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Mario franchise strategy guide/Bosses/Petey Piranha

Petey Piranha (ボスパックン) is a fictional character in the Mario series, first appearing as the primary boss of Bianco Hills in Super Mario Sunshine. He has appeared as a boss in later games as well such as in Super Princess Peach, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, and New Super Mario Bros., but also as a playable character in spin-off Mario games like Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Superstar Baseball. A drastically different Petey is found as a boss in Mario Pinball Land.

Name Origins and Piranha Hierarchy Status
In Japan, Petey Piranha is known as Boss Packun. This brings to the question Petey's status in the Piranha Plant hierarchy. Although Petey has powers beyond that of a regular Piranha Plant, similar to King Boo, he doesn't seem to have any powers over them. Unlike Boos, who specialize more in trickery and magic, Petey and the other Piranha Plants rely almost entirely on their physical abilities and their fireball-spitting powers. In theory, King Boo's magic can be reinforced with the power of other Boos and he is capable of reinforcing their powers too, whereas Petey's physical strength is not necessarily boosted through the use of any magical ability.

Characteristics
Petey appears to be a larger, much more powerful version of a Piranha Plant, a minor enemy dating back to the original Super Mario Bros. Whereas normal Piranha Plants usually grow from pipes, Petey seems to have grown his leaves and roots into foot-like and arm-like appendages. He can walk and even flutter about in the air. Furthermore, Petey sports a pair of white-spotted red briefs — a first for any Piranha Plant (Although Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time describes them as a diaper). Petey's head is framed with petals, which no other of his kind seem to have; these could possibly be construed as some form of a crown. Although Petey does not speak, he does make some disturbing growling, drooling and licking noises. (Petey's bio in Mario Superstar Baseball notes that his state is the result of mutation, one possibly caused by the Shroobs or Isle Delfino's pollution, not Bowser's magic.)

Petey seems fearsome, but he is not as bad as he seems. He often acts unintentionally comical during the fights against Mario. In Super Mario Sunshine, for example, Petey bloats up when Mario shoots water into his mouth, causing his large belly button to pop out of his stomach, exposing his weak point. In New Super Mario Bros., Petey slams into the floor and, if he misses Mario, slips on the ice and falls onto his back. In Mario Superstar Baseball when you score a Home Run using Petey, he actually skips from one base to the next. Finally, in Mario Power Tennis, when he wins a Cup, he jumps up and down in front of the other characters for a short amount of time. This causes the other characters to fall over, but then Petey (apparently not realizing his own strength) leans over to them, curious as to their predicament. Mario then hands him the trophy with a sportsman-like "congratulations" - in response, Petey takes the cup and mutters something (presumably his cup-winning speech) and leaps extra-high. The other characters cower, knowing what's coming. But it doesn't. They look up and Petey is happily flapping his wings, trophy in his mouth.

Petey frequently vomits out mud-like Earth Goop, a substance similar to that of Shadow Mario's Paintbrush, which can make the ground slippery and sometimes generate more goop-based monsters. When Mario defeats Petey, Petey turns into the goop and melts away.

Although Petey appears to be a mindless beast that only makes disgusting gurgling and vomiting noises, subtitles in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour show that he is actually trying to communicate a coherent thought. He is also shown playing golf, baseball, tennis, and even driving a car, despite the considerable limitation of having no eyes. Here are the only known translations (Taken from his taunt and cheer subtitles in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour):

 * Hruu! - Get on with it!
 * (Bite) - I will CRUSH you!
 * Woorg! - I will hunt you down, kill your wife, and devour your children!
 * (Gurgle) - You make me sick!
 * Smack! - Uh-oh! This don't look good!
 * Groot! - Better pay attention!
 * Gleert... - Hack that thing!
 * Flarg - Oh! You Just got served fool!!!
 * Broog - I'm going to school you and then have you go make me a sandwich fool!!!!!!
 * Blurt! - Don't whiff it, okay?
 * (Moan) - Timing is everything!

In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Luigi fights a mini-boss called a Piranha Bean that is almost identical to Petey, but is missing the ring of petals, and it is much smaller than Petey Piranha.

Subsequent appearances
Petey Piranha has reappeared in several games as a boss — a notable feat, in that many minor Mario characters have a tendency to disappear shortly after they debut. Petey appears as a boss in Mario Pinball Land, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Super Princess Peach and New Super Mario Bros., for example. Like former Mario villains Wario, Donkey Kong, King Boo and Birdo, Petey has also made a habit of appearing in other Mario franchises as a playable character. This makes Petey the second playable Piranha Plant character in a Mario game (Naval Pirahna was playable first, in the Yoshi game, Tetris Attack).

In Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time, Petey is a major boss. He is seemingly a pet or accomplice of the alien Shroob race and even swallowed Princess Peach and Kylie Koopa, but they were both spat out later. Petey's appearance in the past is surprising, as it shows that his history dates further back than just to Super Mario Sunshine. Unusually, it shows that he is capable of digging through sand and diving from platforms. Unlike his sports-title appearances, he doesn't seem depicted as a power-character (as most of his attacks are slightly more devious than those of Bowser, to name one character), although he retains his powers of flight. His goop powers do not come into play in this game, but he has a swallow attack and can spit what appear to be Piranha Plant seeds that swing from long cords at the brothers. Although some speculate he was brought to the Mushroom Kingdom by the Shroobs, this seems unlikely as he is obviously not destroyed by the baby tears (this is arguable, as the Shroobs themselves possibly weren't destroyed either), so it may merely be possible the Petey Piranha today is related to the Petey Piranha of the past. Apparently, back then, Petey Piranha wasn't aware of what Isle Delfino was, or his future propulsion into the cast of regulars.

In sports games, Petey frequently uses his large size and his bizarre digestive system to his advantage. He first showed up as an unlockable character in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, in which his large size made him the most powerful golfer in the game. In Mario Power Tennis, Petey's bulk served him well again, as he was one of the more powerful competitors. His special attack involved swallowing his racket, regurgitating it, and spitting it at the ball at a high speed. Finally, Petey had the ability to body-check other players in Mario Superstar Baseball, making him an effective character in close plays.

In Mario Pinball Land Petey has a longer neck (The most obvious difference), no feet, a drastically changed head shape, and the petals only exist on the top of his head, instead of completely circling it. This has led people to question whether this is a real "Petey" or just a large Piranha Plant posing as Petey for attention.

In Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Petey was paired with King Boo. The two were formidable racers, in spite of Petey's lack of eyes. They had the ability to use any character's special item. Petey's personal kart is the "Piranha Pipes," a vehicle assembled out of the Piranha Plant's trademark green tubing. It's interesting to note that in the Dry Dry Desert course, a pit contains a giant green and purple Piranha Plant. It has an appearance similar to Petey and has green lips in a similar manner. If there is any relationship, it's not shown.

In Mario Hoops 3-on-3, Petey acts as the hoops in the Daisy Garden court. Dunks are only possible when he is asleep.

In a new trailer for Super Mario Galaxy, a large, dinosaur-like creature with arms and a head resembling Petey Piranha's own can be seen. It also appears to have a long, vine-like tail.


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Star Sonata/Beginners

Starting out
You have two main choices here: either jump straight into the universe, or learn the game in a special tutorial galaxy. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. The universe is a large and dangerous place, and if you start there you will face the daunting task of making your own way ~ however, there are missions (see later) only available to very low levels and the chances of meeting a friendly high level are increased. The tutorial galaxy, on the other hand, is very safe and contains a ready made trade route with which you can make easy credits - enough to set you up with a better ship than you start. However, you will miss out on the early missions. Its your choice ~ but plan to leave the tutorial galaxy by level 3 or 4 if you take that option. The tutorial galaxy also has many quick missions that can provide you some quick cash and experience!

Missions
Star Sonata has a level dependant mission system meaning that missions have both minimum and maximum levels able to be offered the mission. These are found at AI bases, and are a very good way of picking up good xp, credits and unique items early on in the game. The unique items are usually better versions of normal equipment, but there are some augmenters (see later) that will sell for up to 2 or more billion credits! If you are level 0 a very good place to get missions is the system Shadow which will direct you to hunt some rats. If you do this immediately and solely that, you will receive another rat hunting mission that most do not see! Other systems with good low level missions are Proxima Centauri, Sol, Crevice and Panopoly. You can accept a mission at any time, and they never run out - however the reward system is also level / time dependant, meaning that the longer you take to complete it, and the more levels you have gained in the meantime, the less XP you will receive for it. Also be aware that missions work in 'chains' - thus its is best to complete the low level missions in case there are higher level ones with better rewards, and to check back every so often to see if the next mission in a chain is available. A good case of this is Plank- there is a level 0 mission there that seemingly leads no-where, but if you get it, and then level once or twice and visit Crevice, the mission chain will continue...

Trade and Slaves
Trading early on is time consuming, and you will receive only modest rewards from travelling from AI station to AI station (there are notable exceptions to this, but they require luck / exploration). Player bases, on the other hand, often have very cheap commodities that can be sold to AI stations. Slaves are automated AI owned by players. IMPORTANT All slaves have the name S123(random number) PlayerName. They will be identified by their team name, and often their flag. Be aware that attacking them is considered a high crime, and will get you marked as an enemy, allowing that team to kill you or their automated defenses to kill you. Owning a running slaves takes the Skills Remote Control (RC) and Programming ~ whilst it looks appealing, its probably better to leave these skills until level 20-30.

Hunting & XP
Apart from rats, the universe can seem oddly free of things to level up on. This isn't the case ~ however, you have to pick your targets. Missions will often have a set number of AI you have kill to finish them, and this is a good guide to what you should be hunting. You should look for AI that is slightly above your level and has no team in its info tab (above the system map). XP is done on a gradiated system, meaning that although you need the same amount of XP / level, you need to kill AI that is above your level. Even rats, at level 4, will give you no XP! Once you have gained levels, you need to train your skills in the neuro training section of an AI base. At an early level, the core skills are very important (piloting, weapons, shields, energy) ~ it is best to leave the more specialised skills and secondary ones till much later. Be aware that there are AI teams (see later) as well - which means that if you attack one, the entire team will be hostile to you! Thus, at first, it is best to pick off the teamless AI.

Augmenters
Each ship can fit a certain number of augmenters - the Pilot skill of the ship determines what level of augmenters it can use. These are extremely useful, and can transform an ordinary ship into a deadly fighter. Travelling around, these are the green boxes you will see floating around. It is best to start off putting augmenters that boost your shields and energy (the hestia augmenter is a good choice) or your shield / electric regeneration on your ship to allow you to survive longer. Many augmenters sell for a lot of credits to other players, and there are later missions that use them - it is sensible to buy a storage vessel (perhaps a phunka.dll) at a station, and keep them in there. IMPORTANT: augmenters can never be taken off a ship once put on, so make sure you choose well!

Teams
There are many teams within Star Sonata, ranging from the briefest of hunting parties to the most powerful ones (currently in no particular order, The Capitalists, Pantalones and Olympus are examples of some of the largest teams). Joining a team can be very useful as it offers some protection and benefits. However, there are things to watch out for:

 * Team funds - all teams have a safe storage system for credits. However, only the Director and Counsellors can freely access this. When joining a team, be aware of this, and be careful of new teams that ask you to donate all your credits into the team funds!

 * Tithe - a team can set a tithe, which is a percentage of all money you make on AI trades that is automatically given to the team. This, of course, helps a team fund bases, equipment and the like. However, be wary of any team with excessive tithe. Anything over 5% should make you worried. A lot of teams have 0%.

 * Flags - the more experienced teams will have their own personal flag. Look out for them! The flags are placed on everything the team owns.

My advice is to leave joining a team until you have gained some skills, your own equipment and so on ~ at very low levels, they are often more trouble than they are worth ... especially if your teammates are untrustworthy or attack higher level players!

