Satellites
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Satellites are expensive items which can be launched into space on Soyuz rockets to provide services. There are multiple types of satellites, each with different functions and recipes. Satellite must be properly linked before launch, otherwise they will be useless and unrecoverable.
Linking
Satellite ID Managers are used to generate new IDs and to copy IDs. Despite the outlines in the GUI, they work with any item (satellites, ID chips, and interfaces) that can have a satellite ID. The leftmost slot is the source for copying, the middle slot is the destination for copied IDs, and the rightmost generates a random ID. The typical usage is to place a satellite in the randomizing slot, then copy its ID to an interface or chip that it will be used with. If a satellite is launched with the same ID as an existing satellite, the old satellite becomes useless hence the importance generating new IDs. Additionally, satellites only work with specific interfaces. Be sure to choose the correct interface for your satellite. Both are made in a regular crafting table.
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Satellite ID Manager.
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Satellite ID Manager GUI.
Launching
All satellites must be launched on the Soyuz. Also, it must be noted that they need a satellite control interface with the same frequency, if an unlinked satellite is launched, it will go full freedom and you will lose it, wasting its expensive resources; so triple-check that you have correctly linked all your control items to the same frequency as the satellite!
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Soyuz Launcher with the normal Soyuz rocket.
The Satellites
Satellite Base
While it isn't an actual satellite, it is used for crafting every other satellite with the notable exceptions of the mining ships and Gerald. It is made in an assembly machine.
Orbital Death Ray
The orbital death ray is a satellite that lets you "summon" death rays with 15 seconds of cooldown, those death rays play an animation then initiate a small explosion and shoots out blue/purple energy projectiles for extra destruction, open the linked interface and a map will show near surroundings, left click to death rays the coordinate it shows. The death ray itself is made in the assembly machine, and is then combined with a Satellite Base in an arc welder.
Also, the ray will fall, impact, and stop at the first surface it touches, this means if you are inside a cave and then use this ray, it will not fall to your Y position bypassing all stone blocks, but will instead hit the surface.
You can link a satellite radar relay to a death ray and insert it into a radar to call down strikes remotely.
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Orbital Death Ray.
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Surface Mapping Satellite
It displays currently loaded chunks, that's it. Open the satellite control interface and it will show you a basic map of them. It is made with a high-gain optical camera and a satellite base in an arc welder. The high-gain optical camera is made in an assembly machine.
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Surface Mapping Satellite
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Satellite with Depth-Resource Scanning Module
Creates a topdown map of underground ores, very useful to have an idea of what is underground. It is recommended to use it in conjunction with the neutrino lens. It is made in the arc welder by combining an M700 survey scanner with a satellite base. The M700 is made in an assembly machine.
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Satellite with Depth-Resource Scanning Module.
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Radar Survey Satellite
Shows a map of active entities in the sky, such as other satellites or inbound missiles. It is made by combining a radar dish and a satellite base in an arc welder. A radar dish is made in a assembly machine.
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Radar Survey Satellite.
DUNA Probe with Experimental Nuclear Propulsion
Does nothing but get you an achievement. It is constructed in an assembly machine.
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Duna Probe with experimental Nuclear Propulsion.
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Xenium Resonator
Allows teleportation with no cooldown using a satellite designator linked to it. Does not support dimension jumping. It is made by combining a xenium resonator with a satellite base in an arc welder.
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Xenium Resonator Satellite.
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Asteroid Mining Ship
This one needs a cargo landing pad, this rocket periodically (around 10 minutes) will come back to earth and return to space, it will deploy its cargo in the cargo landing pad, the items that it can give you are (all in the form of powder, unless otherwise specified):
- Vanilla materials
- Coal (very common)
- Iron (common)
- Lapis Lazuli (common)
- Redstone (very common)
- Diamond (common)
- Mod materials
- Fluorite (very common)
- Aluminium (very common)
- Titanium (uncommon)
- Copper (very common)
- Lead (common)
- Desh Blend (uncommon)
- Thorium (common)
- Uranium (uncommon)
- Plutonium (uncommon)
- Energy Powder (uncommon)
- Nitanium Blend (uncommon)
- CMB Steel (very rare)
- Crystals and Misc.
