Industry and logistics
Small hull design
Graduate from scout frames to a hull that can actually carry a mission.
Small hull designThe scout hull is a brilliant compromise and a terrible ship. It sees things and it cannot do anything about them.
The small hull is the first frame with room for a real decision: cargo or scanners, range or reach, ambition or safety.
What it does
Unlocks the Small hull component, up to level 15, giving you 600 field and 500 weight to work with. It gates Nuclear-thermal engines and Colonization.
Requirements
- Research lab · level 3 or higher
- Component factory · level 2 or higher
- Ship design · level 3 or higher
- Orbit logistics · level 1 or higher
- Tier 2 processing · level 1 or higher
Level 1 cost
- Pig ironTier 2330
- CrystalTier 2270
- FrubinTier 2113
- alloy-pig-crystalTier 253
- Maximum level
- 15
- Base research time
- 1m 25s
Unlocks
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Small hull design. Graduate from scout frames to a hull that can actually carry a mission.. Unlocks the Small hull component, up to level 15, giving you 600 field and 500 weight to work with. It gates Nuclear-thermal engines and Colonization.