Player versus Player combat & Death
The universe is a dangerous place, and Star Sonata is fully pvp, with some limits. Which means that you can, and will, fight other players and their bases. The most general rules I can give is that there is a level protection system, that prevents higher levels from targeting you for no reason. However, this can be broken in a number of ways: you attacking them, their slaves or their bases; being close to their level in a high danger factor system allows them to fight you. There are others - a good tip from me is to avoid carrying large sums of credits (either invest it, place it in team funds of a trustworthy team... or find other ways) and to avoid PvP until you have some skills under your belt. IMPORTANT You start off without an escape pod. You should buy one immediately. If you are killed without an escape pod, you will lose some of your money and incur a DEATH DEBT (of 999) that is an XP penalty that needs to be worked off before you can level again. AI will never attack escape pods, so you can die without penalty (however, you WILL drop items - there is an equipment called 'Gear Glue' that prevents this, although it is expensive). However, Players are free to kill your escape pod, or 'pod' you - be careful of such players, and try to escape if you can to an AI station. Overall, it is best to retain a low profile in your starting levels - many of those other 'low level' players are high level alts with amazing equipment - avoid these idiots if you can.

Talking to other players
There are four tabs at the bottom of your screen: events, ALL, team and Galaxy. The Events tab will show you game information - what that debris was you just scooped up, who owns the galaxy and so on. It also shows what has been killed in the system ~ be aware, there's not a mass battle going on, all AI kills are reported here. The ALL tab is universe wide communications - usually full of non-game related chatter. However, if you wish to chat / ask questions / advertise trade, do it here. The team tab is for team chat and the Galaxy chat is limited to the system you are in. In addition, there are chat commands you can use. /ignore /list and /help are three of them. "list" tells you who you have "ignored" and /help tells you all about the commands.

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Star Sonata/Blueprint items

Weapon

 * Incineration
 * Damage: 73x3, Range: 35, Recoil: 0.6, Type: Heat, Elec: 219, Size: 25, Tech 6

 * Adonis Laser
 * Damage: 450, Range: 330, Recoil: 1.5, Type: Laser, Elec: 1350, Size: 1300, Tech 9

 * Jade Thorax

 * Argonaut Laser
 * Damage: 500, Range: 394, Recoil: 1.37, Type: Laser, Elec: 1500, Size: 3000, Tech 12

 * Non-Portable Surgeon
 * Damage: 150, Range: 325, Recoil: 1, Type: Surgical, Electricity: 450, Size: 3000, Tech 12

 * Slate Thorax

 * Topaz Thorax

 * Ambrosia Laser
 * Damge: 460, Range: 420, Recoil: 1.45, Type: Laser, Electricity: 1380, Size: 5000, Tech 14

 * Andaman Laser
 * Damage: 800, Range: 572, Recoil: 2.2, Type: Laser, Electricity: 2400, Size: 8000, Tech 16

 * Avalon Laser
 * Damage: 500, Range: 325, Recoil: 1.35, Type: Laser, Electricity: 1500, Size: 8000, Tech 16

 * Achilles Laser
 * Damage: 1000, Range: 693, Recoil: 2, Type: Surgical, Electricity: 3000, Size: 12000, Tech 18

 * Scorch's Immolation

 * Vigilante Catapult

Shield

 * Deimos Blockade
 * Protection: 2250, Regen: 35/2.25, Elec: 5, Regen Elec: 25, Vis: 14, Size: 35, Tech 9

 * Adonis Protector
 * Protection: 10000, Regen: 120/1.5, Elec: 25, Regen Elec: 150, Vis: 2000, Size: 1300, Tech 9

 * Adonis Protector Z

 * Argonaut Protector
 * Protection: 22000, Regen: 242/1.5, Elec: 50, Regen Elec: 275, Vis: 5000, Size: 3000, Tech 12

 * Argonaut Protector Z

 * Lunar Blockade

 * Ambrosia Protector
 * Protection: 36000, Regen: 432/1.5, Elec: 80, Regen Elec: 400, Vis: 7000, Size: 5000, Tech 14

 * Ambrosia Protector Z
 * Protection: 168000, Regen: 1296/1.5, Electricity: 180, Regen Elec: 1900, Vis: 7000, Size: 90000, Tech 14

 * Avalon Protector
 * Protection: 25000, Regen: 250/1.5, Electricity: 50, Regen Elec: 275, Vis: 5000, Size: 8000, Tech 14

 * Phobos Blockade
 * Protection: 3250, Regen: 70/2.15, Electricity: 15, Regen Elec: 55, Vis: 14, Speed Mod: 1.05, Size: 45, Tech 15

 * Andaman Protector
 * Protection: 52000, Regen: 845/1.5, Elec: 120, Regen Elec: 1000, Vis: 7000, Size: 8000, Tech 16

 * Andaman Protector Z
 * Protection: 234000, Regen: 2028/1.5, Elec: 240, Regen Elec: 2400, Vis: 7000, Size: 120000, Tech 16
 * Achilles Protector

 * Protection: 84000, Regen: 1050/3, Electricity: 180, Regen Elec: 1500, Vis: 7000, Size: 12000, Tech 18

Energy

 * Atoms and Bits

 * Adonis Energybank - creates waste
 * Reservoir: 10000, Regen: 425, Size: 1300, Tech 9

 * Adonis Energybank Z - creates waste
 * Reservoir: 18000, Regen: 1200, Size: 50000, Tech 9

 * Argonaut Energybank - uses waste
 * Reservoir: 20000, Regen: 750, Size: 3000, Tech 12

 * Argonaut Energybank Z - uses waste
 * Reservoir: 40000, Regen: 2000, Size: 70000, Tech 12

 * Ambrosia Energybank - uses waste
 * Reservoir: 30000, Regen: 1500, Size: 5000, Tech 14

 * Ambrosia Energybank Z - uses waste
 * Reservoir: 60000, Regen: 3500, Size: 100000, Tech 14

 * Avalon Energybank - creates waste
 * Reservior: 22000, Regen: 825, Size: 8000, Tech 16

 * Andaman Energybank - uses waste
 * Reservoir: 40000, Regen: 8000, Size: 8000, Tech 16

 * Andaman Energybank Z - uses waste
 * Reservoir: 90000, Regen: 15000, Size: 120000, Tech 16

 * Achilles Energybank
 * Reservoir: 60000, Regen: 12000, Size: 12000, Tech 18

Radar

 * Surpresto Radar
 * Vision: 1000, Detection: 1500, Elec: 7, Visibility: 100, Size: 10, Tech 7

 * Adonis Radar
 * Vision: 3000, Detection: 5000, Elec: 10, Visibility: 300, Size: 1000, Tech 9

 * Axum Radar
 * Vision: 1300, Detection: 3000, Elec: 9, Visibility: 100, Size: 12, Tech 9

 * Argonaut Radar
 * Vision: 5500, Detection: 8800, Elec: 18, Size: 3000, Tech 12

 * Ambrosia Radar
 * Vision: 9600, Detection: 14400, Elec: 1, Size: 5000, Tech 14

 * Avalon Radar

 * Inverto Radar

 * Andaman Radar
 * Vision: 15600, Detection: 23400, Elec: 200, Visibility: 1000, Size: 8000, Tech 16

 * Achilles Radar

Ship

 * Space Blue Alpha Scout
 * Hull: 100, Speed: 74, Size: 25, Vis: 29, Augs: 2, Weapons: 2, Tech 3

 * Space Blue Alpha
 * Hull: 200, Speed: 70, Size: 45, Vis: 40, Augs: 2, Weapons: 2, Tech 5

 * Space Blue Alpha Interceptor
 * Hull: 150, Speed: 85, Size: 35, Vis: 29, Augs: 2, Weapons: 2, Tech 7

 * Space Blue Alpha Advanced x1
 * Hull: 250, Speed: 80, Size: 55, Vis: 50, Augs: 3, Weapons: 2, Protections: Laser, Energy, Heat, Physical, Tech 8

 * Zebu Master+
 * Hull: 330, Speed: 94, Size: 36, Vis: 20, Augs: 3, Weapons: 4, Protections: Laser, Energy, Heat, Physical, Radiation, Surgical, Tech 12

 * Parsley
 * Hull: 400, Speed: 89, Size: 48, Vis: 20, Augs: 3, Weapons: 4, Protections: Laser, Energy, Heat, Physical, Mining, Tech 13

 * Basil
 * Hull: 320, Speed: 84, Size: 58, Vis: 20, Augs: 3, Weapons: 4, Protections: Laser, Energy, Heat, Radiation, Tech 15 (Basil also has an undocumented 120 bonus elec regen)

 * Dark Freighter
 * Hull: 3250, Speed: 50, Size: 115, Vis: 590, Augs: 2, Weapons: 2, Protections: Laser, Energy, Mining, Physical, Surgical, Tech 20

 * Equanimizer
 * Hull: 650, Speed: 89, Size: 50, Vis: 1, Augs: 3, Weapons: 2, Protections: Laser, Energy, Mining, Physical, Tech 20 (Equanimizer also has an undocumented 100 bonus elec regen)

 * Pax Astronomica
 * Hull: 1000, Speed: 70, Size: 85, Vis: 29, Augs: 3, Weapons: 6, Built in: Astronomica Charger, Astronomica's Mod, Protections: against elements, Tech 20

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Star Sonata/DG items

Weapons

 * Mzungu Pulse Shotgun
 * Damage: 100x2, Range: 150, Recoil: 1.8, Type: Energy, Electricity: 350, Size: 2, Tech 3

 * Fire Cannon
 * Damage: 15x3, Range: 260, Recoil: 1, Type: Heat, Electricity: 90, Size: 18, Tech 5

 * Soul Beam
 * Damage: 73, Range: 300, Recoil: 0.75, Type: Laser, Electricity: 219, Size: 90, Tech 8

 * Ariba Torpedo
 * Damage: 185, Range: 330, Recoil: 2.1, Type: Energy, Electricity: 396, Size: 28, Tech 9

 * Peace Jux
 * Banana Jux
 * Damage: 60 - lots, Range: 380, Recoil: 2.1, Type: Surgical, Electricity: 180, Size: 24, Tech 12

 * Liposuction
 * Damage: 110, Range: 310, Recoil: 0.4, Type: Surgical, Electricity: 330, Size: 56, Tech 13

 * Great Immolation
 * Damage: 85x3, Range: 30, Recoil: 0.5, Type: Heat, Electricity: 255, Size: 100, Tech 14

 * DeathWarmedOver
 * DeathHeatedOver

Shield

 * Jetstream
 * Protection: 300, Regen: 3/1.05, Electricity: 1, Regen Elec: 4, Vis: 10, Size: 16, Speed Mod: 1.4, Tech 2

 * Airstream

 * Biowall

 * Deadstop

 * Undeadstop

 * Lifeless Stop

 * Misdirection
 * Protection: 4000, Regen: 150/2.1, Electricity: 7, Regen Elec: 100, Vis: 10, Size: 80, Tech 18

 * Give and Take
 * Protection: 8000, Regen: 140/2.25, Electricity: 3, Regen Elec: 60, Vis: 50, Size: 100, Tech 19

Engine

 * Moral Emphasis

 * Grape Influence

 * Herbal Power

 * Plant Power

Energy

 * Blue Energy

 * Bule Lightbank

 * Flapping Wings
 * Reservoir: 900, Regen: 10, Size: 10, Tech 6

 * Infernal Energy
 * Reservoir: 700, Regen: 90, Size: ?, Tech 8

 * Ion Justice
 * Reservoir: 1350, Regen: 135, Size: 64, Tech 15

 * Yallow
 * Reservoir: 1000, Regen: 225, Size: 70, Tech 17

 * Obsidian Ionizer
 * Reservoir: 2200, Regen: 220, Size: 30, Tech 17

Radar

 * Tibsi Radar
 * Vision: 300, Detection: 500, Electricity: 2, Visibility: 100, Size: 6, Tech 1

 * Zigine Radar
 * Vision: 850, Detection: 1400, Electricity: 5, Visibility: 150, Size: 10, Tech 7

 * Spyrite Radar
 * Vision: 5000, Detection: 7000, Electricity: 120, Visibility: 500, Size: 90, Tech 10

 * Angelic Vision
 * Vision: 500, Detection: 700, Electricity: 6, Size: 30, Tech 13

 * Tunnel Vision
 * Vision: 2200, Detection: 4500, Electiricity: 10, Visibility: 5, Size: 40, Tech 18

