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.
- Drone head
- Drone internals
- Drone Thrusters
- Drone Programming and navigation
Drone Head
| 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. |