Belters

ALLEGOPEDIA
About	History
FACTIONS
Belters	Bios
Dreghklar	Ga'Taraan
GigaCorp	Iron Coalition
Omicron Hive	Rixian Unity
Technoflux	Draconium
Phoenix	Valkyrie
SHIPS
Buying Ships
Small Class
Eject Pod	Interceptor
Fighter	Scout
Stealth Fighter	Other Small Ships
Medium Class
Bomber	Fighter Bomber
Gunship	Stealth Bomber
Troop Transport	Other Medium Ships
Capital Class
Assault Ship	Attack Carrier
Battlecruiser	Battleship
Corvette	Cruiser
Destroyer	Devastator
Freighter	Frigate
	Other Capital Ships
Ship Equipment
Dispenser Items	Missiles
Weapons	Other Equipment
AI Drone Ships
Carrier	Caltrop
Constructor	Miner
Tower	Other Drones
BASES
Buying Bases
Minor Bases
Outpost	Refinery
Teleport Receiver	Other Minor Bases
Special Bases
Garrison	Shipyard
Technology Bases
Expansion Complex	Supremacy Center
Tactical Laboratory	Other Tech Bases

BELTERS
About	Storyline	[Pcore005]
	The Belters - a loose collection of independent traders, prospectors, pirates, and privateers - share a common belief: that freedom from tyranny is the right of all humanity. Belters are a rough-hewn, unruly bunch of borderline anarchists. Led by unlikely hero Orion Sholes, the Belters pilot an odd mix of captured and jury-rigged equipment: the "Junkyard Armada."
Starting Ships:	Scout	Fighter
Short Name	Nick Name	Abbreviation
Belters	Bricks	Belts
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Overview

The junkyard dogs of allegiance, Belters are strong, dangerous, and use almost anything they can find.

You just never can tell what you're going to find when you encounter a Belter ship, with the vast customization that their pilots have access to, you could find yourself up against the deadliest ship in the game or you might just end up encountering a Bomber designed to deliver pizza, you just never know.

Belter pilots are always hunting for random technology since they can use almost anything, for that reason alone if you encounter a Belter ship you need to watch them closely, they may just decide to attack you in order to destroy your ship and salvage any floating technology for parts.

Perks

The Belters' junkyard orientations give them most of their unique qualities. Their biggest strategic advantage is their ability to use (almost) any technology without the corresponding technology base. This makes it very important for their pilots to scavenge as much technology as possible after a battle, because as soon as it's secured then everyone on the team can use it. As opposed to, for instance, an Iron Coalition pilot who secures Mini Gun 2, his team must wait until an Expansion complex is built before their Mini Gun 1’s are upgraded.

Another aspect of their junkyard technology is the ability to continue using ships after losing the corresponding technology base. Once researched, enhanced fighters, stealth fighters, and interceptors will remain available for the rest of the game. The advanced versions of ships do require the appropriate technology base to remain playable. This makes a Belter team incredibly resilient - after losing a technology base they can still fly Mk-II ships and use Mk-II and Mk-III weapons!

Their final major unique quality is their ability to mix-and-match weapons on their ships. Normally fighters can only mount fighter weapons, and interceptors can only mount interceptor weapons. With Belters, almost anything goes. In fact, (nearly) all of their small ships can mount the nanite repair system (nans), making them incredibly useful in nearly every situation when they bring it along (and they should).

Nerfs

The cost of technology is a large nerf and combined with the slower than usual research time of 4 minutes can make it difficult to keep up on the tech edge. It is extremely important to obtain floating technology whenever posssible. Since their tech bases are incredibly cheap to produce, a Belter team can quickly spread across the map with solid stations which when coupled with their ability to maintain technology from lost tech stations and incredible versatility in ship load-out, all technology should be acquired when looking to the future.