Items

 * Kudzu Electron Entomber

 * Kudzu Electron Blanket

 * Rasputin Escape Pod
 * Speed: 80-40, Shields: 1500, Turning: 200, Size: 1, Tech 7

 * Indira Hull Expander
 * Extra Space: 25, Size: 1, Tech 9

 * Gulag Pod
 * Speed: 119-80, Shields: 1500, Turning: 200, Size: 1, Tech 9

 * Zirconium Charger
 * Regen: 18/1.2, Elec: 81, Size: 18, Tech 9

 * Argonium Charger
 * Regen: 24/1.2, Elec: 144, Size: 24, Tech 12

 * Planetscanner Z
 * Range: 5000, Power: 200, Activation energy: 120, Size: 25, Tech 12

 * Cowboy Charger
 * Regen: 45/1.2, Elec: 225, Size: 30, Tech 15

 * Satanic Rebirth
 * Energy Boost: 5000, Size: 20, Tech 9

 * Station Master Pod
 * Slave Master Pod
 * Fighter Ace Pod

Base Items

 * Mzungu Transdim Expansion Blueprint
 * Item: Transdim Station Extension, Metal: 10000, Manhours: 40000, Size: 1, Tech 0

 * Atoms and Bits Blueprint
 * Item: Atoms and Bits, Metal: 0, Manhours: 1800, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 100000, Periodic Materials: 1000 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 2000000, Size: 1, Tech 4

 * Mini Pulse Blueprint
 * Item: Mini Pulse, Metal: 1000, Manhours: 2000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 1000 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 1000000, Size: 1, Tech 5

 * Cannery
 * Converts 1 Peasants into 1 Rations, costing 20 credits every 40 seconds, Size: 90, Tech 6

 * Incineration Blueprint
 * Item: Incineration, Metal: 0, Manhours: 400, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 100000, Periodic Materials: 20 Blue Aether, Periodic Cost: 500000, Size: 1, Tech 6

 * Luscious North Blueprint
 * Item: Luscious North, Metal: 10, Manhours: 10000, Initial Materials: 1 Mzungu Green Orb, 1 Bule Red Orb, 1 Vazaha Blue Orb, Size: 10, Tech 6

 * Surpresto Radar Blueprint
 * Tech 7

 * Adonis Charger Blueprint
 * Item: Adonis Charger, Metal: 1000, Manhours: 10000, Maximum Workforce: 5, Initial Cost: 10000000, Initial Materials: 1 Adonis Protector, 1 Zirconium Charger, Periodic Cost: 5000000, Size: 1, Tech 9

 * Axum Radar Blueprint
 * Item: Axum Radar, Metal: 0, Manhours: 2000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 5 Argonaut Radar, Periodic Cost: 500000, Size: 1, Tech 9

 * Bile Displacer Blueprint
 * Item: Bile Displacer, Metal: 0, Manhours: 3000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 1000 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 2000000, Size: 1, Tech 9

 * Crack Palace
 * Converts 1 Silicon and 1 Peasants into 1 Crack Whores every 10 seconds, costing 20 credits, Size: 15, Tech 9

 * Jade Thorax Blueprint
 * Item: Jade Thorax, Metal: 0, Manhours: 2000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 500 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 5000000, Size: 1, Tech 9

 * Nuclear Convo-Tronic II
 * Converts 1 Fermium into 1 Promethium every 7 seconds, costing 500 credits, Size: 120, Tech 9

 * Semi Big Pulse Blueprint
 * Item: Semi Big Pulse, Metal: 2000, Manhours: 4000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 5000000, Initial Materials: 1 Adonis Pulse Gun, Periodic Materials: 2500 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 5000000, Size: 1, Tech 9

 * Quu Drone Blueprint
 * Item: Quu Drone, Metal: 0, Manhours: 3000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 100000, Periodic Materials: 1500 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 500000, Size: 1, Tech 9

 * Zig Zag and Swirl Blueprint
 * Item: Zig Zag and Swirl, Metal: 0, Manhours: 3000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 1500 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 5000000, Size: 1, Tech 9

 * Mythos Energizer Blueprint
 * Item: Mythos Energizer, Metal: 10000, Manhours: 30000, Initial Materials: 10 Promethium, Size: 40, Tech 10

 * Shaolin Kick Torpedo Blueprint
 * Item: Shaolin Kick Torpedo, Metal: 0, Manhours: 2000, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 900 Fermium, Periodic Cost: 3000000, Size: 1, Tech 10

 * Apollo's Collector Blueprint
 * Item: Apollo's Collector, Metal: 10000, Manhours: 20000, Initial Cost: 2500000, Initial Materials: 1 Sandy Solarite, Periodic Materials: 10 Solar Panel, Periodic Cost: 2500000, Size: 1, Tech 12

 * Lunar Blockade Blueprint
 * Item: Lunar Blockade, Metal: 0, Manhours: 6000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 5000 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 5000000, Size: 1, Tech 12

 * Non-Portable Surgeon Blueprint
 * Item: Non-Portable Surgeon, Metal: 5000, Manhours: 10000, Initial Cost: 10000000, Initial Materials: 10 Promethium, 1 Love Cylinder Remains, Periodic Cost: 10000000, Size: 10, Tech 12

 * Slate Thorax Blueprint
 * Item: Slate Thorax, Metal: 0, Manhours: 20000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 100000000, Periodic Materials: 5 Jade Thorax, Periodic Cost: 500000000, Size: 1, Tech 12

 * Topaz Thorax Blueprint
 * Item: Topaz Thorax, Metal: 0, Manhours: 3000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 2000000, Periodic Materials: 1000 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 10000000, Size: 1, Tech 12

 * Ambrosia Charger Blueprint
 * Item: Ambrosia Charger, Metal: 3000, Manhours: 30000, Maximum Workforce: 5, Initial Cost: 30000000, Initial Materials: 1 Ambrosia Protector, 1 Argonium Charger, Periodic Cost: 15000000, Size: 1, Tech 14

 * Fire of the Gods Blueprint
 * Item: Fire of the Gods, Metal: 0, Manhours: 3000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 3000 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 15000000, Size: 1, Tech 14

 * Heat Dampener Blueprint
 * Item: Heat Dampener, Metal: 10000, Manhours: 2000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 10000000, Initial Materials: 2 Hell Fire Remains, Periodic Cost: 5000000, Size: 1, Tech 14

 * Heat Dampener + Blueprint
 * Item: Heat Dampener +, Metal: 100000, Manhours: 20000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 100000000, Initial Materials: 2 Hell Fire Remains, 2 Heat Dampener, Periodic Cost: 50000000, Size: 1, Tech 14

 * Inverto Radar Blueprint
 * Item: Inverto Radar, Metal: 2500, Manhours: 4000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 5000000, Initial Materials: 1 Ambrosia Radar, Periodic Materials: 2500 Promethium, Periodic Cost: 5000000, Size: 1, Tech 14

 * Surgical Dampener Blueprint
 * Item: Surgical Dampener, Metal: 10000, Manhours: 2000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 10000000, Initial Materials: 2 Love Cylinder Remains, Periodic Cost: 5000000, Size: 1, Tech 14

 * Surgical Dampener + Blueprint
 * Item: Surgical Dampener +, Metal: 100000, Manhours: 20000, Maximum Workforce: 2, Initial Cost: 100000000, Initial Materials: 2 Love Cylinder Remains, 2 Surgical Dampener, Periodic Cost: 50000000, Size: 1, Tech 14

 * Avalon Laser Blueprint
 * Item: Avalon Laser, Metal: 50000, Manhours: 100000, Initial Cost: 1000000, Initial Materials: 2 Adonis Laser, Size: 10, Tech 16

 * Avalon Protector Blueprint
 * Item: Avalon Protector, Metal: 50000, Manhours: 100000, Initial Cost: 1000000, Initial Materials: 2 Adonis Protector, Size: 10, Tech 16

 * Avalon Energy Blueprint
 * Item: Avalon Protector, Metal: 50000, Manhours: 100000, Initial Cost: 1000000, Initial Materials: 2 Adonis Energy, Size: 10, Tech 16

 * Avalon Radar Blueprint
 * Item: Avalon Protector, Metal: 50000, Manhours: 100000, Initial Cost: 1000000, Initial Materials: 2 Adonis Radar, Size: 10, Tech 16

 * Andaman Radar Blueprint
 * Andaman Energy Z Blueprint
 * Item: Andaman Energybank Z, Metal: 1000, Manhours: 12000, Maximum Workforce: 1, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 7 Andaman Energybank, Periodic Cost: 8000000, Size: 1, Tech 16

 * Andaman Protector Z Blueprint
 * Item: Andaman Protector Z, Metal: 1000, Manhours: 12000, Maximum Workforce: 1, Initial Cost: 1000000, Periodic Materials: 7 Andaman Protector, Periodic Cost: 8000000, Size: 1, Tech 16

 * Andaman Radar Blueprint

 * Achilles Energy Blueprint

 * Achilles Protector Blueprint

 * Achilles Radar Blueprint

 * Achilles Laser Blueprint
 * Item: Achilles Laser, Metal: 15000, Manhours: 50000, Maximum Workforce: 10, Initial Cost: 1000000, Initial Materials: 200 Promethium, 1 Open Heart Laser, 3 Love Cylinder Remains, Size: 10, Tech 18

 * Station Kit VIII
 * Size: 190, Tech 18

 * Attached Station Kit VIII
 * Size: 190, Tech 18

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Star Sonata/Special AI drops

Wingship

 * Ethereal Prototype
 * Damage: 5, Range: 180, Recoil: 1, Type: Laser, Electricity: 15, Size: 4, Tech 1

Space Blue Alpha

 * Blue Bullets Alpha

 * Blue Energy

 * Blue Aether

Inferno

 * Immolation
 * Damage: 57x3, Range: 30, Recoil: 0.6, Type: Heat, Electricity: 171, Size: 35, Tech 6

 * Fire Shield
 * Protection: 1000, Regen: 25/0.915, Electricity: 15, Regen Elec: 12, Vis: 500, Size: 90, Tech 8

 * Infernal Thruster
 * Thrust: 2900, Turning: 400, Visibility: 400, Size: 35, Tech 8

 * Infernal Energy, Tech 8
 * good for new users

Space Blue Beta

 * Blue Bullets Beta

 * Blue Vapor

Seraph

 * Splitting Heavens
 * Reservoir: 500, Regen: 88, Size: 40, Tech 13

Pretty Boy/Pretty Girl

 * Beautiful Eyes

 * Vanity Mirror

 * Hairsprayer

 * Hot Stuff

Parsley

 * Mzungu Big Pulse

 * Pearly Gate

Space Blue Gamma

 * Blue Bullets Gamma
 * Damage: 90, Range: 400, Recoil: 0.5, Type: Energy, Electricity: 135, Size: 24, Tech 15

 * Blue Dust

Basil

 * Basil Bouqet
 * Great for salads. Half-life: 25 minutes.

 * Basil Salad
 * Great for salads. Half-life: ?

Cleft Thorn

 * Hell Fire
 * Damage: 90, Range: 300, Recoil: 0.505, Type: Heat, Electricity: 135, Size: 115, Tech 14

 * Hell Fire Remains
 * Still hot hot hot! Half Life: 1 hour, 15 minutes.

Rosemary

 * Love Cylinder
 * Damage: 115x2, Range: 260, Recoil: 1.2, Type: Surgical, Electricity: 460, Size: 120, Tech 18

 * Love Cylinder Remains
 * Seems less intimidating that way. Half Life: 1 hour, 15 minutes. - Used for building NPS and Surgical Diffuser+.

 * Rosemary Sprig
 * Great for potatoes. Half Life: 25 minutes.

Dark Transport

 * Madmans Eyes

 * Dark Remains

Equanimity

 * Equalazer (weapon)
 * Sputter Nutters (commodity)

Pax Astrologica

 * Flower Power

 * Light Of Peace

 * Mythos Energizer

 * Space Boomerangs
 * Always comes back around... Half Life: 30 minutes.

