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Zero-G - Aerospace Shuttle (Stealth)

The standard Albatross-class Earth-Orbital Shuttle is a designed as a NASA-inspired transport to get crew and supplies from planetary surface to an orbital mothership, or station, and back safely to the ground again. While equipped with its own Jump Drives, Albatross shuttles generally require a larger mothership to transport it farther than a basic trip to the local Moon due to relying on Hydrogen fuel. There is no internal gravity either, crew must endure the realities of early space travel and utilize their jetpacks and magboots to traverse the shuttle cabin outside of planetary gravity.

This, however, is not a typical Albatross. The Mirage Variant uses refractive plating along the external hull to mask the vessel's profile from afar for stealth flight, giving it a degree of invisibility to onlookers both in space and on the ground. This is further enhanced by trajectory-based flight, aiming and accelerating towards a target before disabling all Hydrogen Thrusters to further mask the ship's external profile.

Whisperdrive (Gravity Engine)
Unlike the Albatross, and other Zero-G creations due to their NASA-esque design principles, the Mirage makes use of a limited application of gravity generators and mass blocks to make the shuttle capable of moving silently by falling forward into an artificial gravity field. Once past 0.5G in a gravity well, a Mirage shuttle can simply vanish by disabling its main engines and continuing to soar up on its Whisperdrive.

Docking Controls
All Zero-G ships and stations use a standardized docking collar, with a set of release controls at the lock itself. For convenience with an EOS, however, the primary cockpit console has remote release/lock controls. To properly tether to a ship or station, press the lock controls a second time once docked to connect the Connectors.

Flight Controls
While perfectly capable of flying on its basic small Hydrogen Engines, the Albatross EOS comes with three oversized engines as heavy Boosters for cargo-lifting and rapid orbital exit. Just angle straight up and ride to the heavens.