Captured Thargons OXP

Overview

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The latest development from the labs of the Aquarian Shipbuilding Corporation, building on their success with the Drones series of robot fighters. They have now succeeded in directly reprogramming alien Thargon fighters, allowing their useage by any ship.

The control unit mounts on a ships weapons pylon, and is triggered in the usual way. One it is done the linked reprogrammed Thargon robot fighters deploy and seek out any hostile or alien targets in range and ruthlessly engage them. Once combat has concluded, any remaining fighters return to their mother ship for collection using the fuel scoops.

This upgrade is available from any system of tech level 12 or above, and requires an empty weapons pylon and fuel scoops fitted to the ship. Any Thargons lost or destroyed can be replaced at a similar tech level location.

Warranty

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Please note that this item does not allow control over normal Thargons, which will remain hostile to anything non-Thargoid in nature. Whilst every effort has been made in their reprogramming, glitches cannot be entirely ruled out, and the responsibility for any kills made by the fighters remains firmly with the purchaser.

As these ships are robotic in nature, any kills and ensuing bounty they earn is also accredited to their legal owner and their craft.

Requirements

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This OXP requires at least test version 1.72 of Oolite.

Download

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Captured Thargons v1.00 can be downloaded from my webspace by clicking on the link.

Links

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• Thargoid's OXP page.
• Table of all OXPs.

Acknowledgements

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• The AI for the captured Thargons is based on the privateEscortAI from UPS Courier by Eric Walch.
• Thanks to Screet for beta-testing and ideas.