Drone

These multipurpose drones are used for a lot of tasks outside of the ship. A drone can be armed with a warhead and used as a missile, or used for mining ores, or salvage operations with a salvage head as well as sensor operations with a sensor suite. There may be future functions as well (Decoy, Trading, Sentry, Transport and so on). Drones require the "drone Tool" to be modified and changed.

How to change a drone

To change a multipurpose drone to a new function it needs to be moved from the drone rack to the drone repair station. With a Drone tool equipped the player can now start modifying the drone.

There are four things that can be modified in a drone.

1. Drone head
2. Drone internals
3. Drone Thrusters
4. Drone Programming and navigation

Drone Head

Drone Head table

Name	Type	Speed	PowerNeeded	Description
Mining Head Mh1	Mining	Slow	5 Units	Enables mining of resources from asteroids. Slow but does not require much energy.
Mining Head Mh2	Mining	Medium	15 Units	Enables mining of resources from asteroids. Better speed but with higher power requirements.
Mining Head Mh3	Mining	Fast	35 Units	Enables mining of resources from asteroids. Very quick in mining with high energy requirements.
Filter Head FMh1	Mining	Medium	25 Units	Enables precise mining of selected resources from asteroids. Mines precisely selected ores with medium speed and power requirements.
Salvage Head Sh1	Salvage	Slow	5	Enables salvaging of resources from debris. Slow but does not require much energy.
Salvage Head Sh2	Salvage	Medium	15	Enables salvaging of resources from debris. Better speed but with higher power requirements.
Salvage Head Sh3	Salvage	Fast	35	Enables salvaging of resources from debris. Very quick in mining with high energy requirements.
small yield Warhead wMK1	Missile	Medium	25	Converts the drone to a missile with a small yield warhead. Can be used to break up ships to debris or fight hostile vessels or stations.
Sensor Suite Mk1	Sensors	Slow	30	Used to scan objects further and to get more information about targets in their vicinity.
Sensor Suite Mk2	Sensors	Slow	45	Used to scan objects more quickly and with detailed information about the targets in its vicinity.
Sensor Suite Mk3	Sensors	Slow	60	Used to breach shielded objects and scan them with the highest yield of information but only one target at the time.
Grapper Mk1	Grapper	Medium	15	Used to grap objects in space like out of fuel drones or cargo.