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)
180x Silicate Composite55x Void Nanite Suspension30x Shield Matrix42x Processed Null Matter25x Sensor Array8x Navigation Core2x Power Distribution Grid65x Copper Wiring5x Void Shield Matrix5x Void Crystal10x Phase Matrix1x Drone Command Module95x Titanium Alloy20x Void Condensate37x Shield Emitter3x Void Capacitor8x Processing Core14x Neural Interface Gel1x 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