The Rocker Duo is a asteroid hauling ship that is basically two Rockers mashed together. It is designed to be used in the safe zone and haul small asteroids. It uses two tractor beams to position asteroids into two sets of five compartments of cargo lock beams in a circular pattern so it can hold up to ten asteroids. 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.

Loading of asteroids is the slowest compared to the Rocker and Hexxer but it can hold the most asteroids (10 vs 5 or 6).

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

Usage

Flying the Ship

The left lever on the center console controls backwards thrust (braking) and the right lever controls forward thrust.

Managing Power and Fuel

Managing Power

By default the generator will only run and ramp up when the batteries need charging so there is minimum management needed. But you can set a minimum generate rate by setting the Min Generator Rate value using the switch for the minimum rate and turning on Min Gen.

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 of either side 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.

Unload will turn of all cargo lock beams on either side.

Other Stuff

Timer

On the pilot center console there is a Timer panel which acts as a timer. It will run when the ship is active and show total time in years, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. To reset the timer, use your universal tool (U key) and clear the value of the Timer field.