- Phosphorus Crystals (very common)
- Aluminium Crystals (uncommon)
- Tungsten Crystals (uncommon)
- Gold Crystals (uncommon)
- Lithium Crystals (semi-rare)
- Diamond Gravel (rare)
- Uranium Crystals (rare)
- Plutonium Crystals (rare)
- Trixite Crystals (very rare)
- Starmetal Crystals (very rare)
It is perhaps the most useful satellite in the mod.
(The landing cargo pad will require a satellite ID-chip with the same frequency as the satellite itself too.) It can be created in an assembly machine.
Lunar mining ship
It is an exact copy of the asteroid mining ship, except that it is slightly cheaper, and has a different loot table.
- Lunar Mining Ship
- Moon turf - With averaged chances, 512 each trip.
- Lithium powder - With averaged chances, 17.5 each trip.
- Iron powder - With averaged chances, 17.5 each trip.
- Iron crystal - With averaged chances, 1 each trip.
- Lithium crystal - With averaged chances, 1 each trip.
Be noted that the items obtained can be changed via the hbmItemPools.json configuration file, inside the hbmConfig folder. It is made in an assembly machine.
Gerald The Construction Android
Probably the most powerful weapon in the mod, it has an explosion radius of about 600 blocks and it emits no radiation nor fallout.
Its goal is to build a superweapon on the moon - Tom, or its other name "Project Horizons"
In order to use Gerald, you need to link him to a satellite designator and send him to the moon using Soyuz-FG and the orbital module. Then, when you launch Gerald to the moon, you can set the X and Z coordinates in the satellite designator, and Tom will fly to the place where you set the coordinates in the designator.b
- After you have launched Gerald, you will get the achievement "Apogee".
- After you specify the coordinates and launch the Tom, you will get the achievement "The Horizons".
- Gerald is a reference to Fallout: Equestria Project Horizons. Tom is the nickname of the moon rock missile that would launch at the Fo:E world and cause an extinction-level event. The robots that were sent to the moon to build it, were supposed to be Gerald The Construction Android.
- The crater that Tom forms is able to be mined for osmiridium-infused tektite which is required to make osmiridium and therefore the DFC. This is the only way to obtain osmiridium outside of cheats. It can be created in an assembly machine.
Trivia
Almost every satellite is made out of KSP (Kerbal Space Program) parts. All satellites follow the same structure, except the top part.
- Most satellites are composed of a satellite base and an additional item.
- The surface mapping satellite has a slightly edited version of the "SENTINEL Infrared Telescope" on the top.
- Despite the fact that the SENTINEL Infrared Telescope scans for asteroids in KSP, the NTM version scans overworld's surface instead.
- The satellite with depth-resource scanning module has an opened "M700 Survey Scanner" on the top.
- The radar survey satellite has either a "RA-100" or a "RA-15" relay antenna.
- The KSP version is just a relay dish and does not feature any scanning abilities, the NTM version scans for airborne objects.
- The xenium resonator satellite doesn't use any known KSP parts, rather it features the device seen in Half-Life 2 Episode 2 which could be seen in the White Forest rocket. The xenium resonator from Half-Life is pretty much the opposite to the NTM satellite, as it was used to close an inter-dimensional portal.
- The FOEQ Duna probe with experimental nuclear propulsion is, despite its larger visual differences to the other satellites, also composed of KSP parts:
- Its experimental engine is the "LV-N Nerv" atomic engine.
- The significantly smaller solar panels are "OX-4L 1x6" photovoltaic panels.
- The smaller top satellite dish is based on the "RA-2" relay antenna.
- "Duna" is a planet in Kerbal Space program.
- "FOEQ" is a Fo:E reference.
- The orbital death ray's design is loosely based on several RTGs from KSP on top of each other.
- Satellites used to have another dedicated rocket that could be used on regular missile launch pads, the HTR-01. This rocket was discontinued and the Soyuz construction cost was rebalanced to make up for it.