NERON Projects
There are 31 NERON projects which will appear as options for completion at the NERON's Core in the Nexus. Each project will appear exactly once. You're given an option of three to choose from, and once you complete one, the list refreshes with new projects, meaning the other two are lost as options for your current ship.
NERON projects can also be completed by the Communications Officer at the Comms Center by doing NERON upgrades. For each NERON version upgrade, a random project which has not yet been available and is not currently available in the Nexus will be completed. The comms officer can do as many of these as they like, given that their pool of projects isn't exhausted, although there are diminishing returns on investment after the first few.
Finally, your Communications Officer may sometimes buy NERON projects to trade ships, in exchange for another project or an inactive crewmate. Again, the project obtained is random among those that have never been completed or seen in the Nexus.
Once all projects have either been an option in the Nexus or been completed via comms, no more NERON projects are possible.
Effectiveness
The effectiveness of each person's advancement to a project is determined by the number of relevant skills the person possesses.
Icon | Description | Efficiency |
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No relevant skill | Base efficiency | |
1 relevant skill | Base efficiency + 4-6% | |
2 relevant skills | Base efficency + 8-12% |
Also, changing the BIOS setting CPU Priority in the Nexus to Project will have the following effect on the efficiencies:
Base efficiency | Added efficiency |
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1-1% | +1-2% |
3-4% | +1-2% |
6-9% | +1-1% |
12-18% | +1-1% |
18-27% | +1-1% |
Tips
- Since only 1 project in each batch of 3 can be completed, always discuss the choice with your crewmates before starting up one project.
- Relaying is necessary to make the best use of the you're investing.
- The Nexus is an ideal place for Mush to Infect people and Trap the room. Be careful when you go there.
List of NERON Projects
Image | Name | Effectiveness | Details |
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Anomaly Detector Radio Expert Technician |
18-27% 22-33% 26-39% |
Nothing beats a little NERON defragmentation. Filled with happiness it is more than content to pass a little extra info along to your PDA. Equipment that has been interfered with is reported on your PDA
Bug: Seems to be inconsistent with highlighting, and sometimes doesn't show broken equipment once it's been reported. | |
Anti-gravity Thrusters Pilot Physicist |
12-18% 16-24% 20-30% |
Thanks to these anti-gravity thrusters, taking off and landing in the Icarus become child's play. Entering the atmosphere becomes easier than falling off a log. In short, the Icarus, is a hell of a machine to go flying in!
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Armored Corridors Technician Physicist |
3-4% 7-10% 11-16% |
Eureka! In Magellan, the fibre optic cables which line the corridors can easily be compressed in order to add extra cabling. By adding even more cables, you can build a kind of pseudo-armor!
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Automatic Sprinklers Technician Firefighter |
3-4% 7-10% 11-16% |
After several hours of negotiation with NERON, you can convince it to also use the anti-cigarette device for fires.
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Auxiliary Terminal IT Expert Radio Expert |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
It would be practical to be able to get here without having to walk so far... by re-routing the 100V electric razor socket, you make an SCSS bridge to NERON.
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Bay Door XXL Pilot Technician |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
After running the numbers, federation engineers released a superb report on the correlation between the ease of takeoff and the size of the bay doors. Astonishing.
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Blaster Gun Pilot Shooter |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
A 40mm cannon is good. A Blaster at 80mm is better.
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Convenient Sink Biologist Technician |
18-27% 22-33% 26-39% |
What a magnificent stainless steel sink! You now have no excuse for not washing your hands between missions.
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CPU Overclocking Astrophysicist IT Expert |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
NERON is a little bit OCD when it comes to scalability optimization, but this time its done a half-assed job, you simply unhook the bool Array DB from the bit Arrays. What a halfwit you are NERON...
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Defective Piston Sensors Radio Expert Robotics Expert |
18-27% 22-33% 26-39% |
By analyzing the smoke coming from defective pistons in the automatic doors, NERON can now determine precisely which doors are affrected and relay the information to your PDA.
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Dismantler Technician Robotics Expert |
12-18% 16-24% 20-30% |
By dismantling all of Raluca's failed PILGRED experiments, you are able to recover a stack of used metal which can then be used to patch up the hull or repair patrol ships!
