Propulsion equipment

Afterburners are a way to trade off capacitor energy in your ship that allows it to gain a speed advantage. These advantages are based on what type of afterburner you are using and the type of ship you are flying. Certain ships require certain size afterburner to function properly. Using an undersized afterburner on a larger ship will cause the speed boost to become much smaller.

There are different sizes of Afterburner based on basic ship hull size. A rough guide :

• 1MN = Frigate/Destroyer
• 10MN = Cruiser/Battle Cruiser, Industrials
• 100MN = Battleship+

Drawbacks

• Steady capacitor consumption as it cycles

• Longer ship alignment speeds whilst it is active (though using for only 1 cycle will actually decrease alignment in all ships with natural or modified aligns greater than the cycle)

• Afterburners don't provide anywhere near as much of a speed boost as a Microwarpdrive, roughly 100-125% boost rather than 500-625% depending on skills (some modules have a greater innate bonus) but come with less penalties.

• They add mass to your ship. This is not really noticeable unless you try to fit a bigger afterburner than normal for your ship class, at which point your inertial increase will make your orbits very large (this is to prevent small ships from avoiding MWD penalities while still getting similar speed boosts from bigger drives combined with the tight orbits they normally enjoy)

Advantages vs. a Microwarpdrive

• Considerably less skill and fitting requirements

• They can still be used in Mission deadspaces that interfere with warp fields (this is not a big issue anymore, as almost all deadspace areas now allow MWDs)

• They don't have a penalty to Capacitor size (and thus also GJ/s), and don't use nearly as much capacitor per cycle (higher afterburner skills can allow cap-stable afterburner fits, which are much harder to achieve with MWDs)

• They don't have a penalty to ship signature radius whilst active.

• Warp scramblers will not shut them down as they would a MWD.

Types of speed boost equipment

Afterburners

Afterburners have a standard of 50% speed boost when overloaded and an activation time of 10.00 seconds.

Standard

• Tech Lvl 1

Skills Required

• Afterburner I
  • Navigation I

Name	Powergrid Usage	CPU Usage	Capacitor Cost (per use)	Max Velocity Bonus	Meta Level	Overload Bonus	Activation Time
1MN Afterburner I	10 MW	15 tf	20 GJ	112.5%	Level 1	50%	10.00 sec.
Experimental 1MN Afterburner I	10 MW	15 tf	20 GJ	126%	Level 3	50%	10.00 sec.
Limited 1MN Afterburner I	10 MW	15 tf	20 GJ	121.5%	Level 1	50%	10.00 sec.
10MN Afterburner I	50 MW	25 tf	80 GJ	112.5%	Level 1	50%	10.00 sec.
Experimental 10MN Afterburner I	50 MW	25 tf	80 GJ	126%	Level 3	50%	10.00 sec.
100MN Afterburner I	625 MW	50 tf	320 GJ	112.5%	Level 1	50%	10.00 sec.
Experimental 100MN Afterburner I	625 MW	50 tf	320 GJ	126%	Level 3	50%	10.00 sec.

• Tech Lvl 2

Skills Reqired

• Afterburner IV
  • Navigation I

Name	Powergrid Usage	CPU Usage	Capacitor Cost (per use)	Max Velocity Bonus	Meta Level	Overload Bonus	Activation Time
1MN Afterburner II	11 MW	15 tf	22 GJ	135%	Level 5	50%	10.00 sec.
10MN Afterburner II	55 MW	25 tf	88 GJ	135%	Level 5	50%	10.00 sec.
100MN Afterburner II	688 MW	50 tf	352 GJ	121.5%	Level 5	50%	10.00 sec.

