Tractor-Tow OXZ - Revision history

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Reval: Recommended OXPs & Quick Facts

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Recommended OXPs & Quick Facts

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‎Requirements & Procedures

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operator notes

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 Galcop's '''Neutral Particle Beam''' weapon causes catastrophic '''internal damage''' - frying computers, disabling power, knocking out weapons and critical systems - while throwing off little energy as surface heat. A direct hit leaves the target a '''drifting derelict''' without triggering fatal explosions of fuel or ordinance.
 * [[Small Ships OXZ|'''Small Ships''']]
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	On entering Station Aegis, the AI will release the towed hulk for tug-operations. Upon docking, your payment will be reported and your fee transferred.		On entering Station Aegis, the AI will release the towed hulk for tug-operations. Upon docking, your payment will be reported and your fee transferred.
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		+	== Recommended OXPs ==
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		+	The soundest choice if you intend to neutralize and then 'salvage' Offenders is:
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		+	* [[PT-BVRM Pteranodon OXZ\|'''PT-BVRM Pteranodon''']]
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		+	The ultimate '''standoff missile''', Galcop's PT-BVRM 'Pteranodon' engages prioritized targets at full-system ranges. The PT fires neutral particles on proximity, causing mine-like '''irradiative effects''' on ships inside sensor radius, partially '''disabling''' the victims. Mostly non-fatal to crew. Not a killer weapon; it expects followup action by its operator.
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		+	* [[Police Player OXZ\|'''Police Player''']]
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		+	The most notable observed effect of this tiny tweak is that ships of class Pirate no longer openly threaten or attack the player's ship. You are essentially transformed into a police vigilante, or proxy copper. Best results with an Asp or Viper!
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		+	* [[Witch-Charger OXZ\|\|'''Witch-Charger''']]
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		+	This emergency '''capacitor''' conducts potential energy from the Witchdrive to shore up '''shield resistance''' when hull integrity is critical. If the ship remains under fire, the unit's last-ditch replenishing action will finally drain all fuel. But it represents a highly desirable trade-off between short-term mobility and '''survival'''.
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		+	* [[NPB Neutralizer OXZ\|'''NPB Neutralizer''']]
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		+	Galcop's '''Neutral Particle Beam''' weapon causes catastrophic '''internal damage''' - frying computers, disabling power, knocking out weapons and critical systems - while throwing off little energy as surface heat. A direct hit leaves the target a '''drifting derelict''' without triggering fatal explosions of fuel or ordinance.
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		+	* [[Small Ships OXZ\|'''Small Ships''']]
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		+	Flyable and essentially unaltered versions of the '''Asp Mk II''', Constrictor, Fer-de-Lance, Gecko, Krait, Mamba, Sidewinder, '''Viper''', '''Viper Interceptor''', Worm, and Transporter. Those ships originally sans Hyperdrive now have one; those without cargo space remain without. Newly [[Small Ships OXZ#New Prices\|'''rationalized prices''']] applied.
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		+	* [[Media:GETTER HUD 1.6.oxp.zip\|'''GETter HUD v.1.6''' - available only here!]]
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		+	FE Shipyards' premier trader/vigilante HUD now '''integrates realtime tracking''' of this OXP's closest High Offender in-system. Unzip the file to your Oolite AddOns folder.
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		+	== Quick Facts ==
		+	{{IconOXP\|ooVersion="1.82"\|oxpCPU="Low"\|oxpMEM="Average"\|oxpGPU="Low"}}
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		+	[[File:Tag-colour-blue.png]]
		+	{{OXPLevel\|1}}{{Infobox OXPb\| title = Tractor-Tow
		+	\|version = 1.0
		+	\|release = 2026-06-08
		+	\|features = Creates an immersive task
		+	\|license = CC BY-NC-SA 4
		+	\|category = Equipment OXPs
		+	\|author = [[User:Reval\|Reval]]
		+	}}

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 Guiding a hulk to Station is a slow - some might find painfully slow - procedure. Much patience is required to do the job of a licensed Salvage Contractor well. Never engage Torus or injectors! - you will break the Tractor Lock.
-But on successful completion of a towing run, cash rewards will be substantial. Your fee is calculated based on the rationalized market price of the ship-type you bring in. A generous proportion of '''half this value''' goes into the Contractor's account.
+But on successful completion of a towing run, cash rewards will be substantial. Your fee is calculated based on the [[Small Ships OXZ#New Prices|'''rationalized market price''']] of the ship-type you bring in. A generous proportion of '''half this value''' goes into the Contractor's account.
 And our graviton beam technology can handle multiple disabled vessels.

