Out of Fuel

Starships can run out of fuel due to four general causes:

1. The starship is robbed , or is inside of a Crystal web minefield. When this happens, the starship's mission is immediately reset to Exploration, unless it's set to Beam up Fuel. The starship's speed and waypoint are left unchanged.
2. The starship runs out of fuel due to hitting a web mine. As a result of hitting the web mine, the starship's speed is set to Warp 0 and the waypoint is set to the current location. The mission is reset to Exploration, unless it's set to Beam up Fuel.
3. The fuel is consumed through the normal operation of the starship. This includes movement, use of the Cloak mission and use of the Chameleon mission. When this happens, the starship's mission is immediately reset to Exploration, unless it's set to Beam up Fuel. In addition, the starship's speed is reset to Warp 0 and the waypoint is set to the starship's current location.
4. The starship transfers all its fuel to a planet or another starship. When this happens, the mission, speed and waypoint are not changed.

Due to the Treaty of Nimbus 7, fuelless starships may not be attacked by non-Horwasp vessels. In addition, a fuelless starship will fight enemy planets only if the planet initiates combat using the NUK Friendly Code. Planets belonging to the Horwasp Plague will fight any non-allied starships that enter orbit. Fuelless starships will surrender to a tow capture or to a starbase set to Force Surrender.

Fuelless starships usually are unable to perform any of the special abilities of that starship, such as Terraforming or the Loki's Tachyon Device. A fuelless starship can perform the following actions:

• A fuelless starship can usually move. The speed will have to be set each time this is done, as it resets to 0 after movement.
• Cargo transfers to/from planets and other starships with the same owner work properly.
• The Exploration mission works properly.
• The Sensor Sweep mission works properly.
• The Land and Disassemble mission works properly.
• The Beam Up missions work properly.
• The Super Refit mission works properly.
• A starship with the Super Spy mission set will be able to gather information about the planet it's orbiting, but will not support setting the Friendly Code.
• An Alchemy Ship can perform alchemy.
• A starship with a Glory Device can perform all Glory Device actions, according to the Friendly Code, Primary Enemy and Mission.
• A starship with the GSx Friendly Code will be given to the appropriate player, if the other requirements of the action are met.
• A starship equipped with a Ramscoop can generate fuel, for the short distance that it is capable of moving without fuel.
• The Radiation Shielding in a starship will function normally.
• A damaged starship, with at least 5 KT of supplies in its hold, will repair some of the damage.
• A starship with the Planet Immunity ability, or owned by a race with the Planet Immunity advantage, does not need fuel to keep it from being attacked by planets or starbases.
• A starship owned by a race with the Partial Planet Immunity advantage does not need fuel to keep it from being attacked by planets or starbases. In fact, this advantage requires a starship with no fuel to operate.

Any action not listed above can't be done without fuel, even if the action consumes no fuel.

The starship mission resets happen at different times in the Host, depending on external conditions and the particular mission. Certain passive missions will not be automatically reset without an external trigger, such as web fuel drain or the ship moving. This last is of particular interest to players with Glory Devices; web drain will reset the Kill mission, for example.

Travel Without Fuel

As stated above, it is usually possible for a fuelless starship to move. This table shows the maximum number of KT-LY that a starship with standard engines can move in one turn without consuming fuel. Gravitonic engines can move approximately twice as many KT-LY per turn without consuming fuel.

Note: To use zero-fuel-movement the ship's destination must be reachable with exactly zero fuel, or it will not move at all.

	Starship Speed
Engine	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9
Stardrive 1	999	499	333	249	199	166	142	124	111
Stardrive 2	999	930	333	249	199	166	142	124	111
Stardrive 3	999	941	927	296	199	166	142	124	111
SuperStarDrive 4	999	963	957	941	333	310	201	205	111
Nova Drive 5	999	963	957	941	961	342	342	272	111
HeavyNova Drive 6	999	963	957	941	961	964	398	298	111
Quantum Drive 7	999	963	957	941	961	964	924	329	188
Hyper Drive 8	999	999	999	999	999	999	979	899	188
Transwarp Drive	999	999	999	999	999	999	999	999	999

Values above are expressed in mass times distance. One KT-LY would be equivalent to a hypothetical ship massing 1 KT traveling at least 1 light-year, but less than 2 light-years.

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