Forgone

 * Xeno Torpedo
 * Damage: 255, Range: 305, Recoil: 0.525, Type: Energy, Electricity: 637, Size: 150, Tech 25

 * Xeno Shield

 * Xeno Shield Remains
 * What is this Xeno stuff? Half Life: 1 hour, 15 minutes.

 * Conclusion Icicle
 * Cold clarity. Half Life: 2 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds.

Vigilante

 * Undershirt
 * Reservoir: 12000, Regen: 30/2.25, Electricity: 20, Regen Elec: 50, Vis: 60, Size: 100, Tech 17

 * Vigilante Catapult Blueprint

 * Siege Catapult Remains

Anaconda (Snake Hole)

 * Anaconda Scales
 * Slimy but protective. Size: 1, Tech 0

Miscellaneous Drops

 * Infernal Energy
 * Reservoir: 700, Regen: 90, Size: 40, Tech 8

 * Simple Power
 * Reservoir: 500, Regen: 100, Size: 38, Tech 9

 * Ace Pest Control
 * Activation Energy: 15, Appetite: 50/1, Size: 2, Tech 10

 * Laser Diffuser Kali
 * Electricity: 3, 37% protection from Laser, Failure Chance: 0.5%, Visibility: 20, Size: 12, Tech 10

 * Energy Diffuser Kali
 * Electricity: 3, 37% protection from Energy, Failure Chance: 0.5%, Visibility: 20, Size: 12, Tech 10

 * Heat Shield Kali
 * Electricity: 3, 37% protection from Heat, Failure Chance: 0.5%, Visibility: 20, Size: 12, Tech 10

 * Lil'Thang
 * Protection: 4300, Regen: 60/1.875, Electricity: 12, Regen Elec: 120, Vis: 650, Size: 25, Tech 15

 * Hazard Dissipator Ultra
 * Electricity: 18, 25% protection from radiation, mining, Failure: 0.2%, Vis: 25, Size: 15, Tech 16

 * Microfragment Dissapator Ultra
 * Electricity: 18, 25% protection from surgical, ?, Failure: 0.2%, Vis: 25, Size: 15, Tech 16

 * Mirror Dissipator Ultra
 * Electricity: 18, 25% protection from laser, energy, Failure: 0.2%, Vis: 25, Size: 15, Tech 16

 * Transcendental Hull Expander
 * Extra Space: 35, Weight: 45000, Size: 1, Tech 17

 * Electron Tomb
 * Coverage: 556, Duration: 350s, Illumination: 0, Activation Energy: 460, Size: 13, Tech 18

 * Juju Embada
 * Protection: 4000, Regen: 40/1.313, Elec: 15, Regen Elec: 80, Vis: 20, Size: 90, Tech 18

 * Shield Reborn
 * Healing: 450, Activation Energy: 150, Size: 5, Tech 19

 * Shipscanner Laddio
 * Range: 290, Power: 2, Activation Energy: 500, Size: 1, Tech 20

 * Solar Intake

 * Shipscanner Laslo

 * Gigo Laser

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Star Sonata/Ruin items

Commodity
Faranji Luscious East

Energy
Faranji Energy 1 Reservoir: 750, Regen: 75, Size: 16, Tech 2

Faranji Energy 2 Reservoir: 900, Regen: 90, Size: 20, Tech 3

Faranji Energy 3 Reservoir: 1120, Regen: 112, Size: 28, Tech 5

Faranji Energy 4 Reservoir: 1350, Regen: 135, Size: 36, Tech 7

Faranji Energy 5 Reservoir: 1500, Regen: 150, Size: 40, Tech 8

Faranji Energy 6 Reservoir: 1700, Regen: 170, Size: 52, Tech 11

Faranji Energy 7 Reservoir: 1850, Regen: 185, Size: 60, Tech 13

Faranji Energy 8 Reservoir: 2000, Regen: 198, Size: 72, Tech 16

Faranji Energy 9 Reservoir: 2200, Regen: 210, Size: 84, Tech 19

Cloak
Faranji Cloak Cloaking: 93%, Electricity: 32, Size: 54, Tech 7

Faranji Dark Cloaking: 97%, Electricity: 150, Size: 100 something, Tech 11

Faranji Dimness 1 Cloaking: 93%, Electricty: 10, Size: 128, Tech 14

Faranji Dimness 2 Cloaking: 95%, Electricity: 20, Size: 152, Tech 16

Weapon
Faranji Gatling Laser Damage: 13, Range: 150, Recoil: 0.2, Type: Laser, Electricity: 32, Size: 6, Tech 2

Faranji Gatling Laser II Damage: 33, Range: 150, Recoil: 0.18, Type: Laser, Electricity: 90, Size: 30, Tech 6

Faranji Gatling Laser III Damage: 42, Range: 150, Recoil: 0.17, Type: Laser, Electricity: 115, Size: 60, Tech 10

Faranji Flower Damage: 40x6, Range: 350, Recoil: 1.5, Type: Energy, Electricity: 240, Size: 58, Tech 11

Shield
Faranji Supreme Defense Protection: 980, Regen: 0/1.5, Electricity: 1, Regen Elec: 0, Vis: 100, Size: 8, Tech 0

Faranji Traveller Protection: 600, Regen: 5/1, Electricity: 1, Regen Elec: 5, Vis: 500, Size: 5, Tech 5

Faranji Expeditor Protection: 2400, Regen: 20/1, Electricity: 1, Regen Elec: 10, Vis: 500, Size: 15, Tech 15

Ship
Faranji Wingship Hull Space: 150, Max Speed: 119, Size: 26, Visibility: 50, Augmenters: 5, Weapons: 2, Protection against Mining, Radiation, Heat, Laser, Energy. Tech 6

Drone
Faranji Blaser Weapon: Rinduan Missilecannon, Deployment Energy: 50, Size: 4, Tech 1

Faranji Head Drone Weapon: Light Laser, Deployment Energy: 60, Size: 16, Tech 4

Faranji moble flower drone ??

Item
Faranji Station Tech Improves Station Technology from level 9 to level 10.

Faranji Epiphany It all makes sense now, Maximum use level: 4, Size: 1, Tech 0 (I've heard it works like an oracle for levels 4 and under.)

Faranji Escape Pod Speed: 85-48, Sheilds: 400, Turning: 239, Size: 1, Tech 4

Faranji Laser Diffuser Electricity: 1, Protection: 17% (from laser), Failure: 0.5%, Size: 8, Tech 6

Commodity
Bule Red Orb

Energy
Bule LightBank Reservoir: 500, Regen: 80/1.2, Size: 30, Tech 6

Radar
Bule Searcher Vision: 200, Detection: 365, Electricity: 1, Size: 8, Tech 2

Bule ESP Box Vision: 1200, Detection: 1560, Electricity: 9, Size: 36, Tech 16

Engine
Bule Pusher Thrust: 450, Turning: 250, Visibility: 100, Size: 12, Tech 1

Bule Puller Thrust: 520, Turning: 170, Visibility: 5, Size: 50, Tech 5

Bule Shover Thrust: 2000, Turning: 750, Visibility: 125, Size: 22, Tech 5

Bule Real Keeper Thrust: 4700, Turning: 1200, Visibility: 150, Size: 40, Tech 9

Bule Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster Thrust: 10000, Turning: 2250, Visibility: 250, Size: 60, Tech 17

Bule Blackness Thrust: 2950, Turning: 750, Visibility: 8, Size: 60, Tech 18

Shield
Bule Angelic Paintjob Protection: 1400, Regen: 5/2.25, Electricity: 1, Regen Elec: 5, Vis: 100, Size: 10, Tech 4

Bule Bionic Wall Protection: 1800, Regen: 900/60, Electricity: 1, Regen Elec: 1, Vis: 2, Size: 20, Tech 7

Weapon
Bule Craziness Damage: 43x3, Range: 300, Recoil: 0.5, Type: Energy, Electricity: 129, Size: 4, Tech 2

Bule Insanity Damage: 61x3, Range: 300, Recoil: 0.5, Type: Energy, Electricity: 183, Size: 12, Tech 4

Bule Pulse Shotgun Damage: 120x2, Range: 200, Recoil, 1.7, Type: Energy, Electricity: 420, Size: 15, Tech 5

Bule Invertoblast Damage: 120, Range: 300, Recoil: 0.75, Type: Energy, Electricity: 180, Size: 15, Tech 5

Bule Invader Damage: 20x2, Range: 260, Recoil: 1.3, Type: Radiation, Electricity: 80, Size: 25, Tech 6

Bule Trans-Dim Laser Damage: 62, Range: 360, Recoil: 1, Type: Laser, Electricity: 186, Size: 8, Tech 6

Bule Big Pulse Damage: 300, Range: 250, Recoil: 1.5, Type: Energy, Electricity: 450, Size: 30, Tech 7

Item
Bule Shipscanner Range: 200, Power: 1, Activation Energy: 0, Size: 2, Tech 4

Drone
Bule Ada Drone Weapon: Neutron Laser III, Deployment Energy: 500, Size: 40, Tech 10

Cloak
Bule Obscuration 1 Cloaking: 98%, Electricity: 80, Size: 165, Tech 17

Bule Obscuration 2 Cloaking: 98%, Electricity: 100, Size: 178, Tech 18

Ship
Bule Super Sidhe Hull: 320, Speed: 89, Size: 48, Visibility: 10, Augs: 4, Weapons: 3, Protection: None, Built in: Terror, Sup. Combined Augmenter, Tech 16

Commodity
Mzungu Green Orb What is this good for?

Weapon
Mzungu Pulse Shotgun Damage: 100x2, Range: 150, Recoil: 1.8, Type: Energy, Electricity: 350, Size: 2, Tech 3

Mzungu Super Pulse Gun Damage: 120, Range: 400, Recoil: 1.07, Type: Energy, Electricity: 180, Size: 8, Tech 4

Mzungu Cannon Damage: 29x2, Range: 260, Recoil: 0.8, Type: Energy, Electricity: 116, Size: 12, Tech 4

Mzungu Trading Defense Damage: 90, Range: 300, Recoil: 1.5, Type: Mining, Electricity: 202

Mzungu Pellet Stream Damage: 35, Range: 330, Recoil: 0.2, Type: Physical, Electricity: 45, Size: 30, Tech 9

Mzungu Great Sebastopol Damage: 136x3, Range: 200, Recoil: 1, Type: Energy, Electricity: 408, Size: 25, Tech 10

Mzungu Big Pulse Damage: 270, Range: 350, Recoil: 1.17, Type: Energy, Electricity: 405, Size: 70, Tech 11

Radar
Mzungu Pinger Vision: 150, Detection: 1000, Electricity: 2, Visibility: 14, Size: 20, Tech 8

Shield
Mzungu Armorite Protection: 5000, Regen: 25/1.05, Electricity: 25, Regen Elec: 25, Vis: 40, Size: 30, Speed Mod: 0.8, Tech 9

Energy
Mzungu Clap Reservoir: 3500, Regen: 35, Size: 25, Tech 1

Mzungu Bang Reservoir: 6200, Regen: 56, Size: 40, Tech 5

Mzungu Bolt Reservoir: 7000, Regen: 70, Size: 55, Tech 9

Mzungu Thunder Reservoir: 10500, Regen: 105, Size: 120, Tech 18

Item
Mzungu Station Tech Improves Station Technology from levels 6/7 to level 8.