Their approach to building ships is simple; weld some metal together and use extra duct tape. Their poorly engineered ships are clunky craft that are easy to hit. They've never completely mastered shield technology and all small class ships lack shields, to partially offset this they've welded extra armour plates on ships gaining additional hull points. They have managed to attach light boosters to nearly every small and medium class ship, however belter ships handle like a sluggish brick because of all the extra mass in the armour. This all makes the belters an unpopular choice for many new players.

Belter miners are vulnerable, they are slow to mine so they are often found by the enemy and they are slow moving making them easy prey. Heightened miner defence is required and good deprobing so they can get their job done, once they offload the bonus to he3 yield allows them much more money than other miners. Because of their vulnerabilities Belter economies are considered poor, however proper operation of miners and making sure that they mine efficiently using refineries can turn their economy into a windfall.

Special

After finding rescue probe technology in Coalition space, Belters replicated the technology. pilots in eject pods can indeed use those probes to be quickly sent back to the nearest station. However Belter scientists were unable in creating specificity in the probe and thus belter rescue probes work for every other faction as well. Pilots are instructed to be particularly careful in their placement, hiding them to be sure that the enemy cannot see them, and then use them. The religious beliefs of the Belters led them to name this technology a "sanctuary".

• An exception to Belters tech scrounging is Teleport Probe 2 (TP2), to access that technology they must have a Supremacy Center.

Faction statistics

Health		Ships		Weapons		Economy
Ship hull[1]	105%	Top speed	115%	EW range	100%	Starting money	100%
Ship shield	100%	Acceleration	100%	PW range	100%	Payday	$450
Ship shield repair	100%	Turn rate	105%	PW damage	100%	Mining speed	60%
Station hull	100%	Torque	110%	Missile tracking	100%	Miner capacity	80%
Station shield	100%	Sensors	100%	Missile damage	100%	He3 yield	110%
Station hull repair	100%	Signature[2]	100%	Energy	100%	Research time	4 minutes
Station shield repair	100%	Ripcording[3]	100%			Research costs	125%

1  ·	Standard ship hull is 90%.

2  ·	Note that ship signature is divided by this number, so a higher number is better.

3  ·	Note that ripcord time is divided by this number, so a higher number is better.

Faction unique traits

• Salvagers:
  • Can use most tech that is researched or salvaged, whether or not the corresponding techbase is alive.
  • Can replicate other factions unique technology, such as Technoflux's particle-energy weapons.
  • Belter ships can carry a variety of weapons and equipment normally available to only other ships.
  • Scouts, stealth fighters, stealth bombers, fighter bombers carry booster. Bombers can mount light booster.
• Workers, not thinkers:
  • 4 minute research time.
  • New ship equipment is expensive to research.
  • New ship designs are cheap to research.
  • All Bases are cheaper to construct (-20%).
• Unsophisticated engineering:
  • No small shield available.
  • Extra hitpoints for most ships (in addition to the faction-wide buffs listed above).
  • Heavier, boxier ships.
  • Once researched, can use Mk II ships whether or not the corresponding techbase is alive.
• Unique ship the omni fighter is available.
  • A fighter class ship capable of mounting any equipment available to any small ship.

Latest faction changes from Pcore005

All belters ships are now 50% heavier than those of other factions, while player ships have only 33% more thrust. (drones get 50% so they dont align for years when docking).

All belter small and medium ships have boosters and some fuel. Ships that wouldve had boosters anyway have more fuel, to compensate for the worse accel. For figs that is roughly 1/5th more fuel. Ints get only 1/15th more fuel.

Fuel values for scouts and sfs reduced to 4/5/7 for basic/enh/adv tech level.

All belter small craft can mount both boosters and afterburners.

All belter medium craft can mount the new belters-only medium booster. Everything but gunships has very low fuel, only allowing for short bursts of better acceleration, but no significant maximum speed increase.

Gunships have some more fuel giving them some additional mobility.

Medium booster research requires light booster 1 and a starbase.

Belters now keep their researched mk2 ships, even if the techbase is destroyed.

Omni figs now can mount hvy cloak and have slightly better base acceleration.

See also

• Belters - pictures