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 The Tractor-Tow package is to be mounted on your '''AFT weapon-facing'''.
-On neutralization of the selected target(s), approach, come to a stop, switch to AFT viewscreen, yaw 180 degrees until the hulk is centered in your weapon reticle. Fire a short burst of the Tractor's graviton beam until a Tractor Lock is announced by the system's AI. Turn 180 degrees again and begin a SLOW acceleration to 90-100 Lm/s. Verify on scanner (and preferably visually) that the locked hulk is being tractored with your vessel. Try not to exceed 200 Lm/s during your return tow-run and avoid sharp manoeuvres.
+On neutralization of the selected target(s), approach, come to a stop, switch to AFT viewscreen, yaw 180 degrees until the hulk is centered in your weapon reticle. Fire a short burst of the Tractor's graviton beam until '''Tractor Lock''' is announced by the system's AI.
 On entering Station Aegis, the AI will release the towed hulk for tug-operations. Upon docking, your payment will be reported and your fee transferred.

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	And our graviton beam technology can handle multiple disabled vessels.		And our graviton beam technology can handle multiple disabled vessels.
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		+	== Requirements & Procedures ==
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		+	Your vessel is expected to be fitted, at the very least, with a forward [[NPB Neutralizer OXZ\|'''NPB Neutralizer''']] - without this weapon, there will be no neutralized ships to tractor.
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		+	The Tractor-Tow package is to be mounted on your '''AFT weapon-facing'''.
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		+	On neutralization of the selected target(s), approach, come to a stop, switch to AFT viewscreen, yaw 180 degrees until the hulk is centered in your weapon reticle. Fire a short burst of the Tractor's graviton beam until a Tractor Lock is announced by the system's AI. Turn 180 degrees again and begin a SLOW acceleration to 90-100 Lm/s. Verify on scanner (and preferably visually) that the locked hulk is being tractored with your vessel. Try not to exceed 200 Lm/s during your return tow-run and avoid sharp manoeuvres.
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		+	On entering Station Aegis, the AI will release the towed hulk for tug-operations. Upon docking, your payment will be reported and your fee transferred.

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	'''--Tea Mereso, retained freelance, Xexedi Enquirer.'''		'''--Tea Mereso, retained freelance, Xexedi Enquirer.'''
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		+	== Notes for Operators ==
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		+	First, it should be remembered that the Tractor-Tow AI system is not physical or solid. It relies on multiple inputs in the form of feedback pulses per microsecond. The Tractor is maintaining a continuously adjusted and precise bombardment of gravitons to keep the tractored hulk 'tethered' and following in the wake of the Operator's vessel.
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		+	It may be likened to a sheepdog or steer, as these animals were (and perhaps still are) employed in ancient pastoral societies.
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		+	Care is needed in the steering and manoeuvring of your ship. Warnings will be issued if you fall outside sustainable parameters.
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		+	Guiding a hulk to Station is a slow - some might find painfully slow - procedure. Much patience is required to do the job of a licensed Salvage Contractor well. Never engage Torus or injectors! - you will break the Tractor Lock.
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		+	But on successful completion of a towing run, cash rewards will be substantial. Your fee is calculated based on the rationalized market price of the ship-type you bring in. A generous proportion of '''half this value''' goes into the Contractor's account.
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		+	And our graviton beam technology can handle multiple disabled vessels.

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 Some ancient poet once announced: 'A Rose by any other name is still a Rose'. A pirate is a pirate, paint him how you will.
 === Ear-to-the-Ground Morsels ===
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 <i>A picture starts to form of a Harvester 'standing off' near a Station or a Witchpoint marker, targeting, then launching a Ptera, and sauntering off for a snack while far out in the blackness a group of hapless ships become ghosts. On re-seating itself, our gallant commander yawns as the list of the '''incapacitated''' skitters greenly down the main display. It's 'mop up' time again. Charming image to lay us down to sleep on, is it not, Tuners?</i>
-No one among yous will accuse ''this'' 'unimpeachable source' of not seeing it coming...
+No one among yous will accuse ''this'' unimpeachable source of not seeing it coming...
 So to the none-too-subtle Galcop litany: first 'Defence' [[Defence Rider Drones OXZ|'''Rider Drones''']], ''then'' their awesome and unseen [[PT-BVRM Pteranodon OXZ|'''Pteranodon''']] missile, not forgetting the icing on their cake: the [[NPB Neutralizer OXZ|'''NPB non-laser weapon''']]. And, Tuners, all free to ''us'' IF we can make the grade. And who could not, with just a little effort and persuasion? Because, let's face it, they ''want'' applicants; they ''need'' candidate-recruits for their new model army - call it, as they are doing, a ''Police Corps extension''.

