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Starship Databank Entry

The Mycon Podship is, depending on who you ask, one of the best ships in the game, or one of the worst. It's weapon systems are powerful get cumbersome, and it' ability to regenerate its crew gives it incredible staying power. On the other hand, it's fairly slow and difficult to control, which makes it an easy target for faster ships.

Navigation

The Podship is a bulky, medium speed, slow turning ship with moderate acceleration. It is heavily affected by gravity wells, which can be used to great advantage.

Armament

Primary

The Podship's weapon system is a slow, long-range, semi-sentient ball of plasma, which will relentlessly seek out enemy craft. At close range, this weapon is staggeringly powerful, but as the projectile moves through space, the plasma slowly disperses, reducing its effectiveness. Enemy fire that strikes the plasma will also disperse it and reduce it's damage potential.

One notable feature of the Podship is its ability to outrun its own weapons fire. Due to the plasma'a low speed, firing while the Podship is at speed stands a good chance of hitting the ship itself. Due to the high amount of damage caused by a "fresh" ball of plasma, this is often fatal to the firing Podship. Make sure to shoot backwards whenever possible to avoid such unpleasantness.

Secondary

The secondary ability of the podship is to regrow it's own crew. It is piloted by talking fungi after all!

Tactical Overview

Against reasonably fast and maneuverable ships, there is little that you can do. Syreen Penetrators, Zoq-Fot-Pik Stingers, and Pkunk Furies all hunt Podships for sport. A common game for them is to take down a Podship without firing a shot, instead they lead the homing plasma in such a fashion that it is turned on its owner.

Against slower, less maneuverable ships, the common tactic is to get up to speed (a gravity whip will do nicely), fire a couple of shots at close range, then fly away and regenerate any crew lost. Lather, Rinse, and Repeat.

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 [[Image:Star_control_i_mycon_podship_databank.png|thumb|Starship Databank Entry]]
-The [[Mycon]] '''Podship''' is a large medium speed, slow turning ship. It's primary weapon is a slow moving long-range homing plasma burst. It's damage decreases the longer the plasma has been in flight (as the plasma disperses). At short range, damage is very high. At long range, damage is very low. Enemy fire that strikes the plasma disperses it and reduces it's damage potential.
+The [[Mycon]] '''Podship''' is, depending on who you ask, one of the best ships in the game, or one of the worst.  It's weapon systems are powerful get cumbersome, and it' ability to regenerate its crew gives it incredible staying power.  On the other hand, it's fairly slow and difficult to control, which makes it an easy target for faster ships.
+==Navigation==
+The Podship is a bulky, medium speed, slow turning ship with moderate acceleration.  It is heavily affected by [[gravity well]]s, which can be used to great advantage.
+==Armament==
+===Primary===
+The Podship's weapon system is a slow, long-range, semi-sentient ball of plasma, which will relentlessly seek out enemy craft.  At close range, this weapon is staggeringly powerful, but as the projectile moves through space, the plasma slowly disperses, reducing its effectiveness.  Enemy fire that strikes the plasma will also disperse it and reduce it's damage potential.
+One notable feature of the Podship is its ability to outrun its own weapons fire. Due to the plasma'a low speed, firing while the Podship is at speed stands a good chance of hitting the ship itself. Due to the high amount of damage caused by a "fresh" ball of plasma, this is often fatal to the firing Podship. Make sure to shoot backwards whenever possible to avoid such unpleasantness.
+===Secondary===
 The secondary ability of the podship is to regrow it's own crew. It is piloted by talking fungi after all!
-One other notable feature of the podship is it's ability to commit suicide by ramming it's own plasma bursts. Due to the plasma'a low speed, plasma launched in the direction of travel while the ship is at speed stand a good chance of being "over-run" by the ship itself. Due to the high damage of the fresh plasma, this is often fatal. Take extra care when using a gravity whip manuver.
+==Tactical Overview==
+Against reasonably fast and maneuverable ships, there is little that you can do.  [[Syreen]] [[Penetrator]]s, [[Zoq-Fot-Pik]] [[Stinger]]s, and [[Pkunk]] [[Fury|Furies]] all hunt Podships for sport.  A common game for them is to take down a Podship without firing a shot, instead they lead the homing plasma in such a fashion that it is turned on its owner.
-Certain other highly manuverable ships can also cause the plasma to strike the podship that launched it.
+Against slower, less maneuverable ships, the common tactic is to get up to speed (a [[Leyland Gravity Whip|gravity whip]] will do nicely), fire a couple of shots at close range, then fly away and regenerate any crew lost.  Lather, Rinse, and Repeat.
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