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⬜ Plastoys

Used in building and repairing almost everything, space grade plastoys (plastic-metal alloys), play a massive role in ship building. It can be bought from most ports, stolen, or made out of metal and plastic with fabrication equipment. Each resource represents a pallet-sized crate of plastoy plates, ingots, and pipes.

🔷 Components

Used to build and repair higher tech modules, these intricate components and circuits are often made primarily of precious metals. Can be obtained by purchasing them, stealing them, or making your own by processing precious metals into components. Each resource represents a pallet-sized crate of various components.

⚡ Power

Used to power modules, power comes from power generating modules such as the fission reactor. Most modules will consume power in order to provide passive and active bonuses to your ship and your crew, so the more power you have, the more modules you'll be able to sustain. Power is not required to construct modules.

💧 Fuel

An often finite mix of oxidizer and combustible fuel used in combustion thrusters for travel, evasion, and other maneuvers. Stored in fuel tank and combustion drive modules. It can be purchased at almost any port, or refined on-ship with the help of specialized modules. Modules that store fuel begin empty (no free fuel). Unless the ship is completely out of fuel, all fuel storage modules considered explosive and flammable.

❤️ Health

Used as a measure of the durability of ship modules and walls. When this reaches 0, walls, doors, and airlocks, are completely destroyed, being fully removed from play. When this reaches 0 for other modules, they enter a damaged state where they no longer provide any passive or active bonuses, and can be repaired out of combat for half the resources (rounded to nearest whole number) that they cost to build. Takes damage 1:1 from lancer sources, and largely reduced damage, if any at all, from starfinder sources.

⬣ Hexes

Used as a measure of the durability of the ship's exterior "firewall" shields. Typically hexes apply ship-wide, and block most incoming attacks, receiving the damage instead of what was targeted. When broken, any excess damage will not leak through. Takes damage 1:1 from lancer sources, and largely reduced damage from starfinder sources.

🔥 Thrust

Thrust is a measure of your ship's ability to change its velocity. It is used in overcoming thrust requirements such as escaping gravity, dodging attacks, or repositioning in combat. The more thrusters you have, combustion or ion, the more thrust you will be able to output. More on this in the Maneuvers section!

Key Terms

Tile

Tiles are the hexagonal spaces that make up the map of the ship. Every Module takes up a certain pattern of tiles, sometimes multiples.

Module

Anything that occupies tiles on this wiki is a module, including walls, doors, airlocks, and floors. All non-floor/wall/door modules have basic flooring by default, but more advanced floors can be placed within them.

Destroyed

When a module is destroyed it is removed from play entirely. It is gone.

Ceases (to) function

When a module ceases to function, it provides no passive or active bonuses to the ship and essentially becomes basic floor tiles until whatever condition that caused it to cease function is resolved.

Damaged

A module is considered damaged when it has no ❤️health. It ceases to function until repaired.

Exterior

Anywhere that is outside airtight space enclosed by walls, doors, or airlocks aboard your ship is considered exterior. If an exterior-only module somehow ends up on the inside of your ship, it will cease to function until outside again. More on airtight spaces here.

Interior

Anywhere that is inside airtight space enclosed by walls, doors, or airlocks aboard your ship is considered interior. If an interior-only module is in an exterior space, it ceases to function until it is inside again. More on airtight spaces here. .

Fragile

A fragile module ceases to function if its ❤️health is not full. This is separate from the damaged condition, and the module can still gain that condition if it is damaged to ❤️0 health.

Explosive

The module will explode when it is reduced to ❤️0 health. This does 10 damage to modules and other entities extending out 2 tiles from each tile that the exploding module occupies. This damage will damage walls and project through them if the walls are destroyed by the blast.

Prone to Meltdown

The module will begin to meltdown when it is reduced to ❤️0 health. This does 15 damage to modules and other entities extending out 2 tiles from each tile that the exploding module occupies. This damage will damage walls and project through them if the walls are destroyed by the blast. Every tile affected by the explosion will also catch fire (explained in flammable).

Flammable

This module can take burn damage, and when taking burn damage, its burn increases by one. When destroyed, it leaves fire on the ground of each of its tiles. Fire will last on the tile for 10 turns and deal 1 burn to mechs when starting their turn in it or moving through it. It will do 10 persistent fire damage to starfinder characters, with the persistent burn damage stacking up by 10 if they already are affected by persistent fire damage (so 10, then 20, then 30, etc.).

Comms Range

Comms range represents the communication range of your ship (sending and receiving) and is a value from one to six. It is determined by the combined level of both your best scanner module and best computer module. 1=Close range 2=Long range 3=Sub-orbital range 4=Orbital range 5=Underground range 6=Crust-Penetrating range. It can be altered positively and negatively by conditions such as interference or proximity to a port.

Close Range

About 20 tiles away from the ship. Mech combat range.

Long Range

About 50 tiles away from the ship. Ship to ship combat range.

Sub-Orbital Range

Distance between most planets' surface and upper atmosphere.

Orbital Range

Distance between most planets' surface and high orbital altitude.

Underground Range

Allows communication to underground places, getting worse the further underground it is. Can communicate in space across the whole system, with a few minutes of delay based on distance.

Crust-Penetrating Range

Allows communication to underground places, with clear communication all the way until the mantle. Can communicate in space across the whole system, with a few seconds of delay based on distance.

Gravity

Essentially uses the starfinder system for starfinder stuff and the lancer system for mechs. (I'll add the specific rules to this section later and details about the gravity generator)

Away Sides

The away side of a ship or other object is the side not currently facing you. Weapons that can strike at away sides have some form of homing or other mechanism that allows their shots to bend around behind an enemy.