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JC-00 Pontius

pre-upgraded version for pvp etc: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2679827537

*Warning* this is not a beginner sub as it has a handful of features somewhat outside of the gameplay norm, I recommend looking through the guide images I added.

-Introduction-

After being dismissed from your last hire job on a cargo run you are drinking away your pay waiting for another employment opportunity with your colleagues in a dirty little bar on the station. There is an old man in the corner already a few glasses too deep in his cheap Pomebrew.

He notices you, nods and waves you over. "Hey kiddo, you seem about as lost here as I am. Want to hear a story? This damned thing... it has cost me everything I had. It's CURSED I tell you. My crew abandoned me because they couldn't handle it anymore after our Engineer got burned to a crisp in a reactor fire that came out of nowhere, poor sod couldn't get out of the room because of a damn jammed door. This old rustbucket will be the end of me, which is why I'm here drinking instead of hunting pirates like we used to. Not that I could ever find another crewmate who would voluntarily set a foot on it after hearing what happened. Neither will I to be entirely honest. You and your friends over there seem adequately capable though... What do you think? Will you take the old girl off of my hands? I will only want a pittance of marks for it. What I can tell from the tattered old manuals that survived ownership of the pirates we took her from, she used to be brimming with fancy old Earth tech, not that it did us any good. Maybe you got the skills to get the stuff working again, I sure know neither the pirates nor us had those."

The Pontius is a decades old submarine built with old Earth technology no longer readily available on Europa. It suffered under prolonged Pirate ownership and is now a mere rusty shell of its former glorious self. Can you master it and restore it to its full functionality?


-Features-

There are periodical malfunctions you will be warned about on the text display above the nav terminal, they will go away after happening on their own except for the oxygen generator failure which you can resolve by hitting the "restart" button on the oxy generator itself (it will take a couple of seconds indicated by the blue flashing light).

All the hidden feature components have tooltips telling you what they are. There will also be a chat message notifying everyone that they have been activated.

There is a total of 5 feature upgrades which you activate by finding their respective memory components and simply putting in a 1.

The coil guns have a secondary mount next to them which you can buy another gun for (I recommend keeping them as the same types but they are interchangeable). To be able to fire them you will need to find the hidden Twin-Link relays and activate them (I put in switches for those on the periscopes that you can wire them to).

The armory and extra rail shell storage are locked, you will have to find their lockdown relay and unwire it (it is in the same room as the door).

Ramming mode will make the front shell of the sub very dangerous to touch but also costs energy to maintain.

There are 2 reactors, the big one has a max output of 10k and cannot be automated, the smaller one already has a built in ARC but can only supply 4k power, it's up to you to decide which you want to use for which of the ships systems. The engines will consume 3k power by default but have a boost toggle (one of the upgrades) that doubles their output and consumption to 6k, be sure to notify your engineer when using it to avoid a catastrophe (there is also a small orange indicator light on the engine JB while its active).

The Batteries are automated and will gently stop their charge rate when full.

The boarding shuttle is made specifically for attaching to hostile submarines and entering them from above, it is very well armored at the bottom and can even survive a basic railgun shell without taking crippling damage.



I hope you will have fun on the upgrade easteregg hunt, if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment or message me on Discord (Jav1k#7444)