Lorean Class Temporal Lance

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The Lorean Temporal Lance is a campaign-only ship at Planets.nu. It was designed by Darth Balls, the champion of the Gemini war.

Lorean Class Temporal Lance image from Planets Nu

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The main ability of the Lorean is its Temporal Lance ability. This allows the Lorean to disappear from the map and then re-appear far away, 10-24 turns later. The Lorean is also a valid chunnel target, which means that chunnel-capable ships like the Firecloud can chunnel to it. This makes the Lorean a potentially dangerous weapon that can travel deep behind enemy lines and then have a Firecloud chunnel to it with a big fleet.

To initiate the Temporal Lance ability, you must use the interface in the regular way that you would set a chunnel, i.e. you must have a chunnel target like a Firecloud and set your friendly code to match its ID#. The temporal lance ability will then travel in the direction of the target Firecloud, and then continue to move past it. Unlike a normal chunnel, you must set a warp speed above 0. The warp speed will determine how far your ship will travel. Your distance traveled will be roughly the Lorean's (warp_speed^2 * 10) ly beyond the chunnel target. E.g. if you travel at warp 8, you will travel 640 ly past the target Firecloud (in the same direction you were traveling toward the Firecloud). You will not arrive exactly at the expected destination, but within a certain radius of it (perhaps within ~16 ly).

The Lorean can use its temporal lance and carry other ships with it. But since those ships will disappear and be unusable for many turns, it is usually better to wait for the Lorean to appear at its destination, and then chunnel to it later with a Firecloud.

Built by

The Cyborg

Hull specs

Name Tech Beams T/F En MC Dur Tri Mol Mass Cargo Fuel Crew Abilities Adv
Lorean Class Temporal Lance 7 8 6/0 2 1280 184 20 590 325 200 360 489 TempL, ChunT 35


Notes

While the Lorean and any ships traveling with it will stay on the scoreboard when they "disappear" during transit, they will not be contributing to the ship limit. Therefore, during this time, additional regular ship builds are possible if the ship count goes below 500.

Addons

This ship design is exclusive to Campaign Mode.

External Links

Link to Announcement of the ship and explanation of its abilities. Planets.nu help page for Temporal Lance https://help.planets.nu/abil-temporal-lance Emperor Starships page at Planets.nu https://help.planets.nu/abil-emperor-ship