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                    *** STARLORD SHIPS AND VESSELS ***

There are three separate types of ships to be encountered in the game STAR-
LORD as follow:

   Imperial Vessels - These ships are represented as green objects similar
      to bases with a tail on the map and viewing screen.  There are five
      Empire ships: the Anarion, Excalibur, Nargothrond, Orolan, and Sil-
      maril.  All of these ships (as all ships in the game) have the exact
      same capabilities.  These are summarized below.

      SHIELDS - Each vessel is equipped with Impact Absorption (Type
                IA-VII) shields.  The shields, so long as they are at
                all operational and raised, will absorb any destructive
                force contacting the ship.  The energy used to absorb
                this force is taken from the ship's supply of crytal.
                The shields are automatically programmed to cease
                operation if the ship's supply of crystal becomes equal
                to or less than 25 units.

      COMPUTER - The Ship's computer is one of the most vital pieces of
                equipment aboard your vessel.  It is used specifically
                for long range scanning and target calculations.  Computer
                capacity must be greater than 25% for either of these
                options to function, the lower 25% of computer capacity
                being reserved for life support and navigation functions.

      WARP DRIVE - This is the ship's primary mode of propulsion.  The
                Warp Drive engines cause the ship to move through space
                at a rate of five units per move.  These engines are among
                the most efficient engines currently available, however
                their efficiency decreases proportionally as they become
                damaged.

      IMPULSE ENGINES - The is the ship's secondary mode of propulsion.
                Use of the Impulse engines propels the ship through space
                at a a rate of 1 unit per move.  As with the Warp Drive,
                these engines decrease in efficiency as they become damaged.

      HULL - The hull of your ship is made of a special Titanium Crystal al-
                loy allowing it to sustain the force of 1000 hit points be-
                fore losing its integrity.  Once its integrity is compromised
                your vessel becomes unable to support life, and your ship is
                immediately destroyed.

      BEAM WEAPON - Your ship is equipped with high power Laser-Plasma beam
                weapons.  The use of these weapons requires crystal at a rate
                determined by distance from the target.  Its range is the
                range of your viewing screen, and it's power decreases as
                the range increases.

      TORPEDOES - The ship is also equipped with Nucleophotonic torpedoes.
                The ship's maximum complement of torpedoes is 10.  These
                generally cause more damage than the beam weapon, however
                they are very unstable and tend to misfire quite often.
                Their strength also decreases proportionally as the dis-
                tance from the target increases.

                NOTE: the impact force of both weapons is calculated by
                what they hit.  Your ship may be adjacent to an enemy and
                still not cause much damage because the force of the weapon
                may have been directed against some non-vital enemy system.

      COMMLINK - The commlink is the ship's primary link with everything
                exterior to the hull, however the most often used feature
                of the commlink is the TRANSFER command, which teletransports
                commanders from ship to ship.  In order for this command to
                function, the commlink must be greater than 75% capacity.

      SHUTTLES - Your vessel is equipped with four torpedo bays, however,
                Imperial Fleet Command has not yet made a decision as to
                what type of shuttle is to be installed on Imperial Vessels.

      Once an Imperial Vessel is destroyed it must either be refitted or
      removed from active service.  If you are commanding a vessel which
      is destroyed your mission will automatically be ended.  You must then
      restart STARLORD and follow instructions concerning refit.  It is pos-
      sible to refit ships from the command screen, but this information is
      extremely confidential and left to the discovery of each individual
      commander.  Refitting an Imperial Vessel at the beginning of the game
      costs 2500 E/C units and may under certain circumstances cost more.
      Beginning a game with a destroyed vessel may also cause demotion and
      heavy fines.

   Rebel Vessels - At any one time there will be a maximum of five rebel
   vessels active in the sector you are operating in: the Gargoyle, Mordred,
   Jihad, Kashmir, and Rasputin.  Since these are vessels stolen from the
   Empire, they have the same capabilities as the ships you command.  These
   ships can be destroyed in the same way yours can be, however it seems
   after they are destroyed they have a tendency to return to active ser-
   vice.  This is true whether you capture the vessel and deliver it to
   Starbase or not.  Imperial Fleet Intelligence has learned that what
   actually happens is that other vessels are stolen from the Empire, then
   renamed according to what rebel ships have been destroyed.

   Neutral Vessels - These vessels pose no threat to the Empire.  If they
   are towed to an Imperial Installation, the commander of the tow vessel
   is granted an efficiency bonus.