Mzungu Transdim Expansion Blueprint Metal: 10000, Manhours: 40000, Tech 0

Mzungu Obfuscator Coverage: 356, Duration: 10000, Illumination: 0, Activation Energy: 35, Size: 1, Tech 0

Mzungu Cleaner Activation Energy: 6, Appetite: 2/30s, Size: 1, Tech 0

Mzungu Energy Diffuser Electricity: 1, Protection: 17% (from energy), Failure: 0.5%, Size: 8, Tech 6

Engine
Mzungu Pusher Thrust: 1230, Turning: 200, Visibility: 100, Size: 20, Tech 2

Mzungu Flying Contrast Thrust: 11300, Turning: 2000, Visibility: 300, Size: 70, Tech 16

Drone
Mzungu Iko Drone Weapon: Fire Cannon, Deployment Energy: 700, Size: 20, Tech 10

Ship
Mzungu Liquid Hull Space: 190, Max Speed: 80, Size: 40, Visibility: 29, Augmenters: 5, Weapons: 3, Protection against laser, energy, heat, physical, radiation, surgical. Tech 9

Cloak
Mzungu Cloak Cloaking: 95%, Electricity: 40, Size: 104, Tech 12

Commodity
Vazaha Blue Orb

Shield

Vazaha Protector 1 Protection: 1600, Regen: 8/1.5, Electricity: 1, Regen Elec: 8, Vis: 50, Size: 12, Speed Mod: 0.9, Tech 1

Vazaha Protector 2 Protection: 2000, Regen: 10/1.5, Electricity: 2, Regen Elec: 10, Vis: 50, Size: 16, Speed Mod: 0.9, Tech 2

Vazaha Protector 3 Protection: 2400, Regen: 12/1.5, Electricity: 3, Regen Elec: 12, Vis: 50, Size: 20, Speed Mod: 0.9, Tech 3

Vazaha Protector 4 Protection: 3400, Regen: 17, Electricity: 5, Regen Elec: 17, Vis: 50, Size: 28, Tech 5,Speed Mod: 0.9

Vazaha Protector 5 Protection: 4200, Regen: 21/1.5, Electricity: 7, Regen Elec: 21, Vis: 50, Size: 36, Speed Mod: 0.9, Tech 7

Vazaha Protector 6 Protection: 5000, Regen: 25/1.5, Electricity: 9, Regen Elec: 25, Vis: 50, Size: 44, Speed Mod: 0.9, Tech 9

Vazaha Protector 7 Protection: 5600, Regen: 30/1.5, Electricity: 11, Regen Elec: 30, Vis: 50, Size: 52, Speed Mod: 0.9, Tech 11

Vazaha Defense Unit Protection: 2000, Regen: 10/0.75, Electricity: 2, Regen Elec: 8, Vis: 20, Size: 20, Tech 6

Weapon
Vazaha Invertoblast Damage: 85, Range: 400, Recoil: 0.85, Type: Energy, Electricity: 127, Size: 10, Tech 3

Vazaha Blast Damage: 280, Range: 15, Recoil: 1, Type: Energy, Electricity: 350, Size: 25, Tech 6

Vazaha Cannon Damage: 22x6, Range: 260, Recoil: 1, Type: Energy, Electricity: 264, Size: 32, Tech 7

Vazaha Pulse Shotgun Damage: 150x2, Range: 250, Recoil: 1.85, Type: Energy, Electricity: 525, Size: 25, Tech 7

Vazaha Kiss Damage: 74, Range: 20, Recoil: 0.5, Type: Surgical, Electricity: 148, Size: 40, Tech 11

Vazaha Twit Damage: 30x3, Range: 150, Recoil: 0.25, Type: Energy, Electricity: 75, Size: 30, Tech 12

Vazaha Black Hole Generator Damage: 2-500, Range: 300, Recoil: 1.2, Type: Physical, Electricity: 500, Size: 115, Tech 15

Vazaha Re-structron Damage: -400, Range: 100, Recoil: 2, Type: Transference, Electricity: 350, Size: 50, Tech 17

Radar
Vazaha Locator Vision: 200, Detection: 2000, Electricity: 5, Visibility: 200 Size: 2, Tech 3

Vazaha Searcher Vision: 200, Detection: 400, Electricity: 1, Size: 8, Tech 5

Energy
Vazaha Flicker Pack Reservoir: 800, Regen: 40, Size: 8, Tech 0

Vazaha Glint Pack Reservoir: 1800, Regen: 72, Size: 15, Tech 3

Vazaha Spark Pack Reservoir: 2500, Regen: 100, Size: 23, Tech 6

Vazaha Flash Pack Reservoir: 2880, Regen: 120, Size: 30, Tech 9

Vazaha PureSource Reservoir: 1100, Regen: 110, Size: 25, Tech 9

Vazaha SparklePack Reservoir: 3580, Regen: 145, Size: 40, Tech 12

Vazaha Discharge Pack Reservoir: 3900, Regen: 156, Size: 45, Tech 15

Vazaha Voltage Pack Rservoir: 4200, Regen: 168, Size: 50, Tech 18

Engine
Vazaha Blastoff Thrust: 2250, Turning: 140, Visibility: 229, Size: 5, Tech 3

Vazaha Slipstream Thrust: 700, Turning: 108, Visibility: 50, Size: 4, Tech 4

Vazaha Space Blue Thrust: 5200, Turning: 1750, Visibility: 200, Size: 50, Tech 11.

Item
Vazaha Fusion Charger Regenerate 6 every 1.2 seconds. 9 energy use. Size: 6, Tech 3

Cloak
Vazaha Adumbration Cloaking: 90%, Electricity: 26, Size: 29, Tech 4

Vazaha Cover Cloaking: 92%, Electricity: 15, Size: 90, Tech 6

Vazaha Gloom Cloaking: 98%, Electricity: 60, Size: 116, Tech 13

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Star Sonata/Augmenters

Minor Augmenters
Minor Agility Augmenter Turning: 30%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Capacity Augmenter Capacity: 20%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Damage Augmenter Damage: 10%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Docking Augmenter Docking: 300%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Electric Augmenter Electricity: 20%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Energy Augmenter Energy: 60%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Firing Augmenter Firing: 20%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Nimbleness Augmenter Weight: -20%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Radar Augmenter Radar: 300%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Range Augmenter Range: 20%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Recovery Augmenter Recovery: 20%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Shield Augmenter Shield: 30%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Speed Augmenter Speed: 5%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Stealth Augmenter Visibility: -50%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Targeting Augmenter Tracking: 30%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Thrust Augmenter Thrust: 300%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Minor Traction Augmenter Tractor Strength: 25%, Size 1, Tech 0

God Augmenters
Apollo Augmenter Turning: 15%, Recovery: 11%, Electricity: 11%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Hestia Augmenter Shield: 33%, Energy: 66%, Visibility: 200%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Aphrodite Augmenter Damage: 10%, Weight: -20%, Docking: 100%, Size: 2, Tech 5

Artemis Augmenter Tracking: 35%, Range: 22%, Size: 2, Tech 5

Hermes Augmenter Speed: 15%, Thrust: 40%, Visibility: -40%, Size: 4, Tech 10

Dionysis Augmenter Shield: 50%, Damage: 15%, Weight: 5%, Docking: 100%, Size: 4, Tech 10

Hephaestus Augmenter Energy: 30%, Speed: -25%, Damage: 20%, Capacity: 50%, Size: 8, Tech 13

Poseidon Augmenter Shield: 50%, Damage: 10%, Recovery: 35%, Range: -20%, Size: 8, Tech 13

Ares Augmenter Turning: 15%, Recovery: 29%, Electricity: 29%, Firing: 35%, Size: 16, Tech 16

Athena Augmenter Shield: 44%, Damage: 24%, Radar: 225%, Size: 16, Tech 16

Hera Augmenter Speed: 30%, Turning: 40%, Thrust: 50%, Tracking: 50%, Radar: -20%, Size: 32, Tech 19

Zeus Augmenter Damage: 30%, Electricity: 37%, Range: 10%, Size: 32, Tech 19

Zeus+ Augmenter Damage: 33%, Electricity: 40%, Range: 10%, Size: 32, Tech 20

Hostile Augmenters
Minor Hostile Augmenter Shield: -10%, Damage: 20%, Recovery: -40%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Basic Hostile Augmenter Shield: -20%, Damage: 35%, Recovery: -50%, Size: 2, Tech 5

Std. Hostile Augmenter Shield: -30%, Damage: 50%, Recovery: -60%, Size: 4, Tech 10

Good Hostile Augmenter

Exc. Hostile Augmenter Shield: -50%, Damage: 80%, Recovery: -80%, Size: 16, Tech 16

Sup. Hostile Augmenter

Spacey Augmenters
Available for Exc/Sup augs. Add Capacity: +2%, Tech level +1

Speedy Augmenters
Available for Exc/Sup augs. Add Speed: +1%, Tech level +1

Combined Augmenters
Minor Combined Augmenter Shield: 15%, Energy: 15%, Thrust: 10%, Visibility: -10%, Capacity: 5%, Firing: 10%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Basic Combined Augmenter Shield: 10%, Energy: 10%, Damage: 5%, Thrust: 10%, Weight: -10%, Tracking: 20%, Docking: 100%, Firing: 10%, Range: 20%, Size: 2, Tech 5

Std. Combined Augmenter Shield: 40%, Energy: 10%, Speed: 5%, Damage: 10%, Thrust: 20%, Visibility: -20%, Weight: 5%, Docking: 100%, Firing: 10%, Size: 4, Tech 10

Good Combined Augmenter Shield: 40%, Energy: 20%, Speed: -15%, Damage: 20%, Recovery: 20%, Capacity: 25%, Firing: 10%, Range: -10%, Size: 8, Tech 13

Exc. Combined Augmenter Shield: 35%, Energy: 10%, Turning: 10%, Damage: 15%, Recov: 10%, Elec: 20%, Docking: 50%, Firing: 30%, Radar: 100%, Size: 16, Tech 16

Sup. Combined Augmenter Shield: 20%, Energy: 20%, Speed: 15%, Turning: 20%, Damage: 25%, Electricity: 20%, Thrust: 25%, Capacity: 20%, Tracking: 30%, Radar: -20%, Range: 5%, Size: 32, Tech 19

Misc. Augmenters
Aku KoQuii Augmenter Electricity: 40%, Visibility: -80%, Size: 8, Tech 13

Blue Interceptor Augmenter Turning: 15%, Thrust: 100%, Weight: -10%, Size: 2, Tech 0

Blue Beta Augmenter Energy: 200%, Visibility: -60%, Weight: -25%, Radar: 25%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Blue Gamma Augmenter Energy: 100%, Damage: 20%, Visibility: -70%, Weight: -40%, Firing: -30%, Radar: 50%, Size: 1, Tech 0

Inferno Augmenter Shield: -10%, Damage: 20%, Recovery: -50%, Range: 30%, Size: 2, Tech 5

KoQuii Vazuk Augmenter Firing: 40%, Visibility: -80%, Size: 8, Tech 13

Slimebottle's Augmenter Turning: 45%, Electricity: 26%, Size: 2, Tech 4

Qokuji Augmenter Shield: 60%, Damage: 20%, Visibility: -80%, Size: 16, Tech 16

ZetaAug Speed: 12%, Capacity: 7%, Size: 1, Tech 7

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Star Sonata/Special AI stations

Underworld
Mythos Energizer Blueprint

Argonaut Energy/Protector/Laser/Radar/Drone Blueprints - Size: 100, Tech 12

Momma's Slicer Damage: 36, Range: 250, Recoil: 1.77, Type: Radiation, Electricity: 108, Size: 10, Tech 7

Astral Pellets Damage: 26x4, Range: 260, Recoil: 1, Type: Physical, Electricity: 208, Size: 48, Tech 10

Momma's Furnace Reservoir: 1500, Regen: 150, Size: 52, Tech 11, Uses Nuclear Waste

Rubber Ducky Protection: 1400, Regen: 70/1.5, Electricity: 1, Regen Elec: 180, Vis: 20, Size: 50, Tech 11

Aqua Mirror Who are you, really? Electricity: 250, Size: 2500, Tech 6

Rasputin Escape Pod Speed: 80 - 40, Shields: 1500, Turning: 200, Size: 1, Tech 7

Lord's Enveloper Protection: 500, Duration: 120s, Size: 150, Activation energy: 400, Size: 5, Tech 9

Lord's Solar Collector Charge 64 every 2 seconds, Size: 25, Tech 15

Graviton Beam II Strength: 476, Density: +19%, Range: 150, Elec: 16, Vis: 1000, Size: 12, Tech 2

Graviton Beam III Strength: 646, Density: +35%, Range: 200, Elec: 27, Vis: 1000, Size: 15, Tech 3

Restraining Order Strength: -4264, Density: +104%, Range: 205, Elec: 319, Vis: 1000, Size: 24, Tech 9

Neuro-Training Shields 18 (Space Boomerangs), Cloaking 15 (Gabriel's Neurolich)

Nihilite
Aqua Tube Blueprint Item: Aqua Tube, Metal: 100, Manhours: 500, Initial Materials: 1 Aqua Mirror, Size: 5, Tech 6

Ambrosia Energy/Protector/Laser/Radar/Drone Blueprints - Size: 100, Tech 14

Momma's Slicer - See Underworld

Firebeam Damage: 79, Range: 220, Recoil: 0.8, Type: Heat, Electricity: 237, Size: 50, Tech 10

Open Heart Laser Damage: 118, Range: 300, Recoil: 0.9, Type: Surgical, Electricity: 354, Size: 100, Tech 14

Rubber Ducky - See Underworld

Rasputin Escape Pod - See Underworld

Creditscanner B Range: 50, Power: 1, Elec: 20, Size: 2, Tech 11

Alcatraz Pod Speed: 89-50, Shields: 2500, Turning: 200, Size: 2, Tech 14

Graviton Beam II, Graviton Beam III, Restraining Order - See Underworld

Graviton Beam IV Strength: 816, Density: +42%, Range: 250, Elec: 45, Vis: 1000, Size: 18, Tech 5

Thatch Hull: 5500, Speed: 38, Size: 95, Vis: 2000, Augs: 6, Weapons: 2, Protection: Physical, Weakness: Heat, Mining, Laser, Surgical, Radiation, Energy, Tech 15

Sidhe * Hull: 320, Speed: 89, Size: 48, Visibility: 10, Augs: 3, Weapons: 3, Protection: Heat, Energy, Laser, Surgical, Radiation, Tech 16

 * - Sidhe has an undocumented 50 bonus electricity regen every 1.2 seconds.

