Praecursor
Solarian pathfinder cruiser. Built to chart the deep unknown and survive the trip back.
General
| Category | Exploration |
| Class | Pathfinder |
| Faction | Solarian |
| Tier | 4 |
Requirements
| Piloting Skill | 30 |
Statistics
| Hull | 850 |
| Armor | 32 |
| Shield | 500 |
| Shield Recharge | 8/t |
| Speed | 2 AU/t |
| Fuel Capacity | 1100 |
| Cargo Capacity | 290 |
Slots
| Weapon Slots | 2 |
| Defense Slots | 3 |
| Utility Slots | 7 |
Capacity
| Power Capacity | 180 |
| CPU Capacity | 80 |
Economy
| Price | 115000 cr |
| Build Time | 11400 ticks |
| Shipyard Tier | 3 |
Lore
Solarian pathfinder doctrine measures success in margins: percent of fuel reserve unspent on arrival, percent of bearings within drift tolerance, percent of refined fuel that hits the tank rather than venting to vacuum. The Praecursor is the hull built to those margins. The pathfinder drive plots galactic bearings with confidence intervals attached to every heading; the integrated gas harvester feeds a hydrogen burner that drips fuel directly into the tank; the eleven-hundred-unit reserve is sized so that even a wasted refining stage still gets a careful pilot home. Pathfinder Corps certification on a Praecursor takes four years of simulator hours and a real-coordinates qualifying drift the Corps does not publish details of. The Bureau of Deep Survey reports the casualty rate annually and considers any year under three percent a success.
Flavor Tags
Default Modules
| Module |
|---|
| Pathfinder Drive |
| Survey Scanner II |
| Gas Harvester IV |
| Onboard Hydrogen Refinery |
| Expanded Fuel Tank |
| Shield Booster III |
| Pulse Laser III |
| Pulse Laser III |
Inherent Capabilities
| Capability | Value |
|---|---|
| Anomaly Detection | ✓ |
Build Materials
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Navigation Core | 105 |
| Solarian Logic Matrix | 4 |
| Copper Wiring | 180 |
| Processing Core | 30 |
| Sensor Array | 150 |
| Power Distribution Grid | 3 |
| Circuit Board | 100 |
| Hull Plating | 55 |
| Capital Ship Frame | 9 |
| Sensor Cluster | 4 |
| Solarian Legacy Alloy | 8 |
| Thruster Assembly | 3 |
| Fuel Tank | 90 |
| Titanium Alloy | 390 |
| Solarian Composite | 32 |
| Shield Emitter | 85 |
| Navigation Array | 4 |
| Station Reactor Core | 5 |
| Precision Optic | 12 |
| Durasteel Plate | 60 |
Construction
| Base Material | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Aluminum Ore | 13071 |
| Carbon Ore | 1440 |
| Cobalt Ore | 12 |
| Copper Ore | 1147 |
| Energy Crystal | 1870 |
| Fluorine Gas | 2185 |
| Helium Ice | 100 |
| Hydrogen Gas | 720 |
| Ion Gas | 36 |
| Iridium Ore | 204 |
| Iron Ore | 6253 |
| Krypton Gas | 542 |
| Lead Ore | 25 |
| Legacy Ore | 32 |
| Neon Gas | 542 |
| Nickel Ore | 1765 |
| Nitrogen Ice | 425 |
| Palladium Ore | 1337 |
| Platinum Ore | 309 |
| Polonium Ore | 25 |
| Silicon Ore | 2216 |
| Silver Ore | 1596 |
| Sol Alloy Ore | 144 |
| Thorium Ore | 2700 |
| Titanium Ore | 2763 |
| Tritium Ice | 600 |
| Tungsten Ore | 4155 |
| Uranium Ore | 2482 |
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