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Ships and Factions
By SimonC4
Overview of the different factions that you will encounter in the game.
   
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Languages: English
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16 Jul, 2015 @ 3:08am
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Guide Index
Overview
Introduction 
Empire 
Civilians 
Pirates 
Desert Clan 
Miners 
Techies 
Comments
Introduction
This guide lists the different factions within the game and the ships that belong to each faction.

Empire
The Empire is the faction that you, as the player, belong to. These ships can be identified by the white colouring and have a vague resemblance to aircraft.

Ship Name
Ship Image
Description
Guardian
This ship guards civilian ships. This is also the ship the player starts with.
Fighter
These are the Empire's explorers.
Vanguard
This ship is used to guard stations.
Station
The trading stations run by the Empire.

Civilians
Civilians are peaceful ships that are mostly related to trading.

Ship Name
Ship Image
Description
Bus
A Civilian trading ship.
Drome
Trading station found on planets.

Pirates
Pirates are basic bad guys found in the first system and around rocky planets. Their ships are low quality and often made from parts of other ships. Pirates can be identified by their red and grey colouring.

Ship Name
Ship Image
Description
Pirate Space Turret
This is a pirate turret found in space. This doesn't have any engines.
Mosquito
A small pirate ship often used to guard pirate trucks and found around the rocky planet.
Wasp
A medium pirate ship used as a hunter.
Truck
A big pirate ship.
Orbiter
A medium pirate ship found orbiting the rocky planet.
Pirate Planet Turret
The pirate turret found on the rocky planet.

Desert Clan
The Desert Clan are tough bad guys seen in desert planets and space of 2nd system. Their ships resemble works of copper or bronze.

Ship Name
Ship Image
Description
Desert Space Turret
This is a space turret found around the desert planet.
Desert Planet Turret
These turrets are found on the desert planet
Beetle
This is a small ship found around the desert planet.
Hunter
This is a medium sized ship used as a hunter on approach to the desert planet.
Bomber
This is a medium sized ship found around the desert planet.
Desert Boss
This is the desert boss ship.

Miners
Miners are enemies found in mazes and asteroid belts. Their ships can be identified by their yellow appearance.

Ship Name
Ship Image
Description
Miner Turret
This is a space turret found around mazes and asteroid belts. The turret doesn't have any engines.
Small Miner
A small mining ship.
Medium Miner
A medium mining ship.
Mining Boss
This is the Mining boss ship.

Techies
Techies are advanced enemies found in frozen planets. Their ships can be identified by their metallic blue-grey appearance.

Ship Name
Ship Image
Description
Techie Planet Turret
This is a turret found found on the frozen planet.
Small Techie
A small ship found around the frozen planet.
Techie Orbiter
A medium ship found around the frozen planet.

20 Comments
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du4lity (they/them) 10 Jul, 2021 @ 12:40am 
Empire: the good guys who keep the galaxy safe from pirates
Civilians: friendly people who provide ammo and equipment
Pirates: the bad guys trying to rule the galaxy
Desert Clan: dangerous enemies that even the empire has a hard time killing
Miners: people who mine. IIRC, they won't attack you if you don't attack them.
Techies: An alien species who have the advanced and holy grail of technology. They will attack anyone who enters their planet to protect themselves.
Jadex 11 Jul, 2020 @ 2:58pm 
were back in action boys
Argentium-Star 13 Aug, 2018 @ 9:45am 
... in fact, I'm not even sure you'd be able to buy a Small Techie ship...
Nor Hire one, either, I think.
Argentium-Star 13 Aug, 2018 @ 9:44am 
@Devatiav -- the Player is able to "Change ship" at Trading stations -- Imperial Platforms mainly have Imperial ships, and Planetary Trading Posts may have ships applicable to the system...

The Player is not able to fly the Biggest (hostile) ships -- none of the "Boss" ships are available normally. Also, I have not seen ANY "Miner" ships available to buy; I do not believe they'd be available.

(i.e. you'd have to "hack" the game to give yourself a Boss ship SPRITE, and then you would also have to change its loadout, AND correlate weapon locations to ship config -- changing the SPRITE (image) would still base your "flight box" on what you had before, including weapon locations.)
Devatiav 17 Feb, 2018 @ 4:30am 
Can a player fly any ship on this list?
SIN001E/R 2 Jun, 2017 @ 10:29am 
The guide might need to be updated soon-ish.
Argentium-Star 13 Feb, 2017 @ 9:11am 
So, this "guide" is a handy reproduction of the "hulls" folder in the game data. ;)
[ C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Destination Sol\res\configs\hulls ]

I note the writer didn't add info eg:
- the Pirate Space Turrets have Light Plasma Guns
- the Pirate Orbiters often drop Bombs, sometimes "carpet-bombing" over/near the player
- the Miner ships fire either NAILS (small) or ROCKETS (turret, medium, & boss)
--- .. and if you WAIT on the other side of a wall, they RUN OUT of rockets after 12-14 volleys
- the small or medium (I forget which) also has the KNOCKBACK special (just 1 or 2)

Also, not noted is the SIZE DIFFERENCE -- "simpler" designs LOOK SMALLER here, but in the game e.g. Miner Boss is actually BIGGER (zoomed) in the game; that's also why Desert Boss looks MASSIVE: complex design! the Desert Beetle isn't really so tiny by comparison.. ;)

Just sayin'.. :D
premiumpunk 2 Dec, 2016 @ 11:19am 
Truck is a boss since it's unique. Mining bosses however can be found at center of every asteroid (3-4 total).
Wo|fsOdyssey 14 Jun, 2016 @ 9:57pm 
needs multiplayer. multiplayer. Multiplayer!!!
awm_747 6 Jun, 2016 @ 12:28pm 
I have resorted to pushing asteroids into planets.