Difference between revisions of "Aethercraft"

| style="background:lightyellow"|Aethercraft is a branch of planar magic that involves the ability to merge with an algontherine entity and manipulate an aethership. In order to learn the Aethercraft skill, you must either own a ship, or a ship owner (captain) must give you permission to use their ship's modules. There are three basic aethercraft functions which relate to the basic modules:  

'''Command Chair''': Piloting the aethercraft, including joining armadas, transverseing to other planes, and ramming other ships. The "pilot" branch of aethercraft.

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|[[#Channel|Channel]]||Access a ship's crew communication channel.

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|[[#Aethercraft|Aethercraft]]||Basic use of a command chair.

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|[[#Empathy|Empathy]]||Basic use of the empathic grid.

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|[[#Battle|Battle]]||Basic use of a battle turret.

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|[[#Offerings|Offerings]]||Give offerings of aetheric essence to the gods.

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|[[#Armada|Armada]]||Join into an armada of ships.

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|[[#Interlink|Interlink]]||Include non-crew on the ship channel.

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|[[#Targeting|Targeting]]||Attack specific modules.

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|[[#Ram|Ram]]||Ram and board enemy ships.

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|[[#Siphon|Siphon]]||Gather power from aether vortices.

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|[[#Modules|Modules]]||Directly heal damaged modules.

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|[[#Scoop|Scoop]]||Gather glaetherial dust.

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|[[#Trade|Trade]]||Exchange goods with gnome trading ships.

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|[[#Worldscan|Worldscan]]||Scan the worlds for signs of constructs.

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|[[#Transverse|Transverse]]||Travel through dimensional fissures.

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|[[#EnergyLink|EnergyLink]]||Extract energy from collectors.

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|[[#Gliding|Gliding]]||Glide carefree through the aethers.

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|[[#Trail|Trail]]||Follow a ship without its permission.

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|[[#Analyze|Analyze]]||Examine other ships or aetherbeasts.

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|[[#Distribution|Distribution]]||Distribute power to and from modules.

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|[[#Cadet|Cadet]]||Midlevel piloting maneuvers.

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|[[#Rupture|Rupture]]||Create ruptures in aetherspace.

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|[[#Steward|Steward]]||Midlevel communication skills.

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|[[#Tunnel|Tunnel]]||Enter a vortex and jump at will.

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|[[#Bosun|Bosun]]||Midlevel turret attacks.

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|[[#Astralsight|Astralsight]]||Sense other algontherine ships.

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|[[#Purser|Purser]]||Midlevel empathic grid functions.

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|[[#TurretSiphon|TurretSiphon]]||Siphon energy from a shieldless enemy.

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|[[#ThirdMate|ThirdMate]]||Intermediate pilot maneuvers.

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|[[#Scan|Scan]]||Find all non-cloaked ships in same environment.

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|[[#SecondMate|SecondMate]]||Advanced turret attacks.

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|[[#Flashpoint|Flashpoint]]||Create flashpoints to aid in navigation.

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|[[#FirstMate|FirstMate]]||Advanced empathic grid functions.

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|[[#Shock|Shock]]||Briefly paralyze ship or aetherbeast.

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|[[#Captain|Captain]]||Advanced piloting maneuvers.

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|[[#Spiral|Spiral]]||Dodge all hits for a limited time.

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|[[#Resonance|Resonance]]||Create an aura to hide the ship from aetherbeasts.

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|[[#Clarionblast|Clarionblast]]||Blow up modules on enemy ship.

This skill enables the basic operations of a command module. In order for an aethercraft to survive in aetherspace, it must have power. Thus, the first responsibility of a commander is to make sure the ship is powered at all times. If the ship is low on power, the commander may FUNNEL power directly from his own reserves or, alternately, from a nexus (if the captain has permission from the city or commune) or from the energy collectors (if they have any power).

For steering a ship, note that smaller ships are able to steer faster than larger ones due to their inertia. But as a larger moves more and more, it will gain more and more speed. Note that a sharp turn can hurt your inertia, slowing down a large ship that has accumulated much speed.

In order to use any module, you must LOCK into it. When finished, you must UNLOCK from it. You can only LOCK into a module if you have been granted permission by the captain (owner) of the ship. If you are the ship's captain then you can use the ADD and REMOVE syntaxes to set permissions. (See <tt>HELP PERMISSIONS</tt> to learn how Lusternia's permission system works.) The CLEAR syntax will simply destroy all permission rules, making it open to anyone. Lastly, the SHOW syntax will let you see what the current permissions are for a module.

| style="background:lightgreen"|Typically you will distribute power from unused modules to the most important ones, usually the grid and command chair first and foremost.

By turning on screech, your ship will damage any other ships which attempt to locate her.

| style="background:lightgreen"|The module can only be repaired with the Regenerate skill.