Contract

Contracts are jobs that players can accept to earn money. Aside from a few story missions, contracts are procedurally generated from a collection of mission types.

Story Contracts

Provision the science vessel

You have requisitioned a new science vessel and must prepare it for use.

• Recruit 5 crew members
• Buy five space suits
• Buy five barrels of fuel
• Buy five canisters of oxygen
• Buy five barrels of water
• Buy five FTL charges
• Buy five boxes of food supplies

Make your new ship ready for flight

Build the ship's flight and FTL jump systems, and make your first jump.

• Build a reactor for power
• Build engines for propulsion
• Build a fuel loader for the reactor and engines
• Build an airduct to release oxygen
• Build an oxygen loader for the airduct
• Build an FTL Drive
• Test fire the engines in Tactical view
• Make an FTL jump

Open Contracts

Analyse

Analyse mission progress

Collect data on the expanding void. You will be provided with Hyperspace Sensors that need to be install on the hull of the ship. During FTL jumps, these sensors collect data. You will receive $1000 per data at each magnitude of collection: 10, 100, 1000, etc.

Procedural Contracts

Delivery

If the contract is not completed in time, it fails. The supply boxes from failed contracts will remain on your ship until the next shuttle brings contract supplies.

Rescue

A player docking with a Stranded Ship

Ship docking is currently limited to Rescue contracts and cannot be done with arbitrary ships or other ships in the player's Fleet.

To dock with a ship, the player must be in Tactical view and must line up their docking port with the docking port of the stranded ship. A ship's docking port appears as a large rectangle connected to a small square with a line. The player's docking port will be yellow with the large rectangle where the port is, while the stranded ship's docking port will be red and flashing with the small square where the docking port is.

History

• Update 1.rc2: Introduced.
• Update 2.rc1: Certain Contracts require a minimum Rating in a particular category.
• Update 2.rc3: Contracts for systems where you already have existing contracts are highlighted with a light blue diamond.