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 === The "Ghost Department" Role ===
-While our high-profile '''Galcop Worlds Council''' provides a democratic veneer, the '''Office of Galactic Security''' operates as the executive engine powering such draconian measures (lately manifested in the form of the CSDDA and its new-hatched SDD-Network), drafting the security legislation, defining "public safety" criteria, and overseeing the licensing bureau that will regulate the new private enforcement contractors.
+While our high-profile '''Galcop Worlds Council''' provides a democratic veneer, the '''Office of Galactic Security''' operates as the executive engine driving such draconian measures (lately manifested in the form of the CSDDA and its new-hatched SDD-Network), drafting the security legislation, defining "public safety" criteria, and overseeing the licensing bureau that will regulate the new private enforcement contractors.
 Sources suggest the Act is being fast-tracked through '''Galcop Parliament''' on Lave, leveraging ongoing public concerns about Thargoid incursions and the perceived overstretch of regular Naval forces, to say nothing of Police impotence in anarchic systems. By outsourcing enforcement and asset recovery, the Administration aims to flood the spacelanes with incentivized hunters without expanding the official budget.

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 <i>A picture starts to form of a Harvester 'standing off' near a Station or a Witchpoint marker, targeting, then launching a Ptera, and sauntering off for a snack while far out in the blackness a group of hapless ships become ghosts. On re-seating itself, our gallant commander yawns as the list of the '''incapacitated''' skitters greenly down the main display. It's 'mop up' time again. Charming image to lay us down to sleep on, is it not, Tuners?</i>
-So, first 'Defence' [[Defence Rider Drones OXZ|'''Rider Drones''']], ''then'' their awesome and unseen [[PT-BVRM Pteranodon OXZ|'''Pteranodon''']] missile, not forgetting the icing on their cake: the [[NPB Neutralizer OXZ|'''NPB non-laser weapon''']]. And, Tuners, all free to ''us'' IF we can make the grade. And who could not, with just a little effort and persuasion? Because, let's face it, they ''want'' applicants; they ''need'' candidate-recruits for their new army - call it, as they are doing, a ''Police Corps extension''.
+No one among yous will accuse ''this'' 'unimpeachable source' of not seeing it coming...
-Or, as DCC Dor Reval today admitted to your faithful sleuth, 'perhaps a necessary evil.'
+So to the none-too-subtle Galcop litany: first 'Defence' [[Defence Rider Drones OXZ|'''Rider Drones''']], ''then'' their awesome and unseen [[PT-BVRM Pteranodon OXZ|'''Pteranodon''']] missile, not forgetting the icing on their cake: the [[NPB Neutralizer OXZ|'''NPB non-laser weapon''']]. And, Tuners, all free to ''us'' IF we can make the grade. And who could not, with just a little effort and persuasion? Because, let's face it, they ''want'' applicants; they ''need'' candidate-recruits for their new model army - call it, as they are doing, a ''Police Corps extension''.
-But we can't have neutralized 'infractors' littering the spacelanes, can we? Crippled hulks require disposal. And to solve the problem, says Dor, Black Labs  once more to the rescue with a '<b>Tractor-Tow</b>' package. ''And'' yet another sub-Division: Licensed Salvage Contractors. Where will this end?
+Or, as DCC Dor Reval today coyly admitted to your faithful sleuth, 'perhaps a necessary evil.'
-Salvage contracting would appear the most lucrative of the lot, and one ''we ourselves'' might choose given the leisure and inclination. Reval tells that it will certainly ''pay'' and both sides, or parties, of the License Agreement stand to benefit immeasurably.
+But we can't have neutralized 'infractors' littering the spacelanes, can we? Crippled hulks require disposal. And to solve the problem, says Dor, Black Labs  once again to the rescue with a '<b>Tractor-Tow</b>' (fully autonomous) AI package. ''And'' yet another sub-Division: Licensed Salvage Contractors. Where will this end?
 "Contractors will bring in the hulks, with generous remuneration and further incentives, and Galcop will refit them, the ships being now '''Police Property''', to expand the vehicle pool and to be deployed, eventually, crewed by experienced volunteers, on enforcement duties in the most unruly systems. Win-Win."
-Now, Tuners, how often have we heard that phrase before?
+Now, Tuners, how often have we heard that phrase? And how often will we hear it again?
 '''--Tea Mereso, retained freelance, Xexedi Enquirer.'''

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	* <u>Privatized Enforcement</u>: The '''Office of Galactic Security (OGS)''' will issue licenses to independent spacers and security firms, effectively deputizing them to act with the same authority as regular Galcop police vessels regarding asset seizure.		* <u>Privatized Enforcement</u>: The '''Office of Galactic Security (OGS)''' will issue licenses to independent spacers and security firms, effectively deputizing them to act with the same authority as regular Galcop police vessels regarding asset seizure.

−	* <u>Asset Forfeiture</u>: Confiscated ships will not be returned upon payment of fines; they become the property of the Galcop Administration, to be auctioned, scrapped, or repurposed for state use.	+	* <u>Asset Forfeiture</u>: Confiscated ships will not be returned upon payment of fines; they become the property of the Galcop Administration, to be auctioned, scrapped, or '''repurposed for state use'''.