Gestalt
Voidborn drone carrier. The drones may share consciousness with the ship.
T3Voidborn CollectiveDrone CarrierCombat Supportgestalt
Stats
Hull350
Shield380
Shield Regen8/tick
Armor12
Speed2 AU/tick
Fuel380
Cargo95
CPU58
Power105
Build Time4680 ticks
Shipyard Level2
Slots
Weapon Slots1
Defense Slots3
Utility Slots5
Default Loadout
Requirements
Build Materials (19)
20x Void Condensate5x Void Shield Matrix8x Navigation Core2x Power Distribution Grid42x Processed Null Matter5x Void Crystal25x Sensor Array8x Processing Core95x Titanium Alloy55x Void Nanite Suspension37x Shield Emitter30x Shield Matrix3x Void Capacitor10x Phase Matrix14x Neural Interface Gel180x Silicate Composite65x Copper Wiring1x Drone Command Module1x Voidborn Null Matrix
Lore
Gestalt-class drones do not receive commands from the mothership. They appear to know what the mothership intends before it communicates. Voidborn engineers explain this as "emergent coordination through shared substrate" — a phrase that has generated more academic papers than answers. The drones' behavior in combat is described by other empires as "unsettlingly organic," moving as schools of fish or flocks of birds rather than as independent units receiving instructions.
drone-carrierneural-linkedhigh-cpu