Equipment

Equipment can be installed on your ship to give it new abilities or enhance existing abilities.

The maximum number of equipment slots is 17. Other than Cabins and Cargo Compressors, only a single piece of equipment of any particular type may be equipped at any time.

Armor[]

Armor plating allows your ship to sustain additional battle damage before being destroyed.

Boosters[]

Boosters are relatively inexpensive items that give your ship a short boost in speed, activated by way of a small button on the bottom left of the game screen. Each booster's recharge time varies.

Cabins[]

Cabins are used to transport people from place to place. They are prerequisites for all passenger missions, which is their only use in the game.

Cloaks[]

Cloaks run on certain numbers of Energy Cells and require a charging time. Once charged, your ship will be concealed from your enemies' view, giving you a temporary chance to sneak up on your enemies or escape battles.

Compressors[]

By using various compression methods, cargo compressors optimize the ship's available cargo space, thus increasing the amount of goods, that can be transported by a certain percentage. When multiple compressors are used together their effects add to one another.

Gamma Shields[]

Gamma Shields are used to protect from gamma radiation in the Ginoya system, affected by the supernova.

Mining Drills[]

Mining lasers can be used to extract different kinds of ores from asteroids.

Plasma Collectors[]

Plasma Collectors are a type of non-combat turrets, which are used to harvest Plasma from gas clouds in space.

Repair Beams[]

Repair Beams automatically aim at friendly ships and sentry guns in range and provide them with energy that fills up their drained shields and repairs their damaged hulls.

Repair Bots[]

Repair Bots automatically make in-flight repairs to a ship's armor and hull.

Scanners[]

Scanners allow you to target hostiles, asteroids, etc. as well as locating any nearby starships and show it all on the radar. Without them, it is impossible to differentiate friendly ships and enemy ships, and you must figure it out on your own.

Shields[]

Shields absorb battle damage until the shield runs out of energy. Shield energy recharges over time. None of these shields provide any protection against Gamma radiation. A separate Gamma Shield is required to safely operate in a system affected by the supernova.

Spectral Filters[]

Spectral filters use false color rendering to locate otherwise invisible gas clouds by taking advantage of the gas clouds' higher optical density than the vacuum of space surrounding them. In other words, spectral filters allow you to see plasma gas clouds.

Thrusters[]

Thrusters (also known as Steering Nozzles) increase your ships' handling and overall manuverability.

Tractor Beams[]

Tractor beams can be used to bring loot into your cargo hold from destroyed or EMPed ships or destroyed asteroids.

Transfusion Beams[]

Beams used to take energy from enemy ships and heal one's own ship.

Weapon Mods[]

Weapon Mods can be mounted in a free equipment slot and either serve to increase primary weapon damage while sacrificing some firing speed or to boost firing speed in exchange for a reduced damage output.

Hyperdrives[]