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== Docking Permission == | == Docking Permission == | ||
[[File:Station with Boeing 747 and Courier.jpg|thumb|250px|Station with Boeing 747 and Courier]] | |||
All stations require incoming ships to request and be granted docking permission before they pass through the access corridor. Ships without permission will be charged with trespass as they near it. If they do not then vacate the station area very rapidly, the station will become hostile and open fire. Many ships are not fast enough to reverse course before they are fired upon, so pilots must be attentive at all times and not forget to request permission. | All stations require incoming ships to request and be granted docking permission before they pass through the access corridor. Ships without permission will be charged with trespass as they near it. If they do not then vacate the station area very rapidly, the station will become hostile and open fire. Many ships are not fast enough to reverse course before they are fired upon, so pilots must be attentive at all times and not forget to request permission. | ||
The interior of stations is kept pressurised with a breathable, if not always pleasant, atmosphere. Translucent blue force fields generated at the access corridor prevent the immediate venting of this atmosphere into space yet allows the passage of spacecraft. Ships with broken [[Ship Canopy|canopies]] which are on emergency [[Life Support | The interior of stations is kept pressurised with a breathable, if not always pleasant, atmosphere. Translucent blue force fields generated at the access corridor prevent the immediate venting of this atmosphere into space yet allows the passage of spacecraft. Ships with broken [[Ship Canopy|canopies]] which are on emergency [[Life Support]] will no longer be in danger from running out of oxygen once they pass the force fields. | ||
== Problems transiting == | == Problems transiting == | ||
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== 360° Roll == | == 360° Roll == | ||
In certain situations, a pilot may not have enough time to correctly align with an Access Corridor. While some ships are too wide to enter the Access Corridor any other way, others are small enough that they can perform a 360° roll in the Access Corridor with little or no risk of getting stuck, which means they can be used to enter the Access Corridor without needing to worry about their alignment. | |||
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! | ! 360° Roll-capable | ||
!360° Roll | ! Not 360° Roll-capable | ||
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|Fer-de-Lance | |[[Adder]]<br>[[Alliance Challenger]]<br>[[Asp Explorer]]<br>[[Asp Scout]]<br>[[Cobra MkIII]]<br>[[Cobra MkIV]]<br>[[Diamondback Explorer]]<br>[[Diamondback Scout]]<br>[[Dolphin]]<br>[[Fer-de-Lance]]<br>[[Hauler]]<br>[[Imperial Courier]]<br>[[Imperial Eagle]]<br>[[Type-6 Transporter]]<br>[[Sidewinder MkI]]<br>[[Viper MkIII]]<br>[[Viper MkIV]]<br>[[Vulture]] | ||
|[[Alliance Chieftain]]<br>[[Alliance Crusader]]<br>[[Anaconda]]<br>[[Beluga Liner]]<br>[[Federal Assault Ship]]<br>[[Federal Corvette]]<br>[[Federal Dropship]]<br>[[Federal Gunship]]<br>[[Imperial Clipper]]<br>[[Imperial Cutter]]<br>[[Keelback]]<br>[[Krait MkII]]<br>[[Krait Phantom]]<br>[[Mamba]]<br>[[Orca]]<br>[[Python]]<br>[[Type-7 Transporter]]<br>[[Type-9 Heavy]]<br>[[Type-10 Defender]] | |||
|Imperial Clipper | |||
|} | |} | ||
== | == Notes == | ||
A common misconception of Access Corridors is that their constricting shape is arbitrary, and therefore makes entry into stations more difficult than necessary. In fact, Access Corridors are narrow as a reference to the station design in ''[[Elite]]'', as well as to accommodate an unimplemented feature: blast doors. These blast doors are almost never seen because they are locked open pending a future game update, but on rare occasions a bug can cause them to close and obstruct entry to a station or destroy a CMDR's ship. It is currently unknown what purpose the blast doors will ultimately serve or if they will ever be fully implemented.<ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/103327-So-the-stations-have-closable-blast-doors-on-the-front?s=0d71794b21c76a6f2311fdb647591193&p=1602409&viewfull=1#post1602409 Frontier Forums: So the stations have closable blast doors on the front?]</ref> | |||
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== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
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== References == | |||
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[[Category:Technology]] | [[Category:Technology]] | ||