Orion Device

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Orion Device
Movement Ship System
Technical data
System charges	4
Regeneration rate (sec/charge)	5
Charge up duration (sec)	0
Duration (sec)	0.001
Charge down duration (sec)	0
Cooldown (sec)	1
Game data
ID	orion_device

	Explodes a shaped antimatter charge behind the ship, propelling it forward at extreme speed.
–In-game description

	Deploys a shaped antimatter charge behind the ship. The explosion applies force to a massive push-plate, which absorbs the shock and spreads the resulting acceleration over a timeframe where it can be handled by the ship's inertial compensators. The ship is briefly propelled forward at a rate very few more "advanced" technologies can hope to match.
–Full Codex description

Availability

This ship system is known to be used on the following ships:

• Venture (LP)
• Retribution

Notes

• Has 4 charges, regenerates one charge every 5 seconds.
• Propels the ship forward at extreme velocity by around 400 units.
• Actually detonates a bomb behind the ship, which deals 500 high explosive damage to anything in its radius.
• Has one second cooldown.

Tips and Strategies

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Trivia

• Based on a real-life 1950s-1960s concept for nuclear-pulse spacecraft propulsion, which explains the in-universe description as "an archaic curiosity"