Equipment
Nine main lines and six leaning lines on eight mounts; grades I and II are bought, III to VI are found; every price is k × grade².
Eight mounts, eight types
Every hull carries the same eight mounts, one type each, and 1–6 are the six that fire. Which gun mounts a hull actually has is its platform’s number (hulls). No mount and no item is gated by pilot level: what gates a purchase is the price, what gates a fitting is the hull.
| Key | Mount | Takes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rapid | Pulse Cannon, Ledger Repeater |
| 2 | Close | Scatter Gun, Lot Flak |
| 3 | Precision | Railgun, Beam Lance, Vigil Lance |
| 4 | Siege | Siege Cannon, Mass Driver |
| 5 | Mining | Mining Laser, Twin Cutter |
| 6 | Breaker | Fracture Bore, Charge Driller |
| - | Hold | Cargo Bay |
| - | Systems | Shield Cell |
The main lines
A price is k × grade², so grade II is four times grade I. Guns and shield cells are sold at the Arms wing; tools and cargo bays at the Mining post; the Trade port and the shipyard sell no equipment at all (stations). Ranges are grade I; the bracket is what each grade adds.
| Line | Mount | Grades | Grade I (cr) | Grade II (cr) | Sold at | Grade I |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mining Laser | Mining | 6 | 600 | 2,400 | Mining post | 150 dps (+110), 400 m (+60), keeps all the ore |
| Fracture Bore | Breaker | 4 | 4,200 | 16,800 | Mining post | 520 dps (+380), 90 m (+15), keeps 78% |
| Pulse Cannon | Rapid | 6 | 1,000 | 4,000 | Arms wing | 420 dps (+260), 1.8 km (+0.2) |
| Scatter Gun | Close | 5 | 5,000 | 20,000 | Arms wing | 700 dps (+380), 450 m (+60) |
| Railgun | Precision | 5 | 14,000 | 56,000 | Arms wing | 900 dps (+520), 5.2 km (+0.9) |
| Beam Lance | Precision | 4 | 26,000 | 104,000 | Arms wing | 1,250 dps (+700), 2.4 km (+0.4) |
| Siege Cannon | Siege | 4 | 60,000 | 240,000 | Arms wing | 2,100 dps (+1,100), 3.0 km (+0.5) |
| Cargo Bay | Hold | 6 | 450 | 1,800 | Mining post | +90 m³ (+70) |
| Shield Cell | Systems | 6 | 600 | 2,400 | Arms wing | +520 shield (+400) on a base of 2,600 |
A gun can break rock, badly: the Pulse Cannon keeps 30% of the ore, the Beam Lance 20%, the Railgun 15%, the Scatter Gun 10%, the Siege Cannon 5%. The two tools are the only things that keep most of it (mining).
The leaning lines
Each Compact wrote its own take on a main line. A leaning line spends the same budget differently - above its main line on at most two axes, below it on at least one - and it is stocked at its Compact’s home counters and at counters nobody owns, the shared middle of the map. Stock, never a lock: anyone may buy any of them, but you fly to where it is sold.
| Line | Leans on | Compact | Damage | Fire rate | Range | Ore kept | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ledger Repeater | Pulse Cannon | Concord | ×0.85 | ×2.0 | ×1.25 | - | ×1.00 |
| Lot Flak | Scatter Gun | Ashaari | ×1.10 | ×1.4 | ×0.70 | - | ×0.75 |
| Vigil Lance | Beam Lance | Sepulchre | ×0.85 | ×1.0 | ×1.20 | - | ×1.00 |
| Mass Driver | Siege Cannon | Ashaari | ×1.20 | ×0.6 | ×0.85 | - | ×1.00 |
| Twin Cutter | Mining Laser | Sepulchre | ×0.85 | ×1.0 | ×1.30 | all, like the laser | ×1.00 |
| Charge Driller | Fracture Bore | Ashaari | ×1.25 | ×1.0 | ×1.00 | 56% | ×0.80 |
A leaning line has as many grades as its main line, goes in the same mount, and takes the same bill at the forge.
Found, never sold
No counter lists a grade above II. Grades III to VI come out of the wrecks of hostiles, and the wreck’s threat band decides the grade; within the grade, the cheaper rows fall more often than the dear ones.
| Grade | Wreck threat |
|---|---|
| III | 3 – 4 |
| IV | 5 – 6 |
| V | 7 – 8 |
| VI | 9 and deeper |
Selling and carrying
A station pays 34% of the price for grade I or II of a kind it sells itself, and nothing for anything else: a grade III has no buyer until there is a player market, and issued gear has none ever. Spare equipment takes hold space - a gun 8 m³, a tool 6, a shield cell 9, a cargo bay 10, plus 2 m³ per grade above I - so carrying a second gun is a decision, not a free option.