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Extra Drone Technician Robotics Expert |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
Going through an old archive and examining data on Terrence's drones, it appears that it should be possible to ask NERON to build us another one.
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Extra Hydropots Technician Botanist |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
Neron found the hydroponic plant pot plans; Retrieving materials from the incubator should make it possible to create three additional pots.
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Fire Detector Radio Expert Firefighter |
18-27% 22-33% 26-39% |
After spending several hours convincing NERON that fire could be detrimental to its own well-being, it gave in and allocates more CPU power to the task... it still seems pretty annoyed though.
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Fission Coffee Roaster Caffeine Junkie Physicist |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
Yeehaa!! By plugging in a basic portable particle accelerator to the exhaust of the roaster pump, it is now possible to obtain a coffee in less than 12h!!
Bug: Once repaired, the PILGRED Reactor regenerates the Coffee Machine every Cycle, making this project redundant. | |
General Patching Up Designer Creative |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
Did someone think to SCREW the steel plating back down?
Note: Every cycle without accidents, even through GPU, increases the chances of accidents happening the following cycle, however. | |
Heat Lamps Technician Botanist |
3-4% 7-10% 11-16% |
Equipped with "spring softness" lightbulbs, these lamps work miracles on extraterrestrial plants. They perfectly immitate the rays from our good old Sun.
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Hydroponic Incubator Physicist Botanist |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
This piece of equipment, which was specially designed for seedlings and young hybrids, is able to saturate a plant's environment with nitrogen in order to accelerate their development without harming the adult plants.
(Actual in-game text is misleading: In the garden, young shoots cross breed twice as quickly.) | |
Large Bay Upgrade Pilot Technician |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
By getting rid of the backup motor which still remains to be proven useful, we can squeeze in another 2 seats.
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Launch Propulsion System Pilot Physicist |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
While finalizing the implementation of new door servos, NERON realized what it had under the hood! That speeded things up no end...
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Magnetic Net Pilot Physicist |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
One of the great assets of the Magellan was that the stellar ark could mobilize its own flotilla. You debug the last packets of code from the Magnet automatic pilot program. That'll do the trick.
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Magnetic Return IT Expert Robotics Expert |
12-18% 16-24% 20-30% |
Using NERON's source code, you realize that you can give the Icarus a kind of pseudo-awareness. You decide to get rid of the pseudo-cognitive code and the emotion engine but keep the survival kernel. Now if the mission is a failure, the Icarus returns automatically.
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NERON Participation IT Expert Shrink |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
After a good telling off, NERON often becomes more productive, especially when it comes to working on itself.
You install an alarm clock which insults its active memory automatically every hour. | |
Oxygenated Ducts Technician Biologist |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
Algae growing in the air-conditioning ducts. Maybe we could encourage rampant growth of banana trees?
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Plasma Shield Physicist Technician |
1-1% 5-7% 9-13% |
You never had the time to complete it, but this damned plasma shield would have been really handy. By downloading a new core and restarting the particle tabulatrix driver, it should work just fine.
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Pneumatic Distributor Robotics Expert Chef |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
Wow... You never really thought of it, but this tubing system has inspired you. In certain prehistoric societies, they used induced air tubes to send messages... However, these could just as easilt be used to transport food! You convert the guttering into a pneumatic tube. (What would be the point of having guttering in space... )
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Quantum Sensors Astrophysicist Radio Expert |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
The InfraSensors also have a dark matter probability detector and recorder which should noticeably increase their utility.
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Rerouted Charges Physicist Technician |
12-18% 16-24% 20-30% |
By reversing the polarity of the Tesla turret modulator, it is possible to double their firing rate!
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Spatial Wave Radar Radio Expert Technician |
12-18% 16-24% 20-30% |
What wouldn't you give to please the Comm... By increasing the CPU priority of the harbinger thread, you make life a lot easier...
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Teslatron Reservoir Physicist Technician |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
By adding a piston-based compression system, the storage capacity of the Teslatron reservoirs on the patrol ships can be doubled.
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Trail Minimizer Pilot Technician |
6-9% 10-15% 14-21% |
We can't cloak the Daedalus but by adding a flame shield on the lateral jets, we can make it more difficult to follow.
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