Neuro-Training Weaponry 19 (3000 Promethium), Shielding 15, Engine 18 (Space Boomerangs), Electrical Engineering 18 (Sputter Nutters), Astral Injection 3 (Enchromas)

Hyper
Plasma Extractor Extract Plasma Crystals, Size: 10, Tech 0

Plasmite Drone Blueprint Item: Plasmite Drone, Metal: 1000, Manhours: 4000, Initial Materials: 2 Plasma Crystals, Size: 20, Tech 12

Andaman Energy/Protector/Laser Blueprints - Size: 100, Tech 16

SludgeSpewer, Parasitic Flare Gun, Stemworm Syringe, Blowworm Syringe, Astral Pellets - See Underworld

Rubber Ducky - See Underworld

Neuro-Training Weaponry 18 (Blue Dust), Shielding 19 (Pearly Gate), Equipment 12, Leadership 2 (Enchromas)

Serpica
Adonis Energy Z Blueprint Item: Adonis Energybank Z, Metal: 500, Manhours: 9000, Maximum Workforce: 1, Initial Cost: 100000, Periodic Materials: 7 Adonis Energybank, Periodic Cost: 400000, Size: 1, Tech 9

Adonis Protector Z Blueprint Item: Adonis Protector Z, Metal: 500, Manhours: 9000, Maximum Workforce: 1, Initial Cost: 100000, Periodic Materials: 7 Adonis Protector, Periodic Cost: 400000, Size: 1, Tech 9

Qafir Drone Blueprint Item: Qafir Drone, Metal: 1000, Manhours: 5000, Initial Materials: 1000 Microchips, Size: 10, Tech 10

Oracle Are you experienced? Size: 20, Tech 0

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Star Sonata/Skills

As with many RPGs out there, Star Sonata has an experience point system that gives a set number of skill points per level. Each 1000xp a character gains nets them another level which in turn gives them 5 skill points to play with. Every 20 levels means 100 more skill points. With that large amount, it's a bit overwhelming of where to put these points to good use, not to mention trying to figure out where each skill can be found. This guide hopefully will help in this regard.

Primary Skills
These skills make up the foundation of any Star Sonata Character, for without them they could not equip any items (excepting Tech 0 ones, of course, in many cases). For this is what the definition of a primary skill is; it allows the character to equip or use higher tech items.

 * Piloting                       - Ability to pilot a ship of a given level
 * Weaponry                       - Use weapons of a given level
 * Shielding                      - Use shields of a given level
 * Engine                         - Use engines of a given level
 * Radar                          - Use radar of a given level
 * Cloaking                       - Use cloaking devices of a given level
 * Electrical Engineering (Energy) - Use energy generators of a given level
 * Equipment (Items)              - Use general equipment of a given level
 * Tractoring                     - Use tractor beams of a given level

These skills above all require the same number of skill points as the skill level you are putting them towards. That means to get say Piloting 1, you would need only 1 skill point, but for Piloting 9, you would need 9 skill points.

 * Drone Deployment               - Use drones of a given level
 * Station Management             - Use base kits and base items of a given level

These two skills also work on the same skill point principle as the ones above, but these have 'slots' that using drones and base kits use up, respectively. You can use drones/kits of any tech level up to and including your skill level in DD/SM. For how many slots that each use, only things known so far is that you can use double your skill level in Tech 0 drones/kits and only 6 of the tech level equal to yours (Such as using only 6 Tech 9 bases at SM 9). Remote Control works on nearly the same principles.

Secondary Skills
These skills represent a choice in the style of play. Some like to major in building bases, others want to PvP and still others want to just kill AI ships. This set allows characters to be different than the others, for taking a skill here limits the choices in the other secondary skills available. At the start, there are five choices. For the most part, each modifies (a) statistic(s) of the character, much like augmenters do.

 * 1st Tier
 * Fighter Ace    - +2% Agility, +2% Thrust +1% Firing Rate per level for light fighters, +2% Agility, +2% Thrust per level for other ships
 * Berserker      - +5% Shield Max, +3% Shield Recharge, -1.5% Speed per level for heavy fighters, +4% Shield Max, +2% Shield Recharge, -1% Speed per level for other ships
 * Slave Mastery  - +2% to all slave statistics per level
 * Station Mastery - +2% to all base and drone statistics per level
 * Merchant       - +9% Capacity, +1% Thrust, +1% Turning per level to freighters, +6% Capacity, +1% Thrust, +1% Turning per level to capital ships, +4% Capacity per level to heavy fighters, +2% capacity per level to light fighters

You can take up to two 1st Tier secondary skills. However, once you choose one you can leave it at that and have access to the 2nd Tier secondary skill linked to it or you can choose another 1st Tier that is either above or below your first choice (Merchant having Fighter Ace as the below) have access to a specific 3rd Tier secondary skill.

 * 2nd Tier
 * Speed Demon    - +3% speed, +3% firing, +10% docking speed per level
 * Multifiring    - Allows user to fire one more same weapon at same time per skill level
 * Radiation Expert- +15% to Radiation Weapons per level
 * Colonial Admin. - +4% Suitability for colonies per level
 * Fleet Master   - +15% capacity on slaves per level

The skills listed here are in order of what 1st Tier has access to. So for example Multifiring requires a player to have ONLY Berserker as a secondary skill.

 * 3rd Tier
 * Sniper         - +7% Damage, +5% Recoil, +2% Range, +3% Tracking per level
 * - Fighter Ace and Berserker required

 * Seer           - +50% radar for ship and base per level
 * - Berserker and Slave Mastery required

 * Drone Mastery  - +2% to all drone and station statistics per level
 * - Slave Mastery and Station Mastery required

 * Extract. Expert - +7.3% rate of extraction of resources per level
 * - Station Mastery and Merchant required

 * Shield Monkey  - +6% Shield Max, +6% Shield Recharge, +1.5% to transference weapons
 * - Merchant and Fighter Ace required

Tertiary Skills
These are the skills that modify a certain item or another skill's stats. They aren't required for any item or skill, but are helpful when invested in.

 * Leadership               - Allows character to create a team
 * War Mongering            - Allows director of team to declare war on another team
 * Crazy Glue               - 2% per level chance of not consumeing your GG when you die.
 * Astral Injection         - Ability to add augs to drones.
 * Historical Records       - Increases life of blackboxes
 * Astral Travel            - Allows autopilot through skill level number of galaxies
 * Mining Efficiency        - Increases the amount of materials dropped when an astroid is destroyed.
 * Mining Power             - Increases the mining damge to astroids.
 * Glory                    - Increases team score for Glory category
 * Piracy                   - Increases chance of items dropping from killed ships
 * Tractor Power            - Increases strength of tractor beams by 5%
 * Tractor Range            - Increases reach of tractor beams by 5%
 * Tractor Efficiency       - Decreases electrical usage of tractor beams by 5%
 * Programming              - Increases number of commands for slaves by 2 per level
 * Warp Navigation	        - Allows warp through Warp 1 - 4, depending on level
 * Remote Control	        - Allows use of controlbot to create slave ships
 * Titanium Foot            - Increases thrust by 3%
 * Space Time Corner Warping - Increases Agility by 3%

Warp 3 Galaxies

 * The End of the Universe
 * 20 Electrical Engineering    (requires 3 Conclusion Icicles)
 * Rumble Mumble
 * 20 Piloting                  (requires 25 Green Knobs
 * 4 War Mongering              (requires 10 Green Knobs/ lvl 3 Leadership)
 * Rumble 3
 * 19 Piloting                  (requires 20 Chrome Knobs
 * 3 War Mongering              (requires 10 Chrome Knobs/ lvl 2 Leadership)
 * Biologique
 * 20 Station Management        (requires 1 Microbes Amoureuse)

Note: random AI stations have primary skill level max of 14 Note 2: Conclusion Icicles are dropped by Forgones

Warp 2 Galaxies
Note: random AI stations have primary skill level max of 12

 * Rumble 2
 * 16 Piloting (requires 25 Grammies)
 * 2 War Mongering (requires 10 Grammies & lvl 2 Leadership)

 * Prism
 * 15 Remote Control (requires 1 Blue Vapor)
 * 12 Drone Deployment (requires 1 Solar Cleansings
 * 9 Station Management (requires 5 Promethium)

 * Bipolar
 * 8 Tractoring
 * 14 Piracy (requires 1 Rosemary Sprig)
 * 14 Tractoring (requires 1 Blue Dust)
 * 17 Equipment (requires 5 Ablution Crystals)

Warp 1 Galaxies
- random AI stations have primary skill level max of 10

Warp 0 Galaxies
- random AI stations have primary skill level max of 8

Glass Matrix           - 1 Leadership                  |

Sol                    - 3 Drone Deployment            | - 1 Warp Navigation            | requires 1 Blue Aether - 3 Station Management         | - 1 Leadership                 | - 100 Astral Travel            | - 1 Quilting                   | requires 1 Aqua Nuzzle | requires lvl1 in Leadership - 50 Glory                     |

Free Market            - 3 Drone Deployment            | - 1 Warp Navigation            | requires 1 Blue Aether - 3 Station Management         | - 1 Leadership                 | - 100 Astral Travel            | - 50 Glory                     | - 20 Slave Mastery             | Special requirements* - 20 Drone Mastery             | Special requirements* - 20 Station Mastery           | Special requirements* - 20 Radiation Expert          | Special requirements* - 20 Extraction Expert         | Special requirements* - 20 Colonial Administrator    | Special requirements* - 20 Seer                      | Special requirements*

Ring                   - 3 Cloaking                    | - 1 Piracy                     | - 1 Historical Records         | - 100 Astral Travel            | - 2 Mining Efficiency          | - 2 Mining Power               |

Special Galaxies
(ones that are in the pinkish-purple wormholes)

Hyper - 18 Weaponry                  | requires 1 Blue Dust - 19 Shielding                 | requires 1 Pearly Gate - 12 Equipment                 | - 2 Leadership                 | requires 1 Enchromas - 5 Astral Injection           | requires 1 Basil Bouqet - 1 Station Research           | requires 1 Adonis Crest - 9 Station Tweaking           | requires 1 Adonis Crest

Nihilite - 19 Weaponry                  | requires 3000 Promethium - 15 Shielding                 | - 18 Engine                    | requires 1 Space Boomerang - 18 Electrical Engineering    | requires 1 Sputter Nutter - 3 Astral Injection           | requires 1 Enchromas - 3 Titanium Foot              | requires 3 Gold Bars

