C.S.S. Faustus

Price: 12,500 mk || Tier 3

Shi Jie Shipyard's mid tier attack sub, the Faustus is a scaled down version of the Exathra. Built for clearing out the dangerous fauna of the European sea. It is outfitted with an offensive armament of 3 Coil Guns, a Rail Gun, and a Depth Charge Tube. There are 2 shuttles available to ferry dive teams to locations that are unreachable for the main sub. Shuttle docking ports are protected by discharge coils that can be activated from the Navigation Console.

Features:

• Security Cameras Can be viewed from the navigation terminal. The left allows you to see the engine room/rear diving prep area as well as most of the docking hallway. The centre shows the top level of the sub. The right shows the forward docking area and reactor room.

• Live Map There is a live map in the rear docking port that tracks movement and flooding throughout the ship. It can be observed from the command room using the far left camera on the navigation terminal. The bottom half of each room on the map will light up blue if there is water detected in it, and the top part will light up green if anybody is moving in that area (Except for the ballast which only display the ballast's water level). An example of how it works can be seen in the preview images above.

• Discharge Coils Can be activated from the navigation terminal's control screen. Useful for when aliens get in/around the shuttle docking ports

• Motion Sensor Doors
  Can be disabled/enabled with button to the right of the navigation terminal. *note Airlock doors, depth charge station doors, hatches and cargo compartment doors are not motion activated

• Backup Power Batteries Powers the coilguns, ballast, engines, navigation terminal, oxygen generator, rear airlock pump, command room and Magazine lights. Turned on with the "Backup Power" button on the top of navigation terminal

• Drainage System Can be toggled from navigation terminal, this exists as a way to drain the ship if the reactor is down, but can be used to speed up draining after a breach as well. The front of the ship's floors will only drain if the floor below them is not full of water.

• Depth Charge Station The depth charge tube is lined up approximately with the forward shuttle docking port.

• Artifact Deconstructor Situated in the rear airlock, it can be flooded to safely deconstruct thermal artifacts

• Powered Docking The sub receives power from the primary docking port. When docked to stations the reactor can be shutdown to reserve fuel. Systems that are powered from the docking port are: Batteries, oxygen generator, engineering lights and fabricator/deconstructor, medical lights and fabricator, and the central access shaft pumps.

• Additional status monitors in different sections of the ship

There are two shuttles that the ship comes with, one drone and one manned shuttle.

1. Doran Drone Unmanned support drone, can recon hard to reach locations and ferry supplies and dive teams to/from them, has a healthy cache of diving supplies inside. Two top mounted turrets give it a wide range of fire, and can easily be swapped back and forth. There is also a discharge coil mounted on the top that can be fired from the shuttle's navigation terminal.

2. Pantheon Shuttle Manned transport craft, with space for multiple crew. Easy to navigate into tight spaces thanks to the front observation port. It can transport a dive team to and from locations that the main sub cannot reach. Features on/off button to conserve battery power during away missions. Outfitted with a top right and bottom left coilgun that you can swap between using the button in the command cabin. In the event of aliens getting to close for comfort there is a discharge coil that can be activated from the navigation terminal.

Thanks to it's affordability, I've found the Faustus makes a good mid tier sub for a campaign play through but can also be a great starting sub for a larger multiplayer group. This is a smaller/cheaper version of my largest sub, The Exathra.

Please post any issues you run into and I'll try to get them fixed ASAP!