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A spacecraft can be upgraded using upgrade modules. Upgrade modules can be used to upgrade a spacecraft's subsystem to a higher quality or to another type.
For example; upgrading a spacecraft's ballistic weapon bay to an energy weapon bay, or increasing the quality of a subsystem to increase its effectiveness.
Upgrade Modules
Upgrade modules are commodities manufactured at an airport repair shop. From there they can be purchased or used by the airport repair shop itself.
There are many types of upgrades modules, each categorized with their corresponding spacecraft subsystem they belong to.
For a full list, see the Upgrade Modules category.
Installation
There are two ways to install upgrade modules a spacecraft; service purchase or manual installation.
Service Purchase
A city containing an airport repair shop is able to rent their services to install upgrade modules. The service costs a bit of money and will require the spacecraft is moored at a space station or in the city for a little while.
Using the Trade communication channel's Spacecraft Service menu, a full list of all spacecraft subsystems that can be upgraded are listed. Selecting one and requesting modules will ask all cities in range which upgrade modules they have for that particular spacecraft subsystem.
Manual Installation
Manually installing an upgrade module requires the spacecraft to be moored to a space station or landed anywhere, and then rigged for repair by powering down all subsystems on board the spacecraft. The upgrade module is then installed by using it on a service panel of the corresponding type.
Examples:
- Using a warp 1 FTL drive module on a FTL drive service panel will change the FTL drive type to a warp drive of the upgrade module's quality.
- Using a prospector bay module on a weapon bay service panel in connected to bay 2 will change the weapon type of weapon bay 2 to that of a prospector bay.