Underworld - 18 Shielding                 | requires 1 Space Boomerangs - 15 Cloaking                  | requires 1 Gabriel's Neurolich - 5 Space Time Corner Warping  | requires 5 Gold Bars - 25 Crazy Glue                | requires 1 Gold Bar

Warp ?? Galaxies
(I do not know yet where to put them since they tend to switch warp numbers each uni)

Rumble                 - 12 Piloting                   | requires 25 Fly Wings - 1 War Mongering              | requires lvl2 Leadership

Steppes                - 16 Drone Deployment           | requires 1 Quu Drone - 8 Drone Mastery              | requires lvl1 in Slave Mastery

Ruby Steppes           - 17 Engine                     | - 20 Drone Deployment          | requires 1 Qafir Drone - 3 Warp Navigation            | requires 1 Light Nuzzle - 16 Station Management        | requires 1 Aqua Nuzzle - 2 Astral Injection           |

Absolution             - 16 Weaponry                   | requires 1 Blue Vapor - 12 Station Management        | requires 8 Promethium - 7 Piracy                     | requires 1 Basil Bouquet

Labyrinth              - 8 Piloting                    | requires 1 Goblet - 1 Astral Injection           | requires 1 Goblet - 10 Historical Records	       |

Shadow                 - 11 Radar                      | requires 1 Kromatico

Lavanite               - 8 Equipment                   | - 8 Remote Control             | - 2 Warp Navigation            | requires 1 Goblet

Handel's Cove          - 16 Radar                      | requires 1 Kromatico - 16 Electrical Engineering    | requires 1 Kromelite - 2 warp Navigation            | requires 1 Vortex Pellet - 16 Station Management        | requires 2 Ariadnites - 2 Piracy                     |

Empathy Field          - 10 Tractoring                 | - 14 Tractor Power             | requires 1 Carbon Heart | requires lvl5 in Tractoring - 14 Tractor Range             | requires 1 Carbon Heart | requires lvl5 in Tractoring - 14 Tractor Efficiency        | requires 1 Carbon Heart | requires lvl5 in Tractoring

XYZ                    - 10 Equipment                  |

Lunacy                 - 1 Leadership                  |

 * Look in the section for Secondary Skills

Level Titles

 * 0 - ??     Mostly Harmless
 * 400 - ??   Maestro

Credit
This is a GrimSweeper's production, copyright of 2005/2006. Email him at tempmail_night@yahoo.ca

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Star Sonata/Bases

Bases in Star Sonata are a solid investment in acquiring five things. These things are: Points for your team score, Profit from trade routes and/or colonies, Rare Ruin Items from a colony, building certain blueprints, and/or ultimately a claim to Emporerhood. Unfortunately, most of these ventures require a large amount of money to start before they are ready to produce for you.

Skills required
The most important skill needed for bases is Station Management. This increases the number of bases you can build plus allows access to bigger bases at level 3, 6, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Presently, Station Management can be found in these locations...

Sol          to 3  for no items. Prism        to 9  for 5 Promethium each level. Absolution   to 12 for 8 Promethium each level. Ruby Steppes to 16 for 1 Aqua Nuzzle each level. Handel's Cove to 16 for 2 Ariadnites each level. Biologique   to 20 for 1 Microbes Amoureuse each level.

Each skill level needs 1 point plus the present skill level that your character is at. The number of allowed stations are determined by the tech level of the station being built and the Station Management level. The only thing clear about these station slots are that you can build only 6 bases of the same tech level as your Station Management. For example, you can build only 6 Tech 9 bases at SM 9 and only 6 Tech 12 bases at SM 12.

Next important skills are those that allow you to equip better items onto your base. Weapons, Shields, and Radar are the primary skills for keeping your base well-defended from attacks while Items will reduce the damage plus a myriad of other useful things. These need as well 1 point plus the present skill level of your character to upgrade. Recommended skill levels are Weapons 9+, Shields 9+, Radar 7+, Items 10+. It is possible to keep a base defended with less than those skill levels.

There are a few specialist skills available for use to a base builder.

The first is called Station Mastery. This skill increases by 5% per level the shield, energy, damage, shield recharge, energy recharge, capacity, tracking, firing rate, radar, range and cloaking of every base that you build uncompounded. Free Market galaxy has a station to learn this skill up to 20 for 5 skill points. If you take Station Mastery, you will not be able to learn Beserker or Fighter Ace (and any secondary skills related to those two). However, this skill can either open up Colonial Administrator or Extraction Expert with Merchant.

The second is called Extraction Expert. This skill increases the speed of acquiring resources from collectors. To be put simply, you will get commodities faster. You will need Station Mastery 1 and Merchant 1 in order to start on this secondary path. The place to learn it changes with every universe, but it will always be at a base in an AI protected galaxy.

The last is called Colonial Administrator. This skill increases suitability of a colony you own by 4% per level. It has been confirmed that suitability does increase past 100%. What this skill does is increase the growth rate and the colony peasant prices (3 credits more per % suitability) relative to new percentage. Again, this skill can be found in Free Market for 10 skill points up to a maximum of 20. You will need Station Mastery 1.

In order to increase Extraction Expert or Colonial Administrator, the prerequisites (Station Mastery and Merchant, or just Station Mastery) must be half of the level of these two. Which means, in order to have Extraction Expert of 6, Station Mastery and Merchant must be each at level 3. However, any rounding is down, so this means you only need Station Mastery of 2 in order to get Colonial Administrator of 5.

Important notes about bases in general
Do not put up a base in a protected galaxy of any kind. AI-protected galaxies will shoot you and your base on sight, causing grief and potential loss of ship and money. In Player-protected galaxies, the team that owns that galaxy will shoot you, whether it be their base, their drones, or their ships.

Get some sort of defense on or around a newly built base as soon as possible. There are aggressive AI ships who love to kill bases before anything can be done with them. Or keep a friend around to intercept those ships before the base shields go down.

A base tech level determines the maximum level of technology that can be equipped on that base. You may have Weapons 12, but you will not be able to equip a Crimson Fist (tech 12) on a Tech 9 station. Other than using the low-end tech upgrades or some higher ruin base tech upgrades, there is no way to increase this tech level limit. Please note that this does not affect blueprints; they fall underneath an entirely different category based on player's Station Management skill levels.

Placeing a Stationary base
This is the easier of the two bases to start, but there is hardly any profit to be had from this type aside from selling augmenters, ruin items, mining, and finished products from attached bases. To drop a base, all you have to do is find a clear spot of space and double click the Station item. It will then drop from the center of your ship which is now available to you can enter it and add equipment. This means you cannot drop a base on top of any galaxial object which includes suns, planets, moons, wormholes and possibly other ships. Secret Caches seem to be the exception; they can be dropped wherever which makes them useful to skip through the Steppes galaxies Warp Drone-guarded wormholes.

Placeing an Attached base
The other type requires a planet or a moon to be able to place it. Match speeds with the object you have selected and be at the edge of it. You must physically target the planet or moon before you can drop the base onto it. Then it is a simple double click of the Station item and your base is ready for you to go in.

Inside a base
There are several tabs inside a base. Most you will be familiar with: the General, Ships, Bulletin Board and Commodities Record tabs. If the Base has a Trading Post equipped, there will be a Trade tab like any AI base out there. However, there are three more tabs unaccounted for: Control, Items and Construction (though I will go into more depth with construction later).

Control is the central hub of a player-owned base, where the controls for it are kept. There are several buttons here: Add trade goods..., Set Name, Set Description, Set as Team Base/Remove Team, Transfer Money to Ship, and Transfer Money to Base. The name and description buttons are pretty straight-forward, type in what you wish to call the base and the words that people will see when they first dock respectively. The two Transfer Money... buttons are very straight-forward; click and specify the amount to put on or take off the base.

The Add Trade Goods button is a somewhat difficult thing to use just starting out your first base. Clicking of this button results in a list being generated; all items that can be bought and sold. It is organized by type of item, with Weapons first and then Commodity. We will concentrate on Commodities as this will be the most used part of the list. Select the item you wish to modify prices for by double-clicking on it. This will bring up a menu of four selections: Buy Price, Sell Price, Buy Max, and Sell Limit. The Buy Price is the number you will see underneath Sell in the Trade Tab and the Sell Price is the number you will underneath Buy. Buy Max is the limit of how much of that item you wish your base to have inside, and Sell Limit is the number of items that will not be sold. Take for example Rations. On a colony planet, you will set it to say 10 for the Sell Price, 10 for the Buy Price (if it doesn't produce any rations on it's own), 10 000 as the Buy Max and 600 as the Sell Limit. This means the colony will buy the rations at 10 credits, while the base itself will purchase rations at 10 credits from other ships (most notably, slaves). It will continue to buy rations until it hits the upper limit of 10 000 and will not sell any rations if the number of rations drops to 600.

Docking Privileges are set here as well to either All (anyone can dock, including AI), Team (Anyone on your team can dock) and You (and only you; slaves are not included). It will also show you the Shield strength, Energy strength, Space used and maximum allowed, Workers currently used and number on the base, Credits on the base, the Tech level of the station and a record of recent events that shows what has happened in and to your base.

The Items tab is where the items you transferred over from your ships are located. Any and all items will be found here, whether it is just a simple commodity or a weighty Shield generator. Equipped items are marked with an X.

Outfitting your base (Starting out)
The bare minimum of a survivable base is a regenerating shield, a energy source, items that will increase space of the base, rations and workers. Right now, 1 worker is required for each equipped item on base. However, these workers will not work without food, so you have to feed them .6 rations an hour per worker. Of course, to fit everything onto the base, you will need space-increasing items. Hull Expansion-type items could be used, but only one can be equipped at a time. Newly-started bases can construct station expansion units right off the bat for only 30 metals, but they only increase space by only 100. Other space-expansion items are available to construct, but we'll go into more detail later on in this FAQ.

For Stationary Bases, this is pretty much all you need to start out. As for Attached bases, they can be connected to a planetary object with natural resources to be exploited. In order to get at those resources, you need to equip base items related to it (IE. Metal Drills to get Metals). You will also need additional space in order to store the acquired material.

In order to trade items on that base, it will need to equip a Trading Bay, the other construction blueprint that a new base starts with. Thus players docked at that base will be able to see the Trade tab and any allowed items bought and sold at your station.

Recommended ships to use
To get everything on site quickly, a ship will need a lot of space to hold everything needed to start a base and defend it. The big freighter ships are the ones to use: Bulk Trader, Bulk Trader II, Serenity, Massif, Gelato, Massif II, Leviathan, Thatch and Behemoth. Smaller ships can be used if speed is not required, but only if they have the space available to load a Station kit onto it.

If you have a high enough Remote Control skill level, then all you need is space for the base kit and load up freighter-class ships with the necessary materials and equipment that will follow you to the location of the base construction site.

What can be equipped
Bases can have as many station extensions as there are workers to keep them running. However, they are limited in other items. They have the same item restrictions as ships do: Only one equipped energy generator, one shield, one hull extension, etc. All stations can equip up to six augmenters; weapon limit haven't been fully tried yet. The energy generator, shield, weapons, radar, and certain items also require one worker each.

Construction
This is the third and last tab that does not appear in AI stations. This is the place where blueprints installed on the station can be built. Any player-station always has two blueprints already installed in the Construction tab: Trading Bay and Station Expansion Unit. These two are the bare minimum you need for any station to trade with others and to expand. Other blueprints can be either bought at AI stations under the Base Item tab in the Trade Tab or found from DG bosses.

Any blueprint you place on your base will first be found in the Item tab. In order to install it and be shown in the Construction tab, you will have to double-click it or right-click and hit Use. Then it will disappear from the Item list and reappear as a selection in the Construction list. The only limit on the tech level of the blueprint that can be installed is the skill level of your Station Management.

In the Construction list, it will display the name of the item that can be constructed from the blueprint, the amount of metals required for it and the manhours needed to complete building the item. Any other material needed for building will NOT be shown here, and will only be asked for when you attempt to start building the item. Manhours is units of time needed for one worker to complete the item. These units of time come every 10 seconds, so an Extension X blueprint would require 10 000 seconds (2 hours and 47 minutes) to complete if only one worker was available.

