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This page describes content that only appears in Advanced Edition. |
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Backup Battery interface |
Backup Battery is a sub-system that can be activated to temporary increase power of your reactor, and becomes available for purchase in stores when Advanced Edition Content is enabled.
Overview[]
- When activated, Backup Battery provides 2 additional power bars for 30 seconds. Upgrading the subsystem provides 4 additional power bars in total upon activation.
- Bonus power is indicated by power bars with orange borders.
- Battery power bars are allocated after distributing all regular power bars.
- Once the Backup Battery work cycle is over, the system enters a 20 seconds cooldown before it can be used again. Battery Charger augmentation reduces the cooldown to 10 seconds. No reactor energy is required to recharge the battery.
- Additional power acts as normal power bars, and when Backup Battery enters its cooldown, the additional power bars are removed from reactor. This can cause activated systems such as Cloaking or Mind Control to deactivate or reduce their effect duration and begin their cooldown prematurely, for good or ill.
- Backup Battery can be effectively used for powering temporary systems such as Cloaking, Mind Control or additional levels of these or other systems: once these systems enter their cooldown, the reactor power is locked for the whole duration of the cooldown; additional power bars can be removed from those systems during their cooldown without repercussions when Backup Battery enters its cooldown.
- Additional power bars interact with Zoltan power just like regular power bars.
- Backup Battery's additional power bars are not affected by ion storms (which temporarily half the maximum reactor power).
- Backup Battery's cooldown is immediately reset by an FTL jump. However, Waiting (e.g. for Flagship or in out-fuel events) will not reset the cooldown.
- If all system levels of the Backup Battery get ionized, the system enters the maximum cooldown - 25 seconds. If a pulsar ionizes it, it will be shutdown and enter its maximum cooldown.
- If you are not in danger (that prevents accessing ship info screen, e.g. during combat or while being boarded; at solar flare, pulsar, asteroid field beacons; during hostile ASB presence) and Backup Battery runs out, it doesn't enter its cooldown - it becomes instantly available again (similar to Cloaking).
- Backup Battery allows to exceed the maximum (25 power bars) reactor level.
- Hacking a Backup Battery will cause it to shut down and drain two regular power bars from the reactor. (only playable ships can have Backup Battery)
- Can be used to complete the Zoltan Cruiser Givin' her all she's got, Captain! achievement and is required (as one of the elements) to receive the Lanius Cruiser Advanced Mastery achievement.
- Pre-installed and fully upgraded on Zoltan C.
System Upgrades[]
| Level | Cost | Effect |
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| 1 | 35 
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2 temporary power bars |
| 2 | 50
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4 temporary power bars |