The Rocker is an asteroid hauling ship. It is designed to be used in the safe zone and haul small asteroids. It uses a tractor beam to position asteroids into five compartments of cargo lock beams in a circular pattern. It has load automation to approach and load asteroids in the right order as well as a material scanner that gives estimated credits for selling the asteroids.

The Rocker is also available to buy in game at Hangar Showroom 2 of Rando 7 Ship Shop at stations with Rando ship shops.

Usage

Flying the Ship

See Flight Systems on how to fly the ship and use its flight systems.

Managing Power, Fuel and Propellant

Managing Power and Fuel

See Power and Fuel Systems on how to manage ship power and refuel.

Refilling Propellant

See Propellant Systems on how to refill propellant.

Scanning Asteroids

Scan turns on the material scanner. The beam has a range of 100m. Point the beam at an asteroid and Material will show the materials in the asteroid along with the volume of each in stacks. Credits will show the estimated amount of credits you will get for the asteroid if you drop it off at Origin stations. The calculation is 158.8% (worked out this with testing) of the cost of ore of the vendor price. This only has data for safe zone materials. The total volume of the asteroid in Mv is also shown.

Loading Asteroids

Approach an asteroid by pointing the center rangefinder at an asteroid and activating Approach. This will guide the ship to around 10m of the asteroid.

To load asteroids, activate Beam to activate tractor beam and point the beam at an asteroid. Once the beam has locked on, use Load to use beam to load to a compartment. The back compartment should be loaded first followed by the left and right back and finally the the front compartments. The loading of the a compartment will not activate if cargo lock beam of the compartments in front of it is activated.

Once the asteroid is in place the cargo lock beam should activate itself and the tractor beam will reset. If it does not activate for any reason, you can use Toggle to active the cargo lock beam manually and it will also reset the tractor beam.

All these can be done the automated Load function. Point the center rangefinder at the asteroid you wish to load and activate Load. This is activate Approach, Scan and Beam as well as smartly activating the Load of the right compartment. So you can just use Load each time and it will load the asteroids to the right compartment in the right order.

As of version 1.0.2, asteroids can also be loaded faster from the sides, by setting the Load Position to the left or right. Loading from the right can only load to the back and right back compartments and loading from the left can only load the left back compartment. For safety, loading from the sides can only be activated if the cargo compartments on its respective sides are empty. Also the ship will not spin to the side when using Approach automatically, so this has to be done manually. Load can be used once the beam has locked on.

Unload will turn of all cargo lock beams.