Human Ship Origins

[DSMK2]

Hm, been wondering this while playing Transcendence: Where do all the civilian human ships come from? I'll break down my question into some number of parts below.

• Who are the companies/corporations that manufactures the human ships we see in Commonwealth Space?
• Are they based anywhere specific? Or are they contained/built in the stations we see in-game (stations lease ship plans)?
• How are new ships transported from system to system? (If ship fabricators are not contained within stations)
• Is there any requirements needed to be able to pilot a ship? (Pilots license)
• How much does the common ship cost for a common human colonist?

Moving on... How do pirates get their ships and stations?

[Drako Slyith]

Several ships are built on Earth, such as the zulus and such. The millitary ships are built by Pacifica Drive Yards. Ships are also built by companies such as Makyev(sp?), etc. Pirates probably either steal their ships plans from stations or steal the ships themselves. They build the ships from scrap, I expect. (Hornets were military ships in the Syrtian war)

That's my best guesses, but the rest we should probably wait for George's word on.

[shanejfilomena]

(Hornets were military ships in the Syrtian war)

I am guessing they lost that war

Shipyards do exist: Ares has the most visible ones for the regular games : I am HUGE on shipyards:)
I had this same kind of questioning, just not so detailed.....so to answer it I made shipyards, repair ships, and "scavenging pilgrims"
( basically increased the # of ships you see flying around checking wrecks besides the salvagers ).

but the Main Ideal is the story line and you are right: we do need to get Official shipyards making these ships AND I would like to see a ship "up on blocks" from pirates taking parts : that would = "interesting".Too bad I am no good with the images like these Artists around here in the forums.

[Aury]

In vanilla:

Pacifica makes exclusively combat ships, and almost all the fleet's ships at that, though EI and NAMI make the CSCs
Taikon (theoretically) makes the corporate cruiser, and with the ringers makes the corporate explorers (I think because one of them has a positron lancer is why the ringers got included).
Makayev makes a lot of freighters and some combat ships (like the manticore)
EI makes a lot of freighters too, all prefixed with 'EI' and followed by numbers. (EI100). They also made the hornets for the syrtian war, but that idea was a complete flop (not enough pilots)
NAMI makes the scarab superfreighter

A lot of the actual other states tend to make their own ships, such as the sung, or ares. Some though, like the outlaws, just use cheap and commonly available ships, like the UAS ships (it is currently unknown if UAS is defunct or not; george has not gotten back to clarify that plot discontinuity)

[DSMK2]

Can I assume that enemy outlaw ships are usually older deprecated models, or ships still in production? I can see many uses for a T31 Armed Transport outside of drug trafficking. But still, how are the ships "given" to their prospective pilots?

I can now dream of having technical readouts a la Battletech style for each ship. Is there any sticky or thread that compiles the T-Universe background?

[Atarlost]

The outlaw ships are all from the defunct UAS except maybe the Meth Enforcer.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

@DSMK2: looks like I'm not the only one who thinks T could learn something from Mechwarrior. but, there is no area where you can see the ship descriptions apart from the start screen. (with the exception of Playership Drones.)

I'm seriously thinking that Playership Drones was a good Idea, but didn't take it far enough; the Shipyards should sell, produce, and buy ships and their ship parts. Not just sell ship drones. (another thought, why don't other factions asides from the ringers, ares, and CW have shipyards?)

[erik dela cruz]

Hey even the Battle Arena makes Manticores, right?

[Lmoy]

Out of curiosity, what does NAMI stand for?

[Ttech]

Its a company I believe.

[Lmoy]

Its a company I believe.

I know that but what do the letters stand for?

[DSMK2]

@Resident-Pyromaniac: Detailing each ship at the start screen would add in nice amounts of background info. Though it's not the only place that's possible, remember Korolov shipping? They have technical readouts on Charon pirates, should be possible to have a military Commonwealth ship database that covers everything the player meets, excluding some "unique" ships.

- Repeating myself... Sorry! -

I still want to know how non-military ships are diffused through out human space, I don't think prospective pilots wait at a shipyard. UAS also seems to "market" ships, particularly the borer-class gunships towards (mostly lawful) miners, but it also sells(?) many ships to outlaws... Or if it's defunct, where are the ships coming from? Argh!

[shanejfilomena]

Its a company I believe.

"NAMI's Cyclotron deflectors absorb a lot of damage, but take more time to regenerate."
YES It appears to be a Company but if you want to SEE it it might show up in 2380 if I remember.

Hey even the Battle Arena makes Manticores, right?

they do not have a listed Manufacturer, to default it would be a Corporate contract built ship because it is associated with Corporate.
the Arena is also Corporate operated.

[Ttech]

They are just a big corporation and it appears from nowhere? Sounds right to me... Looks oddly at Google

[Lmoy]

I realise that NAMI is a company, and that they make all manner of shields and weaponry and ships, but why are the letters (NAMI) capitalised? Do they stand for anything?