on plate. 100 hull and 80 armor at 14 speed, with a 10 m³ hold.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kharum pathfinder. Sweep Power 3 behind 160 hull and 140 armor, more than any other medium pathfinder carries. Three weapon mounts and a 30 m³ hold. The Directorate would rather pay for the plate than replace the scout.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kharum pathfinder. Sweep Power 4 on 280 hull, the toughest scouting frame built, so a bad bearing costs time instead of the ship. Four weapon mounts at 9 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kharum striker. Three weapon mounts on the toughest frame at its tier, 150 hull over 120 armor. It pays for the plate in speed and makes 12, the slowest of the four light strikers.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kharum striker. Three weapon mounts and one launch bay behind 250 hull and 200 armor, the thickest plate any medium striker carries. 260 mass tolerance leaves room for heavy fittings.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kharum striker. Four weapon mounts and a launch bay over 400 hull and 350 armor, with 480 mass tolerance for whatever you bolt on. It makes 7 speed. The Directorate built it to outlast whatever it meets.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Kharum tender. 130 hull and 110 armor make it the sturdiest light tender built. The repair tether it runs to another hull comes out of its own reactor, and the link cuts once its own hull runs low. A 25 m³ hold at 11 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Kharum tender. Carries enough tether hardware to hold several hulls together at once, and the strain lands on its own 180 armor. 220 hull, a 60 m³ hold, 9 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Kharum tender. The largest reactor of any tender at 210 power, split across several tethers at once. The strain comes off its own 320 armor first and reaches the 380 hull only after that. Four weapon mounts, a 150 m³ hold, 6 speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Veykr freighter. A 60 m³ hold at 12 speed, faster than any other light freighter and the smallest hold of the four. 45 armor, so speed is the whole plan.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Veykr freighter. 160 m³ at 9 speed, the quickest hauler at its tier and the lightest at 130 hull. Two weapon mounts, and a frame grown to outrun a raid rather than survive one.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Veykr freighter. The smallest heavy hold at 400 m³, moved at 7 speed, which is the fastest any heavy freighter manages. Three weapon mounts over 240 hull.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Veykr guardian. Three weapon mounts on a grafted frame that runs 14 speed, faster than any other light guardian. 100 hull, 80 armor, 90 shields, and 60 mass tolerance that caps what you hang on it.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Veykr guardian. 180 hull and 180 shields with three weapon mounts and a launch bay, held at 11 speed. The 125 mass tolerance keeps the fittings light. The Clade grew it to hold a line it can still walk away from.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Veykr guardian. 320 hull, 280 armor, and 320 shields on a grown hull that still makes 8 speed, quicker than any other heavy guardian. Four weapon mounts and a launch bay.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Veykr harvester. A 30 m³ hold at 13 speed, the fastest cutting hull at its tier. 60 hull and 40 armor mean it works fields it can leave in a hurry.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Veykr harvester. A 90 m³ hold at 11 speed, quicker than any other medium harvester and thinner too, at 100 hull. Three weapon mounts for the argument on the way out.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Veykr harvester. The smallest hold at its tier at 220 m³, moved at 7 speed, quicker than any other heavy harvester. The Clade would rather run two trips than sit still for one.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Veykr pathfinder. 18 speed, the fastest hull in service, on 50 hull and 30 armor. Standard Sweep Power 2, and no margin for being wrong about where you sent it.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Veykr pathfinder. Sweep Power 3 carried at 14 speed, faster than any other medium pathfinder. 90 hull, three weapon mounts, and a grown frame that keeps the mass down.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Veykr pathfinder. Sweep Power 4 at 11 speed, quicker than any other heavy pathfinder, on 160 hull. Four weapon mounts, a 45 m³ hold, and 215 mass tolerance. The Clade grew it to read the water and be gone before anyone reads it back.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Veykr striker. The fastest hull in its class at 16 speed, with two weapon mounts and a launch bay for drones. 90 hull on a grown frame, run off 65 power.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Veykr striker. Two launch bays and two weapon mounts at 13 speed, quicker than any other medium striker. 160 shields over 120 armor on a cultivated frame.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Veykr striker. 10 speed with 290 hull and 290 shields, and it still carries two launch bays and three weapon mounts. The Clade grew it to arrive first and leave first.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Veykr tender. Grafts a repair tether onto another hull and feeds it from its own reserves until its hull runs too low to hold the link. 14 speed, and 55 armor, so keep it out of the exchange.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Veykr tender. Holds several tethers at once and pays for all of them out of its own 100 armor, with the 140 hull under it taking whatever runs past. 11 speed, 140 shields. The Clade logs what the frame gives up and files it as data.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Heavy Veykr tender. Anchors a formation on repair tethers out of 180 power, with 280 hull and a 100 m³ hold to restock from. 8 speed, quicker than any other heavy tender.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Lawless raider. A salvaged emitter bolted to the same scrap frame, run off 35 power instead of 30. It gives up 10 shields for the faster cycle and the longer reach, and keeps the 50 armor.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Lawless raider. Scavenged Kel'Thryx disruption gear on a skiff frame, 13 speed against the other skiffs' 12, and 60 hull against their 70. It slows what it catches.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Light Lawless raider. A patchwork of stolen Directorate parts on 70 hull and 50 armor, with one gun mount and 30 power to feed it. 12 speed, an 8 m³ hold, and no two plates off the same ship.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Lawless raider. Two resonance emitters, 110 shields against the Marauder's 100, and 100 hull against its 120. It trades plate for the shield bank and 0.4 more speed.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
Medium Lawless raider. Two kinetic mounts on a reinforced frame, 120 hull and 100 armor. It works unclaimed water and picks off traders who sail alone.
Modules are polyominoes. A module fits only where its mount type is satisfied.
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