You may not take off from a Planet if there is no Hull installed on your Ship screen.Ī ship's Hull defines several of its most important properties. Removing a Hull from a ship also removes all equipment currently attached to it, leaving an empty Ship Screen to insert a new Hull. A Hull can be stored in Planetary Storage, or even carried inside another Hull (space permitting). They cannot be dropped by destroyed enemies. Hulls can only be purchased on Inhabited Planets. Hulls manufactured by different Races, at a different Tech Level, belonging to different design types and Series, as well as Acrynic-imbued hulls manufactured by Pirates, can have very different properties. Different Hulls may also have (or lack) an Afterburner.Īll of these properties are determined based on several randomly-selected categories that a specific Hull belongs to, along with some randomality applied when the Hull is first created. Thus, larger Hulls are always slower when flying in normal space compared to smaller hulls, assuming the same Engine. The more equipment slots a Hull has, the more functionality it can support.īeyond these basic properties, each Hull has inherent resistance to damage, which is expressed with four separate values: A flat reduction of damage from any source, and (in Space Rangers HD only!) a percentage-based Susceptibility to damage from the three different types of enemy weapons (Energy, Fragmentation and Missile).įurthermore, the mass of the Hull itself - which is directly proportional to its size - is much larger than the mass of any other component you could place on it. Larger Hulls become available as the Tech Level progresses, and has a major impact on the cost and sale value of each Hull. The Hull's most basic properties are its size - which determines how much equipment and cargo it can carry - and its available equipment slots. The Hull is the first component that must be "installed" in order to allow a ship to exist at all.
This is the shell of a ship, containing only basic equipment such as life support, control consoles, internal space and outer armor - as well as space to install the components that make the ship actually do things.
All ships in Space Rangers 2 are built around a basic component called a Hull.