Ships

Spaceships

Spaceships are the vessels piloted by the players in Helium Rain. Ships have generators, radiators, weapons, engines, cargo bays or life support systems - they all work together. Every thruster on a ship plays a role. Most of the ships have more than thirty individual parts to target. Players can customize their ship to enhance their performance or change their visual look.

List of spaceships

There are 2 categories of spaceships: the class S (for small) ships like fighter or bomber and the class L (for large) ships like cruiser or destroyer. Each category have a distinct list of upgrade (engine, weapons, etc), a separate production line in shipyards and different controls.

Spaceships may be civilian or military. Civilian spaceships have a cargo bay and military spaceship have weapon slot (for S) or turret slot (for L).

Military Class S spaceships

Name	Code	Gun count	Engine count	Production duration	Credit cost	Steel cost	Plastic cost	Tool cost
Ghoul	GHO	2	2	30 days	1500	100	80	50
Orca	ORC	4	4	60 days	2500	200	160	100
Phalanx	PHX	6	4	80 days	3500	300	200	120

Civilian Class S spaceships

Name	Code	Cargo bay size	Cargo bay count	Engine count	Production duration	Credit cost	Steel cost	Plastic cost	Tool cost
Solen	SLN	50	2	1	20 days	1000	40	30	20
Omen	OME	200	2	1	50 days	1500	100	80	50

Military Class L spaceships

Name	Code	Turret count	Engine count	Production duration	Credit cost	Steel cost	Plastic cost	Tool cost
Dragon	DRA	2	2	140 days	6000	500	400	250
Kami	KAM	3	3	180 days	8000	750	600	400
Invader	INV	4	4	220 days	10000	1000	800	500
Leviathan	LEV	6	4	300 days	15000	1500	1200	750
Anubis	ANB	9	4	300 days	25000	2500	2000	1250

Civilian Class L spaceships

Name	Code	Cargo bay size	Cargo bay count	Engine count	Production duration	Credit cost	Steel cost	Plastic cost	Tool cost
Sphinx	SPX	400	4	1	140 days	4000	300	200	150
Atlas	ATL	2000	8	2	200 days	10000	1000	800	500

Purchasing spaceships

Spaceships can be found at the shipyard, a huge station encountered in some busy sectors. Players must be at peace with the shipyard's owner to do any purchases. To do the purchase, one must go to the "Details" menu and click one of the buttons to order either small or large ships. Once the production price has been paid, the player must wait for their construction to end. The progress can be seen through the same menu.

If there is currently a ship of the same production line in production, one must wait for that task to end before their ship's production begins.

There are two other reasons a ship production might not start:

• If the company owning the shipyard has not enough money (this happens only to ships it builds for itself, not ships ordered by a third party)
• If the shipyard doesn't have the resources needed to build the ship in its cargo bay (one can help it to get them by selling missing resources to the station)

Building ships becomes more straightforward once the player aquires their own shipyard.