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JC-03 Ryker Drone Carrier

Mod for standalone shuttles/drones/dock gates: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2573095488

The JC-03 Ryker, built to act as a mobile forward base for all kinds of underwater operations including salvage, exploration and pest extermination. Equippable with a multitude of purpose-built drones and with its own two shuttles, it is very versatile but at the same time needs to stay out of harms way and let its minions do their jobs. Due to its low speed and large rooms any close encounters with predators will see it go down quite fast, the built in silent mode should aid in staying undetected.

Important!
to reset damaged drones (also shown on screen ingame):

1. have the drone operator enable backup power to restart the drone
2. press the red flashing button on the outside of the drone to complete the process

To pair the shuttles simply dock them to each other and flick the switch called "shuttle pairing" on both. (this will disable controls for the racing shuttle to make it act as engine attachment)

After upgrading the reactor output, add 2% per upgrade to the memory component in front of it, 66 at 5 upgrades. You can increase the number further to undervolt the sub and save energy.

The terminals around the sub and shuttles are for chat with 2km range including notification lights and the ability to ping people.




↓From here on unimportant trivia↓ go have fun with it instead. All the buttons have tooltips that say what they do.






Sub Features:

- slow movement but economic reactor
- silent running mode
- safe growing area in the engine room
- two fabricators and deconstructors
- movable dock gates for the shuttles
- derplevators to avoid ladder climbing
- 3 coil guns (interchangable) with mediocre coverage
- lots of medium cabinets with text displays for sorting
- ballast purge button

Shuttle Features:

- drones docked to shuttles will recharge

Combat Shuttle:

- two coil guns (interchangeable), one railgun
- main battery and weapons battery with transfer button
- shot counter for weapons battery
- two drone docks
- long range comms terminal
- shuttle pairing mode to attach racing shuttle as extra engine

Racing Shuttle:

- small, quick and unarmed
- can be armed by attaching drone
- very fast but inefficient engine boost
- one drone dock
- mineral scanner
- long range comms terminal

Drone Features:

- huge wifi range to facilitate several missions around the map at once

Support Drone:

- weak coil gun
- some storage
- long range comms
- mineral scanner
- can take up to 3 hits
- mineral scanner

Combat Drone:

- coil gun and rail gun with three shots
- can take up to 6 hits

Transport Drone:

- basically a metal sarcophagus with engine attached
- EMP resistant
- storage cabinet and artifact holder
- can carry people (lying down)
- oxygen generator

Battery Drone:

- can recover drones and shuttles by providing power
- has a battery charger


This sub was built with a playstyle in mind where you pick lots of missions per round (i recommend 4) and have teams go off and do them while the main sub trundles along to towards the next station. You can send off any combination of drones and shuttles, support and combat drones can easily enter caves as well (so does battery to recover them). If you head out in the racing shuttle don't forget to attach your drone or it wont keep up.

The support drone was mainly made to scout out or accompany people into caves, combat drone & shuttle should be what you send out to clear swarms, transport is something to park outside ruins and recover the team and artifact all at once or bring unconscious divers to a medic asap while the battery drone has no purpose other than helping recover lost craft or refueling drones and shuttles in case a mission takes longer than planned.

The support and combat drones have a "fake damaged status" as 360° turrets don't allow for walls that could be damaged. they will detect enemies contacting the drone and count up until their limit is reached upon which they go into "limp home mode" where they can only use backup power, are barely able to go upwards and their engine is limited. instruction on how to fix them will appear on the drone nav console display.