Construction items fall under two categories. Blueprints that only need materials all at once at the beginning and blueprints that require cash and metals to start initially, then require credits as it progresses towards completion along with possibly other materials.

Double-clicking a construction item will either display a red warning message telling you require something (metals, other materials not shown in the list) or start building in the In Progress Window. This window shows the item name, whether it is still building or on hold, and the percent completed. If there is no restriction on the number of workers for that item, construction will use all available workers (any worker that isn't being used to power an equipped item) to complete every single item that has been initiated.

Once construction has been finished on an item, the event window in the Control tab will display that it has been completed. The newly constructed item will be placed in the Item tab. If there isn't any room for the item while it is still being constructed, it will freeze at whatever percent it has completed until space has been made.

If you wish to calculate the time, all you have to do is take the number of manhours and multiply it by 6. This gets you the number of minutes for one worker to complete the item. If there is a max number of workers allowed, then use it for the next part; otherwise just use the number of workers available on the base. Take whatever number of minutes you found out previous and then divide that by the worker number to find out how many minutes for your base to construct the item.

Resources on planets and moons
This is where the Attached Stations shine. Depending on the resource available, it will provide profit or construction material to build more items. Yet in order to find out what is on that planet or moon, you will need to scan it with a planetscanner. This device will tell you what resources there is, in what abundance, any ruins on it, and a crude three-type suitability (which I will talk about later on) of the planetary object.

The adundance of the resource is what gives you the upper limit of Drills/Extractors/Collectors/Treecutters/Harvesters that can be equipped at one time on the planet. Here is an INCOMPLETE list: Code:

Smidgen.........1 - 2 Little..........3 - 4 Bit.............5 - 8 Bunch...........9 - 16 A lot...........17 - 32 Plenty..........33 - 64 Loads...........65 - 128

This universe from 1.0.03 on has reduced the resource abundance of planets while increasing the number of planets throughout. This means people are either forced to take Extraction Expert or spread out their bases more. Non-random galaxies, ones that do not change from universe to universe, will have the same abundance values as ever.

Resources found on planets range from none to as many as three or four; moons only none to two. The common ones will be found randomly throughout the SS universe. The special resources are found in only one galaxy each along with their respective extractor. These are the common resources:

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Planets can have... Moons can have...  Space Oats          Silicon Silicon            Metals Metals             Nuclear Waste Nuclear Waste Baobabs

Suitability
There are three variables that determine suitability of a planet. They are Gravity, Temperature, and Atmosphere. So far, there are only 3 differences in each variable in which the medium type is always the best. The three types ranked from high to low are...

Gravity can be either Heavy, Normal, or Low. Temperature can be either Blistering, Temperate, or Frozen. Atmosphere can be either Gaseous, Terran, or Noxious.

High is 50%, Medium is 100% and Low is 75%. In order to calculate the suitability of a planet, one must multiply all three percentages together. So a Low Gravity, Frozen, Gaseous planet would be 0.75 X 0.75 X 0.5 = 28% suitability. Here's a chart showing all the percentages allowable ranked from highest to lowest. Code:

Suitability       First       Second       Third

100%             Medium       Medium       Medium 75%              Medium       Medium       Low 56%              Medium       Low          Low 50%              Medium       Medium       High 42%              Low          Low          Low 38%              Medium       Low          High 28%              Low          Low          High 25%              Medium       High         High 19%              Low          High         High 13%              High         High         High

Suitability has absolutely no impact on non-colony bases. Thus the only way to confirm the percentages is to actually build a colony on that planet.

The size of the planet determines what the Gravity will be. As comparison, Low has about a 3cm diameter, Normal about 4cm, and Heavy has about a 5cm diameter. It is fairly hard to distinguish between a Normal gravity and a Heavy gravity planet from the targetting interface as they both are the same size in that small window. However, once you have them on radar it becomes much easier to distinguish the two.

The colour and the make-up of a planet determines the other two characteristics. As a general rule, reddish type planets are Blistering while white or blue are more Frozen; Temperate being somewhere in between with brown and/or green colouring. Noxious tend to be clouded with greyish or brownish (think bleh) colours, while Gaseous are much like Jupiter in the real life. The problem with identifying certain elements of these two characteristics is that they are very much entwined; a planet will have a certain 'look' to it. A Temperate Noxious planet will look very different than a Blistering Noxious one.

What to look for in a good galaxy
In order to start without too much preparation beforehand is a metals planet or moon, a Lot or better. This way the common blueprints can be used to construct extensions and equipment for Tech 9 stations fairly quickly. Next thing that is very important to have is a Space Oat planet. A Smidgen can support a couple of small non-colony bases, but you will need more if you wish to have more bases and colonies maintained. Once these two bases are built, then exploitation of the galaxy can begin. Please note that this doesn't take into account Extraction Expert; you don't need to worry about abundance of resources as much with that skill.

Metals can be bought from AI stations if there isn't any planet with metals that you want to build a base on. However, random AI stations do start in a new universe with NO metals being sold; only certain non-random AI stations will supply at that point. Sources of food can also be bought; ration selling AI stations being the same way as metal selling AI stations but there is another way of obtaining food: Peasants. There is a base item called a Mobile Cannery that will chop up 20 peasants at a time into 10 rations for no cost. Just calculate the number of rations needed to keep a base alive and double that number to find how many peasants you need.

Once you have the foundation down, you will want to look for ways of making profit. Metals are a good starter as you already should have one base on that resource. Nuclear Waste is the next step up, selling for about two or three times more than Metals in an AI base. Silicon can range from bad to the ultimate in cash-making. They can produce Silicon alone, Microchips (slightly better than Metals), Workers (comparable to Nuclear Waste) and Crack Whores (starting at around 950 or so). However to make Silicon the best the start-up cost can be quite expensive; Crack Houses or Crack Dens are sold at 500 000c and 1 000 000c respectively. The last, Baobabs, is only bought at AI stations at it's lowest price. This means it's value only shoots up when colonies come into play.

You may want to look for a highly suitable planet as well. The best ones are those closest to Earth type: Normal Gravity, Temperate, Terran. Colonies built on these planets will quickly increase in population relative to the other suitability percentages. The higher the suitability, the better prices the colony has and the faster it grows, which also expands the maximum amount of commodities it can buy up at one time.

Last thing you should be thinking of looking for is ruins. They provide items to buy, if you set up a colony on that planet. They can be quite expensive to get, but well worth the investment if it is something like Faranji 7 Energy or Vazaha Protector 5. More on ruins later on.

Maintaining your base
In order to keep a station alive, better equipment should be used other than the starting equipment you placed there. For Tech 9 stations, this is easily fixed by building Adonis gear. For lower tech stations, other ways must be used. However augmenters that increase shield capacity and recharge are vital for those stations to survive the onslaught of AIs; their shields do not have enough capacity for it's weapons to kill those ships quickly enough.

Slaveship ration runners could be used to keep a steady stream of rations to a Space Oat-less station, though these are weak links for a marauding pirate to destroy. For this blow to be less destructive, consider setting the limit of rations stored on base to one that will keep the base running at least 24 hours. That way (if you play daily) you can rectify the ration problem before workers go on strike and unequip everything.

With any commodity producing base, you might run into the problems of excess. When space runs out, rations shipped to that base may not be sold there; this runs the risk of letting rations hitting 0 if left too long. Other slave ships are handy in getting rid of that excess by selling it to AI stations, giving you some profit. Another solution is to check on the base daily and transport/toss the excess commodities yourself.

If a base's workers ever go on strike, they will not work. This means every piece of equipment requiring a worker is unequipped and construction is stopped. This is due to the workers not having any rations to eat. If the base is still around when you see that (the base graphic will be the same one as when you first placed it), just dock with rations in your cargo. When it comes time for the workers to eat, dependent on how many are on that base, they will take a ration from your ship's cargo and become ready to work once more. You will then be allowed to re-equip everything that was unequipped before.

Colonies
There are a few common blueprints that allow the construction of a colony on an attached base. To build it, you will need (depending on the blueprint type) several thousand rations and peasants. The number of peasants required is how many will be placed on the colony initially when it is built. Once this is built, a new tab called Colony is now part of the Station interface. In this tab, it will show you the current population and if it is increasing or decreasing in number from birth/death. Underneath that indicator is another for rations; current number to max. So far, colonies eat between 600-700 rations every hour, depending on the suitability percentage. Lastly, underneath that is the suitability rating for the colony, the only way to confirm your visual/planet scan.

Also on this tab is the colony market, displaying the prices of commodities. On ruins planets, this will also display any available item that is part of that ruin and it's price. In order to sell anything to a colony, the sell price in the Trade tab will have to be a bit lower than the colony's price. And vice versa, to buy the Trade buy price must be higher than the colony's. Items will be bought and sold during at the end of the hour period. The prices are determined by the suitability of the planet; the higher the percentage, the higher the prices are.

This hour period is the stage in time that the colony 'refreshes' itself. After sixty minutes the colony will then eat up several hundred rations and also 'use' up 10% of any other commodity except for Peasants. In order to replenish its stock, the colony will buy up as much commodities as it's population limits it to.

Peasants are the lifeblood of a colony. If you sell them to it, it will increase the population maximum by as much peasants as you have dumped and have set the price for. Right now, population growth is overall very weak so the only fast way of jumpstarting colonies is to buy up as many peasants as possible and dump them into the item bay. Doing this and using a Starter Colony Blueprint is actually less expensive than using a basic or a large colony blueprint.

Once you've decided that you want to make a colony, be sure to see what speed the planet is moving at and if there is an AI station nearby. The slower moving ones can be docked with by freighter-class easily so moving goods in bulk is no problem. An AI station is required to 'pump' the population higher with peasants. Generally, you will be buying at a loss; random AI bases are hardcoded to have the price to buy at 250 at the beginning of the universe and no lower and all but 100%+ planets will buy these peasants at a lower price. Colonies have no limit as to the peasants it can buy up, so the more you can squeeze on to a base an hour and the faster you can transport them the better. This is a strategy that the major teams try to pull off the first few days of a new universe, since they have the funds to support the high expense.

Ruins
There are four types of ruins: Bule, Mzungu, Vazaha, and Faranji. Planets that have ruins on them are indicated in the planetary scan within the resource list. They are distributed completely at random throughout the universe when it resets. The items found on a planet can only be 'uncovered' by a colony and then bought from them for a usually ridiculously high price. These ruin items are not available right off the initial construction of a colony; they must be excavated first. The colony will do this for you and will have them in their market in many 'years' time. As long as a colony is alive, it will continue to excavate items for their market at a fixed rate.

*update*
Colonies will not stockpile items, it seems. There is rather a 'pool' wait time for ruin items rather than a separate wait time for each different ruin item. So at the point of sale of one, the colony checks the available ruin item list from top to bottom to see if one is available and then checks whether the base is buying and has enough money on hand. This availability is determined, it seems, by either the price or the tech of the item. What this means is that if you are trying to extract one certain type, only have the base buying that and no other ruin item. Otherwise the colony will buy the topmost first up to the buy limit before attempting to buy any others lower on the list.

The number of items found from a ruins planet are random, but only 2 to 5 different items can be found on one planet per ruin. The price will always be the same no matter the planet suitability, population, planet, etc. To extract an item from the colony, one must set the buy price in the Add trade goods... section as something equal to or higher than the listed cost in the colony tab. In most cases, it would be a good idea to have a limit of 1 set so that the colony will not go overboard in extracting the exact same thing. The colony will not extract the ruin item until the refresh period occurs and then only if there is enough cash on the base.

These items vary in usefulness and in price. A list of them along with their stats has been made by DeathWarmedOver in the Help Forum of the StarSonata website (the other stickied thread).

This is a GrimSweeper's production, copyright of 2005/2006. Email him at tempmail_night@yahoo.ca

 * note* most of the galaxys get taken early in the universe, so you have to be quick, and be on in the first hour or so of the universe.Demiser of D*

title: Star Sonata/Bases