The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. The 81 ships, drones, and stations in this volume build on the ships presented in 2300AD, and add new opportunities for trade, diplomacy, exploration, and combat. This book contains many drones, fighters, freighters, landers and warships from across human space, along with a selection of ships used by the three space-faring alien species at the edge of Human space: the Pteranodon-like Sung the odd little biotech masters, the Pentapods and the hulking, vaguely-insectoid Kaefers, unrelentingly-hostile and bent on conquest. And still other are required to protect all those other ships and the worlds they serve.
Interface craft are required to connect the great ships with the worlds below, other ships are need to find raw materials, and to find new worlds.
In order to connect all those worlds with the systems of the Core, starships are required. The 33 colony worlds and countless outposts of human space are scattered across a 100 light-year diameter volume of space, along three intricate and complex Arms of stars and anchorages that allow starships to hop from star to star, 7.7 light-years at a time.
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