Faction/Storyline

• Tech Lvl 1

Skills Reqired

• Afterburner I
  • Navigation I

Name	Powergrid Usage	CPU Usage	Capacitor Cost (per use)	Max Velocity Bonus	Meta Level	Overload Bonus	Activation Time
1MN Analog Booster Rockets	9 MW	13 tf	16 GJ	121.5%	Level 6	50%	10.00 sec.
10MN Analog Booster Rockets	45 MW	21 tf	64 GJ	112.5%	Level 6	50%	10.00 sec.
100MN Analog Booster Rockets	563 MW	43 tf	256 GJ	112.5%	Level 6	50%	10.00 sec.
Domination 1MN Afterburner	11 MW	15 tf	15 GJ	144%	Level 8	50%	10.00 sec.
Domination 10MN Afterburner	55 MW	25 tf	60 GJ	144%	Level 8	50%	10.00 sec.
Domination 100MN Afterburner	688 MW	50 tf	241 GJ	144%	Level 8	50%	10.00 sec.
Federation Navy 1MN Afterburner	10 MW	17 tf	20 GJ	141%	Level 7	50%	10.00 sec.
Federation Navy 10MN Afterburner	50 MW	28 tf	60 GJ	141%	Level 7	50%	10.00 sec.
Federation Navy 100MN Afterburner	625 MW	55 tf	320 GJ	141%	Level 7	50%	10.00 sec.
Republic Fleet 1MN Afterburner	11 MW	15 tf	15 GJ	144%	Level 8	50%	10.00 sec.
Republic Fleet 10MN Afterburner	55 MW	25 tf	60 GJ	144%	Level 8	50%	10.00 sec.
Republic Fleet 100MN Afterburner	688 MW	50 tf	241 GJ	144%	Level 8	50%	10.00 sec.
Shadow Serpentis 1MN Afterburner	10 MW	17 tf	20 GJ	141%	Level 7	50%	10.00 sec.
Shadow Serpentis 10MN Afterburner	50 MW	28 tf	80 GJ	141%	Level 7	50%	10.00 sec.
Shadow Serpentis 100MN Afterburner	625 MW	55 tf	320 GJ	141%	Level 7	50%	10.00 sec.

Officer (100MN Only)

• Tech I

Skills Reqired

• Afterburner I
  • Navigation I

Name	CPU Usage	Powergrid Usage	Capacitor Cost(per use)	Max Velocity Bonus	Meta Level
Brynn's Modified 100MN Afterburner	625	58	241	150%	Meta 11
Cormack's Modified 100MN Afterburner	625	66	241	159%	Meta 14
Gotan's Modified 100MN Afterburner	750	50	320	159%	Meta 13
Hakim's Modified 100MN Afterburner	750	50	320	156%	Meta 12
Mizuro's Modified 100MN Afterburner	625	63	241	153%	Meta 11
Setele's Modified 100MN Afterburner	625	63	241	156%	Meta 13
Tobia's Modified 100MN Afterburner	750	50	320	162%	Meta 14
Tuvan's Modified 100MN Afterburner	625	61	241	153%	Meta 12

Deadspace

• Tech I

Skills Reqired

• Afterburner I
  • Navigation I

Name	CPU Usage	Powergrid Usage	Capacitor Cost(per use)	Max Velocity Bonus	Meta Level
Core A-Type 100MN Afterburner	63	625	241	156%	Meta 13
Core B-Type 100MN Afterburner	61	625	241	153%	Meta 12
Core C-Type 100MN Afterburner	58	625	241	150%	Meta 11
Core X-Type 100MN Afterburner	66	625	241	159%	Meta 14
Coreli A-Type 1MN Afterburner	19	10	15	156%	Meta 13
Coreli B-Type 1MN Afterburner	18	10	15	153%	Meta 12
Coreli C-Type 1MN Afterburner	17	10	15	150%	Meta 11
Corelum A-Type 10MN Afterburner	32	50	60	156%	Meta 13
Corelum B-Type 10MN Afterburner	31	50	60	153%	Meta 12
Corelum C-Type 10MN Afterburner	29	50	60	150%	Meta 11
Gist A-Type 100MN Afterburner	50	750	320	159%	Meta 13
Gist B-Type 100MN Afterburner	50	750	320	156%	Meta 12
Gist C-Type 100MN Afterburner	50	750	320	153%	Meta 11
Gist X-Type 100MN Afterburner	50	750	320	162%	Meta 14
Gistii A-Type 1MN Afterburner	15	13	20	159%	Meta 13
Gistii B-Type 1MN Afterburner	15	13	20	156%	Meta 12
Gistii C-Type 1MN Afterburner	15	13	20	153%	Meta 11
Gistum A-Type 10MN Afterburner	25	63	80	159%	Meta 13
Gistum B-Type 10MN Afterburner	25	63	80	156%	Meta 12
Gistum C-Type 10MN Afterburner	25	63	80	153%	Meta 11

Micro Jump Drive

• Large Micro Jump Drive