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A Surface Port is a planetary or lunar outpost with open docking facilities for ships and SRVs. They range in size from pocket-sized settlements to larger, semi-enclosed cities, and tin exist located with the planetary map of a landable torso. Various services and exclusive mission types are available. Some Surface Ports offer exclusive Commodities that cannot be procured elsewhere. Local security forces employ both ships and Skimmers.

Surface Ports differ from Settlements in that the latter have no docking facilities. Surface Ports are identifiable in the Navigation pane as having an icon iii buildings: one pocket-sized, 1 medium, and one large. Settlements have an icon with just two buildings and an antenna.

Surface Port Types

There are three different types of Surface Ports: Planetary Outposts, Planetary Ports, and Workshops. The outset ii function identically and differ simply in layout and size, while the third is a special type of Surface Port used exclusively by Engineers.

Planetary Outpost

Planetary Outposts are small Surface Ports most commonly found in low-population systems with irksome economies, besides every bit the most common type of Surface Port. They take a variable number of Landing Pads and multiple unique layouts. In general, Landing Pads are scattered in clusters around a series of habitation structures, cargo holding facilities, and roads, with defense turrets installed on the outskirts. Skimmers patrol throughout the area.

Planetary Port

Planetary Ports are large Surface Ports most unremarkably found in loftier-population systems with humming economies. All Planetary Ports take the same number of Landing Pads, and mostly-identical layouts with some pocket-sized variation in the placement of the central structures. The Landing Pads are always built into the ring-like structure encircling the main domes and towers, which has a groundside entrance that can be used by SRVs to enter and exit the Surface Port.

Workshop

Workshops are a unique type of Surface Port exclusively used past Engineers. There are a full of 26 Workshops, including the defunct Palin Enquiry Centre in Maia, making them the rarest blazon of Surface Port. Unlike Planetary Outposts and Ports, Workshops volition not appear in organisation maps unless a pilot has been invited past the Engineers that own them; they can withal be reached by manually navigating using their coordinates, but the Engineers will refuse to offer their services.

Afterward meeting the various admission requirements for an Engineer, their Workshop can be used to alter modules and increase reputation with that Engineer, which unlocks college grades of mods. Workshops can too exist remotely accessed to brand modifications after meeting an Engineer provided a specific blueprint has been pinned.

Send and SRV Docking

Main commodity: Docking

Surface Ports are the terrestrial equivalent of Starports. Ships can asking to dock at a Surface Port once they are within a 7.5 km radius of it. Rather than having to pass through an Access Corridor, however, the Landing Pads of a Surface Port are arranged openly. Care should exist taken while docking on high-gravity planets, as some ship's thrusters may not exist able to fairly slow their descent to the Landing Pad, resulting in damage to shields or the hull upon contact with the surface.^[1]

Subsequently securing a ship within a hangar, the airplane pilot can also deploy an SRV via one of the Surface Port'due south garages. To render to the ship afterward, the pilot must make a docking request with the Surface Port, and then follow the nav-compass to the nearest garage and employ the Part Panel to initiate boarding. Note that if a ship is docked at a Surface Port while the pilot is using an SRV, the ship cannot be recalled to the pilot's location unless they drive outside of the Surface Port's docking request range.

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Structures

Space Structures

Stations	Asteroid Base Coriolis Ocellus Orbis Outpost
Other	Majuscule Ship Dock Carrier Construction Dock Generation Ship Guardian Beacon Installation Megaship
Celestial	Lagrange Cloud

Surface Structures

Guardian	Ancient Ruins Guardian Structure
Human	Settlement Surface Port
Thargoid	Thargoid Barnacle Thargoid Barnacle Barb Thargoid Surface Site

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Points of Involvement

Geography

Landforms	Canyons Craters Mountains
Geological sites	Fumaroles Gas Vents Geysers Lava Spout

Biological sites

Aleoida^O

Amphora Found

Anemone

Bacterium^O

Bark Mound

Brain Tree

Cactoida^O

Clypeus^O

Concha^O

Crystalline Shard

Electricae^O

Fonticulua^O

Frutexa^O

Fumerola^O

Fungoida^O

Osseus^O

Recepta^O

Sinuous Tuber

Stratum^O

Tubus^O

Tussock^O

Xenological sites

Aboriginal Ruins

Guardian Structure

Crashed Thargoid Transport

Nonhuman Signature^O

Thargoid Barnacle

Thargoid Barnacle Barb

Thargoid Surface Site

Objects and Structures

Active Ability Source^O

Bogus Structure^O

Automated Mining Extractor

Cargo Canister

Cargo Rack

Conflict Zone^O

Crash Site^O

Information Point

Distress Buoy^O

Impact Site^O

Irregular Markers^O

Minor Wreckage^O

Occupied Escape Pod

Materials

Salvage

Settlement

Shipwreck

Surface Digging^O

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