Gravship

For the endgame ship, see Ship.

For trade ships, see Trade ship.

Gravships are a new method of traversal and living introduced by the Odyssey DLC.

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Grav engine	Gravship substructure	Gravship hull	Pilot console	Small chemfuel tank	Large chemfuel tank	Small thruster	Large thruster	Grav field extender	Signal jammer

Summary

A functional gravship requires various parts in order to be spaceworthy. A gravship begins with a grav engine, and various structures and walls can be connected to the grav engine via gravship substructure, which acts as the floor of the gravship. Anything built on the connected substructure will be considered part of the ship and brought along upon launch.

At the very minimum, a gravship requires only one small thruster, one small chemfuel tank, a pilot console and a grav engine with enough gravship substructure to connect all of the mentioned parts. A gravship of this calibre is able to travel between tiles of the world map, akin to a portable transport pod or shuttle. However, attempts to travel to locations in orbit without the protection of gravship hulls or vacsuits will be met with a swift end.

A list of fundamental parts are listed below:

• Grav engine
• Gravship substructure
• Pilot console
• Small chemfuel tank or Large chemfuel tank
• Small thruster or Large thruster

A gravship also comes with various limitations and constraints:

• The grav engine can only initially support up to 500 tiles of gravship substructure, all of which can only be built within a radius of 19 tiles around the grav engine originating from its center.
  • This limitation can be improved using grav field extenders. Each one added to a gravship increases this limit of buildable tiles by 250 tiles, up to a maximum of 2000 supported tiles with 6 grav field extenders. Grav field extenders themselves have a supported radius of 17 tiles.
• Any substructure built beyond the limit supported by a grav engine will be left behind upon launch, including anything or anyone standing on said substructure.

When desiring to launch the gravship into orbit, additional preparation is required in order to make the gravship spaceworthy in a sense that the crew can survive sufficiently in the absence of an atmosphere. The research Orbital tech will allow pawns to build orbital scanners, oxygen pumps, and vacsuits that protect against the vacuum of space.

Analysis

Obtaining a Gravship

To start building a gravship, a grav engine must be obtained either by beginning the game with the gravship start scenario, or obtaining the grav engine via a quest that will cause a grav engine to fall onto the map from space. The grav engine can then be inspected and reinstalled at a more convenient location in order to further expand it.

To add structures and walls such as gravship hulls, gravship substructure must be placed underneath and must be connected to the grav engine. Gravship substructure can be placed using gravlite tiles which will be given during the initial grav engine quest. Gravship substructure acts as the floor of the gravship and anything placed on the substructure of a functioning gravship will be taken to space as well. However, gravships have limitations on the total number of tiles of substructure that can be placed, initially supporting only 500 tiles, all of which can only be placed within a set radius around the grav engine. Both of these limitations can be reduced with grav field extenders which increases the max amount of substructure tiles supported, and extends the radius of placeable substructure beyond the initial radius of the grav engine. Any attempt to build beyond the max supported limit of substructure will result in excess substructure, and anything placed upon them, to be left behind on launch, these tiles will be highlighted in red to indicate that they are not supported, this is also true for substructure that are not connected to the grav engine.

Gravships are built around a grav engine and start with a limit of 500 tiles, and a 19 tile radius around the engine.

Both the number of tiles and the available area of a gravship may be increased by using extenders. Extenders must be placed within the radius of the grav engine to - up to a maximum of 6 extenders, each providing a radius of 17 tiles and increasing the number of tiles by +250, up to a maximum of 2000 tiles.

If a gravship leaves a tile with no grav anchor installed, then the map will be deleted, and cannot be returned to. Any pawns left behind will be lost. Wastepacks left on the map will be dumped.

Additional modules

Pilot Assist: Increases piloting efficiency by 20 (?) percent up to a maximum of 40. Fuel compressor (?): Increases fuel efficiency by 30 percent up to a maximum of 60.

Take off

Gravship Fails Minor Crash - minor damage Thruster Breakdown - components to thrusters Overheated - longer cooldown for next launch Grav nausea - ~4 hours of random vomiting All same weight

NegativeLandingOutcomeFromQualityCurve CurvePoint(0f, 1f), CurvePoint(0.5f, 0.25f), CurvePoint(1f, 0.02f),

LaunchCooldownFromQualityCurve CurvePoint(0f, 600000f), CurvePoint(0.25f, 300000f), CurvePoint(0.5f, 120000f), CurvePoint(0.8f, 30000f), CurvePoint(1f, 20000f),

Version history

• Odyssey DLC Release - Added.

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